Glenn Heights is one of southern DFW’s most affordable and accessible cities. Learn why commuters, young families, and long‑term homeowners are all finding their place in Glenn Heights
A starting point, not a full list. The city officially recognises 23 neighbourhoods. What matters more than the name on the sign here is which county the lot sits in, because that decides your school district and your tax bill.
$375K – $606K
Bloomfield Homes on 87.7 acres off South Hampton Road, with 285 homes planned and more than ten acres of green space, hike and bike trails, a pavilion and basketball courts. The Estates section carries the larger homesites.
$318K – $607K
First Texas Homes, and the clock tower at the entrance boulevard is the neighbourhood's landmark. Roughly ten acres of park and connected walking trails run through it. HOA runs about $600 a year and it is in its final phase.
From $390K
Bloomfield again, with the fullest amenity package in the city: clubhouse with a kitchen and meeting room, fitness center, playground and an outdoor fireplace. Homes run 1,800 to 4,400 square feet.
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D.R. Horton built it and sold out in February 2023, so this is now a resale neighbourhood carrying amenities most resale streets do not: pool, splash pad, dog park, playground, basketball, soccer field and trails.
$350K – $440K
Built around 2004 off Riley Drive, and the mature side of Glenn Heights. This is the Dallas County half, which means DeSoto ISD and the higher of the two tax rates. Zoned Woodridge Elementary, McCowan Middle and DeSoto High.
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Beaver Creek, Cinnamon Springs, Heritage Lakes at Bear Creek, Kingston Meadows, Meadow Creek Estates, Stonecreek, Sunrise Meadow, Top of Hill Farms and more. Mostly built between the 1990s and 2010s, and mostly overlooked by buyers chasing new construction.
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Glenn Heights sits in two counties, and which one your lot falls in changes both your school district and your tax bill. For 2025 the Dallas County side is roughly $2.16 per $100, made up of the city rate, Dallas County plus Parkland Hospital and Dallas College, and DeSoto ISD. The Ellis County side is roughly $1.92 per $100, made up of the city rate, Ellis County, and Red Oak ISD.
That gap is about $720 a year on a $300,000 home, every year you own it. Two houses that look identical from the street can sit on opposite sides of that line. Verify the parcel at the Dallas or Ellis appraisal district before you write an offer, not after.
Price ranges are general guides that move with the market and with inventory in each community. They are not appraisals and not a substitute for a comparative market analysis on a specific property. Tax rates are 2025 adopted figures and reset each autumn. Builders confirmed actively selling inside Glenn Heights city limits are Bloomfield Homes and First Texas Homes; several builders that appear in Glenn Heights searches are in fact building in Red Oak, which is a different city. Maplewood's school district is marked for verification because the builder does not state it and the community sits near the county line. No Public Improvement District and no Municipal Utility District exists anywhere in Glenn Heights or its extraterritorial jurisdiction, verified against the Dallas appraisal district, the Texas Comptroller special district directory and the city's own tax billing information. That means no special assessment on top of the rates above, which is unusual for a growing DFW suburb and worth understanding. Bobby Franklin, REALTOR®, TREC #0805459, Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team.
Here is the honest version. Glenn Heights is a residential city of eighteen thousand with a small independent business scene, and most of what a search returns for "Glenn Heights" is actually sitting in Red Oak, DeSoto, Ovilla or Cedar Hill. Below is what is genuinely inside the city limits, followed by where to drive for everything else.
113 W Ovilla Rd · 972-230-4269
The neighbourhood Chinese takeout, open every day of the week. The Chris Fried Rice is the house dish and the cream cheese wontons are made in-house. Everything is cooked to order rather than held under a lamp.
1308 E Bear Creek Rd, Ste 130 · 972-274-0384
The one people drive across town for. The jalapeño croissant kolaches are the order, and reviewers who have eaten a lot of kolaches call these the freshest around. Coffee too.
127 W Ovilla Rd · 972-223-7422
Doors open at five in the morning and close at noon, so this is a before-work stop rather than a mid-morning one. Locals call them the best donuts around.
125 W Ovilla Rd · Ovilla Road corridor
Brick-oven and gluten-free pizzas, pasta and sandwiches, with a kids' menu. A name residents on this whole stretch of Ovilla Road recognise, and the closest thing here to a sit-down dinner out.
125 W Bear Creek Rd
A small soul food spot on Bear Creek Road. Hours are not published anywhere reliable, so call before you drive.
Glenn Heights · 972-972-5689
A soul food truck registered here in town. Follow them rather than looking for an address, because the location moves.
Glenn Heights · Delivery apps only
Birria tacos, catfish baskets, candied yams and a catfish alfredo. It operates out of a residential address, so order for delivery rather than turning up.
No coffee shop, no brewery or wine bar, no ice cream or boba, no boutiques, no bookstore, no nursery and no farmers market inside the city limits. Bear Creek Barbecue at 1308 E Bear Creek Road has closed. Rather than pad this list with businesses in other towns and call them local:
Coffee: 7 Brew at 129 E Ovilla Road, the Coffee Bean Cookie Co. on Highway 342, and Travelin' Tom's, all a minute or two into Red Oak. Barbecue: drive two miles to A.D. Franks Holy Smoke at 705 W Main Street in Ovilla, in a converted general store. Texas Monthly's barbecue editor noted that Abraham Franks grew up in Lockhart, the barbecue capital of Texas, and it shows. Wine: Cassaro Winery in Red Oak. Everything else, meaning boutiques, dessert, boba and salons, is in Red Oak, DeSoto or Cedar Hill, all within about ten minutes.
Verified as of September 2026, and deliberately short. Roughly five to six storefront independents currently operate inside Glenn Heights city limits, and inflating that number by borrowing businesses from neighbouring towns would not help you. Every entry above was screened for a genuine in-city address, which matters because delivery apps and directory sites routinely file Red Oak, DeSoto, Ovilla, Lancaster and Cedar Hill businesses under Glenn Heights. One caution on the Ovilla Road corridor: the city line runs through it, so a handful of addresses on that stretch are claimed by more than one city and Moni's is one of them. Snacks and More is listed without hours because none are published reliably. Two operations run from residential addresses and are delivery-only. National chains including Subway, Jack in the Box and Golden Chick are present and deliberately excluded. Businesses listed are for general local reference and are not endorsements, and I receive no compensation from any business named. Bobby Franklin, REALTOR®, TREC #0805459, Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team.
A Mobile Home Park, a Firefighter, and a City
The land fell inside the Peters Colony empresario grant, signed August 30, 1841. Single men could claim 320 acres and families 640.
