Runge, Texas.
Typical home $153,096 (-6.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $150 (-16%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $9,986 -6%
- $163,082$153,096 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.
- Runge$804
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Runge, TX fell 6.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Runge, Karnes County, Texas
Runge is a town of 892 people in Karnes County. Unemployment in Karnes County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Karnes County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Runge is a small town in Karnes County, Texas, with fewer residents than most towns of its kind. Household incomes across the county sit below the figure for the country as a whole, and homes in town are priced modestly. Winters are mild, with cool nights and daytime highs that stay comfortable, while summers turn very hot, and August is the warmest month.
Work. Residents of Runge most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, government, and farming, forestry and mining. Across Karnes County, the largest workplaces include Karnes City ISD, Otto Kaiser Memorial Hospital and Kenedy ISD. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one, while job numbers across the county slipped slightly over the past year.
Things to do. For a look at the region's history, Presidio La Bahía is a museum and Mission Nuestra Señora del Rosario is an archaeological site, both a longer drive away. Goliad State Park and Historic Site, also a longer drive away, is a protected area. Medio Creek is a river in the same stretch of country.
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- 23 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Karnes County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Karnes County had 6,162 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 65° and lows near 43°; warmest in August, with highs near 97° and lows near 73°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Karnes City 2N weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Karnes County
- Karnes City ISDSchool district230FTE
- CK NewberryOverpass construction176
- Otto Kaiser Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital146FTE
- Kenedy ISDSchool district138FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters138
- H-E-BRetail119
- Devon Energy - Panna Maria (Karnes City)Petroleum, crude, production94
- Karnes Electric CooperativeDistribution of electric power86
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 934 people in all across the county; Runge has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- HailRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Runge’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 Karnes County.
Runge home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Runge$153,096
- 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.
- Runge11
Zip codes with a Runge address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Runge — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.