Charlotte vs Fort Worth: which should you move to?
Charlotte or Fort Worth? Housing, rent, crime, climate, income, taxes and transit, side by side, from each city's own published figures. Written for someone deciding where to live, not for a ranking.
Charlotte
Fort Worth
Both cities price in US dollars, so the figures net directly, and both prices are MLS medians of sales inside the city, though Fort Worth's counts single-family houses only and the two were read a month apart. Mortgage, property tax and insurance come to about $2,644 a month on Charlotte's $430,000 at August's 6.67% and $2,516 on Fort Worth's $327,000 at September's 7.03%; at the same 7.03% Charlotte's would be about $2,726. Fort Worth's cheaper house gives part of it back in a property tax of $5,044 a year against $3,010 and insurance of $350 a month against $180, and the two carries take the same share of local pay, about 37% of Charlotte's median household income of $86,416 and of Fort Worth's $82,503. North Carolina takes $3,709 of income tax on $100,000 and Texas none. Crime favors Fort Worth on every line, on counts built differently: 375 violent offenses per 100,000 against about 607, 2,226 property offenses against about 3,639, and about 7.6 homicides per 100,000 against about 10. The two added more residents than any other US city in 2024-25. Choose Charlotte for banking, Medicaid expansion, the tighter job market and a milder summer. Choose Fort Worth for the cheaper house, no state income tax, the lower crime, and aerospace, airlines and freight.
| Measure | Charlotte | Fort Worth | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| City population | 964,784 (2025) | 1,028,117 (2025) | Not directly comparable |
| Metro population | 2,938,830 (2025) | 8,477,157 (2025) | Not directly comparable |
| Five-year growth Growth is pressure on rents and roads as much as it is opportunity, so it is reported without a winner. | 10.3% (2020-2025) | 11.9% (2020-2025) | Not directly comparable |
What a home costs in each
The figures the two cities' rent-versus-buy and mortgage calculators run on, read from the same tables.
| Measure | Charlotte | Fort Worth | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benchmark home price MLS® HPI or equivalent benchmark. Lower is treated as the advantage, which is the buyer's view rather than the owner's. | $430,000 (July 2026) | $327,000 (August 2026) | Fort Worth |
| Detached house benchmark Fort Worth publishes a single house index rather than a composite, so the two rows repeat. | $420,000 | $327,000 | Fort Worth |
| Apartment or condominium benchmark | $292,000 | $330,000 | Charlotte |
| Two-bedroom rent | $1,781/mo (average, August 2026) | $1,317/mo (median, September 2026) | Fort Worth |
| One-bedroom rent | $1,470/mo | $1,141/mo | Fort Worth |
| Two-bedroom rent against median income A year of two-bedroom rent as a share of the median household income below. A household paying the median rent out of the median income is a fiction, but it is the same fiction in both columns and it crosses currencies. | 24.7% of a year's income | 19.2% of a year's income | Fort Worth |
| Mortgage payment on the benchmark, 20% down 30-year amortization on American monthly compounding, the convention in both. | $2,213/mo at 6.67% | $1,746/mo at 7.03% | Fort Worth |
| Price to household income Benchmark price divided by the median household income below. A ratio is comparable across currencies; the dollars are not. | 5.0× | 4.0× | Fort Worth |
| Property tax on the benchmark home The effective rate on market value, which is what the two rates have in common and what the Advantage column is decided on; the bills are in each city's own dollars. | $3,010/yr (0.70%, 2026) | $5,046/yr (1.543%, 2025) | Charlotte |
| Transfer tax on the benchmark home Compared as a share of the price. Where the seller pays it, it is a cost of leaving rather than arriving. | $860 (seller pays) | None | Fort Worth |
| Rent control A cap protects a sitting tenant and does nothing for the next lease, so neither column is simply better. | Forbidden by state law | Forbidden by state law | Not directly comparable |
Charlotte: About 0.70% of market value. Charlotte levies 0.7857%: Mecklenburg County's 49.27¢ plus the City's 29.30¢ per $100, but against a value frozen at the 1 January 2023 revaluation. North Carolina measures that gap itself: the Department of Revenue certifies Mecklenburg's assessment level at 88.78% of sale price, which is how it publishes an effective county rate of 0.4374% against a nominal 0.4927%. The next revaluation takes effect 1 January 2027, and it will move assessments to what houses are worth then, not to what you paid. Fort Worth: About 1.54% of value for a homesteaded owner, worked out on the $327,000 median single-family sale price. A house in the City of Fort Worth and Fort Worth ISD, the school district more of the city's residents live in than any other, is taxed by six units for 2025, which add to 2.18908 per $100 before any exemption. Each takes its own homestead exemption off the appraised value first, except one: Fort Worth ISD takes the state's $140,000 and nothing more, Tarrant County College 1% with the state's $5,000 floor, Tarrant County, the City and JPS Health Network 20% each, and the Tarrant Regional Water District, which pays for the Fort Worth Floodway, none at all. So Tarrant County levies 0.1862 per $100 on $261,600 after an exemption of $65,400, $487; City of Fort Worth levies 0.67 per $100 on $261,600 after an exemption of $65,400, $1,753; Fort Worth ISD levies 1.0291 per $100 on $187,000 after an exemption of $140,000, $1,924; Tarrant County College levies 0.11228 per $100 on $322,000 after an exemption of $5,000, $362; JPS Health Network levies 0.165 per $100 on $261,600 after an exemption of $65,400, $432; Tarrant Regional Water District levies 0.0265 per $100 on the full $327,000, with no homestead exemption, $87. The six come to $5,044 a year, 1.54% of the price. Without a homestead, as a landlord or a buyer who never files, the same house owes $7,158. In Keller ISD, the district the second most residents live in, the school line is 1.0852 per $100 after the same $140,000, and the same house comes to $5,149, 1.57%. On $295,800, Zillow's August 2026 value for a typical Fort Worth home, the Fort Worth ISD stack comes to $4,425, 1.50%, lower because the school district's flat exemption is a larger share of a cheaper house. These are the 2025 rates, the bills due by 31 January 2026. The City has since adopted 0.70565 for 2026, but when these figures were retrieved the Tarrant County Tax Assessor-Collector's table and the appraisal district's still ran to 2025, so the calculators stay on 2025 until all six units' 2026 rates are published.
How safe each city is, by the numbers it publishes
Police-reported figures for the most recent year each force or statistics agency has released. Rates describe a whole city or metro area, and the spread between neighbourhoods inside one city is usually wider than the gap between the two cities.
| Measure | Charlotte | Fort Worth | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crime Severity Index Statistics Canada's weighted index for the metropolitan area, where 100 is Canada in 2006. American cities have no equivalent series. | Not published | Not published | Not directly comparable |
| Violent crime per 100,000 | 607 (2025) | 375 (2025) | Fort Worth |
| Property crime per 100,000 | 3,639 (2025) | 2,226 (2025) | Fort Worth |
| Homicides Counts, not rates, and a single year in a small city moves a long way on chance alone. What each figure covers is under the table. | 96 (2025) | 78 (2025) | Not directly comparable |
CMPD's 15 January 2026 year-end report put overall crime down 9% in 2025, violent crime down 21% (5,852 offenses versus 7,436 in 2024) and property crime down 6%, with homicides falling from 110 to 96, robberies down 24% and vehicle thefts down from 7,442 to 5,960. Homicides had been above 100 a year since 2020, so 2025 was the first clear drop in several years; the August 2025 killing of a passenger on the LYNX Blue Line kept transit safety in the news despite the citywide numbers.
What the rates cover: 5,852 violent offenses (UCR summary definitions) reported by CMPD for 2025, divided by the 964,784 city population estimate. CMPD's jurisdiction is the city plus unincorporated Mecklenburg County, so the true rate per resident is slightly lower.
Homicides: 96 homicides in 2025 versus 110 in 2024, about 10 per 100,000 on the city population; CMPD reports a 79% clearance rate.