The colony ultimately brought 2,205 families to Texas and distributed 879,920 acres. Raw land listings inside Glenn Heights still reference the original survey abstracts, including the John Lewis Abstract on East Bear Creek Road.
For roughly a century this was scattered farmsteads with no town center, split across the Dallas and Ellis county line while Ovilla, Red Oak and DeSoto organised around it.
This is the reason Glenn Heights is unusual today. When it finally incorporated, the boundaries were drawn across a county line that was already there rather than annexed into a second county later. That single accident of geography is why the city has always had two counties, two appraisal districts and two school districts.
N.L. "Moe" Craddock, a Dallas firefighter, opened a 30-acre mobile home park here. When DeSoto moved to annex it, he pushed to incorporate instead.
Craddock grew up in Lancaster, graduated high school in 1953, spent three years as a lineman for Dallas Power & Light and joined the Dallas Fire Department in 1958, eventually driving for the chief at Station No. 36 in West Dallas.
He served on the council from 1972, was appointed mayor in 1985 and elected in 1988, 1990 and 1992. He helped found the Bank of DeSoto. He died in 2008 at 73, aboard a round-the-world cruise off the coast of Vietnam. Craddock Drive and Craddock Circle are named for him.
Glenn Heights incorporated on September 16, 1969 under a council-manager government. The 1970 Census counted 257 residents.
The charter establishes the city as a body politic "in perpetuity" spanning Dallas and Ellis counties, with original boundaries recorded by metes and bounds in a record kept by the City Secretary. Because it straddles the line, elections are administered jointly by two counties.
Every source explains how the city was founded. None explains the name. Who or what "Glenn" referred to is genuinely undocumented.
The Texas State Historical Association entry, the city's own About and Community Profile pages, local newspapers and every published history describe Craddock and the incorporation but contain no naming etymology at all. Not a landowner, not a family, not a developer, not a feature.
Two things circulating online are worth ignoring. A claim that the city was named for astronaut John Glenn is fabricated, appearing only on an AI-generated reference site. And "glenn means valley in Scottish" is a dictionary entry, not evidence about this town.
The answer probably exists offline, in the original subdivision plat filed with Dallas or Ellis County around 1968 or 1969. Until someone pulls it, the honest answer is that we do not know.
Glenn Heights joined Dallas Area Rapid Transit at its founding in 1983, the only city this far south and the only non-contiguous member to do it.
Express bus service to downtown Dallas started in September 1984. The Glenn Heights Park & Ride opened September 16, 1991, the city's twenty-second incorporation anniversary, at 1200 E Bear Creek Road with 595 spaces. It remains DART's southernmost facility.
A city of a few thousand people voting itself into a Dallas transit authority in 1983 was an unusual bet on where the metroplex was heading. It is still the single thing Glenn Heights has that Red Oak, Ovilla and Waxahachie do not.
257 residents in 1970. 1,033 in 1980. 4,564 in 1990. 7,224 in 2000. 11,278 in 2010. Dallas kept moving south and Glenn Heights sat in the path.
Even after four decades of that, more than half the city's land remained undeveloped, which is why there is still so much room along the arterials today. The city built its own police and fire departments during this stretch.
An EF-3 tornado tracked 8.5 miles from near Midlothian through Ovilla and into Glenn Heights, part of an outbreak that killed 13 people across North Texas.
Per the National Weather Service survey, peak winds were 145 to 155 mph with a maximum path width of 125 yards. It touched down at 6:01pm and lifted at 6:13pm at the DeSoto and Glenn Heights border. There were no fatalities in this particular tornado.
It damaged homes, two churches and Donald T. Shields Elementary School, and tore through the Heights Mobile Home Park on Walker Court. More than 200 homes were damaged or destroyed across the Ovilla, Glenn Heights and Red Oak area. It was the first confirmed EF-3 in December in Ellis County history.
The 13 deaths that night came almost entirely from a separate EF-4 that hit Garland and Rowlett, where nine people died in vehicles thrown from I-30.
The 2020 Census counted 15,819 residents, up from 11,278. The most recent American Community Survey estimate is 18,096.
Bloomfield Homes and First Texas Homes drove the boom. The rooftops going up on the Ellis County side pushed Red Oak ISD's two Glenn Heights elementaries past capacity, with Schupmann around 706 students and Shields around 595, which is a large part of why that district has been running bond elections.
Mayor Sonja A. Brown, elected in 2022, is the first African American woman to serve as mayor of Glenn Heights.
Brown joined the council in 2018 and became mayor pro tem before winning the mayor's seat. She launched the city's first Citizens Police Advisory Committee, the Guardian Program for residents with special needs, a COVID vaccination clinic with Parkland, an academic award for students, and the city's first Hispanic Heritage Month Festival. She reports securing more than $2 million for infrastructure.
The 2020 Census recorded a majority Black city with a large and growing Hispanic population, and a median age of 32.4.
Census figures put the city at roughly 55 percent Black or African American and 27 percent Hispanic or Latino in 2020. Both shares have climbed steeply since 2000, when the Black share was under 25 percent.
A young median age of 32.4 in a city where most housing is single-family tells you exactly who is moving here: families early in their run, buying their first or second house within a twenty-minute drive of downtown Dallas.
Compiled from the Texas State Historical Association, the City of Glenn Heights, the city charter, the US Census Bureau, the National Weather Service Fort Worth office, DART, the Waxahachie Sun and the Dallas Morning News. The origin of the city's name is presented as undocumented because no published source explains it; a widely circulated claim attributing it to astronaut John Glenn originates from an AI-generated reference site and is not supported. The identity of the first mayor and council in 1969 is likewise not documented online. No Texas Historical Commission marker or Historic Texas Cemetery has been recorded inside the city limits. Population figures after 2020 are estimates.
Nineteen Events and Programs, Several of Which the City Never Advertises
A free brunch, roughly 10:00 to 11:30, where the mayor walks through the past year's department results and what is coming next. Sponsored in past years by Atmos, Oncor and Palladium Glenn Heights.
This one is not on the city's own annual events page, which is exactly why it is worth knowing about. If you are moving here and want the honest picture of infrastructure, budget and what is actually being built, this is the ninety minutes to go sit through.
Performances, speakers, live music, vendors and family activities in the courtyard at 1938 S Hampton Road. Free to attend, with vendor spots available.
A sanctioned barbecue competition at 400 E Bear Creek Road with a Taste of Glenn Heights food component alongside it, co-hosted with the Red Oak Area Chamber.
Sanctioned by the Outlaw Barbecue Association with a $5,000 total payout across half chicken, pork spare ribs and brisket, with Baylor Hospital in Waxahachie as presenting sponsor. Named for the county line that genuinely runs through this city.
