Kennedale, Texas.
Typical home $382,170 (+0.3% in a year), asking rent $1,370 (-15.3%). Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,006 (+101%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,290 +0%
- $380,880$382,170 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,219 +14%
- $334,951$382,170 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.
- Kennedale$2,006
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 26 years.
Typical home values in Kennedale, TX rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Kennedale, TX fell 15.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Kennedale runs $1,570/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $2,940 a month against $1,370 rent: a $2,006 mortgage payment, plus $524 property tax and $409 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Kennedale
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$2,940
- Renting$1,370
- Mortgage only$2,006
Property tax · $524/mo 1.65% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Tarrant County, TX
Insurance & upkeep · $409/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 Kennedale, Tarrant County, Texas
Kennedale is a city of 8,517 people in Tarrant County. Half its households earn more than $118,794 a year and half less, against $84,207 across Tarrant County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Tarrant County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Tarrant County 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. Kennedale is a small city in Tarrant County, with households that earn more than the county as a whole and a larger share of homes lived in by their owners than renters. The median age is about what you would find across much of the country, so it is a town of working-age adults and families rather than one dominated by any single generation. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with August the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in manufacturing. Kennedale ISD is the largest workplace in town, and the others are mostly construction and utility firms, among them Driver Pipeline Company and Woody Contractors. A typical commute is on the long side, which fits a town where many people work elsewhere in the area, and a small share work from home. Unemployment across Tarrant County is a little higher than a year ago.
Things to do. The Fort Worth Water Gardens, a public garden in the city center, are a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive takes you to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, both museums, and to Six Flags Over Texas, an amusement park. Sports fans have several large stadiums within a longer drive, AT&T Stadium among the best known.
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- 3,232households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Tarrant County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tarrant County had 1,017,941 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 75°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Arlington Municipal Airport weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kennedale
- Kennedale ISDSchool district414FTE
- Driver Pipeline Company, Inc. - KennedaleCompressor, metering and pumping station, gas and oil pipeline, construction132
- Grizzly Glass & MirrorCurtain wall, glass, installation42
- Waste Advantage PartnersTrash collection services39
- Woody ContractorsUtility line, construction38
- Klutz ConstructionCurb and gutter construction, residential and commercial driveway and parking area, concrete37
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 288 people in all. School districts come 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
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kennedale’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 Tarrant County and the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
Kennedale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kennedale$382,170
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 2 Kennedale listings — 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.
- Kennedale41.70%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Kennedale39
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Kennedale9
Zip codes with a Kennedale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kennedale — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.