Storm door cost in Lubbock, TX

Is Lubbock cheap or dear? The local comparison

Contractors rarely work more than an hour or two from home, so the neighboring metros set a rough ceiling and floor for your quotes. Midpoints for 1 door range from $550 to $620 across Lubbock and its five closest metros.

Across 300 US metros, Lubbock comes in at #291 from the top. The priciest is Honolulu, HI at $820; the cheapest is Brownsville, TX at $530 (midpoints, 1 door). Statewide, Lubbock is 7% below the Texas figure.

Other Texas metros

Cities with a workforce like Lubbock's

Big cities and small ones price differently, so here is Lubbock against the 4 metros with the closest total employment.

Cost by quality level and size in Lubbock

Three bands are cut from the same cited range and localized for Lubbock wages and prices. They overlap on purpose: a good standard job and a modest premium job can cost the same. The grid below prices the same bands at 2 common sizes.

Local wages behind the labor line

Wages are the part of this estimate that changes most from town to town. 2 trades carry the job here, and each is compared with its US median. The weighted result for Lubbock is 0.74 times the national level.

For carpenters (47-2031, weighted 80%) the local median is $20.91 an hour, which is 28% below the national $29.12. The middle half of them earn between $17.42 and $23.78 an hour. BLS counts 280 of them working in the area, 16.8 for every 10,000 jobs (US: 43.1), so the local bench is thinner than average.

General maintenance and repair workers (49-9071), 20% of the weighting: a median of $20.07 an hour, 16% below the US median of $23.84. The middle half of them earn between $17.15 and $23.75 an hour. About 1,640 work in the metro. That is 98.3 per 10,000 jobs, compared with 98.4 nationally, so the supply of crews looks typical.

Quotes come from real crews, not medians. If the carpenters on your job are paid at the 75th percentile ($23.78 an hour) instead of the median, the labor line grows by about $20. At the 25th percentile ($17.42) it shrinks by about $25. The total moves by 3.7% or 4.5%, so wages alone rarely explain a quote that is far outside our range.

For context on the local economy, BLS counts 166,780 jobs in the Lubbock area. That makes it the 140th largest of the 300 metros we cover, with 0.11% of US employment.

When to schedule storm door in Lubbock

We use NOAA's 1991-2020 climate normals for Lubbock Wfo (5 miles from the city center). These are 30-year monthly averages, not forecasts.

September through May is the stretch where exterior installation runs into the fewest weather problems in Lubbock (9 of 12 months). June, July and August have an average daytime high of 90°F or more.

Lubbock gets about 19 inches of precipitation in a normal year. The wettest months are May, June and September (2.7 inches in June). Inside the workable window, January and February are the driest, at 0.7 and 0.6 inches. The station averages about 91 days a year at 90°F or above.

Does the season change the price? Probably, but we do not have a sourced seasonal price curve, so the estimator shows a year-round figure and does not adjust by month. When you collect quotes, ask whether scheduling in a slower month gets a better rate.

Specs and site conditions that change a Lubbock bid

• Screens and features

  Self-storing and retractable screens, ventilating glass and security features all raise the price.

• Permit

  No permit fee is included in this estimate; storm doors rarely need one.

• Door style

  A mid-view door is $350-$700 installed, a full-view door $425-$950, and a low-E full-view door $475-$1,000 (HomeGuide).

Related projects, priced for Lubbock

Because every project leans on different trades, Lubbock's wage level does not move all prices equally. Against the US midpoint, front door runs −12% and patio door −16%.