Sonora, Texas.
Typical home $141,931 (-4.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$172 (+30%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,592 -4%
- $148,523$141,931 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $47,332 -25%
- $189,263$141,931 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.
- Sonora$745
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Sonora, TX fell 4.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sonora, Sutton County, Texas
Sonora is a city of 2,502 people in Sutton County. Unemployment in Sutton County was 6.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sonora is a small city in Sutton County, in the ranch country of west Texas. It is a place where people tend to know one another, and fewer people live below the poverty line than across much of the country. Homes here cost less than in many parts of the state, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than the national average.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and others earn their living from farming, forestry and mining, the building trades or local shops. Across Sutton County, the largest workplaces include Sonora ISD, the Lillian M. Hudspeth Memorial Hospital and the PAY and Save grocery stores. Unemployment has stayed close to where it was a year ago, while the county has seen slightly fewer jobs than the year before. Very few people work from home.
Things to do. The best-known place nearby is the Caverns of Sonora, a protected area a longer drive away, known for its underground rock formations. Winters here are mild and often cool, while summers turn hot, and rain and melted snow add up to a modest amount over the year. The cooler months are comfortable for time outdoors.
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- 1,006households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sutton County had 1,134 jobs in 2025, 1.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 31°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 71°. About 23 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sonora weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sutton County
- Sonora ISDSchool district111FTE
- Lillian M. Hudspeth Memorial HospCritical access hospital61FTE
- PAY and SaveGrocery stores31
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 121 people in all across the county; Sonora has two 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
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sonora’s 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 Sutton County.
Sonora home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sonora$141,931
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Sonora listings — 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.
- Sonora20.17%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sonora23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Sonora address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sonora — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.