Arlington, Texas.
Typical home $306,472 (-0.5% in a year), asking rent $1,468 (+0.8%). Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$808 (+101%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,638 -1%
- $308,110$306,472 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $34,970 +13%
- $271,502$306,472 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Arlington$1,609
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 29 years.
Typical home values in Arlington, TX fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Arlington, TX rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Arlington runs $889/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,098 in Oct 2023.
That is $2,357 a month against $1,468 rent: a $1,609 mortgage payment, plus $421 property tax and $328 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Arlington
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,357
- Renting$1,468
- Mortgage only$1,609
Property tax · $421/mo 1.65% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Tarrant County, TX
Insurance & upkeep · $328/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Arlington, Tarrant County, Texas
Arlington is a city of 394,266 people in Tarrant County. Half its households earn more than $75,171 a year and half less, against $84,207 across Tarrant County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 54% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 46% are rented. Unemployment in Arlington was 4.5% in August 2026, and Tarrant County had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Arlington is a large city in Tarrant County, between Dallas and Fort Worth. Its residents are younger than in most places, and incomes run below the county's. More households here rent than across much of the county, and a good number of homes are still lived in by their owners. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many other places.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Arlington are Six Flags Over Texas, UPS and Medical City Arlington. A fair number of people work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one for a big-city region.
Things to do. Several well-known venues are a short drive away, including AT&T Stadium and Globe Life Field, both stadiums, and Six Flags Over Texas, an amusement park. For a longer outing, the Dallas Museum of Art and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth are museums a longer drive away. Winters are mild and brief, summers are hot, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain.
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- 142,455households
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tarrant County had 1,017,941 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 75°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Arlington Municipal Airport weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Arlington
- Six Flags Over TexasTheme parks, amusement3,900
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services2,530
- Delaware North CompaniesFood service contractors1,348
- Medical City ArlingtonGeneral hospital1,317FTE
- Elara CaringHome health care agencies1,306
- Texas Health Arlington Memorial HospGeneral hospital1,297FTE
- Americredit Financial ServicesAutomobile financing1,200
- AmeriCredit Financial ServicesAutomobile financing1,151
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 233 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 41,419 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of ArlingtonRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Arlington’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Tarrant County and the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
Arlington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Arlington$306,472
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Arlington listings, and the typical home goes pending in 27 days — the market is heating up.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Arlington34.34%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Arlington27
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Arlington1,109
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Arlington320
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Arlington$322,592
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Arlington98.55%
Zip codes with a Arlington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Arlington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Arlington
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 76010 | Arlington | 54,978 | $1,182 | $229,838 |
| 76017 | Arlington | 47,074 | $1,937 | $310,835 |
| 76001 | Arlington | 38,913 | $2,144 | $346,637 |
| 76013 | Arlington | 35,715 | $1,358 | $307,230 |
| 76002 | Arlington | 35,265 | $2,190 | $333,455 |
| 76014 | Arlington | 32,818 | $1,411 | $253,615 |
| 76016 | Arlington | 31,280 | $1,848 | $338,464 |
| 76012 | Arlington | 27,991 | $1,412 | $332,564 |
| 76018 | Arlington | 26,834 | $1,962 | $283,656 |
| 76006 | Arlington | 23,446 | $1,202 | $379,812 |
| 76011 | Arlington | 22,752 | $1,372 | $258,374 |
| 76015 | Arlington | 18,135 | $1,602 | $276,385 |
| 76005 | Arlington | 7,102 | $2,200 | $514,830 |