Locate Your Business

Sometimes it’s smart to follow the crowd: Tesla, Oracle, Hewlett Packard and Amazon are a few of the powerhouse companies that have recently pulled up stakes to relocate to Texas. They were seeking lower costs, a better business climate, better living conditions and a high quality workforce. They found it all here.

And now it’s your move. See the Texas-sized benefits of locating your business in Wolfforth:

Lower costs of living, lower costs of doing business.

Wolfforth’s average overall cost of living is just 81.5% of the U.S. average, with housing costs just 79.6% of the national average and transportation costs just 74.1%. Here your team members get more benefits from every paycheck, while your operation gets more miles per transportation dollar.

Strategic location with logistics to expedite delivery.

In the heart of West Texas, just minutes from downtown Lubbock, Wolfforth opens accelerated access to domestic markets in both the Southeast and the West. Wolfforth sits equidistant from Phoenix and Memphis, with the Ports of Houston and Laredo approximately 8 hours away. The Marsha Sharp Highway intersects with I-27 in Lubbock, connecting to I-40, a major national east-west corridor. BNSF Class I rail adds to your transit options, while Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport is your global gateway as a U.S. Customs Port of Entry.

Global performance at your command.

The quality of Wolfforth’s workforce development is superior at every level, starting with one of the state’s top ranked K-12 school systems, where students graduate college- and career-ready through dual enrollment and robust CTE programming. Post-high school, the South Plains Community College provides transfer and career pathways that are proven winners for graduates and employers, while Texas Tech graduates are prized throughout the corporate world.

And your one-stop access to this talent is Workforce Solutions-South Plains, a strategic resource for recruitment, screening and hiring. For custom training, South Plains Community College provides timely expert solutions, delivered in classrooms or on the shop floor, funded for qualified projects through the Texas Skills Development Fund. For eligible applicants and qualified expansions, Workforce Solutions will fund up to 50% of new employee salaries for on-the-job training, giving your team a running start and assuring a better fit.

Superior pro-business support through Type B structure.

As a Type B economic development corporation, the Wolfforth EDC is able to respond more flexibly and pro-actively to community and business needs, and to help maintain a higher quality of life through the power to fund select municipal projects. Incentives are also higher impact in a pro-business state offering a strategic menu of community incentive programs like Tax Increment Financing which we continue to evaluate as we accommodate and facilitate future growth.