Kids bring a stuffed animal in for a check-up, adopt a teddy bear of their own, and learn about health, nutrition and safety. Run by the fire department with Ellis County Toys for Tots.
Healthcare teams from Premise Medical Center, Crescent Regional Hospital, Baylor Scott & White and Urgent Care Lancaster have taken part, along with Stop the Bleed training for adults. Another one that never makes the city's official events page.
A quarterly town hall over tacos. The city uses it to sort out what the HOA handles versus what the city handles, plus code compliance and current projects. Genuinely useful if you are new here.
Community beautification day. The kind of Saturday where you meet the neighbours you have been waving at for six months.
The city has historically run an Easter celebration and egg hunt at Heritage Park, but it is no longer listed on the current annual events page. Check with the city before you build a Saturday around it.
The city's flagship. All day at Heritage Community Park, free entry, with live music and dance, local acts and vendors from across southern Dallas and Ellis County.
Past editions have run a Glenn Heights Got Talent competition and a Grill Master of Glenn Heights barbecue contest. If you are trying to decide whether this town suits you, this is the single day to come look.
Free outdoor music with food vendors. Bring a lawn chair. The line-up has run from school jazz bands to the Dallas String Quartet and Mariachi Mexicana.
Parks and Recreation runs a weekly day camp with field trips out of the Community Center. Only 40 spots per week, and paying the full nine-week rate guarantees a place, so this fills.
Free backpacks and school supplies for residents, plus vendors. Bring physical ID showing a Glenn Heights address. Four per household, five for teachers.
Glenn Heights incorporated on September 16, 1969, and marks the milestones properly. The 55th ran four to nine in the evening with live music, food trucks, a kids zone and a car show.
Food, local vendors, live entertainment and family activities at 1938 S Hampton Road. The city's newest festival, launched under Mayor Sonja A. Brown.
This is the city's Halloween. Free candy, hayride, carnival games, kids zone, axe throwing, balloon artist, pumpkin patch, a chili cook-off and a trunk-or-treat contest.
DART has run a booth here, which is a small reminder of something most Ellis County towns cannot say: Glenn Heights has been a DART member city since 1983.
A 5K, a family fun run and a veterans appreciation ceremony. Registration has run about $15 early and $20 on the day, with proceeds supporting local veteran programmes.
The city's signature holiday event and one of its two flagships alongside the Family Festival. Free, with vendor booths for food, crafts and goods.
A holiday giving and service programme spanning Thanksgiving and Christmas. The fastest way to meet people here if you have just moved in.
Pop-up neighbourhood gatherings where residents meet fire, police and city management staff over free hot dogs, music and games. Informal, and the city brings it to you.
Classes, memberships and a Senior Lifestyles Program for residents 55 and up. Individual classes run about $5 to $50, programme sessions $20 to $200, and team sports $100 to $500 per team.
Where most of this page happens. Two baseball fields, two basketball courts, eight soccer fields, a covered playground, a pavilion and walking paths. Rentals from $25 an hour for residents.
The city maintains more than 56 acres of parkland across Heritage, the All Abilities Park built for inclusive access, Gateway Park on Gateway Boulevard and Courtney Lane Park in Sunrise Meadows.
Dates shift annually. Confirm against the City of Glenn Heights annual events page and the city calendar, and check the city's Facebook page too, because several genuine recurring events on this list including the State of the City address, Let's Taco Bout It and the Teddy Bear Hospital never appear on the formal events page at all. Four honest notes for anyone planning around this calendar. There is no city Fourth of July event or fireworks show; the nearest are Duncanville and Waxahachie. No National Night Out, Juneteenth, Memorial Day or Martin Luther King Jr. Day city observance was confirmed, though the police department may run events that do not appear online, so check directly. There are no city-run youth sports leagues, only recreation classes and fee-based team sports; Lancaster and DeSoto run leagues about five miles away. And there is no farmers market and no city library; residents use DeSoto Public Library on the Dallas County side and Red Oak Public Library on the Ellis County side. The Easter egg hunt has run historically but is no longer on the official page, so verify it before planning around it.
What sets Glenn Heights schools apart:
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Glenn Heights has no school district of its own. The county line running through the city decides everything: Dallas County homes attend DeSoto ISD, Ellis County homes attend Red Oak ISD. Two entirely different districts with different ratings, different feeder patterns and different tax rates. Here is every campus a Glenn Heights address can be zoned to.
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223 W Ovilla Rd · Ellis County side
Feeds Dr. Joy Shaw Middle School
Built with the 2007 bond and physically inside Glenn Heights. Gifted and talented programming, and it earned distinctions for Academic Growth and Closing the Gaps in 2024-25.
401 E Ovilla Rd · Ellis County side
Feeds Dr. Joy Shaw Middle School
The largest elementary in Red Oak ISD and the campus feeling Glenn Heights growth most directly, up from roughly 706 students.
340 S Westmoreland Rd, Ovilla · Ellis County
Fed by Shields, Schupmann
Students walked in for the first time on January 7, 2026, which split a district that had run on one middle school into two feeder patterns.
Funded by the $97.5 million bond that passed May 2023 with 60 percent support. Built on a wing concept with separate sixth, seventh and eighth grade wings around interior courtyards, plus a learning commons library and fine arts and athletics space.
It came in roughly $10 million under budget, and the district has said those bonds simply will not be sold. Named for the late educator and board member Dr. Joy Cockerham Shaw.
SH-342, Red Oak · Ellis County
Fed by Both Red Oak middle schools
Where every Ellis County Glenn Heights student ends up. Four-year graduation rate of 94 percent, dual credit through TSTC North Texas, CTE pathways and the Hawk Scholars Academy. The district is moving up to Class 6A.
1500 Heritage Blvd · Dallas County side
Feeds McCowan Middle School
Physically inside Glenn Heights, with a STEM-redesigned curriculum. Slated for replacement under the May 2025 bond, so this campus is getting rebuilt.
425 S Cockrell Hill Rd, DeSoto · Dallas County
Feeds Frank D. Moates Elementary
The first stop for Dallas County Glenn Heights children. Also being renovated or replaced under the 2025 bond.
1500 Majestic Meadows Dr · Dallas County side
Feeds DeSoto High School
The Dallas County middle school, and another campus that sits inside Glenn Heights city limits despite carrying a DeSoto ISD name.
600 Eagle Dr, DeSoto · Dallas County
Fed by McCowan Middle School
The district's single comprehensive high school, and where every Dallas County Glenn Heights student finishes. Eagle Stadium is being renovated under the 2025 bond.
