Ropesville, Texas.
Typical home $266,690 (+2.9% in a year). Levelland, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$674 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,400 +3%
- $259,290$266,690 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $27,496 +11%
- $239,194$266,690 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.
- Ropesville$1,400
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 32 years.
Typical home values in Ropesville, TX rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ropesville, Hockley County, Texas
Ropesville is a city of 430 people in Hockley County. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. 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 people in Hockley County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ropesville is a very small farming town on the South Plains of Texas, where almost everyone lives in a home they own. Homes here are valued well within reach compared with many parts of the state, and fewer households live below the poverty line than you might expect for a rural community. Winters are cold but short on snow, summers are hot, and the rainfall is light.
Work. Residents of Ropesville work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in farming, forestry and mining, in shops, and in restaurants and hotels. Across Hockley County, the largest workplaces include South Plains College, Levelland ISD and Walmart. The drive to work is a little longer than in many towns, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. For a day out, the nearest well-known places are in Lubbock, each a longer drive away. The Buddy Holly Center is a museum, the National Ranching Heritage Center is a museum of the region's ranching past, and Joyland Amusement Park is a family amusement park. Closer to home, the town is quiet and the pace is unhurried.
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- 215households
- 9%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Hockley County 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 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 66°. About 6 inches of snow and 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Levelland weather station, 16 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; Ropesville 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Ropesville’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.
Ropesville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ropesville$266,690
- 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.
- Ropesville11
Zip codes with a Ropesville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ropesville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.