On the FBI's definitions, violent offenses in Fort Worth went from 5,428 in 2021 to 4,876 in 2022, 4,849 in 2023, 4,641 in 2024 and 3,859 in 2025, a 17% drop in the last year and 29% in four, and property offenses from 25,186 to 26,275, 26,098 and a peak of 27,290 in 2024, then 22,886, 16% below it. Motor vehicle theft rose from 3,687 in 2021 to 5,157 in 2024 and fell to 3,616 in 2025, down 30%. In 2025 the CDE shows aggravated assaults down 18% (3,230 to 2,656), rapes down 18% (613 to 505), robberies down 15% (726 to 620), burglaries down 16% and larcenies down 12%, while murders rose 8% (72 to 78), the one violent measure that went up. Eddie Garcia, Dallas's former police chief, took over the department in September 2025 after months without a permanent chief, and FWPD's own figures for January through August 2026 against the same months of 2025 show robberies down from 436 to 269 and aggravated assaults from 1,842 to 1,557 as well as the drop in murders (WFAA). The 2025 CDE counts were read on 30 September 2026 from a feed last refreshed on 15 September and can still be revised.
What the rates cover: Computed: 3,859 violent offenses (murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault) in the FBI Crime Data Explorer's summarized data for the Fort Worth Police Department (ORI TX2201200) in calendar 2025, divided by the 1,028,117 Vintage 2025 city population. On the CDE's own agency population of 1,030,410 the rate is also 375. That is the lowest of the Texas cities this site compares, against 532 in San Antonio, 577 in Dallas and 890 in Houston. No FWPD total on this definition was found in anything fetched; the city's quarterly crime reports, as the Fort Worth Star-Telegram described them, count crimes against persons, a broader group that includes assaults and sex offenses, and put them 12% lower in the first half of 2025 than a year earlier.
Homicides: 78 murders and nonnegligent manslaughters in 2025 in the FBI CDE, against 72 in 2024, about 7.6 per 100,000 on the city population. Spectrum News, reading city data in February 2026, also put the year's homicides 8% above 2024. Most of the rise came early: the city's quarterly reports counted 20 homicides in January through March 2025 against 9 a year earlier and 43 in the first half against 31 (Fort Worth Star-Telegram). The CDE series has fallen from 118 in 2021, and 2026 has turned the other way: FWPD counted 36 murders through 31 August against 54 in the same months of 2025 (WFAA).
Winters, summers and what the weather can do to a house
| Measure | Charlotte | Fort Worth | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| January mean | 5.6 °C | 7.7 °C | Not directly comparable |
| July mean | 26.7 °C | 29.5 °C | Not directly comparable |
| Precipitation a year | 1,107 mm | 898 mm | Not directly comparable |
| Snowfall a year | 9 cm | 4 cm | Not directly comparable |
| Sunshine a year | 2,821 hours | 2,850 hours | Fort Worth |
NOAA 1991-2020 normals for Charlotte Douglas International Airport (station USW00013881): January mean 42.1F, July mean 80.1F, annual mean 61.4F, 43.60 in of precipitation, 3.5 in of snow. July is the warmest month at 80.1F, ahead of August's 78.6F. The set this file carried until September 2026 was an older normal under the 1991-2020 label: a degree low in January and in July, and a fifth high on snow. Sunshine hours are the older 1961-1990 NCDC means (2,821 hours, 62% of possible) since the 1991-2020 normals do not include sunshine.
Hazards: Humid subtropical: long hot summers with regular thunderstorms, mild winters with occasional ice storms that close the city for a day or two, and remnant tropical systems (Hugo in 1989 hit Charlotte directly; Helene in 2024 devastated the mountains two hours west but mostly spared Charlotte). Flash flooding along creeks and summer heat indexes above 100F are the routine risks; wildfire smoke is rare.
NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals for Fort Worth Meacham International Airport (station USW00013961), the city-owned general aviation field inside the city about 5 miles north-northwest of downtown: January mean 45.8F, July mean 85.1F, annual mean 65.9F, 35.34 in of precipitation. Meacham's normals carry no snowfall, so the 1.6 in of snow stored here is the normal at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (USW00003927), about 20 miles northeast of downtown, where the National Weather Service keeps the metro's official record. August is the warmest month by a tenth of a degree at 85.2F, with a mean high of 95.9F; July's mean high is 95.7F and January's mean low is 35.3F. October (4.46 in) is the wettest month, then May and June (4.02 in each), and January (2.05 in) the driest. The normals count 105.5 days a year at 90F or above, 24.1 at 100F or above and 32.8 nights at or below freezing. DFW Airport averages 46.3F in January and 85.7F in July with 37.01 in of rain, 20.3 days at 100F or above and 29.2 nights at or below freezing. Converted here to 7.7 C, 29.5 C, 898 mm and 4.1 cm. Those 24.1 days at 100F are more than Love Field's 22.4 for Dallas and fewer only than Austin's 28.7 among the Texas cities this site compares, although the July mean is 1.2 C below Dallas's. Sunshine hours are the older 1961-1990 NCDC means that Current Results lists for Dallas (2,850 hours, 61% of possible, and 135 clear days); it lists no separate Fort Worth figure, and the 1991-2020 normals do not include sunshine.
Hazards: Hail is the costly routine hazard. On the evening of 5 May 1995 a supercell dropped hail up to softball size on Mayfest, the outdoor festival on the bank of the Trinity River, where more than 10,000 people were caught in the open: more than 400 were hurt and 60 seriously enough to be hospitalized, though no one died at the festival. The storms went on to kill one driver in a swollen creek in western Tarrant County and 19 people in Dallas County, most of them in floodwater, and the National Weather Service puts the damage at about $2 billion, one of the costliest hailstorms in history. Cotality counted more than 235,000 Texas homes hit by damaging hail in 2025, far more than in any other state, with the risk concentrated in Dallas-Fort Worth and the other Texas Triangle metros. Tornadoes have hit the center of the city. At 6:18 pm on 28 March 2000 a tornado touched down near Castleberry High School, about 4 miles west of downtown, and tracked east along West 7th Street, nearly destroying the Cash America building and heavily damaging Mallick Tower before it weakened over downtown, where debris broke 80% of the windows in the Bank One building and 1,300 of the 5,000 in the Union Pacific Resources building. Two people died and about 80 were injured, 6 of them hospitalized; the Texas Tech damage survey rated it F2. A second tornado later that evening did F3 damage in Arlington and Grand Prairie without a death, and NOAA counts the storms of 28 and 29 March across the South at $690 million ($1.27 billion in 2024 dollars). Flooding shaped the city's form. In May 1949 a night of 6 to 12 in of rain overflowed the Trinity, killing 10 people and leaving more than 13,000 homeless, and the Army Corps of Engineers later built the 27 miles of levees of the Fort Worth Floodway, which the Tarrant Regional Water District maintains. The Corps' $1.16 billion Central City project, known locally as Panther Island, is to carry the river around downtown through new bypass channels and protect more than 2,400 acres; work on the northern half of the channel is due to begin late in 2026 and the project to be finished in 2032. Flash floods on the creeks are the more frequent danger: on 21 and 22 August 2022, 9.56 in (243 mm) fell at Meacham over the two days, 5.11 in (130 mm) of it on the 22nd, and the National Weather Service measured 8.41 in in Fort Worth, with flooding reported from Como and the John T. White neighborhood to West 7th Street; the city's 2016 floodplain plan counted more than $1 billion of stormwater improvements needed. Heat is the constant. The normals give Meacham 24.1 days a year at or above 100F (37.8 C). The summer of 2026 has been among its hottest: 55 days at 100F or above through 27 September, fourth in its record after 72 in 2011, 64 in 2023 and 62 in 1998, and 31 in a row from 3 August to 2 September, the longest run it has recorded; its highest reading is 112F (44.4 C), on 12 July 1998 and 4 September 2000. At DFW Airport the National Weather Service counts 52 days of 100F in 2026 through 22 September, tied for fifth, against the record of 71 in 2011. Cold is rare and badly handled. Winter Storm Uri took Meacham to -2F (-18.9 C) on 16 February 2021, tying 31 January 1949 for the lowest in its record, and DFW Airport also fell to -2F, the lowest there since 1953, with 5.0 in (12.7 cm) of snow over the storm. ERCOT cut power across the state grid from 15 to 18 February and about 4.5 million customers lost it at the worst; Texas counted 246 deaths from the storm, 11 of them in Tarrant County. In January 2026 Winter Storm Fern brought 2.4 in (6.1 cm) of snow and sleet to DFW Airport and a low of 11F (-11.7 C) at Meacham on the 25th.
