Fort Worth vs Greensboro: which should you move to?
Fort Worth or Greensboro? 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.
Fort Worth
The fastest-growing US city of more than a million, 1,028,117 people, and North Carolina's third city, 308,667 people growing slowly, both of them places that still build vehicles, F-35s in one and trucks and buses in the other, and both pricing in US dollars, though a week apart: Fort Worth at Freddie Mac's 7.03% for 24 September 2026 and Greensboro at 7.28% for 1 October. The headlines are as close a match as this site has across the two states, August medians of single-family houses sold inside each city: the NTREIS median for Fort Worth, $327,000, and Redfin's for Greensboro, $321,811, because no association figure for the City could be read. Mortgage, property tax and insurance come to about $2,516 a month in Fort Worth and $2,231 in Greensboro, or $2,188 at the same rate, roughly 37% of Fort Worth's median household income of $82,503 and 42% of Greensboro's $63,516. Zillow's index keeps the order, $295,800 for the City of Fort Worth, and Zillow's index for the City of Greensboro stood at $263,264. Fort Worth's six units take about 1.54% of the median with a homestead against about 1.085% of market value in Greensboro for fiscal 2027, and insurance is budgeted at $350 a month against $179; North Carolina's income tax, $3,708 on $100,000 for 2025, passes the property tax gap at about $49,300 of income. On the same FBI counts for 2025 Fort Worth is the lower on every line, 375 violent offenses per 100,000 against 705, 2,226 property offenses against 2,996 and a homicide rate of about 7.6 against 12.0. Choose Fort Worth for lower crime, higher household income, a job market about three times the size, aerospace, airlines and freight rail, and DFW. Choose Greensboro to own for about $285 a month less, for Medicaid expansion and a far lower uninsured rate, milder summers and lower sales tax, and read the seller's water bill as closely as the tax bill.
| Measure | Fort Worth | Greensboro | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| City population | 1,028,117 (2025) | 308,667 (2025) | Not directly comparable |
| Metro population | 8,477,157 (2025) | 805,945 (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. | 11.9% (2020-2025) | 3.2% (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 | Fort Worth | Greensboro | 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. | $327,000 (August 2026) | $321,811 (August 2026) | Greensboro |
| Detached house benchmark Fort Worth and Greensboro publish a single house index rather than a composite, so the two rows repeat. | $327,000 | $321,811 | Greensboro |
| Apartment or condominium benchmark | $330,000 | $166,658 | Greensboro |
| Two-bedroom rent | $1,317/mo (median, September 2026) | $1,126/mo (median, September 2026) | Greensboro |
| One-bedroom rent | $1,141/mo | $1,010/mo | Greensboro |
| 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. | 19.2% of a year's income | 21.3% 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. | $1,746/mo at 7.03% | $1,762/mo at 7.28% | 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. | 4.0× | 5.1× | 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. | $5,046/yr (1.543%, 2025) | $3,492/yr (1.085%, 2026) | Greensboro |
| 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. | None | $644 (seller pays) | 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 |
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. Greensboro: About 1.08% of market value. A house in the City of Greensboro pays two levies for fiscal 2027: Guilford County's 78.95 cents per $100 and the City's 79.85, 158.80 in all on the County's rate table, against 140.30 a year earlier. Both are charged on the values of the 1 January 2022 revaluation: the County reappraised for 2026, but Senate Bill 889, signed on 19 June 2026, put the new values off to the 2027 bills, and both governments raised their rates on the old base instead. North Carolina measures how far the old values lag: the Department of Revenue put Guilford's assessments at 68.31% of sale prices on 1 January 2025 and publishes an effective county rate of 0.4990% against the nominal 0.7305% on that arithmetic. The same ratio on the combined rate gives 1.085%, about $3,492 a year on the $321,811 single-family median, if the house is assessed like the average one. A buyer does not reset the assessment by buying, so the seller's bill is the guide to the 2026 one; the 2027 bill will be on the new value at rates not yet set. Inside the Dunleath Historic District the bill carries 5 cents more, in the College Hill Historic District 1 cent and in the Downtown Improvement District 9. Stormwater and solid waste are not on the tax bill: the City charges them on the water bill, about $8.74 a month for a typical house on figures this site could only read secondhand.