DeSoto · Open to Dallas County side
Beyond the zoned path, Dallas County families can apply to Katherine Johnson Technology Magnet Academy, Woodridge Fine Arts and Gifted Academy, and the DeSoto Early College High School with its P-TECH pathway.
The Early College High School and P-TECH Academy on Westmoreland Road lets students earn college credit and work toward an associate pathway while still in high school. This is the strongest single argument for the DeSoto side of the county line and it is one most buyers never hear about.
Every home here says Glenn Heights on the envelope, and that is exactly the problem. The county the parcel sits in is what decides the district, and the line does not follow one continuous street. Run the address through the Red Oak ISD School Zone Locator first, because if it returns no campus the home is on the Dallas County side and belongs to DeSoto ISD. Then confirm with DeSoto's Find My School and the appraisal district record for that specific parcel.
For 2025, DeSoto ISD adopted $1.2252 per $100 and Red Oak ISD adopted $1.0633, a gap of roughly sixteen cents. On a $300,000 home that is about $486 a year at full value, or $324 after the school homestead exemption. Worth knowing that this reversed recently: in 2024 Red Oak was the more expensive of the two, and DeSoto's May 2025 bond flipped the order. Red Oak's rate is scheduled to fall again for 2026.
The middle school map already moved. Shields and Schupmann began feeding Dr. Joy Shaw Middle School in January 2026, and most listing sites and rating pages still show the old single-middle-school pattern. An elementary is coming to Harmony Way, off Uhl Road north of Ovilla Road, funded by Red Oak's May 2025 bond and sitting close enough to Glenn Heights that it will trigger another rezone on the Ellis County side when it opens. On the Dallas County side, Moates and Cockrell Hill are both being replaced under DeSoto's own 2025 bond.
Accountability ratings are intentionally not shown on the campus cards. TEA letter grades and third-party scores change annually and a single year rarely reflects what a campus is actually like. For current ratings go to TXschools.gov, or GreatSchools and Niche for third-party scores. For context, Red Oak ISD's accountability score rose from 77 to 78 and carries a C letter grade with a B in Closing the Gaps; DeSoto ISD's most recent rating is a C. One further thing a buyer on the Dallas County side should know and weigh for themselves: DeSoto ISD has been under a Texas Education Agency conservatorship since 2020 following a finance investigation. The district improved academically from a D in 2018 to a B in 2022, but the conservatorship remained in place as of early 2026 alongside reported budget strain and a superintendent transition. That is a real consideration, not a disqualifier, and it is the kind of thing worth reading the district's own board coverage on. Enrollment figures are recent snapshots and vary by source. Attendance zones, grade configurations and campus assignments change; several Glenn Heights subdivisions sit close enough to the county line that district assignment is parcel-specific and cannot be determined from the subdivision name, including Maplewood. Confirm any specific address with both districts before acting on it. This information is provided for general reference only and is not a recommendation regarding any school, campus, district, neighbourhood or property. Bobby Franklin, REALTOR®, TREC #0805459, Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team.
Median Sales Price
What Glenn Heights homes actually sold for each month, not what sellers hoped to get. The single most important number for understanding local conditions.
Glenn Heights runs from established resale in the older neighbourhoods to new construction past $600,000. The median finds the exact middle, half above and half below, stripping out the distortion a handful of extreme sales would create.
You are competing against Bloomfield and First Texas selling new inventory in the same city. Price against the last ninety days of resale closings, not against the model home with an incentive package attached.
Watch this line rather than a portal estimate. In a city closing under twenty homes some months, one heavy builder month moves the median in a way that has nothing to do with what your house is worth.
Under 30 days means strong demand and multiple offers are common. Over 60 days means buyers are being selective, inventory is building, and negotiating power has shifted.
This sets expectations before you list. If homes move in 20 days the market rewards correct pricing. If they sit 90, you need aggressive pricing and real marketing.
This tells you whether to decide fast or take time on due diligence. Watch the seasonal pattern, since spring and summer run faster as families move around school calendars.
Under 10 showings means buyers are deciding quickly, which signals a genuine seller's market. Over 20 means buyers are touring a lot of houses before committing.
This separates a pricing problem from a presentation problem. If the average is 8 showings and you are at 15 with no offer, something is wrong and it is fixable before you lose more market time.
High showings-to-pending means you can be selective without losing homes. Read it alongside days on market: low on both is a hot seller's market, high on both means you have the advantage.
This is the chart that explains the others. Glenn Heights can close fewer than twenty homes in a month, and at that volume the median price swings wildly on which handful of houses happened to close.
Rising prices with rising volume is a genuine seller's market. Rising prices with falling volume means momentum is weakening, and that distinction gets missed constantly.
High volume means more competition and faster-moving inventory. Declining volume creates room for patient negotiation and time to be selective.
Charts supplied by NTREIS via 10K Research and Marketing and update automatically. Data reflects residential activity reported to the MLS and may be revised as late-reported sales come in. New construction sold directly through a builder does not always appear in MLS counts, which matters here because Bloomfield Homes and First Texas Homes are both actively selling in the city. These charts cover Glenn Heights as a whole and do not separate the Dallas County and Ellis County portions, which carry different school districts and a school tax rate differing by roughly sixteen cents per $100. Market statistics describe the city as a whole and are not a substitute for a comparative market analysis on a specific property. Texas is a non-disclosure state, so publicly available sale prices elsewhere are frequently estimates rather than recorded figures. Bobby Franklin, REALTOR®, TREC #0805459, Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team.
Pick a purchase year and the price fills in with what a typical Glenn Heights home cost that year. If you own here, type over it with what you actually paid. Because this city sits in two counties, the chart plots the federal house price index for both Dallas County and Ellis County. They track almost identically, which is the answer to a question buyers here always ask.
Bought here? Tap the number and enter what you paid.
Federal house price index growth, indexed to the purchase year, where the purchase year equals 100.
It changes your school district and your tax bill, but not this. From 2009 to 2025 the federal index rose 138.9 percent in Dallas County and 139.9 percent in Ellis County, within about one point of each other at the endpoints and four points at the widest. Both went essentially flat in 2025. Whichever side of the line your house sits on, the appreciation story is the same.
Glenn Heights closes fewer than twenty homes in a slow month, and builders are actively selling in five communities. When a handful of new-construction closings land in one month the median spikes; when small resales dominate it collapses. That is how you get a portal showing minus 19 percent while another shows plus 25 percent for the same town. Properly dated, both describe a market roughly flat to modestly down over the past year.
On the same federal index, Dallas County fell about 5 percent and Ellis County about 6 percent peak to trough across the entire housing crash. Over the same period Las Vegas fell roughly 62 percent, Phoenix 56 percent and Miami 50 percent on Case-Shiller. Conservative Texas lending law, cheap developable land and no preceding bubble are why. Note the two indexes are not identical: the federal series excludes most foreclosure sales, so it reads milder everywhere.
