SiteLubbock County · 12 mi southwest of Lubbock
Nextgen Blueprint builds and remodels homes in Wolfforth from our base in Lubbock, about 12 road miles southwest of downtown on US-62/82. Wolfforth has the youngest housing stock in our service area, with roughly 44 percent of its homes built since 2010 by Census estimates, so the work here leans toward custom homes, first-decade fixes, and upgrades to builder-grade finishes.
Wolfforth was a farm town of 597 people in 1960 and 2,554 in 2000, and the 2020 Census counted 5,521. Census estimates for 2020 to 2024 put the median Wolfforth home at about 2006, with roughly 44 percent of houses built in 2010 or later and another 13 percent in the 2000s. Most of the older houses date from the 1970s and 1980s, about 27 percent of the total, and almost nothing here predates 1960.
The growth is not slowing. New subdivisions such as Harvest and The Overlook at Alcove have been moving final plats through the City of Wolfforth's Planning and Zoning Commission through 2025 and 2026. Frenship ISD, headquartered on 7th Street in Wolfforth, serves more than 12,000 students on 16 campuses, and its demographers project about 18,500 more occupied homes inside the district over the next decade.
A house built in the last 15 years has a different set of problems than a 1950s one, and they tend to show up on a predictable schedule. These are the ones we look for:
Wolfforth's city water comes from two supplies. The City has 20 active wells pumping Ogallala Aquifer groundwater, and a 2022 agreement with Lubbock adds at least 500,000 gallons a day of treated water. All of it is sent to the city's electrodialysis reversal (EDR) plant, which went online in 2017 and uses low-voltage direct current and membrane stacks to pull dissolved minerals out of the water.
That treatment is why Wolfforth tap water is not the same as Lubbock's, and why you should test yours before buying a softener sized for Lubbock hardness. The city's 2025 water quality report lists fluoride at 2.24 milligrams per liter, just above the 2.0 level that requires a public notice and below the 4.0 federal limit, and it notes that home treatment units can remove fluoride. If that matters to you, an under-sink reverse osmosis system is the usual answer, and it fits naturally into a kitchen remodel or into a new home alongside the rest of our healthy living systems.
Inside city limits, the City of Wolfforth requires permits for new construction, additions, and remodels, and it accepts permit applications online only, through its public portal. Since October 2024 the city has built to the 2021 International codes and the 2020 National Electrical Code. Permits are good for 180 days, and inspections requested by 5 p.m. are scheduled for the next business day, with same-day inspections only for emergencies on occupied homes.
If you are buying a lot to build on, read the deed restrictions before you close. Restrictions commonly set minimum square footage, masonry percentages, and roof pitch, and some new developments only sell lots packaged with their own builder's house, which decides whether you can bring your own builder at all. We serve Wolfforth from Lubbock, a 15 to 20 minute drive, so a project here runs on the same schedule as one in southwest Lubbock.
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