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 | Fort Worth | Greensboro | 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 | 375 (2025) | 705 (2025) | Fort Worth |
| Property crime per 100,000 | 2,226 (2025) | 2,996 (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. | 78 (2025) | 37 (2025) | Not directly comparable |
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).
Down sharply in 2025 after a 2024 peak. On the FBI CDE's figures violent offenses were 2,466 in 2019, 2,723 in 2020, 2,642 in 2021, 2,456 in 2022, 2,514 in 2023, 2,820 in 2024 and 2,177 in 2025, about 829, 920 and 705 per 100,000 in the last three years on each July's Vintage 2025 population, so 2025 was 23% below 2024, the drop the police department itself announced (WFDD). Property offenses peaked at 11,446 in 2023 and fell to 10,410 in 2024 and 9,248 in 2025, down 11%. The SBI's summaries show the same 2023 and 2024 figures within a few offenses (2,509 and 2,816 violent). The FBI series needs care in two places. The CDE lists the department as reporting incident-based (NIBRS) data from 1 January 2019, and its 2018 counts are lower (1,860 violent), so 2018 is not used. And its January 2026 row is plainly incomplete, 37 violent and 78 property offenses against 216 and 730 in January 2025, with February also low, so 2026 is compared from March: March to August brought 1,078 violent offenses against 1,154 in the same months of 2025, down 7%, and 4,546 property offenses against 4,819, down 6%. The September 2026 row is partial. The CDE counts were read on 4 October 2026 from a feed last refreshed on 15 September and can still be revised; the SBI's 2025 summary had not been published.
What the rates cover: Computed: 2,177 violent offenses (murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault) in the FBI Crime Data Explorer's summarized data for the Greensboro Police Department (ORI NC0410200) in calendar 2025, divided by the 308,667 Vintage 2025 city population; on the CDE's own agency population of 310,328 the rate is 702. The rate is high, for North Carolina and for the country: the CDE's 2025 rate for reporting North Carolina agencies is 331 per 100,000 and for the nation 329, so Greensboro's is a little more than twice either. It is the highest of the three North Carolina cities this site compares, above Charlotte's 607 (on CMPD's own count) and Raleigh's 396, and of the US cities here only Houston's 890 is higher in 2025 (Orlando's 835.8 is for 2022). Among the state's largest city police departments on the CDE's 2025 counts and populations it is second to Winston-Salem's 744, ahead of Fayetteville's 614, Charlotte-Mecklenburg's 559, High Point's 521, Durham's 507 and Raleigh's 395. The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation's most recent annual summary, for 2024 (published October 2025), counts 2,816 violent offenses for the department that year, about 919 per 100,000, the highest rate of any city police department in its table of the state's largest agencies, ahead of Gastonia (826), Winston-Salem (806) and Asheville (801). The department's own year-end figures, 1,601 aggravated assaults and 426 robberies, are within 16 and 10 of the FBI's.
Homicides: 37 murders and nonnegligent manslaughters in 2025 in the FBI CDE, about 12.0 per 100,000 on the city population, against the CDE's 6.5 for North Carolina and 4.3 for the nation, and against Raleigh's 25 (4.9 per 100,000) and Charlotte's 96 (about 10). The CDE series is 44 in 2019, 60 in 2020, 51 in 2021, 41 in 2022, 74 in 2023, 43 in 2024 and 37 in 2025; the 2023 figure is the city's record, a spike for which the police department still has no single explanation (The Assembly). The department's own provisional year-end count for 2025 is 42 homicides, against 45 in 2024, and a quarter of them were tied directly to domestic violence (WFDD; The Assembly); nothing read explains the five-homicide gap between its count and the FBI's.
