Anton, Texas.
Typical home $154,574 (+8.4% in a year). Levelland, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$347 (+75%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $11,962 +8%
- $142,613$154,574 since Sep 2025
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.
- Anton$811
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Anton, TX rose 8.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Anton, Hockley County, Texas
Anton is a city of 907 people in Hockley County. Half its households earn more than $52,000 a year and half less, against $63,140 across Hockley County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Hockley County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Anton is a very small city on the South Plains of Texas, in Hockley County, where most people know their neighbors by name. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and household incomes run below the county's. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with only a little snow in a typical year and not much rain or melted snow overall.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing and the building trades also common. Across Hockley County, some of the largest workplaces are South Plains College, Levelland ISD and Covenant Hospital Levelland. Few people work from home, and a typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. The nearest well-known outings are all a longer drive away. Among them are the Buddy Holly Center, a museum, and the National Ranching Heritage Center, also a museum, along with Joyland Amusement Park for a day with family. Each takes a bit of planning, so it helps to set aside part of a day.
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- 416households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hockley County had 8,939 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 64°. About 7 inches of snow and 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Littlefield weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hockley County
- South Plains CollegeTwo-year college846
- Levelland ISDSchool district495FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters231
- United SupermarketsSupermarket157
- Covenant Hospital LevellandGeneral hospital100FTE
- Sundown ISDSchool district100FTE
- Lubbock I EnterprisesNursing homes96
- Ropes ISDSchool district92FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,306 people in all across the county; Anton has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- HailVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Anton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Hockley County and the Levelland, TX metro.
Anton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Anton$154,574
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Anton8
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Anton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Anton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.