Cedar Hill, Texas.
Typical home $311,250 (-0.9% in a year), asking rent $1,823 (+0.7%). Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$816 (+100%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,719 -1%
- $313,969$311,250 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,550 +11%
- $280,700$311,250 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.
- Cedar Hill$1,634
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 34 years.
Typical home values in Cedar Hill, TX fell 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Cedar Hill, TX rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Cedar Hill runs $555/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $876 in Oct 2023.
That is $2,378 a month against $1,823 rent: a $1,634 mortgage payment, plus $411 property tax and $333 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Cedar Hill
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$2,378
- Renting$1,823
- Mortgage only$1,634
Property tax · $411/mo 1.58% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Dallas County, TX
Insurance & upkeep · $333/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 Cedar Hill, Dallas County, Texas
Cedar Hill is a city of 49,148 people in Dallas County. Half its households earn more than $101,909 a year and half less, against $76,547 across Dallas County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Cedar Hill was 5.6% in August 2026, and Dallas County had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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. Cedar Hill is a city in Dallas County, and its households have incomes well above the county's. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and the residents are on the younger side. A four-year degree is held by a fair number of adults, and the summers are hot while the winters are mild and short, with rain spread across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, shops, and banks, insurance and property. Some of the largest workplaces in Cedar Hill are Walmart, Royal Delivery Service and Target. The commute is fairly long, and quite a few people work from home.
Things to do. The Dallas Museum of Art, a museum, and Six Flags Over Texas, an amusement park, are both a longer drive away. So is AT&T Stadium, one of the best known stadiums in the area. Each is an outing for a day rather than an hour.
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- 16,643households
- 36%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dallas County had 1,829,643 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 33°; warmest in August, with highs near 97° and lows near 72°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Joe Pool Lake weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cedar Hill
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters355
- Royal Delivery ServiceProcess, physical distribution, and logistics consulting350
- TargetDiscount department stores219
- JCPenneyGeneral warehousing and storage154
- Crestview Court623110 nursing care facilities139
- Western Cabinets, Inc - Cedar HIllKitchen cabinets, stock or custom wood, manufacturing134
- WalmartSupermarkets and other grocery stores115
- Traffic Highway MaintenanceRoad construction103
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,709 people in all. 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of Cedar HillRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cedar Hill’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 Dallas County and the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
Cedar Hill home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cedar Hill$311,250
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Cedar Hill listings, and the typical home goes pending in 26 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.
- Cedar Hill29.23%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Cedar Hill26
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Cedar Hill182
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Cedar Hill43
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Cedar Hill$313,789
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Cedar Hill98.97%
Zip codes with a Cedar Hill address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cedar Hill — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.