Smyer, Texas.
Typical home $135,378 (-5.7% in a year). Levelland, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$210 (+42%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $8,176 -6%
- $143,554$135,378 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.
- Smyer$711
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Smyer, TX fell 5.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Smyer, Hockley County, Texas
Smyer is a town of 441 people in Hockley County. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Smyer is a very small town on the South Plains of Texas, in Hockley County. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and a smaller share of people live below the poverty line than you might expect. Homes are priced modestly, and the people here tend to know one another.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in farming, forestry and mining, in shops, and in restaurants and hotels. Across Hockley County, some of the largest workplaces are South Plains College, Levelland ISD and Covenant Hospital Levelland. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and jobs across the county have grown slightly over the past year.
Things to do. For a day out, the Buddy Holly Center is a museum, and the National Ranching Heritage Center is another, both a longer drive away. Joyland Amusement Park is also a longer drive from town. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers are hot, while the year as a whole is fairly dry.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
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, 12 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; Smyer has none 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 high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Smyer’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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.
Smyer home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Smyer$135,378
- 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.
Zip codes with a Smyer address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Smyer — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.