Winters, summers and what the weather can do to a house
| Measure | Fort Worth | Greensboro | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| January mean | 7.7 °C | 4.3 °C | Not directly comparable |
| July mean | 29.5 °C | 26.1 °C | Not directly comparable |
| Precipitation a year | 898 mm | 1,116 mm | Not directly comparable |
| Snowfall a year | 4 cm | 18 cm | Not directly comparable |
| Sunshine a year | 2,850 hours | Not published | Not directly comparable |
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.
NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals for Piedmont Triad International Airport (station USW00013723), the Weather Service station for Greensboro, about 7 miles west of the city's center point: January mean 39.7F, July mean 78.9F, annual mean 59.6F, 43.95 in of precipitation, 7.1 in of snow. July is the warmest month, ahead of August's 77.3F, with a mean high of 88.5F; January's mean low is 30.1F. Rain is spread through the year: September (4.59 in), August (4.36 in) and July (4.18 in) are the wettest months and February (2.81 in) the driest. Most of the snow falls in January (2.9 in) and February (2.0 in), with 1.2 in in December and 0.9 in in March. The normals count 33.3 days a year at 90F or above, 0.2 at 100F or above, 68.4 nights at or below freezing, 10.2 at or below 20F and 3.6 days that stay below freezing. Converted here to 4.3 C, 26.1 C, 1,116 mm and 18.0 cm. The cooperative station at the City's water treatment plant (USC00313625), inside the city, runs a little warmer in summer, 39.9F in January and 79.5F in July with 45.89 in a year. Greensboro has the coldest winter and the most snow of the three North Carolina cities this site compares, against Raleigh's 5.5 C and 13.2 cm and Charlotte's 5.6 C and 8.9 cm, and of the US cities here only Boston is colder or snowier; its rain is between Charlotte's 1,107 mm and Raleigh's 1,170 mm. Sunshine is not stored: Current Results' US city table, the source and 1961-1990 basis of the other US profiles' sunshine hours, lists Charlotte and Raleigh but no Greensboro station, and the 1991-2020 normals do not include sunshine.
Hazards: Ice, snow and severe thunderstorms more than hurricanes. Greensboro is in the Piedmont, far from the coast, so storm surge is not its hazard, but cold air banked against the mountains to the west often turns winter storms to freezing rain, which Wikipedia calls a more pressing concern than snow. Snow comes most winters and varies widely: the airport measured 12.0 inches on 9 December 2018, its largest one-day fall since 2010, and 10.3 inches on 31 January 2026, two days before its lowest reading since 2010, 3F on 2 February 2026. Tornadoes are the deadliest record: an F4 on 2 April 1936 cut a seven-mile path through southern Greensboro and part of downtown, killing 14, and tornadoes struck the Greensboro area again on 7 May 2008 and the city on 15 April 2018 (Wikipedia). Thunderstorm winds are the routine risk; the airport's highest gust since 2010 is 74.0 mph on 13 July 2015, and it recorded 68.9 mph on 18 September 2026. Its two wettest days since 2010 both came in the autumn of 2018, 4.60 inches on 16 September and 4.13 inches on 11 October. Summer heat is real but rarely extreme: the normals count 33 days a year at 90F and almost none at 100F, and the airport's highest reading since 2010 is 102F on 29 June 2012. 2026 has been unusually hot, with 61 days at 90F or above through 29 September, nearly twice the normal, and 100F on 2 July, the first 100F day there since 2012. The city's records are 104F, set in 1911 and 1914, and -8F on 21 January 1985 (Wikipedia).
What people earn and what the government takes
| Measure | Fort Worth | Greensboro | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $82,503 USD (2024) | $63,516 USD (2024) | Fort Worth |
| Unemployment rate | 4.6% (July 2026) | 4.1% (July 2026) | Greensboro |
| Sales tax | 8.25% | 6.75% | Greensboro |
| 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. | 37% | 41.25% | 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. | $13,449 USD | $17,157 USD | Fort Worth |
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.