What people earn and what the government takes
| Measure | Charlotte | Fort Worth | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $86,416 USD (2024) | $82,503 USD (2024) | Charlotte |
| Unemployment rate | 3.7% (June 2026) | 4.6% (July 2026) | Charlotte |
| Sales tax | 8.25% | 8.25% | Even |
| Top marginal income tax Federal plus provincial or state. The American figure leaves out payroll taxes and the cost of health insurance, both of which a Canadian household covers through the tax it pays here. | 41.25% | 37% | Fort Worth |
| Income tax on $100,000, single filer Computed from each jurisdiction's brackets at a single filer's $100,000 and rounded to the dollar, so a gap of a dollar is rounding rather than tax. Two cities in one province or state are shown as Even, because there the two cells describe the same tax and whatever separates them is method. | $17,158 USD | $13,449 USD | Fort Worth |
BLS counted 1,413,000 nonfarm jobs in the Charlotte MSA in June 2026, up 1.6% on the year, with construction (+9.0%) and education and health (+3.5%) growing fastest and manufacturing (-3.6%) and information (-5.8%) shrinking. Financial activities employ 128,500, a much larger share than in most metros of this size; average weekly wages in Q4 2025 were $1,515 against $1,569 nationally.
Main sectors: Banking and financial services (Bank of America HQ, Truist, Wells Fargo east coast hub), Professional and business services, Trade, transportation and logistics (CLT hub, distribution), Health care (Atrium Health, Novant Health), Construction and manufacturing (energy, motorsports).
North Carolina's flat rate drops in steps: 4.25% (2025), 3.99% (2026), with further cuts after 2026 tied to revenue triggers. Mecklenburg property tax is separate and was revalued in 2023.
BLS counted 1,222,100 nonfarm jobs in the Fort Worth-Arlington-Grapevine Metropolitan Division in August 2026 (not seasonally adjusted, preliminary), up 17,800 or 1.5% on the year. Professional and business services grew fastest (+5.0%, to 159,300), then mining, logging and construction (+4.8%, to 92,100), leisure and hospitality (+4.4%, to 145,500) and transportation and warehousing (+2.1%, to 102,600), while financial activities (-2.0%), information (-1.8%) and government (-0.6%, to 136,000) shrank; federal employment fell 9.0%, from 16,700 to 15,200. Manufacturing held at 110,000, of which aerospace product and parts manufacturing was 23,600, up 1.3%. The seasonally adjusted series (SMS48231040000000001) was 1,223,400 in August 2026, 1.5% above August 2025. The Texas Comptroller credits Lockheed Martin with about 49,000 direct and indirect workers in Fort Worth and a $9 billion regional impact, and 25,579 direct employees across Texas, and counts 4,553 direct and 21,266 total jobs and $2.75 billion of state GDP for Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth in 2025. Hillwood's annual report puts AllianceTexas's economic impact at $12.9 billion in 2025 and $142.9 billion since it opened in 1989, and Hillwood says the Comptroller has recognized it as the primary inland port for the southwestern United States. American Airlines, with 103,440 staff in 2024, and BNSF Railway, with about 36,000, are both headquartered in the city (Wikipedia).
Main sectors: Aerospace and defense (Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, which builds the F-35 at Air Force Plant 4; Bell Textron, headquartered in the city; Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, the former Carswell Air Force Base), Airlines and freight rail (American Airlines, headquartered in the city, with its largest hub at DFW Airport; BNSF Railway, headquartered in the city), Logistics and advanced manufacturing at AllianceTexas in far north Fort Worth, which Hillwood says holds 602 companies and 73,134 jobs, Trade, transportation and utilities, the division's largest sector by payroll jobs (289,300 in August 2026), Health care and education (JPS Health Network, Cook Children's Medical Center, Texas Christian University and its medical school).
Property tax is the local levy that matters. Tax Foundation puts Texas's effective property tax rate on owner-occupied homes at 1.40%, and school districts must exempt $140,000 of a homestead's value from their tax. On 15 September 2026 the City Council adopted a $3.33 billion operating budget for fiscal 2027 unanimously and raised the city's rate by 3.565 cents to 70.565 cents per $100 of taxable value on a 7 to 4 vote, to help close a $94 million shortfall. The city says the average homeowner's bill will still fall, by $8.19 to $1,643.64 on a home valued at $232,925, because the Tarrant Appraisal District has not reappraised residential property since 2024 and the average value dropped; the city's total taxable value rose only 0.89%, to $130.2 billion (Fort Worth Report, Community Impact, CBS Texas). The budget also raises stormwater, water, sewer, solid waste and environmental fees by about $7 a month for the average resident. The county, school district, JPS hospital district, Tarrant County College and other levies on the same bill belong to the housing layer.
Whether you need a car
| Measure | Charlotte | Fort Worth | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| System | Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS): LYNX Blue Line light rail (19 miles, Uptown to UNC Charlotte and I-485/South Blvd), CityLYNX Gold Line streetcar, local and express buses | Trinity Metro buses (147 fixed-route and 76 demand-response vehicles), the 27.2-mile TEXRail commuter line with 9 stations from T&P Station downtown through North Richland Hills and Grapevine to DFW Airport Terminal B (opened January 2019), the Trinity Railway Express to Dallas run with DART, ZIPZONE on-demand zones and the downtown Blue Line circulator; Fort Worth is the only full member, with Forest Hill, Grapevine, North Richland Hills and River Oaks partial members | Not directly comparable |
| Commute by public transit | 2.3% (2024) | 0.7% (2024) | Charlotte |
| Walk or cycle to work | 2.4% (2024) | 1.1% (2024) | Charlotte |
| Airport | Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT), 53.6 million passengers in 2025, second busiest year after 58.8 million in 2024; an American Airlines hub where about 65% of passengers connect. | Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW), about 20 miles northeast of downtown Fort Worth and midway between the two cities, handled 85,660,127 passengers in 2025, 2.5% fewer than 2024's 87,817,864, per the airport's December 2025 traffic report; American Airlines, headquartered in Fort Worth, carried 82.6% of them, and TEXRail runs from downtown to Terminal B. Fort Worth Meacham International Airport, owned by the city about 5 miles north-northwest of downtown, has no scheduled airline service and serves general aviation; its 1933 American Airways hangar is on the National Register of Historic Places (Wikipedia). | Not directly comparable |
CATS carried about 15.7 million passenger trips in calendar 2024, up 11% on 2023 but still only about 65% of 2019 levels; bus ridership has lost roughly 65% of riders since 2013 while the Blue Line was at about 70% of its 2019 ridership (WFAE, February 2025). A November 2025 referendum passed 52.3% to 47.7% and adds a 1 cent sales tax from July 2026 expected to raise about $19.4 billion over 30 years, split 40% roads, 40% rail and 20% bus; the Red Line commuter rail to Lake Norman comes first, then the Silver Line light rail to the airport. A state audit in August 2026 estimated 45% of riders do not pay fares.
Trinity Metro carried 6,180,600 unlinked trips in 2025, 4,554,400 of them by bus and 906,800 on TEXRail, and about 22,100 a weekday in the second quarter of 2026, 2,800 of them on TEXRail (APTA ridership reports, as cited by Wikipedia; APTA's PDFs refused the fetcher), against 30.7 million for VIA in San Antonio, 52.8 million for DART and 78.0 million for Houston's METRO. The Trinity Railway Express, which Trinity Metro runs with DART between downtown Fort Worth and downtown Dallas, carried 1,337,600 trips in 2025 (APTA, same source). The system is paid for by a half-cent sales tax Fort Worth has levied since 1984, half what DART's and METRO's cities pay. TEXRail runs every 30 minutes until 7 pm and hourly after, and a 2.1-mile extension to the Medical District on the Near Southside, estimated at about $167 million, is due to break ground by the end of 2026 and open in 2029 (Wikipedia).
Health care, schools and what each city is like
Health care
Care is paid for through employer or individual private insurance, Medicare and Medicaid (North Carolina expanded Medicaid in December 2023), and uninsured adults still face full charges at hospitals. Two systems dominate: Atrium Health (part of Advocate Health, with Carolinas Medical Center as the region's Level I trauma centre and a new Wake Forest University School of Medicine campus in Charlotte) and Novant Health (Presbyterian Medical Center); primary care and specialist wait times run weeks rather than months, and costs depend far more on your plan than on the provider.
Education
UNC Charlotte enrolled a record 32,207 students in fall 2025 and is the city's main research university; Davidson College, Queens University, Johnson C. Smith University and Central Piedmont Community College round out the options. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is a single county-wide district of roughly 140,000 students with a large magnet lottery system and a sizeable charter sector; enrollment fell to its lowest level since 2010-11 in 2025-26, and school quality varies sharply by neighbourhood.
