Rio Bravo, Texas.
Typical home $127,821 (+12.8% in a year). Laredo, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$229 (+52%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $14,515 +13%
- $113,306$127,821 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.
- Rio Bravo$671
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Rio Bravo, TX rose 12.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rio Bravo, Webb County, Texas
Rio Bravo is a city of 4,450 people in Webb County. Unemployment in Webb County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rio Bravo is a small city in Webb County, Texas, close enough to the border country that the climate and the rhythms of daily life are those of deep South Texas. Winters are mild, with cool nights, and summers are very hot, especially in August. Rain and melted snow add up to a modest amount over the year. Homes here are priced well below what is typical in much of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in transport, warehouses and utilities, and in restaurants and hotels. Across Webb County, the largest workplaces include United ISD, Laredo ISD and Laredo Medical Center. The typical commute is a long one, and very few people work from home. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. For time outdoors, San Ildefonso Creek is a river a short drive away, and Lake Casa Blanca is a lake a longer drive away. For a look at local history, Fort McIntosh is a fort a short drive away, and the Republic of the Rio Grande Capitol Building Museum is a museum, also a short drive away.
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- 1,112households
- 4%of adults have a degree
- 34 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Webb County had 108,931 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 68° and lows near 46°; warmest in August, with highs near 101° and lows near 77°. About 21 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Laredo Afb weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Webb County
- United ISDSchool district6,275FTE
- Laredo ISDSchool district3,584FTE
- Laredo Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,116FTE
- Texas A & M International UniversityUniversity or college925
- Doctors Hospital of LaredoGeneral hospital792FTE
- Lewis Resource Management - ENGas, natural, extraction744
- Laredo CollegeUniversity or college721
- Deployed ServicesFacilities support services575
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 155 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 16,469 people in all across the county; Rio Bravo has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rio Bravo’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. 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 Webb County and the Laredo, TX metro.
Rio Bravo home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rio Bravo$127,821
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Rio Bravo address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rio Bravo — 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.