Progreso Lakes, Texas.
Typical home $348,113 (+2.7% in a year). McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,003 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,045 +3%
- $339,069$348,113 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $74,360 +27%
- $273,754$348,113 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.
- Progreso Lakes$1,827
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Progreso Lakes, TX rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Progreso Lakes, Hidalgo County, Texas
Progreso Lakes is a city of 257 people in Hidalgo County. Unemployment in Hidalgo County was 6.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hidalgo 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Progreso Lakes is a very small city in Hidalgo County, in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. Homes here are worth more than is typical for the county, and the county's household incomes are modest by comparison. Winters are mild, with January the coolest month, and summers are long and hot, with August the warmest; rain is light through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, and in professional and business services. Unemployment across Hidalgo County has eased a little over the past year, and the county has added jobs. Among the largest workplaces across the county are Doctors Hospital at Renaissance and The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, and the daily commute is on the long side.
Things to do. Estero Llano Grande State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and the Arroyo Colorado, a river, is also close by. A longer drive brings you to the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, and to the Museum of South Texas History, which suits a quieter afternoon indoors.
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- 33 mintypical commute
What people in Hidalgo County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hidalgo County had 296,499 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 71° and lows near 50°; warmest in August, with highs near 97° and lows near 76°. About 26 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Weslaco weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hidalgo County
- Idea Public SchoolsSchool district8,946FTE
- Edinburg CisdSchool district4,877FTE
- Pharr-san Juan-alamo ISDSchool district4,635FTE
- The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyUniversity or college4,454
- Doctors Hospital at RenaissanceGeneral hospital4,426FTE
- La Joya ISDSchool district3,870FTE
- Mcallen ISDSchool district3,426FTE
- South Texas Health SystemGeneral hospital2,703FTE
School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- Cold wavesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Progreso Lakes’ 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 Hidalgo County and the McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX metro.
Progreso Lakes home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Progreso Lakes$348,113
- 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.
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Zip codes with a Progreso Lakes address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Progreso Lakes — 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.