Living there
Charlotte is a banking city that grew fast and recently: most of what you see was built after 1990, the Uptown skyline is compact and quiet after office hours, and daily life runs through car-oriented suburbs like Ballantyne, University City and the Lake Norman towns. South End and NoDa along the Blue Line are where the walkable apartment-and-brewery growth has concentrated. Summers are hot and humid, traffic on I-77 and I-485 is the main complaint, and the city is still working out what transit, schools and housing it wants to be as it passes a million residents.
Health care
Care is paid for through employer or marketplace insurance, Medicare and Medicaid, and Texas is one of the ten states that have not expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (KFF). It had the highest uninsured rate of any state in 2024: 16.7%, or 5,152,427 of 30,799,312 people, against 8.2% nationally and 12.0% in Georgia, the next highest, on the ACS 2024 1-year estimates. The City of Fort Worth's rate was 18.9% (189,692 of 1,003,516), Tarrant County's 16.9% and the metro's 16.2%. JPS Health Network, the Tarrant County Hospital District, runs John Peter Smith Hospital, the county's public hospital, a Level I trauma center and the only psychiatric emergency site in the county; on 16 April 2026 it broke ground on a $1.5 billion replacement hospital at South Main and East Morphy streets, part of a $2.5 billion building plan backed by an $800 million bond from 2018, which will take it from 582 beds to more than 740 when it opens in 2030 (Fort Worth Report). Cook Children's Medical Center has 452 licensed beds and a Level II pediatric trauma center (Wikipedia). TCU's Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine took its first class in 2019. This file did not verify a wait time figure for primary or specialist care.
Education
Fort Worth is served by Fort Worth ISD and, in parts, by fourteen other districts, among them Keller, Northwest, Eagle Mountain-Saginaw, Crowley and Arlington (the 2020 Census school district map, as cited by Wikipedia). Fort Worth ISD is now under state control: after a campus received a fifth straight failing rating, Education Commissioner Mike Morath decided in October 2025 to intervene, and on 24 March 2026 he replaced the elected trustees' authority with a nine-member board of managers led by Pete Geren and named Peter Licata, formerly of Broward County, superintendent. It is the second-largest takeover in Texas history, after Houston ISD's. The board opened by saying roughly 63% of students do not read at grade level and 29% are proficient in math (Fort Worth Report). The district, built for 90,000 students, had 67,315 in 2025-26 on Texas Education Agency data and projected about 66,500 for 2026-27; it has lost more than 12,000 in five years and in May 2025 approved closing 18 campuses by June 2029 (CBS Texas). Texas Christian University (12,980 students in fall 2025) is about 4 miles from downtown, and the city also holds Texas Wesleyan University, UNT Health Fort Worth and Texas A&M University's law school and downtown campus.
Living there
Fort Worth has grown faster than any other US city of a million people: 11.9% since 2020, and 19,512 residents in 2024-25, a gain second only to Charlotte's; it passed a million in 2024. It is the western half of the Dallas-Fort Worth metro and works differently from Dallas: its economy leans on aircraft, airlines and freight, from the F-35 line at Lockheed Martin's plant and Bell's helicopters to the headquarters of American Airlines and BNSF and the warehouses and factories of AllianceTexas, and household income, at $82,503, is higher than in Dallas, Houston or San Antonio. It is built for the car: 74.9% of workers drive alone and 0.7% take transit, the lowest share of any city this site compares, though TEXRail runs to DFW Airport. Violent crime, at 375 per 100,000 on the FBI's counts, is the lowest of the Texas cities here. Summer is long and hot, with 24 days a year at 100F or above and 31 in a row in 2026, and hail and tornadoes are the costly weather. Texas takes no income tax, and 18.9% of residents have no health insurance. The open questions are the costs of growth: the council raised its property tax rate in September 2026 to cover a $94 million gap as appraisals stalled, the state took over the shrinking Fort Worth ISD in March 2026, and the Panther Island flood channels around downtown are not due until 2032.
Where each city wins, and where it loses
Both cities price in US dollars, so the figures net directly, and both prices are MLS medians of sales inside the city limits, from different systems. Charlotte's is the Canopy MLS median of what sold inside the city, $430,000 in July 2026, 2.3% below a year earlier; Mecklenburg County's was $468,500. Fort Worth's is the North Texas Real Estate Information System's median of single-family houses sold inside the city, $327,000 in August, 0.9% below, on 805 sales, and Zillow's index for the City of Fort Worth, which models every home, stood at $295,800. At 20% down, Charlotte's $344,000 loan at 6.67%, Freddie Mac's rate for 13 August 2026, is $2,213 a month, and Fort Worth's $261,600 loan at 7.03%, the rate for 24 September, about $1,746. Property tax is about $3,010 a year in Charlotte, 0.70% of price, against $5,044 from Fort Worth's six taxing units, an effective 1.54% with a homestead and $7,158 without. Insurance is budgeted at $180 and $350 a month, the Fort Worth figure an estimate between published averages of $4,290 and $5,600 a year and raised by North Texas hail, with no flood policy in it. The three lines come to about $2,644 and $2,516, roughly 37% of local median income in both. At the same 7.03% Charlotte's would be about $2,726; the $210 gap is Charlotte's mortgage, about $550 higher, less Fort Worth's property tax, $170 higher, and insurance, $170 higher. Rents are on different series, RentCafe's August averages for Charlotte and Apartment List's September medians for Fort Worth: a one-bedroom at $1,470 against $1,141, a two-bedroom $1,781 against $1,317.
The crime figures are built differently, and Fort Worth is the lower on each. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police counted 5,852 violent offenses in 2025 on UCR summary definitions, about 607 per 100,000 on the city's 964,784 residents, and 35,112 property offenses, about 3,639. Fort Worth's are the FBI's summarized counts for its police department: 3,859 violent offenses of murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault, 375 per 100,000 on 1,028,117 residents, the lowest rate of the Texas cities this site compares, and 22,886 property offenses, 2,226. Charlotte recorded 96 homicides, about 10 per 100,000, against 110 in 2024; Fort Worth 78 in the federal file, about 7.6, against 72, the one violent measure that rose there. Both improved on violence in 2025: violent crime dropped 21% in Charlotte and 17% in Fort Worth, where it is 29% below 2021. Vehicle thefts went from 7,442 to 5,960 in Charlotte and from 5,157 to 3,616 in Fort Worth. CMPD's patch includes unincorporated Mecklenburg, which pushes Charlotte's rates up a little, and the Fort Worth counts were read on 30 September 2026 from a federal feed that can still be revised; FWPD's own count for January through August 2026 was 36 murders, against 54 in the same months of 2025.
Fort Worth is warmer in both seasons and drier. January averages 7.7 C at Meacham against 5.6 C at Charlotte Douglas, and July 29.5 C against 26.7 C, with 4.1 cm of snow a year, DFW Airport's figure, against 8.9 cm. Fort Worth gets 898 mm of rain against 1,107 mm, and the sunshine is close on the older 1961-1990 series, 2,850 hours, Dallas's figure, against 2,821. Summer is long in both and dry only in Fort Worth. Charlotte's routine risk is heat indexes above 100F in humid air; Fort Worth's normals count 105.5 days a year at 90F or above and 24.1 at or above 37.8 C (100F), and in 2026 Meacham had 55 of those through 27 September, 31 in a row. The storms differ in kind. Charlotte sits in the path of remnant tropical systems: Hugo hit the city directly in 1989, and Helene devastated the mountains two hours west in 2024 but mostly spared it. Fort Worth's costly hazard is hail: the Mayfest storm of 5 May 1995 dropped hail up to softball size on more than 10,000 people at a festival by the Trinity, hurting more than 400, and did about $2 billion of damage across Tarrant and Dallas counties, and on 28 March 2000 a tornado tracked along West 7th Street into downtown and killed two. Winter is where Charlotte's other hazard lies, the ice storm that closes the city for a day or two. Fort Worth's is the rare hard freeze: Winter Storm Uri took Meacham to -2F (-18.9 C) in February 2021 while ERCOT cut power across the state grid, and Texas counted 11 of its 246 deaths in Tarrant County; in January 2026 Winter Storm Fern brought 2.4 in (6.1 cm) of snow and sleet to DFW Airport.
