What park is in Kings Gate?

Charles A. Guy Park, at 8701 Nashville Avenue, with a 7-acre playa lake, a 0.74-mile walking trail, a playground, courts and a pavilion.

What shopping is near Kings Gate?

Kingsgate Center, at 82nd Street and Quaker Avenue on the neighborhood’s corner, with Sprouts Farmers Market, restaurants and shops.

Does Kings Gate have an HOA?

No homeowners association for Kings Gate appears on the state’s registry. Ask the seller whether one applies to the home.

What ZIP code is Kings Gate?

Most of Kings Gate is 79423. Addresses along Quaker Avenue are 79424.

Is Kings Gate in a flood zone?

Mostly not. Three FEMA Zone AE areas follow the playas, and about 11 of its 690 addresses fall inside them.

Southwest Lubbock

Living in Kings Gate, Lubbock

Q: Is Kings Gate in Lubbock ISD?

Yes. Addresses in Kings Gate look up to Honey Elementary, Evans Middle School and Monterey High School. Check each address with the district.

Kings Gate is a southwest Lubbock neighborhood platted in 1980, east of Quaker Avenue between 82nd and 98th Streets. Charles A. Guy Park and its playa lake are at its center.

Michael Norsworthy

Updated October 3, 2026

A curving residential street at sunset, with a white brick house behind young shade trees.

At a glance

Where: 82nd to 98th Street, Quaker Avenue east to about Memphis Avenue1
ZIP code: 79423, and 79424 along Quaker Avenue2
Platted: 19801
Homes: About 560 single-family homes and 28 multifamily properties3
Typical lot: About 10,850 square feet (median)3
Appraised values: Median about $376,000 (October 2026)3
School district: Lubbock ISD4
Property tax (2025): About $1.77 per $100 before exemptions5
Park: Charles A. Guy Park, about 13 acres around a 7-acre playa lake6

The neighborhood

Kings Gate was platted in 1980 and covers about 190 acres between 82nd Street and 98th Street, from Quaker Avenue east to about Memphis Avenue. The plat is recorded as King’s Gate, and the appraisal district lists its homes as Kings Gate, without the apostrophe.

It is mostly single-family homes, about 560 of them, with 28 multifamily properties and a few commercial lots along its edges. Most addresses are in the 79423 ZIP code; those along Quaker Avenue are 79424.

Homes and lots

Homes here date from 1980 on. Lots run from about 5,000 to 12,500 square feet, with a median of about 10,850.

The Lubbock Central Appraisal District’s market values have a median of about $376,000. One home in ten is valued above about $541,000, and the highest is around $1.24 million. These are appraisal values as of October 2026, not sale prices.

Charles A. Guy Park

The park at 8701 Nashville Avenue is the middle of the neighborhood: about 13.3 acres of park around a 7-acre playa lake, with a 0.74-mile walking trail, a playground and swings, basketball and volleyball courts, a pavilion, grills and picnic tables. It is named for Charles A. Guy, the longtime editor of the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.

Henry Huneke Park at 8201 Orlando Avenue and Clifford Andrews Park at 7801 Orlando Avenue, each around a lake, are at the north edge.

Kingsgate Center

Kingsgate Center, at 8201 Quaker Avenue on the corner of 82nd Street, sits at the neighborhood’s northwest corner. Its merchants include Sprouts Farmers Market, Chipotle, McAlister’s Deli, Corralito’s Steakhouse, Hayashi Hibachi, Sephora, lululemon, LOFT, Talbots and James Avery.

Kingsgate Center merchant map

School district

Kings Gate is in Lubbock ISD. Addresses here look up to Honey Elementary, Evans Middle School and Monterey High School. Attendance zones change, so check each address with the district.

Lubbock ISD attendance zones

Getting around

Quaker Avenue runs along the west side and 82nd Street along the north, both main routes into the city. UMC Health and Wellness Hospital on Slide Road is about seven minutes away.

Approximate drives from Charles A. Guy Park
To	Distance	Time
Texas Tech University	6.8 miles	14 min
Downtown Lubbock	8.3 miles	14 min
UMC, 602 Indiana Avenue	6.9 miles	15 min
Covenant Medical Center	5.6 miles	12 min
Lubbock airport (LBB)	14.3 miles	22 min
UMC Health and Wellness Hospital	3.0 miles	7 min

Times are without traffic, from OpenStreetMap routing.

Property taxes, HOA and flood zones

Kings Gate is inside the city limits and in Lubbock ISD, so the 2025 combined rate was about $1.77 per $100 of value before exemptions, with no public improvement district. For 2026 the City adopted a rate of 0.507349, up from 0.472191.

No homeowners association for Kings Gate appears on the state’s registry, so ask the seller whether one applies to a particular home.

Three FEMA flood zones (Zone AE) follow the playas, and about 11 of the neighborhood’s 690 addresses fall inside them. Check the lot on FEMA’s Flood Map Service Center before you make an offer.

FEMA Flood Map Service Center