River Oaks, Texas.
Typical home $216,321 (+0.4% in a year). Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$589 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $958 +0%
- $215,363$216,321 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,404 +16%
- $185,917$216,321 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.
- River Oaks$1,135
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in River Oaks, TX rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in River Oaks, Tarrant County, Texas
River Oaks is a city of 7,646 people in Tarrant County. Half its households earn more than $63,500 a year and half less, against $84,207 across Tarrant County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% 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 residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. River Oaks is a small city in Tarrant County, close to Fort Worth, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values are modest. The median resident is of working age, and a four-year degree is less common here than in many places. Winters are mild and short, summers are hot, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by the building trades, shops and restaurants and hotels. The biggest workplaces in town include Castleberry ISD, the school district, along with a mail and parcel delivery operation and a grocery store. Commutes are a little longer than a quick hop across town, and only a small share of people work from home. Unemployment across Tarrant County has stayed close to where it was a year ago.
Things to do. The Amon Carter Museum of American Art and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth are both in or beside town. A short drive away are the Fort Worth Zoo and the Fort Worth Water Gardens, a public garden in the middle of the city. Bass Performance Hall, a theatre, is also a short drive away.
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- 2,448households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents 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 59° and lows near 37°; warmest in July, with highs near 97° and lows near 76°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fort Worth Nas weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in River Oaks
- Castleberry ISDSchool district620FTE
- OaksMail and parcel delivery26
- Lmmm DallasGrocery stores20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 46 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
- HailVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively 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 River Oaks’ 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.
River Oaks home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- River Oaks$216,321
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 River Oaks 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- River Oaks20
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- River Oaks6
Zip codes with a River Oaks address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls River Oaks — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.