Charlotte's metro, 2,938,830 people in July 2025, is about the size of Fort Worth's half of Dallas-Fort Worth, the Fort Worth-Arlington-Grapevine division of 2,735,059, and Charlotte's labor market is the larger and tighter. On the same unadjusted basis unemployment in June 2026 was 3.6% in the Charlotte metro and 4.6% in the Fort Worth division, against 4.4% nationally. Charlotte had 1,413,000 nonfarm jobs in June, 1.6% more than a year earlier, and the Fort Worth division 1,222,100 in August, 1.5% more. Charlotte is a banking city, with 128,500 jobs in financial activities around Bank of America, Truist and Wells Fargo. The Fort Worth division's largest sector is trade, transportation and utilities at 289,300 jobs, and its work is aircraft, airlines and freight: Lockheed Martin builds the F-35 at Air Force Plant 4, with about 49,000 direct and indirect workers in the city on the Texas Comptroller's count, Bell Textron, American Airlines and BNSF Railway have their headquarters there, and AllianceTexas in the far north holds 73,134 jobs by its developer's count. Federal jobs in the division fell 9.0% on the year. Charlotte's average weekly wage was $1,515 in the fourth quarter of 2025, below the national $1,569; Fort Worth's profile carries no wage figure. City median household incomes were $86,416 in Charlotte and $82,503 in Fort Worth in 2024, and the metros' $85,938 and $92,733, the second the whole Dallas-Fort Worth metro's. The tax story is North Carolina's flat income tax against none. A single filer on $100,000 pays about $17,158 in Charlotte for 2025, $3,709 of it to the state, and $13,449 in Fort Worth. Sales tax is 8.25% in both. Property tax runs the other way: on the two medians a single filer would need about $60,600 of income before North Carolina's 4.25% took as much as Fort Worth's extra $2,034 a year.
Neither is a transit city, and Charlotte has the more of it. In 2024, 2.3% of Charlotte workers took transit and 2.4% walked or cycled, against 0.7% and 1.1% in Fort Worth, the lowest transit share of any city this site compares; 25% of Charlotte's workers worked from home against 10.5%, and 74.9% of Fort Worth's drove alone. CATS carried about 15.7 million trips in 2024, roughly 65% of its 2019 level, on the 19-mile LYNX Blue Line and buses. Trinity Metro carried 6,180,600 in 2025, 906,800 of them on TEXRail, the 27.2-mile commuter line from downtown Fort Worth to DFW Airport, and runs the Trinity Railway Express to Dallas with DART. Both are adding, on different scales. Mecklenburg voters added a 1 cent sales tax, collected since July 2026 and expected to raise about $19.4 billion over 30 years, 40% of it for rail, with the Red Line commuter rail to Lake Norman first. Fort Worth has levied a half-cent since 1984, and a 2.1-mile TEXRail extension to the Medical District, estimated at about $167 million, is due to break ground by the end of 2026 and open in 2029. Both cities are American Airlines cities. CLT, one of its hubs, handled 53.6 million passengers in 2025, about 65% of them connecting. DFW, its largest, about 20 miles northeast of downtown Fort Worth, handled 85,660,127, 82.6% of them on American, which is headquartered in Fort Worth.
Health coverage is where the state line shows. North Carolina expanded Medicaid on 1 December 2023, and from 1 January 2027 most expansion adults face a work requirement of 80 hours a month. Texas is one of the ten states that have not expanded it and had the highest uninsured rate of any state in 2024, 16.7%; the City of Fort Worth's was 18.9% and Tarrant County's 16.9%. Charlotte's systems are Atrium Health, whose Carolinas Medical Center is the region's Level I trauma center, with a new Wake Forest medical school campus, and Novant Health. Fort Worth's public hospital is JPS Health Network's John Peter Smith Hospital, Tarrant County's Level I trauma center and its only psychiatric emergency site, which broke ground on 16 April 2026 on a $1.5 billion replacement that will take it from 582 beds to more than 740 in 2030; Cook Children's Medical Center has 452 licensed beds. Charlotte's profile puts primary care and specialist waits in weeks; Fort Worth's did not verify a wait time. The schools are shrinking in both. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, with roughly 140,000 students, fell to its lowest enrollment since 2010-11 in 2025-26. Fort Worth is split among Fort Worth ISD and fourteen other districts; Fort Worth ISD, built for 90,000, had 67,315 in 2025-26, has approved closing 18 campuses by June 2029, and since 24 March 2026 has been run by a board of managers the state appointed after a campus failed for a fifth straight year. UNC Charlotte enrolled a record 32,207 in fall 2025; TCU, about 4 miles from downtown Fort Worth, has 12,980.
What people underestimate is that these are the two US cities that grew most in 2024-25. Charlotte added 20,731 residents, the largest numeric gain of any US city, and Fort Worth 19,512, the second; Charlotte grew 10.3% from 2020 to 2025 and Fort Worth 11.9%, the fastest of the twelve US cities of more than a million. Both are still filling in their own limits, and Fort Worth's limits reach into five counties: a Denton County address, where 19,577 of its residents live, pays Denton County's taxes rather than Tarrant's. So Fort Worth's $5,044 is the bill for an address inside the City and Fort Worth ISD in Tarrant County. In Keller ISD, the district the second most residents live in, the same house pays $5,149, and newer subdivisions often sit in a public improvement district, 0.155 per $100 on a house in Park Glen or $482 to $1,559 a year per lot in Walsh Ranch's first phase; a flood policy is a separate premium priced on the address. Neither seller's bill is a guide. Texas lets a homestead's appraised value rise no more than 10% a year, but a buyer starts at full value and has to file for the exemptions. Mecklenburg revalues on 1 January 2027 from assessments the state measured at 88.78% of sale prices, so Charlotte's $3,010 has further to move, and Fort Worth's council has just raised the City's own rate by 3.565 cents, from 67 to 70.565, on a 7 to 4 vote. And the two carries were priced a month apart: at August's 6.67%, Fort Worth's would be about $2,453.
Better here
- Property tax on the median is about $3,010 a year for fiscal 2027, 0.70% of price, against $5,044 and an effective 1.54% on Fort Worth's median for the 2025 tax year.
- Unemployment was 3.6% in the metro in June 2026, not seasonally adjusted, against 4.6% in the Fort Worth division on the same basis.
- North Carolina expanded Medicaid in December 2023, where Texas has not and had the highest uninsured rate of any state in 2024, 16.7%, with the City of Fort Worth at 18.9%.
- July averages 26.7 C at Charlotte Douglas against 29.5 C at Meacham, where the normals count 24.1 days a year at or above 37.8 C (100F).
- Home insurance is budgeted at $180 a month against $350 in Fort Worth, where hail is the costly routine hazard.
- CATS carried about 15.7 million trips in 2024 on the 19-mile LYNX Blue Line and buses, against Trinity Metro's 6,180,600 in 2025, and 2.3% of workers took transit against 0.7%.
Worse here
- The city's median sale price was $430,000 in July 2026, against Fort Worth's single-family median of $327,000 in August.
- A single filer on $100,000 pays about $17,158 in income tax for 2025, $3,709 of it to North Carolina, against $13,449 of federal tax alone in Fort Worth.
- Violent crime ran about 607 per 100,000 in 2025 and there were 96 homicides, about 10 per 100,000, against 375 and about 7.6 in Fort Worth, though the two are built on different counts.
- Average weekly wages were $1,515 in the fourth quarter of 2025, below the national $1,569.
- January averages 5.6 C with 8.9 cm of snow a year on the 1991-2020 normals and the occasional ice storm that closes the city, against 7.7 C and 4.1 cm in Fort Worth.
- CLT handled 53.6 million passengers in 2025, about 65% of them connecting, against 85,660,127 at DFW.
Choose Charlotte if
- you work in banking or corporate finance and want 128,500 financial jobs inside one metro
- you may need Medicaid, or work in a job with thin health coverage
- you would rather have a 26.7 C July and the odd ice storm than 24.1 days a year at 100F
- you want light rail, and a new sales tax already paying for more of it
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Better here
- Texas levies no income tax, so $100,000 pays $13,449 in federal tax for 2025 and $13,170 for 2026, against about $17,158 in Charlotte for 2025.
- Violent crime ran 375 per 100,000 in 2025 and there were 78 homicides, about 7.6 per 100,000, against about 607 and about 10 in Charlotte, though the two are built on different counts.
- Property crime ran 2,226 per 100,000 in 2025 against about 3,639 in Charlotte, on the same caveat.