BLS counted 374,600 nonfarm jobs in the Greensboro-High Point MSA in August 2026 (not seasonally adjusted, preliminary), up 3,500 or 0.9% on the year. Health care and social assistance (+1,800, or 3.7%, to 50,700), professional and business services (+1,500, or 3.1%, to 49,500) and construction (mining, logging and construction +1,400, or 7.4%, to 20,400) added the most, while manufacturing lost 1,500 (-3.1%, to 47,300), information 400 (to 3,200) and trade, transportation and utilities 400 (to 83,600). Manufacturing is 12.6% of the metro's jobs, and three of the ten largest employers on Guilford County's 2025 list are truck, bus and apparel companies. That list is the county's, from its 2025 financial report; the City of Greensboro's own report was not reachable from this environment, so no city list is given. It is led by Cone Health (13,000), Guilford County Schools (10,667), the City (3,753), the Postal Service (3,683) and the Volvo Group (3,037), with High Point University (2,723), Ralph Lauren (2,671), N.C. A&T (2,307) and Thomas Built Buses (2,000); in 2016 the list included UNCG, Bank of America and High Point Regional, and Guilford County Schools was first. Most residents work in the city: 71.8% of the city's 153,212 workers worked inside it in 2024 and 13.4% outside Guilford County, many of them in the Triad's other cities. 16.7% worked from home, and the mean commute for the rest was 22 minutes, with 5.3% spending an hour or more (ACS 2024 1-year, B08007, B08008, B08013, B08301 and B08303).
Main sectors: Manufacturing, about one job in eight: 47,300 of the metro's 374,600 nonfarm jobs in August 2026, down 1,500 on the year, with the Volvo Group (3,037 in Guilford County) and Thomas Built Buses (2,000) among the county's ten largest employers, Mack Trucks and Volvo Trucks of North America headquartered in the city, and Toyota's battery plant near Greensboro, which began shipping batteries in mid-2025, Health care: Cone Health, the Greensboro-based nonprofit hospital system, is Guilford County's largest employer (13,000), and health care and social assistance added 1,800 metro jobs in a year, to 50,700, the most of any sector, Trade, transportation and logistics, the metro's largest supersector at 83,600 jobs, where Interstates 40, 73 and 85 meet: FedEx's mid-Atlantic hub at the airport and a regional freight rail hub (Wikipedia), Aviation and aerospace at Piedmont Triad International Airport: Honda Aircraft's headquarters, aircraft maintenance (HAECO Americas, now part of AAR, and Marshall), and Boom Supersonic's Overture Superfactory, finished in June 2024 for an airliner that is not yet flying (Wikipedia), Education and government: Guilford County Schools (10,667 employees), the City of Greensboro (3,753), the Postal Service (3,683), Guilford County (2,975) and N.C. A&T (2,307), with UNCG and five other colleges in the city, in a government sector of 43,400 metro jobs.
North Carolina's flat income tax rate has come down every year since 2022, to 4.25% for 2025 and 3.99% for 2026. Property tax is levied by Guilford County and the City on assessed value. For 2025-26 a house in the City paid 140.30 cents per $100 of assessed value, the County's 73.05 cents plus the City's 67.25, on the North Carolina Department of Revenue's table of county and municipal rates; the County had held 73.05 cents for five years. Those values date from the County's 1 January 2022 reappraisal, and the Department measures how far they had fallen behind: assessments averaged 68.31% of sale prices, which makes the effective combined rate 0.9583% of market value. On the same table Raleigh's combined rate was 87.21 cents (0.8319% effective) and Charlotte's 76.68 cents (0.6808%), so Greensboro's was the highest of the three North Carolina cities this site compares on either measure. Downtown Improvement District parcels pay 9 cents more, and the College Hill and Dunleath historic districts 1 and 5 cents. For 2026-27 both rates rose sharply: the City adopted 79.85 cents on 16 June 2026, up 12.6 cents, and the County 78.95 cents on 25 June, up 5.9, a combined 158.80 cents. They rose because Senate Bill 889, signed on 19 June 2026, put off the County's 2026 reappraisal, so the 2026 bills are on the old 2022 values and the new values apply to the 2027 bills; the City's taxable base for the year is about $40.1 billion instead of the $56.1 billion the new values would have given (Guilford County; Rhino Times). The County estimates a revenue-neutral rate of 58.54 cents once the new values apply. Zillow's typical home value for the City was $263,264 in August 2026, flat on the year (up 0.04%) and the lowest of the three North Carolina cities here, against Raleigh's $428,671 and Charlotte's $392,573; of the US cities here only El Paso's, San Antonio's and Houston's are lower. Its observed rent index was $1,392 a month, up 2.1%, below every other US city here except San Antonio. The bills, insurance and fees that follow from these figures belong to the housing layer.
