Ovalo, Texas.
Typical home $471,028 (+7.4% in a year). Abilene, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,441 (+140%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $32,264 +7%
- $438,764$471,028 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $112,993 +32%
- $358,035$471,028 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.
- Ovalo$2,472
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Ovalo, TX rose 7.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ovalo, Taylor County, Texas
The Census does not count Ovalo on its own, so the figures here are Taylor County's. Half the county's households earn more than $67,139 a year and half less; 15% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 60% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 40% are rented. Unemployment in Taylor 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 Taylor County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ovalo is a town in Taylor County, in West Texas. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the population is younger than the national typical. Winters are milder than in much of the country, summers are hotter than most of the country's, snow is rare, and rainfall is moderate.
Work. Across Taylor County, household incomes sit below the national typical, and more residents live in poverty than across the country as a whole. Unemployment is low and eased slightly over the past year, and jobs grew a little. Most workers are in schools, hospitals, shops, restaurants and professional services, few people work from home, and commutes are shorter than the national typical.
Things to do. Abilene State Park, a protected area, and Jim Ned Creek, a river, are both a short drive away. Buffalo Gap Historic Village, a museum, is also a short drive away.
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- 54,934households
- 33.1median age
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Taylor County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Taylor County had 68,821 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 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 68°. About 1 inches of snow and 25 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wingate weather station, 19 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Taylor County
- Hendrick Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,467FTE
- Abilene ISDSchool district2,323FTE
- Abilene Christian UniversityUniversity or college1,134
- Wylie ISDSchool district667FTE
- Hendrick Health Service CenterBilling services560
- AbiMar FoodsSpecialty food stores530
- H-E-BRetail462
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters437
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 140 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 18,178 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- HailVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Taylor County, 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 Taylor County and the Abilene, TX metro.
Ovalo home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ovalo$471,028
- 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.
- Ovalo10
Zip codes with a Ovalo address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ovalo — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.