- Mortgage, property tax and insurance come to about $2,516 a month at 7.03%, against about $2,726 for Charlotte's median at the same rate.
- DFW handled 85,660,127 passengers in 2025, and American Airlines, which carried 82.6% of them, is headquartered in the city.
- Lockheed Martin's F-35 line, Bell Textron, BNSF Railway's headquarters and AllianceTexas's 73,134 jobs are in the city.
Worse here
- The six taxing units take $5,044 a year on the median with a homestead and $7,158 without one, against about $3,010 in Charlotte, and the City's own rate rose to 70.565 cents for 2026.
- Home insurance is budgeted at $350 a month against $180 in Charlotte, because North Texas hail is the costly routine hazard, and there is no flood policy in it.
- Texas had the highest uninsured rate of any state in 2024, 16.7%, the City of Fort Worth's was 18.9%, and Texas is one of ten states that have not expanded Medicaid.
- Unemployment was 4.6% in the Fort Worth division in June 2026, not seasonally adjusted, against 3.6% around Charlotte.
- In 2024, 0.7% of workers took transit, the lowest share of any city this site compares, and 74.9% drove alone.
- The normals count 24.1 days a year at or above 37.8 C (100F) at Meacham, and 2026 had 55 of them by 27 September.
Choose Fort Worth if
- you work in aerospace, defense manufacturing, airlines, freight rail or logistics
- you rent, or own and earn more than about $60,600, the point where no state income tax outweighs Fort Worth's extra property tax on the two medians
- you want the lower violent crime and homicide rates, allowing for counts built differently
- you want a house that costs less in dollars, at about $2,516 a month on the city's single-family median
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Charlotte or Fort Worth, in short
Is Charlotte or Fort Worth cheaper to live in?
Fort Worth in dollars, and level against local pay. Both cities price in US dollars, so the figures net directly. Charlotte's median sale price inside the city was $430,000 in July 2026 and Fort Worth's single-family median $327,000 in August, and Zillow's index for the City of Fort Worth stood at $295,800. Mortgage, property tax and insurance come to about $2,644 a month in Charlotte and $2,516 in Fort Worth, roughly 37% of each city's median household income. The rates were read a month apart, 6.67% for Charlotte and 7.03% for Fort Worth, and at the same 7.03% Charlotte's would be about $2,726. Fort Worth gives part of its cheaper house back in property tax, $5,044 a year against $3,010, and insurance, $350 a month against $180, before any flood policy. Renting favors Fort Worth on the figures available, $1,317 for a two-bedroom against $1,781, though they are different series, Apartment List's median for Fort Worth and RentCafe's average for Charlotte. Sales tax is 8.25% in both, and Charlotte adds North Carolina's income tax, $3,709 on $100,000 for 2025.
Is Charlotte or Fort Worth safer?
Fort Worth, on every line, on figures built differently. Its violent crime rate was 375 per 100,000 in 2025 against about 607 in Charlotte, its property crime rate 2,226 against about 3,639, and its homicide rate about 7.6 against about 10: 78 homicides against 96. Fort Worth's are the FBI's summarized counts for its police department, read on 30 September 2026, which can still be revised. Charlotte's are CMPD's own counts on UCR summary definitions over a patch that includes unincorporated Mecklenburg, which pushes its rates up a little. Both improved in 2025: violent crime dropped 21% in Charlotte and 17% in Fort Worth, though Fort Worth's homicides rose from 72. Every rate here is a count divided by a Census estimate rather than a published rate.
Which has the better job market, Charlotte or Fort Worth?
Charlotte's is larger and tighter, though Fort Worth's sits inside a Dallas-Fort Worth market of 4,353,400 jobs. On the same unadjusted basis unemployment was 3.6% in the Charlotte metro and 4.6% in the Fort Worth-Arlington-Grapevine division in June 2026, on 1,413,000 nonfarm jobs growing 1.6% in June and 1,222,100 growing 1.5% in August. Charlotte's are concentrated in banking, 128,500 in financial activities around Bank of America, Truist and Wells Fargo. Fort Worth's run on aircraft, airlines and freight, from Lockheed Martin's F-35 line and Bell Textron to the headquarters of American Airlines and BNSF Railway and the warehouses of AllianceTexas, and its federal jobs fell 9.0% on the year. Charlotte's average weekly wage was $1,515 in the fourth quarter of 2025 against $1,569 nationally; Fort Worth's profile gives no wage figure. City median household incomes were $86,416 in Charlotte and $82,503 in Fort Worth in 2024.
Does Texas having no income tax make Fort Worth cheaper than Charlotte?
For a renter, yes; for an owner at the two medians, above about $60,600 of income. A single filer on $100,000 pays about $17,158 in Charlotte for 2025, $3,709 of it to North Carolina, against $13,449 in federal tax alone in Fort Worth, and North Carolina's flat rate drops from 4.25% to 3.99% for 2026. Texas collects through property instead. Fort Worth's six taxing units take $5,044 a year on its median with a homestead, an effective 1.54%, against about $3,010 on Charlotte's median, 0.70%, a difference of $2,034 a year, which North Carolina's 4.25% passes at about $60,600 of income. Sales tax is 8.25% in both, so it does not tip the balance. Fort Worth's bill can grow in ways Charlotte's cannot: an improvement district on a newer street, a buyer taxed on full appraised value rather than the seller's capped one, and a City rate that rises for 2026. Mecklenburg revalues on 1 January 2027.
Where the figures come from
Housing figures are the ones behind each city's calculators, dated on those pages. The rest are listed here with the date they were retrieved. See the methodology for how facts, estimates and opinion are kept apart.
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- Eddie Garcia marks one year as Fort Worth police chief, shares reasons behind city's drop in violent crime · WFAA (via Yahoo News) · retrieved Supports: Homicides, Crime trend
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- US Climate Normals 1991-2020, station USW00003927 Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (Access Data Service) · NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · retrieved Supports: Annual snowfall, Climate normals, 1.6 in of snow, January 46.3F, July 85.7F, 37.01 in of precipitation, 20.3 days at 100F and 29.2 nights at freezing, the last three from dataset=normals-annualseasonal-1991-2020
- Global Historical Climatology Network daily summaries, Fort Worth Meacham International Airport (USW00013961), 1946-1953 and 1992-2026 · NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards, Character, 55 days at or above 100F in 2026 through 27 September, 72 in 2011, 64 in 2023 and 62 in 1998, 31 in a row from 3 August to 2 September 2026, 112F on 12 July 1998 and 4 September 2000, -2F on 16 February 2021 and 31 January 1949, 4.45 in on 21 August 2022 and 5.11 in on 22 August 2022, 11F on 25 January 2026
- Global Historical Climatology Network daily summaries, Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (USW00003927), 1953-2026 · NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards, -2F on 16 February 2021, 5.0 in of snow on 14 and 17 February 2021, 2.4 in of snow and sleet on 24 and 25 January 2026
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- Mayfest Hailstorm, May 5, 1995 · National Weather Service, Fort Worth/Dallas · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards
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- Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth (Texas military installations economic impact, 2025) · Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts · retrieved Supports: Main sectors, Labour market, Character
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- Slightly lower property tax bills part of Fort Worth's $3.33B budget for 2027, leaders say · CBS Texas · retrieved Supports: Tax notes
- Fort Worth proposes property tax rate bump, cost cuts to close $94M shortfall for 2027 · Fort Worth Report · retrieved Supports: Tax notes, Character
- Trinity Metro (service area, members, services, fleet, citing the APTA Transit Ridership Reports, Q4 2025 and Q2 2026) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Transit system, Transit ridership
- TEXRail (length, stations, opening, frequency, ridership, Medical District extension) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Transit system, Transit ridership, Airport passengers
- Template:American transit ridership (APTA Transit Ridership Reports, Q4 2025 and Q2 2026) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Transit ridership
- DFW Total Passengers, December 2025 (calendar year 2025 vs 2024) · Dallas Fort Worth International Airport · retrieved Supports: Airport passengers
- Fort Worth Meacham International Airport (ownership, general aviation, history) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Airport passengers, Climate normals
