Lasara, Texas.
Typical home $145,177 (+32.6% in a year). Raymondville, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$214 (+39%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $35,696 +33%
- $109,481$145,177 since Sep 2025
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.
- Lasara$762
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Lasara, TX rose 32.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lasara, Willacy County, Texas
Lasara, in Willacy County, had 909 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Willacy County was 6.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Willacy 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lasara is a small community in Willacy County, in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and household incomes across the county run below the typical American household's. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are long and hot, with August the warmest month.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in government and in manufacturing. Across Willacy County, some of the largest workplaces are Raymondville ISD, Sunny Glen Children's Home and H-E-B. Unemployment in the county is higher than it was a year ago, and there are slightly fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Nature is the main draw within reach. The Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge and Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge are protected areas, and Estero Llano Grande State Park is a state park, all a longer drive away. The Museum of South Texas History is also a longer drive away, for a look at the region's past.
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What people in Willacy County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Willacy County had 4,249 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 71° and lows near 48°; warmest in August, with highs near 98° and lows near 75°. About 25 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Raymondville weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Willacy County
- Sunny Glen Children's HomeGroup foster homes for children372
- Raymondville ISDSchool district353FTE
- Management & Training CorporationJails, privately operated235
- Lyford CisdSchool district234FTE
- H-E-BRetail102
- Windsor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center of Raymondville78
- Lasara ISDSchool district76FTE
- San Perlita ISDSchool district51FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 812 people in all across the county; Lasara 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- HurricanesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lasara’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Willacy County and the Raymondville, TX metro.
Lasara home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lasara$145,177
- 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 Lasara address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lasara — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.