Denton, Texas.
Typical home $343,177 (-3.1% in a year), asking rent $1,492 (-1.1%). Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$872 (+94%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $11,068 -3%
- $354,245$343,177 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,302 +8%
- $317,875$343,177 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.
- Denton$1,801
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 45 years.
Typical home values in Denton, TX fell 3.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Denton, TX fell 1.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Denton runs $1,138/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,405 in Oct 2023.
That is $2,630 a month against $1,492 rent: a $1,801 mortgage payment, plus $461 property tax and $367 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Denton
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$2,630
- Renting$1,492
- Mortgage only$1,801
Property tax · $461/mo 1.61% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Denton County, TX
Insurance & upkeep · $367/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 Denton, Denton County, Texas
Denton is a city of 139,869 people in Denton County. Half its households earn more than $76,019 a year and half less, against $111,498 across Denton County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 50% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 50% are rented. Unemployment in Denton was 4.2% in August 2026, and Denton County had 2.0% 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. Denton is a city with a young population, and it has more renters than owners, since fewer homes are lived in by their owners than in many towns of its size. Incomes in town run well below the county's as a whole, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than you might expect from the county around it. A good many adults hold a four-year degree, and the winters are mild while the summers are hot, with rain and the occasional melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Denton are Denton ISD, Texas Woman's University and Texas Health Denton. Unemployment is a little lower than it was a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. In or beside town there is the Denton County Courthouse-on-the-Square, now a museum, along with Denton Community Theatre and the Texas Fashion Collection, another museum. DATCU Stadium is also in or beside town, and Clear Creek, a river, is a short drive away. For a bigger outing, Universal Kids Resort, an amusement park, is a longer drive away.
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- 56,664households
- 42%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents 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, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Denton
- Denton ISDSchool district4,578FTE
- Peterbilt PaccarChassis, heavy truck, with or without cabs, manufacturing2,265
- PTD SouthwestTransmission and distribution line construction2,126
- Texas Woman's UniversityUniversity or college1,905
- Federal Emergency Management AgencyFederal government · Department of Homeland Security1,325
- Texas Health DentonGeneral hospital921FTE
- Medical City DentonGeneral hospital851FTE
- Hulcher ServicesMaintenance of rights-of-way and structures, railway670
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 99 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 16,921 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) and hospitals 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
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of DentonRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Denton’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.
Denton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Denton$343,177
- 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 Denton listings, and the typical home goes pending in 41 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.
- Denton35.50%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Denton41
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Denton684
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Denton159
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Denton$357,478
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Denton97.85%
Zip codes with a Denton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Denton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Denton
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 76201 | Denton | 31,143 | $1,393 | $268,031 |
| 76208 | Denton | 30,025 | $1,554 | $398,665 |
| 76209 | Denton | 27,982 | $1,368 | $281,599 |
| 76207 | Denton | 19,862 | $1,556 | $344,594 |
| 76205 | Denton | 18,978 | $1,340 | $350,295 |