Highland Park, Texas.
Typical home $3,034,876 (+7.5% in a year), asking rent $4,300 . Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$10,609 (+199%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $211,868 +8%
- $2,823,008$3,034,876 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $1,200,083 +65%
- $1,834,793$3,034,876 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.
- Highland Park$15,929
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 7 years.
Typical home values in Highland Park, TX rose 7.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Highland Park, Dallas County, Texas
Highland Park is a town of 8,864 people in Dallas County. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Dallas County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Highland Park is a small, settled town where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values sit well above what most of the country sees. Residents are older than in many places, and almost every adult has a four-year degree. Poverty is rare here, and winters are mild and short, with snow only an occasional visitor, while summers turn hot, especially in August.
Work. Residents work mostly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in banks, insurance and property, and in shops. Within town, M Crowd Restaurant Group and Centre Living Homes are among the largest workplaces. A typical commute is fairly short, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. The George W. Bush Presidential Center and the Meadows Museum are both in or beside town. A short drive away are the Dallas Museum of Art and the Nasher Sculpture Center, along with the Cotton Bowl stadium. For something outdoors, the Trinity River is also a short drive away.
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- 3,278households
- 88%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 26%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, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Highland Park
- Highland Park138
- M Crowd Restaurant Group722511 full-service restaurants86
- Centre Living HomesCondominium, single-family, construction general contractors31
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 255 people in all. 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
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- 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 Highland Park’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 Dallas County and the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
Highland Park home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Highland Park$3,034,876
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 11 Highland Park listings — 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.
- Highland Park8.97%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Highland Park30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Highland Park8
Zip codes with a Highland Park address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Highland Park — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.