Sanger, Texas.
Typical home $351,346 (-1.7% in a year), asking rent $1,547 (-7.9%). Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$925 (+101%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,129 -2%
- $357,475$351,346 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,444 +12%
- $313,902$351,346 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.
- Sanger$1,844
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 31 years.
Typical home values in Sanger, TX fell 1.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Sanger, TX fell 7.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Sanger runs $1,145/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,261 in Jan 2025.
That is $2,693 a month against $1,547 rent: a $1,844 mortgage payment, plus $472 property tax and $376 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Sanger
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$2,693
- Renting$1,547
- Mortgage only$1,844
Property tax · $472/mo 1.61% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Denton County, TX
Insurance & upkeep · $376/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 Sanger, Denton County, Texas
Sanger is a city of 8,839 people in Denton County. Half its households earn more than $91,075 a year and half less, against $111,498 across Denton County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% 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. Sanger is a city in Denton County whose residents are younger than most of the country's. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run below the county's, while a small share of residents live below the poverty line. A four-year degree is held by a minority of adults. Winters are mild and short, with January the coldest month, and summers turn very hot by August.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by banks, insurance and property, the building trades, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Sanger are Walmart, Sanger ISD and Randalls Food & Drugs. Unemployment across Denton County is a little higher than a year ago, though the county has added jobs over the past year. A typical commute is a fairly long one, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Close by, the C. H. Collins Athletic Complex, a stadium, and Isle du Bois Creek, a river, are each a short drive away. Farther afield, Toyota Stadium and Texas Motor Speedway, a race track, are a longer drive away. The Universal Kids Resort, an amusement park, is also a longer drive.
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- 3,632households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
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 55° and lows near 33°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 74°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pilot Point Isl Du Boi weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sanger
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,464
- Sanger ISDSchool district491FTE
- Randalls Food & DrugsSupermarkets and other grocery stores167
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage97
- WalmartGeneral auto repair42
- SangerMail and parcel delivery23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,793 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
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively 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 Sanger’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 Denton County and the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
Sanger home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sanger$351,346
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Sanger 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.
- Sanger25.51%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sanger141
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Sanger36
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Sanger$381,079
- United States$371,553
Zip codes with a Sanger address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sanger — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.