Growth rates are the FHFA All-Transactions House Price Index, annual values 2009 through 2025: Ellis County, Texas (FRED series ATNHPIUS48139A), Dallas County, Texas (ATNHPIUS48113A), the State of Texas (TXSTHPI) and the United States (USSTHPI). State and national figures are annual averages of the four published quarters. The prefilled dollar figures are derived, not published. No source publishes a year-by-year home value history for Glenn Heights, so the suggested values are calculated by applying the Ellis County index to the city's most recent published typical home value of $331,753, observed July 2026. Ellis County is used for the calculation because both county indexes track within a few points and it keeps this tool consistent with the neighbouring city pages; the Dallas County line is plotted so you can see that for yourself. Entering your own purchase price replaces the estimate entirely. The FHFA county indexes are labeled developmental and subject to revision; Dallas County values for 2023 and 2024 were revised in the March 2026 vintage. The 2026 values have not been released, so 2025 is used as the current year. The index tracks repeat sales financed with conforming Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgages, which means it excludes foreclosures and jumbo loans and reads differently from Case-Shiller. It reflects the counties as a whole and not any specific property, neighbourhood, condition, lot or set of improvements. Equity figures assume a 30-year fixed mortgage at that year's Freddie Mac annual average rate, held to today, with no refinancing, no extra principal and no additional borrowing against the home. They exclude closing costs, property taxes, insurance, HOA dues, maintenance, improvements and selling costs, all of which are substantial, and note that the school tax rate differs by roughly sixteen cents per $100 depending on which county your parcel sits in. This is an illustration for general reference, not an appraisal, a comparative market analysis, a valuation or investment advice. Past appreciation does not predict future appreciation. Bobby Franklin, REALTOR®, TREC #0805459, Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team.
Glenn Heights sits about twenty miles south of downtown Dallas on I-35E. What separates it from every other community in this corridor is not the drive time. It is that in 1983, a town of a few thousand people voted itself into Dallas Area Rapid Transit, and it has been a member city ever since.
Waxahachie does not have this. Neither does Red Oak, Midlothian, Ovilla or Maypearl. A DART member card, a 595-space park and ride, an express bus into the Medical District and a GoLink zone that reaches light rail. For a household with one Dallas commuter it can mean one car instead of two.
Off-peak it is a twenty-something minute run straight up I-35E, and about twenty-six to the Medical District. That is closer than most of Ellis County and closer than plenty of Dallas County itself.
The county line runs through this city, so the Ellis County side pays roughly $1.92 per $100 and the Dallas County side about $2.16. That is around $720 a year on a $300,000 home, and it is the first thing to check on any address here.
No Public Improvement District and no Municipal Utility District exists anywhere in Glenn Heights or its extraterritorial jurisdiction, verified three ways. In a metro full of Princeton and Celina assessments, that means no special district debt riding on top of your tax bill.
Mean travel time to work here is 33.3 minutes, well above the national 27.2, and about 76 percent of residents drive alone. Rush hour on I-35E runs 35 to 50 minutes into Dallas and past an hour to Fort Worth. The transit option is genuinely useful, but a full trip requiring rail runs well over an hour and a half, so be honest with yourself about which one you would actually use.
DART membership is not free. Glenn Heights commits a full penny of sales tax to it, which is half the local sales tax capacity Texas allows a city, money that cannot go to its own economic development. And DART has been through a funding fight, with several member cities calling withdrawal elections before a compromise plan returned revenue to cities. Worth watching if the express bus is part of why you are buying here.
Browsing, or actually moving? Either is fine. I am happy to talk through which county a specific address sits in, what that does to your tax bill and your school district, and whether the DART commute would actually work for your job, before you are anywhere near ready.
Browse Glenn Heights homes →Drive times are approximate off-peak estimates measured from central Glenn Heights and will run materially longer in morning and evening rush, realistically 35 to 50 minutes into downtown Dallas and roughly an hour or more to Fort Worth. They are synthesised from routing and distance sources rather than a single live measurement, so treat every figure as an estimate and confirm your own route before relying on it. Commute statistics are American Community Survey figures for Glenn Heights. DART fares are the structure effective March 2025, with the regional day pass adjusted March 2026, and are subject to change; the Route 306 schedule and the GoLink service hours should be confirmed directly with DART, since published sources differ on whether the 306 runs all weekday or peak periods only. The Silver Line that opened in October 2025 serves the northern suburbs and does not serve Glenn Heights. Tax rates are 2025 adopted figures and reset each autumn. Market conditions, school boundaries, transit service and tax rates change; verify anything address-specific before acting on it.
These are the questions that come up on relocation forums and on the phone, in roughly the order people ask them. Half of them have a different answer depending on which side of the county line your house sits on, which is the single strangest thing about buying here.
Because Glenn Heights sits in two counties, and almost everything that costs you money forks at that line. Dallas County addresses are in DeSoto ISD. Ellis County addresses are in Red Oak ISD. Your appraisal district, your county tax rate, your school district, your voter registration and even which DPS office you visit all change depending on which side you land on.
The line does not follow one continuous street, and the mailing address says Glenn Heights either way. Two houses a few blocks apart can be in different counties. Check the parcel at the Dallas Central Appraisal District or the Ellis Central Appraisal District before you write an offer, not after.
Two answers, and the gap between them is real money.
The city rate is 0.565015 per $100 for 2025, the same everywhere in town, split into 0.495670 for operations and 0.067125 for debt.
On the Dallas County side, add Dallas County at 0.2155, Parkland Hospital at 0.2120, Dallas College at 0.106575 and DeSoto ISD at 1.2252, for a total around 2.163 per $100. On the Ellis County side, add Ellis County with lateral roads at 0.293662 and Red Oak ISD at 1.0633, for a total around 1.922 per $100.
That is a gap of roughly sixteen cents, or about $720 a year on a $300,000 home, every year you own it. Worth knowing that it reversed recently: in 2024 Red Oak ISD was the more expensive of the two districts, and DeSoto's May 2025 bond flipped the order.
Whichever county the parcel sits in. The fastest way to find out is to run the address through Red Oak ISD's School Zone Locator. If it returns no campus, the home is on the Dallas County side and belongs to DeSoto ISD. Then confirm with DeSoto's Find My School tool.
Two campuses inside city limits are Red Oak ISD: Shields Elementary at 223 W Ovilla Road and Schupmann Elementary at 401 E Ovilla Road. Two others inside city limits are DeSoto ISD: Frank D. Moates Elementary at 1500 Heritage Boulevard and McCowan Middle School at 1500 Majestic Meadows Drive. A school sitting in Glenn Heights tells you nothing about which district serves your street.
