Dallas, Texas.
Typical home $303,442 (-1.4% in a year), asking rent $1,604 (+1.0%). Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$763 (+92%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,168 -1%
- $307,610$303,442 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $29,598 +11%
- $273,844$303,442 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.
- Dallas$1,593
- 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 Dallas, TX fell 1.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Dallas, TX rose 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Dallas runs $714/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $955 in May 2024.
That is $2,318 a month against $1,604 rent: a $1,593 mortgage payment, plus $400 property tax and $325 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Dallas
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$2,318
- Renting$1,604
- Mortgage only$1,593
Property tax · $400/mo 1.58% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Dallas County, TX
Insurance & upkeep · $325/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 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas
Dallas is a city of 1,304,379 people in Dallas County. Half its households earn more than $70,518 a year and half less, against $76,547 across Dallas County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 42% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 58% are rented. Unemployment in Dallas was 4.5% 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. Dallas is a large city, one of the biggest in the country, and its residents are younger than the typical American. Most households rent rather than own, more so than across Dallas County, and incomes run below the county's. Winters are short and mild with only a little snow, while summers are long and very hot, and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in Dallas are Dallas ISD, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and AT&T. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree, and a fair number work from home.
Things to do. In or beside town, the Dallas Museum of Art and the Nasher Sculpture Center are both museums, and Reunion Tower is a well-known tourist attraction. The Dallas Zoo is a short drive away, and AT&T Stadium is a longer drive for those who want to see a game or a show.
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- 533,915households
- 38%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 16%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 38°; warmest in August, with highs near 97° and lows near 77°. About 2 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dallas Love Field weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dallas
- Dallas ISDSchool district21,472FTE
- Dallas Co. Hosp. DistGeneral hospital12,324FTE
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical CenterUniversity or college9,236
- Rexel USAElectrical apparatus and equipment wiring supplies and related equipment merchant wholesalers9,233
- AT&TWired telecommunications carriers8,405
- UT Southwestern University HospGeneral hospital8,093FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs5,034
- Southwest AirlinesScheduled passenger air transportation4,886
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 843 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 198,343 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Heat wavesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of DallasRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dallas’ 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 Dallas County and the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
Dallas home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dallas$303,442
- 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 Dallas listings, and the typical home goes pending in 39 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.
- Dallas31.49%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Dallas39
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dallas5,164
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Dallas1,161
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Dallas$433,783
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Dallas97.08%
Zip codes with a Dallas address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dallas — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Dallas
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 75217 | Dallas | 85,028 | $1,521 | $194,030 |
| 75228 | Dallas | 67,714 | $1,428 | $271,305 |
| 75243 | Dallas | 63,481 | $1,076 | $292,754 |
| 75227 | Dallas | 58,319 | $1,702 | $220,969 |
| 75216 | Dallas | 55,894 | $1,852 | $167,978 |
| 75287 | Dallas | 53,959 | $1,238 | $456,021 |
| 75220 | Dallas | 40,239 | $1,309 | $528,205 |
| 75206 | Dallas | 38,909 | $2,046 | $606,362 |
| 75248 | Dallas | 38,459 | $1,431 | $622,560 |
| 75231 | Dallas | 38,370 | $1,340 | $293,127 |
| 75224 | Dallas | 35,105 | $1,413 | $229,660 |
| 75204 | Dallas | 34,666 | $2,084 | $491,143 |
| 75214 | Dallas | 34,274 | $1,529 | $838,981 |
| 75241 | Dallas | 33,840 | $1,729 | $209,901 |
| 75229 | Dallas | 33,656 | $2,265 | $743,434 |
| 75238 | Dallas | 33,199 | $1,196 | $631,232 |
| 75232 | Dallas | 32,972 | $1,861 | $231,300 |
| 75208 | Dallas | 29,367 | $1,574 | $411,458 |
| 75252 | Dallas | 28,618 | $1,213 | $605,098 |
| 75212 | Dallas | 28,259 | $1,612 | $242,358 |
| 75230 | Dallas | 27,763 | $1,445 | $1,059,317 |
| 75240 | Dallas | 25,290 | $1,594 | $392,204 |
| 75254 | Dallas | 25,050 | $1,320 | $292,393 |
| 75253 | Dallas | 24,395 | $1,979 | $255,037 |
| 75219 | Dallas | 23,934 | $2,085 | $415,220 |
| 75218 | Dallas | 22,544 | $1,788 | $549,854 |
| 75235 | Dallas | 19,637 | $1,554 | $272,157 |
| 75236 | Dallas | 18,963 | $1,514 | $270,479 |
| 75215 | Dallas | 18,895 | $1,539 | $170,073 |
| 75201 | Dallas | 18,345 | $2,320 | $971,805 |
| 75237 | Dallas | 18,260 | $1,232 | $262,763 |
| 75249 | Dallas | 16,447 | $2,268 | $283,913 |
| 75203 | Dallas | 15,775 | $1,541 | $199,172 |
| 75233 | Dallas | 14,867 | $1,487 | $283,413 |
| 75209 | Dallas | 14,211 | $1,969 | $1,068,272 |
| 75223 | Dallas | 11,994 | $2,118 | $250,483 |
| 75210 | Dallas | 7,722 | $1,324 | $144,903 |
| 75226 | Dallas | 5,199 | $1,583 | $305,378 |
| 75202 | Dallas | 2,892 | $2,324 | $261,918 |
| 75246 | Dallas | 2,286 | $1,253 | $371,780 |