Lubbock-area towns: housing at a glance

Which town near Lubbock is the most expensive?

It depends on the town and on what you measure. Among the towns on this page that have published Lubbock-area MLS data, Ransom Canyon had the highest median sale price in 2024, 2025 and early 2026: about $395,000 in 2025. It is a small town, though: 27 homes sold, so one or two sales can move that number. Wolfforth is next, at about $312,000, and it has a lot more sales behind it (146). Inside Lubbock city limits the 2025 median was about $229,000 (3,549 sales).

Sale prices: Texas A&M Real Estate Research Center, via the Lubbock Association of REALTORS monthly market report, 2025, MLS sales only.

Where each town sits next to Lubbock

• Above Lubbock

  Ransom Canyon, Wolfforth

  Sale medians, appraisals and owner estimates all sit above Lubbock’s. Ransom Canyon rests on only 27 sales. Owner estimates: about $341,000 in Ransom Canyon and about $260,000 in Wolfforth, against about $212,000 in Lubbock.

• About the same as Lubbock

  Idalou, Shallowater

  Too close to call. Idalou’s 2025 median was about $229,000, the same as Lubbock’s; Shallowater’s was about $219,000. Both towns sell so few homes (19 and 38 in 2025) that the difference isn’t meaningful.

• Below Lubbock

  Abernathy, Levelland, Slaton

  Levelland’s median sale price was below Lubbock’s in 2024, 2025 and early 2026: about $209,000 in 2025 on 104 sales. Slaton’s was well below it too (about $98,000 in 2025 on 31 sales, though it moves a lot from year to year). Abernathy is lower by every measure we checked, but it had only 26 sales in 2025.

We can’t say where Canyon or Plainview fit on sale prices: no public sale-price report covers them. Census owner estimates put Canyon (about $240,000) and Wolfforth (about $260,000) in overlapping ranges.

This page is not a ranking. Lubbock comes first as the reference point, then the towns run in alphabetical order, and every number says what it measures, where it comes from and when.

The numbers, town by town

Each column is a different measure. They are not interchangeable, and none of them is a tax bill or an offer. Sale prices are MLS sales only.

Scroll sideways to see every column.

• Rows are alphabetical after Lubbock. Nothing here is sorted by price.
• Sale prices are shown as published. In the text above we round to the nearest $1,000 and say "about".
• The tax column is partial: it leaves out hospital, college and water districts, homestead exemptions and the homestead cap. It is not a tax bill.

What each number means

Median

Half the homes sold for more than this number and half for less. One very big or very small sale does not move it much, but in a town with few sales it can still swing.

Owner-estimated value

The Census Bureau asks owners what they think their home would sell for. It is not a sale price. It covers every owner-occupied home, including old ones that never sold, and pools five years (2020-2024) in 2024 dollars. Each estimate comes with a margin of error: the true figure falls inside that range about 9 times in 10.

Median sale price

What homes actually sold for in 2025 through the local MLS (the realtors’ listing system). New construction is included. Sales made without an MLS listing, and builder-direct sales, are not.

Average appraised value

The county appraisal district’s own estimate of what single-family parcels are worth on January 1. It is an average, not a median, and an appraisal, not a sale price. The Lubbock district publishes it for the towns it covers.

Property tax rate

Dollars of tax per $100 of taxable value, as published by the Texas Comptroller. Taxable value is usually lower than market value, and your bill depends on your school district, exemptions and any special districts.

Permitted housing units

New homes and apartments a city authorized by permit in 2025, from the Census Building Permits Survey. Reporting is voluntary; we leave out cities that did not report every month. A permit is not a finished home.

Average commute

Average one-way minutes to work for people who live in the place and do not work from home. It is time, not distance, and not time to Lubbock.

Why the columns do not agree

Owners tend to guess lower than what homes actually sell for, because their number covers old homes that never went on the market and averages five years. Sale prices include new construction, which often sells high. Appraisals are an annual average of every parcel. The dollar amounts are not interchangeable, so we never mix two measures in one number.

Why you can’t look up what your neighbor’s house sold for in Texas

Texas is what people call a non-disclosure state. Under section 22.27 of the Texas Tax Code, sale-price information that owners or others give an appraisal district or the Comptroller after a promise of confidentiality is confidential. The office may not hand it to the public, and sharing it without authority is a Class B misdemeanor.

The law does let those offices publish statistics in a form that does not identify a specific property or a specific owner. That is why this page is made of medians, averages and ranges, and why no single sale appears on it.

What is public is the appraisal district’s own appraised value of a property, and the tax rates. An appraisal is the district’s estimate. It is not what the house sold for.

The sale-price medians here come from the Lubbock Association of REALTORS, which counts homes that closed through its MLS. They leave out sales made without an MLS listing.

Source: Texas Tax Code, section 22.27 (confidentiality of sale-price information), read Oct. 4, 2026.

Read next

• What HUD’s new rent benchmark means for Lubbock
• Lubbock real estate: market snapshot and local agents
• All the towns of the South Plains

Sources

We read each file on the date shown. If a publisher revises a number, theirs is the one that counts. Texas Real Estate Research Center figures are shown with the Center’s name and without substantive changes.

• Lubbock Association of REALTORS, Detailed Market Report, December 2025 (produced by the Texas Real Estate Research Center at Texas A&M University from Lubbock Association of REALTORS MLS data) calendar year 2025, closed sales through the MLS · issued Jan. 7, 2026
• Lubbock Association of REALTORS, Detailed Market Report, December 2024 (produced by the Texas Real Estate Research Center at Texas A&M University from Lubbock Association of REALTORS MLS data) calendar year 2024, closed sales through the MLS · issued January 2025
• Lubbock Association of REALTORS, Detailed Market Report, May 2026 (produced by the Texas Real Estate Research Center at Texas A&M University from Lubbock Association of REALTORS MLS data) January through May 2026, closed sales through the MLS · issued June 7, 2026
• Texas Real Estate Research Center at Texas A&M University, Housing Activity (Amarillo local market area) calendar year 2025, closed sales through the MLS · read Oct. 4, 2026
• U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates (tables B25077 and B08303/B08013) 2020-2024, in 2024 dollars; margins of error are at the 90% level · posted Jan. 2026
• Lubbock Central Appraisal District, 2025 Annual Report, page 5 2025 certified roll; average appraised value of single-family parcels · read Oct. 4, 2026
• Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, property tax rates and levies, city, county and school district files 2025 tax year, dollars per $100 of taxable value · file dated Jan. 30, 2026
• U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2025 annual place file calendar year 2025; housing units authorized by permit · posted May 14, 2026
• Federal Housing Finance Agency, House Price Index (metro file) second quarter 2026 compared with second quarter 2025; an index, not dollars · read Oct. 4, 2026
• Texas Tax Code, section 22.27 (confidentiality of sale-price information) statute as published by the Texas Legislature · read Oct. 4, 2026

Sale-price medians come from the Lubbock Association of REALTORS and the Texas A&M Real Estate Research Center. If you work at either and see something we should fix, write to us.

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