The sources genuinely disagree, and I would rather show you the disagreement than pick the flattering one.
Measured against national and state averages, it looks clearly safe. AreaVibes, working from 2024 FBI data, puts violent crime at about 277 per 100,000, roughly 25 percent below the national average, and property crime at about 1,114 per 100,000, roughly 43 percent below. Nextdoor and BestPlaces land in similar territory, and multiple sources show both categories declining over five years.
NeighborhoodScout reads it differently, calling the crime rate considerably higher than the national average at about 11 crimes per 1,000 residents, higher than 59 percent of Texas cities, though it also notes the rate is noticeably lower than average for communities of similar size.
The gap is mostly a comparison-set artifact. Against national and state averages Glenn Heights looks safe; against every US community from largest to smallest it looks mid-pack. The city runs its own police department under Chief Dr. Glynell Horn Jr., sworn in March 2025, with staffing reported between 23 and 30 officers depending on the source.
The City of Glenn Heights provides both, citywide. Sewage is treated by the Trinity River Authority at its Red Oak Creek Regional plant. Utility billing is 972-223-1690, option 3, and after-hours water emergencies go to police dispatch at 972-223-3478.
Rates combine a fixed base charge with volume. The water base charge is $20.83 a month and the wastewater base charge $39.06, with water at $2.24 per thousand gallons up to 5,000, $3.36 from 5,001 to 15,000 and $5.04 above that, and wastewater at $7.24 per thousand. Add trash at $15.97 and drainage, and the fixed portion alone runs around $80 a month before you use a drop. These rates date to an October 2023 ordinance, so confirm whether a newer schedule has been adopted.
Yes. This is deregulated territory, so Oncor delivers the power and handles outages, and you separately pick a retail provider through Power to Choose, the official state marketplace run by the Public Utility Commission. Oncor is not who you buy from. Report outages at 888-313-4747 or text OUT to 66267.
Natural gas is Atmos Energy at 888-286-6700. If you smell gas, leave first and call 911, then the 24-hour emergency line at 866-322-8667.
Community Waste Disposal holds the city contract, reachable at 972-392-9300 option 2. Trash runs weekly, recycling every other week, and bulky waste and brush weekly on your trash day.
The part worth knowing: the city offers household hazardous waste and used electronics collection right at your door, up to once a month. Most cities make you drive to a county facility on a Saturday twice a year. This one comes to you.
No. There is no hospital inside city limits.
The nearest full-service hospital is Methodist Southwest Medical Center in southwest Dallas, near Wheatland Road and Highway 67. If that name is unfamiliar, it is because it was renamed from Methodist Charlton on August 1, 2026. It has grown from an 84-bed community hospital into a 314-bed facility with a new 70-bed emergency room and the only Level III trauma center in the region.
To the south, Baylor Scott & White in Waxahachie at 2400 N I-35E. Also nearby: Crescent Regional in Lancaster, Methodist Midlothian, a freestanding emergency room in DeSoto and Baylor Family Medicine in Red Oak.
Not its own, but the city solved it in an unusual way. Under an inter-local agreement, Dallas County residents pick up a voucher at City Hall from utility billing, with ID, and redeem it for a DeSoto Public Library card. One per household, and the DeSoto library is at 211 E Pleasant Run Road.
Ellis County residents should check with Red Oak Public Library about access on their side.
No, and this is genuinely worth understanding. A PID is a Public Improvement District, a per-lot assessment funding neighbourhood infrastructure, collected with your property taxes for twenty to forty years. A MUD is its own governmental district that finances water and sewer while levying a separate tax rate.
No Public Improvement District and no Municipal Utility District exists anywhere in Glenn Heights or its extraterritorial jurisdiction, verified against the Dallas appraisal district rate schedule, the Texas Comptroller special district directory and the city's own tax billing information. The city provides water and sewer directly, which is consistent with the absence of a MUD.
Compare that with Princeton, Celina, Forney or parts of Waxahachie, where a PID assessment rides on top of the tax rate. Confirm on any specific lot, but the absence of that debt is a real advantage.
Glenn Heights sits on Blackland Prairie clay, which can swell up to about thirty percent of its volume when saturated and shrink hard in drought. That movement stresses slabs and under-slab plumbing, and it is the most common expensive surprise in this part of Texas.
What it costs: DFW foundation repair averages around $5,200, with most residential jobs falling between $3,300 and $8,500 and individual piers running $1,000 to $3,500. A severe full-perimeter lift can reach $15,000 to $30,000.
The part that catches people: standard Texas homeowners policies generally exclude foundation movement from expansive clay, treating it as gradual earth movement. Get an independent foundation inspection during your option period rather than relying on a general home inspector's glance. Watch for stair-step cracks in brick, sticking doors and windows, and sloping floors. Then water the foundation consistently through summer drought, because that is the cheapest prevention there is.
This city has a specific and recent answer to that. On December 26, 2015, an EF-3 tornado tracked 8.52 miles from near Midlothian through Ovilla and into Glenn Heights, with peak winds of 145 to 155 mph and a maximum width of 125 yards.
It damaged 116 structures in Glenn Heights across both counties, 29 of them seriously, including Shields Elementary and two churches. Damage across the tornado's path totalled about $9.73 million with 46 people injured, though there were no fatalities in this particular tornado. The 13 deaths that night came almost entirely from a separate EF-4 that hit Garland and Rowlett.
Beyond that, southern Dallas County sits in the North Texas hail and tornado corridor with peak season running roughly March through June. A safe room and an actual plan are reasonable here in a way they are not in most of the country.
Bear Creek runs through the city and FEMA maps special flood hazard areas along local creeks, as in any North Texas city. Check the specific address at the FEMA Flood Map Service Center and confirm with the city floodplain administrator, and ask your lender early whether flood insurance will be required, because it changes your monthly number.
Clay soil drains poorly, so yard and street ponding after heavy rain is normal here and does not by itself indicate a flood problem.
Yes, though availability is address-specific. AT&T Fiber and Spectrum are the primary high-speed providers, with AT&T marketing 100 percent fiber plus 5G home internet in select areas. Fixed wireless and satellite options including Rise Broadband, Nextlink, T-Mobile Home Internet, Viasat and Starlink also serve the ZIP.
Aggregator coverage percentages are wildly inconsistent, so if you work from home, check the exact address with each provider and against the FCC National Broadband Map rather than trusting a city-wide number.