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| Measure | Fort Worth | Greensboro | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| System | 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 | The Greensboro Transit Agency (GTA), the City's bus system, which took over the private Duke Power buses in 1990-91 and runs about fifteen fixed routes almost entirely inside the city limits, most of them meeting downtown at the J. Douglas Galyon Depot, a separate Sunday network, the Higher Education Area Transit (HEAT) routes serving the city's colleges, and Access GSO paratransit; in 2018 it put the first battery-electric buses in municipal service in North Carolina into service (Wikipedia). The Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation (PART) runs commuter buses between the Triad's cities and the airport. There is no rail transit. The Galyon Depot is also the intercity station: Amtrak's Piedmont (four round trips a day), Carolinian and Crescent stop there, six round trips in all, connecting Greensboro with Charlotte, Raleigh, Washington, New York, Atlanta and New Orleans, and Greyhound shares the building (Amtrak; Wikipedia). Interstates 40, 73 and 85 meet at the city, with an urban loop around it (Wikipedia). | Not directly comparable |
| Commute by public transit | 0.7% (2024) | 1.6% (2024) | Greensboro |
| Walk or cycle to work | 1.1% (2024) | 2.8% (2024) | Greensboro |
| Airport | 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). | Piedmont Triad International Airport (GSO, known locally as PTI), in unincorporated Guilford County west of the city and run by the Piedmont Triad Airport Authority for Greensboro, High Point and Winston-Salem (Wikipedia). It handled 2,029,298 passengers in 2025, up 3.6% from 1,959,182 in 2024 but still below 2019's 2,145,929, with scheduled service to 14 US destinations on American, Delta, United, Allegiant and Breeze, and it is a FedEx Express hub (Wikipedia, from the airport's own statistics). The state's two larger airports serve Charlotte, about 90 miles southwest, and Raleigh, about 77 miles east (Wikipedia). | Not directly comparable |
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).
GTA carried 2,329,584 unlinked trips in 2025 on the National Transit Database's monthly ridership file (Federal Transit Administration), 2,152,587 of them on its buses and the rest on demand-response service. That is less than half its peak of 4,906,812 in 2012 and below the 3,413,068 of 2019; ridership fell to 1.95 million in 2021, recovered to 2.56 million in 2024, and fell 9.1% in 2025, and January to August 2026 ran 7.4% below the same months of 2025. Why it has fallen since 2024 was not found. PART carried 375,758 trips in 2025 on the same file. Amtrak counted 210,652 passengers boarding or leaving trains at Greensboro in fiscal 2025, the second-busiest station in North Carolina after Charlotte's 365,614 (Amtrak). For comparison, Raleigh's GoRaleigh carried about 8.0 million trips in 2025 and Charlotte's CATS about 15.7 million in 2024 (their profiles).
Health care, schools and what each city is like
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.
