La PryorTX
A town of 1,236, settled in 1910.
Is La Pryor a good place to live?
La Pryor’s weakest subject grade is a D− for incomes. La Pryor’s average trip to work is 43 minutes, above both the Texas town median (25 minutes) and the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes). On incomes, just 13 of Texas’ 990 towns do worse. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 94% of U.S. towns. La Pryor has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes La Pryor stand out
Where La Pryor beats most towns.
La Pryor has shrunk 21% from 2010 to 2020
1,643 counted in 2010 and 1,294 in 2020.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts
How La Pryor grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far La Pryor is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to La Pryor: who provides what
La Pryor is unincorporated, so Zavala County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in La Pryor.
A typical La Pryor home is worth about $105K
The typical La Pryor home is worth about $105,000, up 8.4% in a year, 65% below the Texas typical home.
Typical home value
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
La Pryor’s schools rank behind 81% of Texas districts
Its public schools are run by La Pryor ISD. Its two schools are below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Pryor ElLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 195 | C− |
| La Pryor SecondaryLargest public high schoolGrades 6–12 | Grades 6–12 | 244 | C− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within TX on state tests and graduation
Health in La Pryor trails 87% of U.S. towns
La Pryor beats the Texas average on 3 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 19. 35% of La Pryor adults say their health is fair or poor, where Texas’ towns sit at 24% and U.S. towns at 19%. 21% of La Pryor adults have diabetes.
| La Pryor | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 35% | 24% | 19% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 13% | 12% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 42% | 30% | 25% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 34% | 20% | 14% |
| What stands out | La Pryor | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer binge drinkers | 14% | 17% |
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 5.5% | 6.1% |
| More uninsured adults | 34.6% | 19.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Drought leads a very low hazard risk in La Pryor
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 91% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
With 0.6 jobs for every working resident, most of La Pryor’s workers commute out
Most working residents leave La Pryor for work: only 12% work in town. 24% of residents live below the poverty line in La Pryor. Jobs based in La Pryor grew to 212 in 2023, 198 more than in 2013.
| La Pryor | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 24% | 12% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 12% | 8.3% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
La Pryor has mild winters and hot summers
La Pryor has warm winters and hot summers, with very little rain. La Pryor’s July high is 98°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
La Pryor has set aside 0% of its land for conservation
1.2 miles of trail in 0 parks and preserves.
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about La Pryor
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of La Pryor; the nearest are
College town 15 of every 100 La Pryor residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Texas.
1,236 people, and everyone knows the way
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
Questions about La Pryor
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is La Pryor, TX expensive?
That is 2.8 years of the area's median household income ($36,749 across the county). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C+.