Copper Canyon, Texas.
Typical home $1,023,353 (-1.1% in a year). Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,156 (+142%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $11,410 -1%
- $1,034,763$1,023,353 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $235,585 +30%
- $787,768$1,023,353 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.
- Copper Canyon$5,371
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Copper Canyon, TX fell 1.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Copper Canyon, Denton County, Texas
Copper Canyon is a town of 1,731 people in Denton County. Half its households earn more than $155,625 a year and half less, against $111,498 across Denton County; 1% of its people live below the poverty line. 98% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 2% are rented. Unemployment in Denton County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Denton County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Copper Canyon is a very small town in Denton County, home to a community that skews older than most. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and incomes run well above the county's, with very few households living in poverty. Typical home values are high, and a large majority of adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, banks, insurance and property, and shops. Across Denton County, the largest workplaces include Lewisville ISD, Denton ISD and the University of North Texas. The county has added jobs over the past year, and the daily commute is a moderate drive.
Things to do. For a day out, the Dallas Museum of Art and the George W. Bush Presidential Center are both museums a longer drive away. Texas Motor Speedway, a race track, is also a longer drive away, as is Six Flags Over Texas, an amusement park. Winters are mild and cool rather than harsh, summers turn hot, and rain and melted snow fall at a fairly steady rate through the year.
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- 904households
- 58%of adults have a degree
- 1%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
What people in Denton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Denton County had 320,064 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 96° and lows near 75°. About 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Denton Southeast weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Denton County
- Lewisville ISDSchool district6,468FTE
- Denton ISDSchool district4,578FTE
- University of North TexasUniversity or college4,333
- Northwest ISDSchool district3,443FTE
- Texas College Preparatory Academies SchoolsSchool district2,358FTE
- Peterbilt PaccarChassis, heavy truck, with or without cabs, manufacturing2,265
- PTD SouthwestTransmission and distribution line construction2,126
- Texas Woman's UniversityUniversity or college1,905
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 553 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 86,591 people in all across the county; Copper Canyon has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Copper Canyon’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Denton County and the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
Copper Canyon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Copper Canyon$1,023,353
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Copper Canyon17
Zip codes with a Copper Canyon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Copper Canyon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.