Reasonably. Cost of living indices land near or slightly above the national average, around 97 to 102 depending on source, and above the Texas average. Median household income is $81,718, median owner-occupied home value is $309,600, and owner occupancy runs 78.4 percent, which is high and tells you this is a place people buy rather than rent.
Rent figures vary widely by source and date, from about $1,415 to $2,185 depending on who is counting and what they include, so treat any single number carefully.
One cost worth naming: insurance. North Texas sits in a heavy hail corridor, which pushes homeowners premiums above the national norm, and as noted above, foundation movement is typically excluded from coverage.
Fast. Population went from 11,278 in the 2010 Census to 15,819 in 2020 to an estimated 20,327 in 2025, a 28.5 percent rise in five years, with projections around 21,089 for 2026.
Residential projects listed by the city include Aura Glenn Heights multifamily at Ovilla and Uhl Road, Bear Creek Elegance at 1198 W Bear Creek, The Meadows at Bear Creek at 928 E Bear Creek, Valencia Estates at Westmoreland and W Bear Creek, and Stewart Farms by Ashton Woods. Commercial work near E Bear Creek and I-35E includes Popeyes, Tractor Supply and O'Reilly Auto Parts.
The bigger story is road capacity. TxDOT is improving the East Bear Creek and I-35E intersection ahead of a Bear Creek Road expansion, FM 664 widening work continues toward I-35E, and the future Loop 9 is expected to add I-35 access along the city's eastern edge. The city notes more than half its developable land sits along major arterial intersections, which is why the retail is thin now and probably will not stay that way.
Commute out, mostly. This is a bedroom community by design. Only about 15 percent of workers both live and work in the city, and the daytime population drops by roughly 7,200 people, about 39 percent, as residents leave for work.
Mean travel time to work is 33.3 minutes against a national 27.2, and about 76 percent drive alone. Roughly 14 percent work from home, which is on the higher side and worth noting if that is your situation.
The upside is that the commute has a real alternative here, which is rare this far south. See the DART section on this page.
Glenn Heights is a home-rule city with a council-manager government: a mayor plus six council members elected at large by place to three-year terms. Mayor Sonja A. Brown and City Manager Clifford Blackwell currently lead it.
Council meets the first and third Tuesday of each month at 7pm in the council chambers at 1938-C S Hampton Road, with agendas posted at least 72 hours ahead. The city runs its own police and fire departments, animal services, municipal court, permitting and code compliance.
Worth knowing: the city holds a quarterly town hall specifically to sort out what the HOA handles versus what the city handles, which is a question that comes up constantly in a city with this many newer subdivisions.
A fair amount, and pretending otherwise would not help you. No hospital. No library of its own. No full-service grocery or major retail core. Limited sit-down dining and essentially no entertainment inside city limits.
What it does have is location. DeSoto, Cedar Hill and its Uptown Village retail corridor, Red Oak and Waxahachie all sit within roughly five to fifteen minutes, and residents shop and eat across all of them. The city's own economic development material treats the retail gap as the opportunity, given how much developable land sits along the arterials.
If you need a walkable town square with a restaurant scene, Waxahachie is the answer and it is about fifteen minutes south. If you need a DART card, Glenn Heights is the only city down here that has one.
Roughly flat to modestly down, and be careful with the numbers you find online. The current Zillow Home Value Index is $331,753, down 2.8 percent year over year as of July 2026.
You may run into a figure showing Glenn Heights up nearly 25 percent. That was a stale snapshot from several years ago with no date attached. You may also run into Redfin showing a median sale price down almost 19 percent. That is real data, but it came from a month with only 18 closings in a city where builders are actively selling in five communities. When a few new-construction closings land in a thin month the median spikes, and when small resales dominate it collapses.
Both properly dated sources describe a market that is roughly flat. And remember that Texas is a non-disclosure state, so sale prices are not public record and every portal figure is a model rather than a record of what changed hands. Actual closed prices live in the MLS.
Question not answered here? Ask it directly. I answer my own phone, and I would rather tell you which county a house is in now than have you find out at closing.
Call 214-228-0003Answers observed September 2026. Tax rates are 2025 adopted rates and change each autumn; combined figures are before exemptions, and the specific homestead, over-65 and disability exemption amounts adopted by the city, each county and each school district should be confirmed with the relevant appraisal district. Crime figures come from aggregators publishing FBI data and the sources genuinely conflict, which is why both readings are shown. Utility rates date to an October 2023 ordinance; confirm whether a newer schedule has been adopted. Water conservation stage, police response times and National Health Night Out participation were not confirmed in official sources. Internet availability, floodplain status and school attendance zones all vary parcel by parcel and must be verified by address. Foundation repair costs are DFW regional averages rather than Glenn Heights quotes. School information is provided for general reference and is not a recommendation regarding any school, district or neighbourhood. Nothing here is legal, tax, insurance or investment advice. Bobby Franklin, REALTOR®, TREC #0805459, Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team.
Every official link a new resident needs, verified and searchable. Because this city sits in two counties, the county resources are listed twice. Check which one applies to your address first.
City services, departments and council. City Hall is at 1938 S Hampton Road.
Start, stop or pay water, sewer and trash. The city serves the whole city, so there is no separate water district to sort out here. Option 3 on the main line.
The full rate schedule with a calculator. Water base is $20.83 a month, wastewater $39.06, trash $15.97, so fixed charges run near $80 before usage.
What needs a permit and how to pull one. Worth checking before a fence, a deck or a remodel.
Zoning, development review and code compliance. The office to ask about anything proposed near a property you are considering.
What is actually under way: Aura Glenn Heights, Bear Creek Elegance, The Meadows at Bear Creek, Valencia Estates, Stewart Farms, plus the retail near Bear Creek and I-35E.
Council meets the first and third Tuesday at 7pm at 1938-C S Hampton Road, with agendas posted at least 72 hours ahead.
Report a pothole, a code issue or anything else directly to the city rather than guessing which department owns it.
If your parcel is in Dallas County, this is where your value, exemptions and protests live. 2949 N Stemmons Fwy, Dallas.
Pay property taxes and register a vehicle. A different office from the appraisal district, which trips up more new owners than anything else.
Deeds and property records for the Dallas County side. 500 Elm Street, Suite 2100.
Voter registration for the Dallas County side. 1520 Round Table Drive.
The nearest driver license office for the Dallas County side, at 39025 LBJ Service Road. Book an appointment; walk-in waits are long.
If your parcel is in Ellis County, this is where your value, exemptions and protests live. 400 Ferris Avenue, Waxahachie.
Pay taxes and register a vehicle. The Red Oak branch at 101 Live Oak Street is closer than Waxahachie for most Glenn Heights addresses.
Deeds and vital records for the Ellis County side. 109 S Jackson Street, Waxahachie.
