South · Texas · pop 268K
Lubbock, TX
Good match
at the reference profile: one person earning $6,700/mo gross, default weights.
Personalize this score →After estimated taxes in TX, your $6,700/mo income nets about $5,412 — covering estimated essentials here (about $978 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $2,014 left over.
Expect summer highs near 92°F, winter lows around 28°F, and about 262 sunny days a year.
Home prices are within reach relative to local pay — the median home ($220,000) is about 3.8× the median household income.
Tradeoff: this is a quieter market with fewer restaurants and entertainment options per resident.
The Lubbock fit print
Est. monthly cost
$3,398/mo
Typical rent
$1,150/mo
Home value ÷ income
3.8×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $1,020/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $1,150/mo
- Median home value
- $220,000
- Median household income
- $58,000
- Population
- 268,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 3.5%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 1.2%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 880
- Property crime rate
- 3,300
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 92°F
- Avg. winter low
- 28°F
- Sunny days / year
- 262
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈41/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈30/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈8/yr
- Annual rain
- 19"
- Annual snow
- 8"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- R+40
- Int'l airport
- ≈8 mi
- Walkability
- 35/100
- Disaster risk
- 62/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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