Mertzon, Texas.
Typical home $262,157 (-6.7% in a year). San Angelo, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$588 (+75%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $18,917 -7%
- $281,074$262,157 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $9,368 -3%
- $271,525$262,157 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.
- Mertzon$1,376
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Mertzon, TX fell 6.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mertzon, Irion County, Texas
Mertzon is a city of 747 people in Irion County. Unemployment in Irion County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Irion County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mertzon is a very small town in West Texas, the seat of Irion County, where neighbors tend to know one another. Homes here are priced modestly, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than in many places. Winters are mild and brief, with cool days and nights that dip to freezing, while summers run hot, and the year brings a fairly dry amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and a good number work in farming, forestry and mining, with others in shops, restaurants and hotels. Among the largest workplaces across Irion County are Irion County ISD and Jacam-Mertzon, which provides oil and gas field services on a contract basis. Few people work from home, and jobs across the county grew slightly over the past year.
Things to do. Most outings from Mertzon mean a longer drive. Fort Concho is a historic fort, and the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts is a museum, both a longer drive away. For time outdoors, Twin Buttes Reservoir is a reservoir and the South Concho River is a river, each also a longer drive away.
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- 330households
- 6%below the poverty line
- 3%work from home
What people in Irion County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Irion County had 794 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 29°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 69°. About 22 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mertzon 12NNW weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Irion County
- Irion County ISDSchool district74FTE
- Jacam-MertzonOil and gas field services on a contract basis22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 22 people in all across the county; Mertzon 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mertzon’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 Irion County and the San Angelo, TX metro.
Mertzon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mertzon$262,157
- 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.
- Mertzon7
Zip codes with a Mertzon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mertzon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Mertzon
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 76901 | San Angelo | 31,831 | $1,426 | $202,076 |
| 76941 | Mertzon | 1,158 | — | $261,389 |