- Status of State Medicaid Expansion Decisions · KFF · retrieved Supports: Health care
- A new era: JPS breaks ground on $1.5B hospital · Fort Worth Report · retrieved Supports: Health care
- JPS Health Network (Tarrant County Hospital District, John Peter Smith Hospital) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Health care
- Cook Children's Medical Center · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Health care
- Texas Education Agency Appoints Board of Managers and Names New Superintendent to Lead Fort Worth ISD · Texas Education Agency · retrieved Supports: Education
- 'We failed our kids': New Fort Worth ISD board signals urgency as state takeover begins · Fort Worth Report · retrieved Supports: Education, Character
- As enrollment drops, FWISD to shift bilingual, special ed services closer to campuses · Fort Worth Report · retrieved Supports: Education, Character
- Fort Worth ISD board gives final approval to close 18 schools amid budget woes, enrollment decline · CBS Texas · retrieved Supports: Education
- Fort Worth, Texas (school districts serving the city, citing the 2020 Census school district reference map for Tarrant County; colleges and universities) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Education
- Texas Christian University (fall 2025 enrollment, location, School of Medicine) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Education, Health care
- More choice, steady sales define Charlotte's July housing market · Canopy Realtor® Association / Canopy MLS · retrieved Supports: City of Charlotte median sale price of $430,000 in July 2026, down 2.3% year over year, with the year-to-date median also $430,000, Charlotte region median sale price of $410,000, up 1.1% year over year, and Mecklenburg County's $468,500, up 2.0%, City of Charlotte inventory of 3,754 homes, up 15.8%, at 3.7 months of supply against 3.2 a year earlier, City of Charlotte days on market of 40, against 38 a year earlier, Regional medians by type: single-family $420,000, townhome $349,990 and condominium $292,000, all of which are regional rather than city figures
- Charlotte, NC average rent and rent trends, August 2026 · RentCafe / Yardi Matrix · retrieved Supports: Average Charlotte apartment rent of $1,672 across 949 sq ft, down 0.92% year over year, Average rents of $1,377 studio, $1,470 one-bedroom, $1,781 two-bedroom and $2,117 three-bedroom
- Charlotte multifamily market insights, 2026 · Northmarq · retrieved Supports: Charlotte apartment vacancy of 6.2%, Approximately 18,000 units under construction, a 6.2% expansion of inventory, More than half of Charlotte apartment properties offering concessions, Eleven consecutive quarters of year-over-year asking rent declines
- Fiscal Year 2026 Fair Market Rents · US Department of Housing and Urban Development · retrieved Supports: Two-bedroom Fair Market Rent of $1,847 for the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia NC-SC HUD Metro FMR Area
- Tax rates, fiscal year 2027 · Mecklenburg County Office of the Tax Collector · retrieved Supports: Mecklenburg County rate of 49.27 cents per $100 of assessed value, unchanged for FY2027, City of Charlotte rate of 29.30 cents per $100, applied on top of the county rate inside the city
- Board of County Commissioners adopts $2.6 billion operating budget for FY2027 · Mecklenburg County · retrieved Supports: The county property tax rate holds at 49.27 cents per $100 for FY2027
- Charlotte City Council adopts the FY2027 budget · WCNC Charlotte · retrieved Supports: City property tax rate rising 1.89 cents from 27.41 to 29.30 cents per $100, adopted 8 June 2026, The increase is dedicated to police and fire pay and raises about $85 million
- Sales assessment ratio studies as of January 1, 2025 · North Carolina Department of Revenue, Local Government Division · retrieved Supports: Mecklenburg County last revalued in 2023, A certified median sales assessment ratio of 88.78%: assessed values are 88.78% of sale prices, An effective county tax rate of 0.4374% against a nominal 0.4927%, computed as rate × assessment level, A coefficient of dispersion of 9.63, among the lowest in the state
- Primary Mortgage Market Survey, 13 August 2026 · Freddie Mac · retrieved Supports: 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaging 6.67%, against 6.58% a year earlier
- Commissioner Causey negotiates settlement on Rate Bureau's homeowners' insurance request · North Carolina Department of Insurance · retrieved Supports: Statewide average base rate increases of 7.5% on 1 June 2025 and 7.5% on 1 June 2026, Charlotte territory increases of 9.3% and 9.2%, No further rate filing before June 2027
- Conforming loan limit values for 2026 · Federal Housing Finance Agency · retrieved Supports: Baseline one-unit conforming loan limit of $832,750 for 2026, which is the limit in Mecklenburg County
- NTREIS monthly MLS summary report, August 2026 · North Texas Real Estate Information System and the Texas Real Estate Research Center at Texas A&M University, via the MetroTex Association of REALTORS · retrieved Supports: A median single-family sale price of $327,000 in the City of Fort Worth in August 2026 on 805 sales, against $330,000 on 884 sales in August 2025, and an average of $377,572, A median townhouse sale price of $365,000 on 20 sales, against $319,990 on 21, and a median condominium sale price of $330,000 on 16 sales, against $260,000 on 11, 3,086 active single-family listings and 3.6 months of inventory in the City of Fort Worth, A median single-family lease of $2,195 a month on 470 leases, against $2,150 on 453 a year earlier, A median single-family sale price of $343,000 in Tarrant County on 1,736 sales, and $352,250 in the Fort Worth-Arlington-Grapevine metropolitan division, City figures by property type only, with no all-types median; report produced 7 September 2026
- Housing market reports · MetroTex Association of REALTORS · retrieved Supports: Monthly reports featuring data from the Texas A&M Real Estate Research Center, based on listings of properties physically located within the specified geographic areas
- Zillow Home Value Index, all homes, middle tier, smoothed and seasonally adjusted, by city · Zillow Research · retrieved Supports: A typical home value of $295,800 for the city of Fort Worth (region 18172) in August 2026, $301,195 in August 2025, so a fall of 1.8% over the year
- Zillow Home Value Index, single-family and condominium series, by city · Zillow Research · retrieved Supports: A typical single-family value of $296,280 in the city of Fort Worth in August 2026, against $301,707 a year earlier, down 1.8%, A typical condominium value of $243,575 in the same month, against $248,614, down 2.0%, from the condominium file at https://files.zillowstatic.com/research/public_csvs/zhvi/City_zhvi_uc_condo_tier_0.33_0.67_sm_sa_month.csv
- Fort Worth Rent Report, October 2026 · Apartment List · retrieved Supports: A median rent of $1,141 for a one-bedroom and $1,317 for a two-bedroom in the city of Fort Worth, and $1,336 across all bedroom sizes, Rents down 0.2% over September and down 1.7% over the past 12 months, against -2.1% for the state
- Apartments for rent in Fort Worth, TX: average rent · Apartment List · retrieved Supports: Average listed rents of $1,279 and up for a studio, $1,352 and up for one bedroom, $1,661 and up for two, and $2,066 and up for three or more
- FY 2026 fair market rents, Fort Worth-Arlington, TX HUD Metro FMR Area · United States Department of Housing and Urban Development · retrieved Supports: FY 2026 fair market rents of $1,473 for one bedroom, $1,723 for two and $2,273 for three, as gross rents including utilities, The FMR area as Johnson, Parker and Tarrant counties
- Zillow Observed Rent Index, all homes plus multifamily, smoothed, by city · Zillow Research · retrieved Supports: An observed rent index of $1,615 for the city of Fort Worth in August 2026, against $1,606 a year earlier, up 0.54%
- Rates and exemptions: 2025 tax rates per $100 valuation, and detail · Tarrant County Tax Assessor-Collector · retrieved Supports: 2025 rates per $100: Tarrant County 0.186200, City of Fort Worth 0.670000, Fort Worth ISD 1.029100, Keller ISD 1.085200, Tarrant County College 0.112280, JPS Health Network 0.165000, Tarrant Regional Water District 0.026500, Maintenance and debt splits: Tarrant County 0.173000 and 0.013200, City of Fort Worth 0.522500 and 0.147500, Fort Worth ISD 0.786900 and 0.242200, Keller ISD 0.755200 and 0.330000, Tarrant County College 0.096280 and 0.016000, JPS 0.155100 and 0.009900, water district 0.026500 and none, from https://entityportal.tarrantcountytx.gov/ratesExemptions.asp, Homestead exemptions of 20% (minimum $5,000) for Tarrant County, the City of Fort Worth and JPS Health Network, 1% (minimum $5,000) for Tarrant County College, none for the Tarrant Regional Water District, and $140,000 for Fort Worth ISD and Keller ISD, Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD at 1.245700, Crowley ISD at 1.255200 with a 10% local option, Emergency Service District 1 at 0.074348, Far North Fort Worth MUD at 1.000000 and Live Oak Creek MUD at 0.942000, Fort Worth public improvement district assessments per $100: PID 1 Downtown 0.125, PID 6 Park Glen 0.155 residential, PID 7 Heritage 0.145 residential, PID 11 Stockyards 0.12, PID 12 Chapel Hill 0.14, PID 14 Trinity Bluff 0.10, PID 15 Sun Valley 0.24, PID 19 Historic Camp Bowie 0.10, PID 20 East Lancaster Avenue 0.266, PID 21 Las Vegas Trail 0.10
