Best Places75224, TX Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood inside ZIP code 75224, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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75224 ranks 21,518th of 33,110 U.S. zip codes on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on transit by a wide margin, and civic engagement ranks lowest.

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The best neighborhoods in 75224

Map of the best neighborhoods in the 75224 area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.

75224's strengths and weaknesses

Top 5%Transit
Top 10%Walkability
Top 10%Low taxes
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare 75224 with other zip codes.

Where 75224 ranks high

  • TransitBetter than 95% of zip codes
  • WalkabilityBetter than 91% of zip codes
  • Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 91% of zip codes
  • BikingBetter than 90% of zip codes
  • Big-city accessBetter than 88% of zip codes

Where 75224 ranks low

  • Voter turnoutBetter than only 1% of zip codes
  • Educational attainmentBetter than only 3% of zip codes
  • Healthcare accessBetter than only 3% of zip codes
  • QuietBetter than only 9% of zip codes
  • Air qualityBetter than only 10% of zip codes

What it costs to buy a home in 75224

A household needs to earn about $73,000 a year to comfortably buy the median 75224 home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $60,021, so buying stretches a typical household.

Income to buy the median home
$73,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$1,709
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $262,240 home
Median rent
$1,357
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$1,337
Property tax$284
Homeowners insurance$87

Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses 75224's effective rate of 1.30%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.

Renting versus buying

At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 7 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in 75224

75224 runs younger than the country, and households here run larger than average.

Median age
35
younger than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
13%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
3.0
above the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1825%
18 to 3425%
35 to 4919%
50 to 6418%
65 and older13%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for 75224.


Who works in 75224, and how

Work in 75224 centers on construction and retail trade. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.

Work from home
9%
below the national average
Unemployment
5.5%
above the national average
Job growth
−1.5%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Construction13%
Retail trade12%
Transportation & warehousing10%
Hospitality & food10%
Health care & social7%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 84%
  • Work from home 9%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 6%

Life in 75224

75224 has more parkland per resident than 90% of zip codes. That concentrates in some parts of 75224 and thins out in others, which the map shows.

Places to eat and drink
133
restaurants, bars, and fast food, about 39.5 per 10,000 residents, more than 57% of zip codes
Coffee shops
10
about 3.0 per 10,000 residents, more than 54% of zip codes
Parkland
366 acres
about 10.9 acres per 1,000 residents, more than 90% of zip codes

What the weather is like in 75224, month by month

75224 sees roughly 120 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 97 degrees. January highs sit near 58, with lows near 38. The comfortable stretch runs March through May, October, and November.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January58°47°38°
April77°66°56°
July97°86°76°
October81°69°59°

Flying in and out of 75224

Dallas Love Field sits about 9 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 8.2 million passengers in 2025, with 91 nonstop destinations.

Nearest airport
DAL
Dallas Love Field, about 9 miles
Airport size
Medium hub
33rd-busiest in the US, 91 nonstop destinations
Average drive
13 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around 75224

Schools across 75224 average a C, better than 36% of zip codes.

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Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every 75224 school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


75224 measure by measure

Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare 75224 against the other 33,109 zip codes.


Who 75224 suits

Families

Schools land around the 36th percentile.

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Remote workers

Internet is fast and widely advertised and 9% already work from home.

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Retirees

The weather beats 75% of zip codes.

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Common questions about living in 75224

Is 75224 a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, 75224 ranks 21,518th of 33,110 zip codes. It scores highest on transit, walkability, and low taxes, and lowest on civic engagement and education levels. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is 75224 expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $262,240. The overall cost of living runs about 8% below the national average. Set against a $60,021 median income, cost of living beats 16% of zip codes.

Is 75224 safe?

75224 is safer than 49% of zip codes. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $380 per resident a year.

What is the weather like in 75224?

July highs average about 97 degrees, and January highs near 58 with lows near 38. That works out to about 120 pleasant days a year, more than 75% of zip codes.

Is 75224 good for families?

Schools beat 36% of zip codes, crime safety beats 49%, and childcare runs $883 a month.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to 75224. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in 75224 represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.

75224 detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for 75224: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in 75224: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of 75224: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in 75224: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

75224 detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.