Voter registration for the Ellis County side. 204 E Jefferson Street, Waxahachie.
The nearest driver license office for the Ellis County side, at 1720 E Main Street in Waxahachie.
Free to file and the single biggest thing new owners forget. File with the appraisal district for your county, Dallas or Ellis, generally before May 1.
Check the flood zone before you write, particularly anything near Bear Creek. Ask your lender early whether flood insurance will be required.
Deregulated territory, so you pick your own retail electricity provider. This is the official state site run by the Public Utility Commission, not a lookalike.
Delivers the power and handles outages. Not who you buy from. Text OUT to 66267 to report an outage.
Natural gas. If you smell gas, leave first and call 911, then the 24-hour emergency line at 866-322-8667 rather than the customer number.
Trash weekly, recycling every other week, bulky waste and brush weekly on your trash day.
Doorside collection, up to once a month. Paint, chemicals and old electronics picked up at your house rather than driven to a county facility twice a year.
Start here. Run your address through this first. If it returns no campus, the home is on the Dallas County side and belongs to DeSoto ISD. Zones changed in January 2026.
The Dallas County side. Note DeSoto runs grade bands rather than K-5 campuses, so children change schools more often than parents expect.
Serves the Ellis County side. Shields and Schupmann elementaries sit inside Glenn Heights, and both now feed Dr. Joy Shaw Middle School.
Serves the Dallas County side. Moates Elementary and McCowan Middle both sit inside Glenn Heights, and choice academies include an early college and P-TECH pathway.
State accountability ratings straight from the Texas Education Agency, for both districts.
595 spaces at 1200 E Bear Creek Road, DART's southernmost facility, open since 1991. Served by Route 306 and the citywide GoLink zone.
The express bus to the Southwestern Medical District and downtown Dallas, weekdays, about 47 minutes. Confirm current frequency, since published sources differ.
On-demand curb-to-curb service across the whole city, connecting to the Park & Ride and to UNT Dallas Station on the Blue Line. No extra charge with a valid DART fare.
Glenn Heights has no library of its own. Dallas County residents pick up a voucher at City Hall with ID and redeem it for a DeSoto Public Library card, one per household.
Heritage Community Park at 400 E Bear Creek Road runs 44+ acres and hosts most city events. Also the All Abilities Park, Gateway Park at 1900 Gateway Boulevard and Courtney Lane Park.
Serves Glenn Heights alongside Red Oak, and co-hosts the County Line Cookoff. 101 S Live Oak Street, Red Oak.
The city runs its own police and fire departments. Non-emergency dispatch is 972-223-3478, which is also the number for after-hours water and sewer emergencies.
The nearest full hospital, in southwest Dallas. Renamed from Methodist Charlton in August 2026, now 314 beds with a 70-bed emergency room and the region's only Level III trauma center.
Register and title a vehicle. You have 30 days from moving here, and you file with the tax office for your county.
Transfer an out-of-state license within 90 days. Which office you visit depends on your county, so check the two DPS entries above.
Register to vote. Glenn Heights residents register through either Dallas County or Ellis County depending on the address. Registration closes 30 days before an election.
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It decides your appraisal district, your county tax rate, your school district, your voter registration and which DPS office you visit. The quickest test costs nothing: run the address through the Red Oak ISD zone locator. A campus comes back, you are in Ellis County. Nothing comes back, you are in Dallas County. Then confirm the parcel at the matching appraisal district. Two other things worth knowing on day one: the city provides water and sewer everywhere, so there is no separate water district to chase, and the household hazardous waste pickup comes to your door monthly rather than making you drive somewhere twice a year.
Links verified September 2026. Phone numbers are listed only where they are genuinely more useful than the website. Ellis Central Appraisal District maintains two live domains, elliscad.com and elliscad.org; the first is listed here. Dallas County Sheriff publishes one number covering both dispatch and administration. Utility rate figures date to an October 2023 ordinance and a newer schedule may have been adopted since. Homestead, over-65 and disability exemption amounts vary by taxing unit and should be confirmed with the appraisal district for your county. Glenn Heights does not appear to have a designated historic district. This directory is provided for general reference and is not an endorsement of any organisation or service. Bobby Franklin, REALTOR®, TREC #0805459, Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team.
Everything on this page was researched, verified and written here, not licensed from a national content service. The market data comes from NTREIS. The tax rates come from two appraisal districts. The corrections come from being close enough to catch them.
Nothing about a Glenn Heights address is answerable until you know that. The county sets your appraisal district, your county tax rate, your school district, your voter registration and which DPS office you use. Dallas County runs about $2.16 per $100 with DeSoto ISD, Ellis County about $1.92 with Red Oak ISD. That is roughly $720 a year, forever, decided by a line that follows no street and appears on no listing.
Texas is a non-disclosure state, so sale prices are not public record and the national sites are estimating what they cannot see. Glenn Heights makes that worse: fewer than twenty closings in a slow month, with builders selling in five communities. One heavy new-construction month and the median jumps twenty percent. I pull closed prices from the MLS, and I can tell you which of those closings were builder inventory and which were resale.
Whether the school zone on the listing is the one that took effect in January 2026 or the one before it. Whether a home sits in FEMA floodplain along Bear Creek. Whether the foundation has moved, which matters more on this clay than almost anywhere, and which your homeowners policy will not cover. And whether the DART service someone is buying here for still runs the way they expect after the recent funding fight.
There is no hospital here, no library of its own and no grocery or retail core. DeSoto ISD has been under a Texas Education Agency conservatorship since 2020. If the answer is that the Ellis County side suits you better, or that you should look at Red Oak or Waxahachie instead, or that this particular house has a foundation problem worth walking away from, you will hear it from me before you hear it from a neighbour.
Bloomfield Homes and First Texas Homes are both actively selling here, across Maplewood, Hampton Park and The Villages at Charleston, and I know which sections fall on which side of the county line. One thing worth repeating: bring representation before your first model home visit. The agent at the sales office works for the builder, and registering without your own agent can cost you the right to bring one later.
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Either is fine. I answer my own phone, and there is no version of this where you get routed to a call centre or handed to a junior agent. Send me an address and I will tell you which county it is in, what that does to your tax bill and your schools, and what I would want to look at before you write.
Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® · Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team · 214-228-0003 · northtexasmarketinsider.com
Information on this page is provided for general reference and is not legal, tax, insurance or investment advice. Market data, tax rates, school boundaries, transit service, builder inventory and event dates change; confirm anything specific to an address or a date before acting on it. School information is not a recommendation regarding any school, district, neighbourhood or property. All real estate services are provided through Legacy Realty Group. Equal Housing Opportunity.
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