- 2025 tax rates per $100 valuation for Tarrant County, last updated 8 October 2025 · Tarrant Appraisal District · retrieved Supports: The same 2025 rates and homestead exemptions for the county, the City, the hospital district, the college, the water district and every school district in the county, Northwest ISD at 1.0841 per $100 for 2025, No 2026 table yet: https://www.tad.org/content/rates/2026TaxRates.pdf returned not found, from https://www.tad.org/resources/rates
- Residential property data, 2026 appraisal roll · Tarrant Appraisal District · retrieved Supports: 255,731 single-family accounts inside the City of Fort Worth in Tarrant County, 121,356 of them in Fort Worth ISD, 33,569 in Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD and 32,861 in Keller ISD, 120,071 of the 121,356 City of Fort Worth and Fort Worth ISD single-family accounts carrying the Tarrant Regional Water District
- Tarrant water district lowers property tax rate, but cities will pay more for water use · Fort Worth Report · retrieved Supports: The water district's taxing district, established in 1949, is primarily in Fort Worth and funds operation and maintenance of the 27-mile Fort Worth Floodway
- Valuing property: limitation on residence homestead value increases · Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts · retrieved Supports: A residence homestead's appraised value may not rise more than 10% a year once the owner has qualified in the preceding and current year
- 2020 block assignment files, Texas: unified school districts and places · United States Census Bureau · retrieved Supports: Read with the 2020 redistricting file's block populations, at https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial/2020/data/01-Redistricting_File--PL_94-171/Texas/tx2020.pl.zip, and the district names in https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2025_Gazetteer/2025_Gaz_unsd_national.zip, Of the City of Fort Worth's 918,915 residents in 2020: 473,224 in Fort Worth ISD, 119,281 in Keller ISD, 83,129 in Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD, 81,929 in Crowley ISD, 67,070 in Northwest ISD, 27,617 in Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD, 17,470 in White Settlement ISD and 16,049 in Everman ISD, 473,224 of Fort Worth ISD's 519,747 residents inside the city
- 2025 Gazetteer files: places, Texas · United States Census Bureau · retrieved Supports: A land area of 352.011 square miles and a water area of 8.183 square miles for Fort Worth city
- Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (ETJ) · City of Fort Worth Development Services · retrieved Supports: The ETJ as the unincorporated land within five miles of the city limits, where the City can regulate some activities, Water control and improvement districts, fresh water supply districts and municipal utility districts in the ETJ, under the City's MUD policy of 2005
- Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (ETJ) layer, City of Fort Worth open data boundaries · City of Fort Worth · retrieved Supports: The ETJ's polygons summing to 164,965 acres, about 258 square miles, with the latest edit dated 1 September 2026
- Public Improvement Districts (PIDs) · City of Fort Worth · retrieved Supports: Fifteen districts listed: 1 Downtown, 6 Park Glen, 7 Heritage, 11 Stockyards, 12 Chapel Hill, 14 Trinity Bluff, 15 Sun Valley, 16 Walsh Ranch/Quail Valley, 17 Rock Creek Ranch, 18 Tourism, 19 Historic Camp Bowie, 20 East Lancaster Avenue, 21 Las Vegas Trail, 22 Veale Ranch and 23 Panther Island, PIDs 16 and 17, formed in 2016, supporting streets, drainage, water, sewer and other infrastructure; PID 22 Veale Ranch established in 2023 for a 60-year term; PID 23 established in 2026
- Fort Worth Public Improvement District No. 16 (Walsh Ranch/Quail Valley): annual service plan update, fiscal year 2027, 25 August 2026 · City of Fort Worth and MuniCap · retrieved Supports: Fiscal 2027 annual installments per lot in Improvement Area 1 of $482.14 for a 35-foot lot, $597.93 for 50 feet, $737.46 for 60 feet, $940.24 for 70 feet and $1,558.83 for a custom lot, Assessments bearing interest at the rate on the district's bonds, 4.63%, repaid over twenty annual installments, eighteen of them outstanding
- Central City · Tarrant Regional Water District · retrieved Supports: The rerouting of a section of the Trinity River due north of downtown, with flood water storage at Gateway Park, The Army Corps of Engineers building the bypass channel, three isolation gates, a dam, a pump station and ten flood water storage areas; the water district, the City and the state building the rest
- Army Corps awards contract for first half of major $1.2B Fort Worth flood control, development project · Tarrant Regional Water District, republishing WFAA of 24 September 2026 · retrieved Supports: A $169,431,703 contract with Walsh Construction Company for the north bypass channel, An 800-acre island, and 2,400 acres of land protected from flooding
- $403M coming to Panther Island · Tarrant Regional Water District, republishing the Fort Worth Star-Telegram of 19 January 2022 · retrieved Supports: A 1.5-mile bypass channel connecting the Clear and West Forks of the Trinity River north of downtown Fort Worth
- Gas Wells and Gas Compressor/Well Pad Sites layers, planning and development map service · City of Fort Worth · retrieved Supports: 2,351 gas wells, 1,955 of them producing, 287 abandoned, 84 water disposal, 13 permitted and 12 applying, in a layer last edited in December 2025, 529 gas compressor and well pad sites, from layer 9
- Gas well drilling · City of Fort Worth Development Services · retrieved Supports: The Barnett Shale as a natural gas reserve under a 15-county area, about 1.5 miles below the surface, No well drilled closer than 600 feet to a residence, religious institution, public building, hospital, school or public park without a waiver from the protected use owners or City Council approval
- Garbage service · City of Fort Worth Environmental Services · retrieved Supports: Monthly rates of $13.75, $19.50 and $25.75 for the 32-, 64- and 96-gallon garbage cart, shown as effective 1 January 2024, Solid waste fees billed on the Fort Worth water bill as a sanitation fee, with recycling and yard waste collected at no additional charge
- Stormwater utility fee · City of Fort Worth · retrieved Supports: Residential rates from 1 January 2026 of $3.65 a month up to 1,300 square feet of hard surface, $7.29 to 2,475, $10.94 to 3,394 and $14.58 above it, on the monthly water bill
- Texas homeowners insurance market overview · Texas Department of Insurance · retrieved Supports: A statewide average homeowners premium of $3,489 a year for 2025, Hail as the largest cause of paid homeowners losses, $4.93 billion in 2024 against $2.21 billion for wind
- How much is homeowners insurance in Fort Worth, TX? · Insure.com · retrieved Supports: An average Fort Worth premium of $4,290 a year for $300,000 of dwelling cover, $100,000 of liability and a $1,000 deductible, updated 27 May 2026, An average of $3,342 a year for $200,000 of dwelling cover
- Texas homeowners insurance · NerdWallet · retrieved Supports: An average Fort Worth premium of $5,600 a year for $500,000 of dwelling cover, $300,000 of liability and a $1,000 deductible, updated 20 February 2026
- Renters insurance in Texas · NerdWallet · retrieved Supports: An average Fort Worth renters premium of $167 a year, $14 a month, for $30,000 of personal property, updated 23 September 2026
- Monthly homeowners' association and condominium fee, tables B25142 and B25143, 2024 American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Fort Worth city · United States Census Bureau, via the Census Reporter API · retrieved Supports: A median monthly association fee of $55 among Fort Worth owner-occupied units that pay one, 85,299 of 210,450 owner-occupied units, or 40.5%, paying such a fee, and 7,153 paying $500 or more a month
- Homebuyer Assistance Program (HAP) · City of Fort Worth Neighborhood Services · retrieved Supports: Up to $25,000 of interest-free assistance toward the down payment and closing costs, as a forgivable loan: forgiven after ten years in the home, or after five on $14,999 or less, Income limits updated July 2026 of $61,800 for one person to $88,250 for four, First-time buyers, or anyone who has not owned a home in three years; an eight-hour homebuyer class; a contribution of $1,000 or 2% of the price, whichever is less; a home inside the city limits; a sales price no more than 95% of the area median, under the HOME rules