Locally owned. South Plains rooted.
Lubbock Rodent Control is a small, locally-owned rat and mouse removal company built around one idea: rodent work in West Texas should be done by people who actually live in West Texas. We're based at 1621 Hilltop Drive in central Lubbock and we work the South Plains every day.
The work most pest companies skip.
The first call most Lubbock homeowners make about rats or mice isn't usually their last. Big national pest companies often run rodent work as an add-on to their general pest contracts — a bait station behind the garage, a few snap traps in the attic, an invoice, and the same call six months later when the rodents come back.
The problem isn't the bait stations or the traps. It's everything that didn't happen — the inspection that should have mapped the entry points, the exclusion work that should have sealed the soffit gap and the foundation vent, the follow-up visit that should have confirmed the activity actually stopped. That's the part we built this company around. We started Lubbock Rodent Control in 2024 because the South Plains needed a rodent-focused operation that didn't treat exclusion as optional.
What "locally owned" actually means here.
It means the phone answers in Lubbock — not a national call center routing through Houston or Atlanta. It means the technician driving to your house lives within 30 miles of it and has been working the same South Plains route long enough to know the difference between Tech Terrace's roof-rat profile and Wolfforth's emerging Norway-rat pressure. It means when you call about a property in Slaton or Wolfforth or Ransom Canyon, the person on the phone has been there.
We're a small operation by design. That puts a ceiling on how many properties we can run in a week, but it lets us do the work properly on each one. If you're shopping for the cheapest bait station in town, we're probably not it. If you want the rodents actually gone, we're worth a call.
What we do, and what we won't do.
No phantom credentials.
We won't post fake testimonials, manufactured awards, or invented technician bios. If a credential isn't real, it doesn't go on the site.
Honest service area.
We work Lubbock County and 24 named nearby towns. We don't claim to cover Dallas, El Paso, or anywhere we can't honestly reach. The full list is below.
Real exclusion, every job.
Sealing the entry points is the work. We don't price exclusion as an upsell after we've already pocketed the inspection fee.
Texas pesticide regulations.
Texas structural pest control regulations apply to chemical treatments. We follow them — no off-label uses, no improvising with restricted materials.
Free inspections.
We don't charge for the first walk-through. You get a real quote based on what's actually on your property, not a phone estimate.
Same-day when possible.
Same-day inspections are usually available inside Lubbock County and the closer nearby towns. We'll tell you over the phone if we can't get to you today.
The honest service map.
We don't list cities we don't actually drive to. This is the full, current coverage map — Lubbock County plus 24 named South Plains towns, all within roughly 45 minutes of central Lubbock. If you're outside this list, call us anyway — we may know someone closer to refer you to.
Inside Lubbock city limits — 31 neighborhoods
Arnett Benson · Ballenger · Bowie · Caprock · Clapp Park · Coronado · Downtown · Dunbar Manhattan Heights · Fairview · Heart of Lubbock · Jackson Mahon · Kings Park · Maedgen Area · Maxey Park · Medical District · Melody Heights · North by Northwest · Overton · Parkway & Cherry Point · Raintree · Regal Park · Slaton Bean · Stubbs Stewart · Tech Terrace · University Pines · Waters · West End · Westchester Park · Wester · Wheelock & Monterey · Windsor Park
Nearby South Plains towns — 24 communities
Levelland · Wolfforth · Slaton · Littlefield · Post · Shallowater · Abernathy · Floydada · Tahoka · Idalou · Hale Center · Olton · Ralls · Crosbyton · Lorenzo · Wilson · Anton · Sundown · Petersburg · Ropesville · Amherst · Ransom Canyon · Smyer · New Deal
What the South Plains throws at us.
The semi-arid climate and the West Texas weather cycle make Lubbock rodent work different from other Texas markets. Cold fronts that drop temperatures 30°F in a single afternoon push roof rats and house mice toward warm interior spaces fast. Haboobs and dust storms open up entry routes — vents clogged with debris, soffits separated from fascia, weep holes packed and then collapsed. Cotton-belt harvest cycles displace ground-level rodents into outbuildings. Oilfield service yards west of Lubbock pick up rodent pressure that the city-only pest companies don't plan for.
We've built programs around all of it — student rentals near Texas Tech, restaurants and warehouses along the Loop 289 corridor, storage facilities across the city, and the working agricultural and oilfield properties on the surrounding plains. The blog has the deeper version of all of this; the services index has the full list of what we run.