Dallas-Fort Worth ZIP Code Report 2026: Home Values, Income & Where Prices Are Rising

A data-driven look at how wealth, housing costs and growth are distributed across the Metroplex — ranking 96 ZIP codes by median home value, household income, rent and five-year appreciation.

By the Dallas Demographics Data Team · Updated June 2026 · Source: U.S. Census Bureau (ACS 5-Year Estimates)

Few American metros stretch as far — geographically or economically — as Dallas-Fort Worth. Within a single hour's drive you can move from Highland Park / University Park in Dallas, where the typical home is worth $1,706,700, to South Dallas / Bonton, where it is $100,900. That is a 17-to-1 spread across the same metropolitan area. This report maps that divide using the latest U.S. Census Bureau figures, and surfaces a less obvious story underneath it: the neighborhoods gaining value fastest are not the wealthy enclaves at the top, but the long-overlooked communities at the bottom.

The most expensive ZIP codes in Dallas-Fort Worth

The top of the market is remarkably concentrated. The Park Cities — Highland Park and University Park — sit on their own tier, with median home values well past the million-dollar mark. Below them, the premium suburbs of the northern arc (Southlake, Colleyville, Westlake) and a handful of established Dallas neighborhoods like Preston Hollow and the Love Field corridor round out the most expensive ZIP codes in the metroplex.

What unites this list is not just money but durability. These are built-out, land-constrained areas with strong school attendance zones and limited new supply — the classic recipe for sustained high prices. For buyers, the practical takeaway is that the metro's prestige addresses are clustered in a narrow band north of downtown Dallas and along the Highway 114 corridor toward Tarrant County.

Highest household incomes

Income largely tracks home values, but not perfectly. The highest-earning ZIP codes lean even more heavily toward the northern suburbs — Southlake, Southlake, Colleyville and Prosper — where master-planned communities and corporate relocations have concentrated dual-income, high-earning households.

Note: The Census Bureau top-codes household income at $250,001, so the very wealthiest ZIP codes share that ceiling figure even though their true medians differ. We mark these with a "+".

The most affordable ZIP codes — and why they're worth watching

At the other end of the scale, the metro's most affordable housing is concentrated in southern Dallas and the urban core. South Dallas / Bonton, South Dallas / Fair Park and the Oak Cliff communities offer median home values a fraction of the metro figure.

Where prices are rising fastest

This is where the data tells its most interesting story. If you rank DFW ZIP codes by five-year home-price appreciation, the leaderboard nearly inverts the wealth map. The fastest-appreciating areas are not Highland Park or Southlake — they are South Dallas / Bonton, South Dallas / Fair Park and the Oak Cliff / Bishop Arts corridor, the same southern-Dallas neighborhoods that sit near the bottom of the price tables above.

Appreciation in the 35–48% range over five years, against a low starting price, is the statistical fingerprint of gentrification. Proximity to downtown, a wave of restaurant and retail investment in Bishop Arts, and buyers priced out of the northern suburbs have all pushed demand south. For residents this is double-edged — rising equity for owners, rising costs for renters — but for anyone reading the market, southern Dallas is unambiguously the metroplex's most dynamic zone right now. Our Dallas cost-of-living guide and neighborhood profiles break down what that means block by block.

Methodology

All figures are drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates — the most reliable small-area data available for income and housing. We analyzed 98 ZIP codes across the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. For the home-value and affordability rankings we excluded ZIP codes with fewer than 1,000 residents or no reliable owner-occupied housing sample (the Census Bureau suppresses home-value estimates where the owner-occupied sample is too small, e.g. near-total-renter areas), leaving 96 ZIP codes. Income rankings use median household income (variable B19013); home values use median value of owner-occupied units (B25077). Five-year appreciation figures are editorial estimates derived from aggregated public market data and are intended as directional indicators, not appraisals. Dollar figures are rounded. For official data, visit data.census.gov.

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