Socorro, Texas.
Typical home $210,436 (+2.1% in a year), asking rent $1,660 . El Paso, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$636 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,388 +2%
- $206,047$210,436 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $54,737 +35%
- $155,699$210,436 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.
- Socorro$1,105
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Socorro, TX rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Socorro, El Paso County, Texas
Socorro is a city of 34,306 people in El Paso County. Half its households earn more than $54,744 a year and half less, against $59,806 across El Paso County; 21% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Socorro was 4.4% in August 2026, and El Paso County had 1.2% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Socorro is a city in El Paso County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the population is young for the country. Household incomes are below the county's, and a four-year degree is less common among adults than in much of the country. Winters are mild and short, while summers are very hot, and rain and snow are both scarce.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, professional and business services, and shops. Among the largest workplaces in Socorro are Prodrivenbrands, a warehousing and storage business, Walmart, and Robert Bosch LLC (Socorro). Unemployment has eased a little over the past year, and across El Paso County there are slightly more jobs than there were a year earlier.
Things to do. The Presidio Chapel of San Elizario, a historic fort, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the El Paso Museum of Art and to Chamizal National Memorial, a protected area with open grounds to walk through. The El Paso Zoo is also a longer drive away.
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- 11,396households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. El Paso County had 338,016 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 58° and lows near 34°; warmest in June, with highs near 97° and lows near 71°. About 3 inches of snow and 9 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the El Paso International Airport weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Socorro
- ProdrivenbrandsGeneral warehousing and storage200
- WalmartSupermarkets and other grocery stores140
- Robert Bosch LLC (Socorro)General warehousing and storage61
- Vista Quality MarketsGrocery stores55
- Wells Industries A MRCA CompanyHotel furniture merchant wholesalers52
- SA Recycling, SocorroMetal scrap and waste merchant wholesalers50
- Ryder HP SocorroGeneral warehousing and storage45
- Vanguard El PasoTruck dealership45
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 704 people in all. 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of SocorroRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Socorro’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 El Paso County and the El Paso, TX metro.
Socorro home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Socorro$210,436
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Socorro listings, and the typical home goes pending in 26 days — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Socorro15.90%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Socorro101
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Socorro25
Zip codes with a Socorro address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Socorro — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.