La Pryor, Texas.
Typical home $104,594 (+8.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$294 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,126 +8%
- $96,468$104,594 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $18,072 +21%
- $86,521$104,594 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- La Pryor$549
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in La Pryor, TX rose 8.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in La Pryor, Zavala County, Texas
La Pryor, in Zavala County, had 1,294 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Zavala County was 6.2% in August 2026, and the county had 6.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Zavala County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. La Pryor is a small community in Zavala County, Texas, with a population that stays quite modest. Homes here are priced well below what is typical across much of the country, and household incomes across Zavala County sit below the national picture. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with August the warmest month. Rainfall is modest through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others employed in shops, the building trades and a range of other services. Across Zavala County, the largest workplaces include Crystal City ISD, Lopez Health Systems, Inc.- Main Office and La Pryor ISD. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Averhoff Reservoir is the best known nearby water, a longer drive away. Turkey Creek, a river, is also a longer drive away, as is Blanco Creek. The Grand Opera House, a theatre, is another longer drive from town.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
What people in Zavala County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Zavala County had 2,268 jobs in 2025, 6.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 67° and lows near 44°; warmest in August, with highs near 99° and lows near 76°. About 19 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Crystal City weather station, 19 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Zavala County
- Crystal City ISDSchool district321FTE
- Lopez Health Systems, Inc.- Main OfficeHome health care agencies165
- La Pryor ISDSchool district93FTE
- H-E-B64
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 229 people in all across the county; La Pryor has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- DroughtRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in La Pryor’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Zavala County.
La Pryor home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- La Pryor$104,594
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Zip codes with a La Pryor address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls La Pryor — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.