Lyford, Texas.
Typical home $164,335 (+14.9% in a year). Raymondville, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$93 (+12%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $21,279 +15%
- $143,055$164,335 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.
- Lyford$863
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Lyford, TX rose 14.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lyford, Willacy County, Texas
Lyford is a city of 2,249 people in Willacy County. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lyford is a small city in Willacy County, in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. Incomes across the county run below the typical American household's, and homes here are modest in price. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and most people travel a short, ordinary drive to work.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, government and manufacturing also employing local people. Across Willacy County, some of the largest workplaces are Raymondville ISD, Lyford Cisd Schools and H-E-B. Unemployment in the county is higher than it was a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge and Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge are protected areas, each a longer drive away, and Laguna Madre is a lake that is also a longer drive from town. Winters here are mild and summers are very hot, with little or no snow and modest rainfall through the year, which makes the cooler months the easier time for time outdoors.
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- 550households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 21 mintypical commute
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, 4 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; Lyford 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively 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 Lyford’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.
Lyford home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lyford$164,335
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lyford8
Zip codes with a Lyford address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lyford — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.