Duncanville, Texas.
Typical home $272,675 (-0.2% in a year), asking rent $1,509 (-1.5%). Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$726 (+103%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $547 -0%
- $273,222$272,675 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $35,901 +15%
- $236,774$272,675 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.
- Duncanville$1,431
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Duncanville, TX fell 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Duncanville, TX fell 1.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Duncanville runs $574/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $738 in Apr 2024.
That is $2,083 a month against $1,509 rent: a $1,431 mortgage payment, plus $360 property tax and $292 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Duncanville
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$2,083
- Renting$1,509
- Mortgage only$1,431
Property tax · $360/mo 1.58% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Dallas County, TX
Insurance & upkeep · $292/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 Duncanville, Dallas County, Texas
Duncanville is a city of 40,706 people in Dallas County. Half its households earn more than $76,457 a year and half less, against $76,547 across Dallas County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Duncanville was 5.5% 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. Duncanville is a city in Dallas County, and most homes there are lived in by their owners. Household incomes are about level with the county's, and the typical home value and monthly rent are listed alongside. Winters are mild and short, with cool days and nights that dip just past freezing, while summers are long and hot, and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, restaurants and hotels, and shops. Among the larger workplaces in Duncanville are Costco Wholesale, the Veterans Health Administration and the kitchen cabinet maker Cabinetworks group Michigan. Unemployment is little changed from a year ago, and the commute is a typical big-city-area one for many who work elsewhere in the region.
Things to do. The Texas Theatre, a theatre, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Dallas Museum of Art, a museum, and to Six Flags Over Texas, an amusement park. For a game or concert, AT&T Stadium is also a longer drive away.
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- 13,215households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 12%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 Duncanville
- Cabinetworks group MichiganKitchen cabinets, stock or custom wood, manufacturing384
- Contractors ResourceAntenna, household-type, installation274
- Costco WholesaleWholesale grocer246
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs223
- CHGFrozen bread and bread-type rolls, made in commercial bakeries190
- Dash LogisticsCourier services164
- Village Tech SchoolsSchool district130FTE
- Winco FoodsStore117
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,051 people in all. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of DuncanvilleRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of DuncanvilleRelatively 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 Duncanville’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.
Duncanville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Duncanville$272,675
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Duncanville listings, and the typical home goes pending in 21 days — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Duncanville30.21%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Duncanville107
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Duncanville31
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Duncanville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Duncanville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Duncanville
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 75116 | Duncanville | 19,954 | $1,491 | $269,806 |
| 75137 | Duncanville | 19,729 | $1,686 | $278,917 |