Westlake, Texas.
Typical home $3,226,073 (+2.1% in a year). Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$10,799 (+176%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $66,565 +2%
- $3,159,508$3,226,073 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $924,238 +40%
- $2,301,835$3,226,073 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.
- Westlake$16,933
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Westlake, TX rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Westlake, Tarrant County, Texas
Westlake is a town of 1,623 people in Tarrant County. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Westlake is a small town in Tarrant County, with a population that is still quite small. Residents are older than in most places, and nearly everyone owns the home they live in, with very few renters. Homes here are valued far above what is typical across the country, and most adults hold a four-year degree or more. Winters are mild and short, summers are long and hot, and the town gets a moderate amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops and in manufacturing. Among the larger workplaces in Westlake are Benchmark Hospitality of Texas, which manages hotels, and Westlake Academy Charter School. A good share of residents work from home, and the typical commute for everyone else is of middling length.
Things to do. Texas Motor Speedway, a race track, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to AT&T Stadium, one of the best known stadiums in the area, and to the Dallas Museum of Art. Six Flags Over Texas, an amusement park, is also a longer drive away.
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- 567households
- 80%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 41%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 57° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 97° and lows near 76°. About 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fort Worth Alliance Airport weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Westlake
- Benchmark Hospitality of TexasHotel management services408
- Westlake Academy Charter SchoolSchool district108FTE
- Compass Group52
- Compass Group50
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 510 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Westlake’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.
Westlake home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Westlake$3,226,073
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Westlake listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Westlake19.33%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Westlake39
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Westlake address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Westlake — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.