Leroy, Texas.
Typical home $255,075 (+1.4% in a year). Waco, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $38 (-3%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $3,483 +1%
- $251,592$255,075 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.
- Leroy$1,339
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Leroy, TX rose 1.4% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Leroy, McLennan County, Texas
Leroy is a city of 354 people in McLennan County. Half its households earn more than $82,708 a year and half less, against $66,643 across McLennan County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in McLennan County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in McLennan 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Leroy is a very small Texas city in McLennan County, where almost everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes run well above the county's, and the typical home is worth more than many people expect for a place this size. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers get very hot, and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across McLennan County, some of the largest workplaces are Baylor University, Waco ISD and Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center. The usual commute is a fairly long one, and fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in many towns.
Things to do. The Waco area offers the nearest outings, all a longer drive away. Cameron Park Zoo and Cameron Park are the places for a day outdoors with the family, and Waco Lake is a reservoir for time on the water. The Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum is a good stop for anyone interested in the state's history.
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- 21%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
What people in McLennan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. McLennan County had 122,992 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 97° and lows near 74°. About 1 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Waco Regional Airport weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in McLennan County
- Baylor UniversityUniversity or college4,153
- Waco ISDSchool district2,214FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,115
- Hillcrest Baptist Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,864FTE
- Texas State Technical CollegeTwo-year college1,716
- L3Harris AS IAS WacoAircraft conversions1,400
- Midway ISDSchool district1,263FTE
- Sanderson Farms Waco ProcessingPoultry processing1,164
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 237 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 39,655 people in all across the county; Leroy has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Leroy’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 McLennan County and the Waco, TX metro.
Leroy home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Leroy$255,075
- 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 Leroy address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Leroy — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.