Dish, Texas.
. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$751 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Living in Dish, Denton County, Texas
Dish is a town of 437 people in Denton County. Half its households earn more than $159,000 a year and half less, against $111,498 across Denton County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 97% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 3% 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 residents work in schools and health care, then finance and property.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dish is a very small town in Denton County, home to far fewer people than most places in the area. Nearly every home is lived in by its owner, and household incomes run well above the county's, with very few residents living below the poverty line. Winters are mild and brief, with the coldest weather in January, while summers are hot, peaking in July, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by banks, insurance and property, transport, warehouses and utilities, and the building trades. Across Denton County, the largest workplaces include Lewisville ISD, Denton ISD and the University of North Texas. Commutes tend to be fairly long, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Texas Motor Speedway, a race track, is a short drive away, as is DATCU Stadium, a stadium. For a longer drive, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth offer museum visits, and AT&T Stadium is another stadium in the region.
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- 32%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
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 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 96° and lows near 73°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Denton Municipal Airport weather station, 8 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; Dish 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
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Dish’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.
Dish home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
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Zip codes with a Dish address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dish — 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.