{"id":434279,"date":"2026-09-12T23:18:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T23:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/434279\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T23:18:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T23:18:28","slug":"what-salary-do-i-need-to-afford-a-house-in-lubbock-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/434279\/","title":{"rendered":"What Salary Do I Need To Afford a House in Lubbock in 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of living has grown to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/articles\/what-caused-the-u-s-pandemic-era-inflation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">historic levels<\/a> since the pandemic, as home prices and the cost of everyday goods have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/01\/13\/how-wages-compare-with-inflation-since-2020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">far outpaced<\/a> wages. A large portion of this increase has come from housing. The national median sale price hit a record in 2022 and has continued to set new monthly highs nearly every month since, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/home-sales-fall-december-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">pricing out<\/a> buyers and sidelining sellers.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/news\/housing-market-predictions-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Redfin economists predict<\/a> that affordability will begin to improve this year thanks to rising wages and slower price growth.<\/p>\n<p>So, how much money do you need to make to afford a house in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/city\/11455\/TX\/Lubbock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lubbock, TX<\/a>? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Redfin Real Estate<\/a> looked at the city&#8217;s median income and median sale price to determine its overall housing affordability. All data represents the monthly average for January 2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/city\/11455\/TX\/Lubbock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">This story<\/a> was produced by <a href=\"https:\/\/redfin.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Redfin Real Estate<\/a> and reviewed and distributed by Stacker.<\/p>\n<p>What Salary Do I Need To Afford a House in Lubbock in 2026?<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Stacker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cost of living has grown to historic levels since the pandemic, as home prices and the cost&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169,223],"class_list":["post-434279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}