Health care
Care is paid for through employer or individual private insurance, Medicare and Medicaid, and North Carolina is one of the 41 states, counting the District of Columbia, that have adopted the Medicaid expansion (KFF); the expansion covers about 740,000 people statewide. Federal and state changes narrow it: from January 1, 2027 most expansion adults aged 19 to 64 must show 80 hours a month of work, school or volunteering, or $580 a month in earnings, and renew every six months, and rules for non-citizens tighten (NCDHHS). The City of Greensboro's uninsured rate was 7.5% in 2024 (22,905 of 305,237), against 8.6% for North Carolina and 8.2% nationally, slightly above Raleigh's 7.1% and well below Charlotte's 12.1% (ACS 2024 1-year, B27001). One system dominates. Cone Health, a nonprofit based in Greensboro and Guilford County's largest employer with 13,000 staff, runs Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital, a 517-bed tertiary hospital opened in 1953 that is the largest in its four-county region and a Level II trauma center, with Wesley Long Hospital and a behavioral health hospital in the city and hospitals in Burlington and Reidsville (Wikipedia; Guilford County). It was acquired in December 2024 by Risant Health, a nonprofit created by Kaiser Permanente. Moses Cone was a whites-only hospital until 1963, when a federal appeals court ruled in Simkins v. Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital that its federal funding barred segregation, a decision that shaped Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Wikipedia). This file did not verify wait times for primary or specialist care.
Education
Greensboro is a college city. On the ACS 2024 1-year estimates 40,213 of its 297,824 residents aged 3 and over were enrolled in college (35,401 undergraduates) or graduate school (4,812), 13.5%, against 6.6% nationally and 6.7% in North Carolina. North Carolina A&T State University, in East Greensboro, enrolled 15,275 students in fall 2025, up 6.7% on 14,311, with 2,018 graduate students, and is the largest historically Black university in the country (N.C. A&T); it reported an estimated 15,700 for fall 2026 with a record first-year class of 3,214 (HBCU Gameday). The University of North Carolina at Greensboro enrolled 18,682 in fall 2025, up 3.7%, and more than 19,000 in fall 2026, its most since 2020 (UNCG). Guilford College, founded by Quakers in 1837, Greensboro College and Bennett College, a historically Black college for women whose students took part in the 1960 sit-ins, are private; Elon University's law school is downtown, and Guilford Technical Community College has campuses in the city and its main campus in Jamestown (Wikipedia). Public schools are run by Guilford County Schools, the countywide district and the third-largest in the state, with 67,620 students in 2024-25 and 121 schools in 2025-26 (NCES). Enrollment has fallen since 2018-19, and in 2025 the district proposed closing four small elementary schools, citing an older population moving in and more students in charter schools (WFDD).
Living there
Greensboro is the Gate City, a railroad town that grew on textiles: the Cone brothers' denim and flannel mills turned it from a village into a city around 1900, and textile, tobacco and apparel companies still have headquarters here (Wikipedia). It is also where the sit-in movement began: on 1 February 1960 four students from N.C. A&T sat down at the whites-only Woolworth's lunch counter on Elm Street, and the building is now the International Civil Rights Center and Museum, with the counter in place. Today it is North Carolina's third city, with 308,667 people, a manufacturing economy that is still about one job in eight in the metro, with trucks, buses and aircraft made in and around the city, and Cone Health as the largest employer, and two public universities, N.C. A&T, the country's largest historically Black university, and UNCG, with nearly 34,000 students between them in fall 2025. Next to Raleigh and Charlotte it is cheaper and slower: it grew 3.2% from 2020 to 2025 against their 8% and 10%, its typical home is $263,264 and its rent $1,392 on Zillow's indexes, the lowest of the three, and its household income ($63,516) is more than $21,000 below theirs. It also has the highest violent crime rate of the three, 705 per 100,000 on the FBI's 2025 counts, twice the state's, though that was 23% below 2024, and the coldest and snowiest winters, with 7.1 in of snow a year and ice storms. Its property tax rate rose by 18.5 cents per $100 for 2026-27 because the state put off the County's reappraisal, and the 2027 bills will be the first on the new values.
Where each city wins, and where it loses
Both cities price in US dollars, though they were priced a week apart: Fort Worth at Freddie Mac's 7.03% for 24 September 2026 and Greensboro at 7.28% for 1 October, so the mortgage lines differ by rate as well as price, and Greensboro's is given at both. Both headlines are medians of single-family houses sold inside each city in August. Fort Worth's is the North Texas Real Estate Information System's median, $327,000, 0.9% below a year earlier, on 805 sales. Greensboro's is Redfin's, $321,811, 2.9% below a year earlier on 660 sales, computed from MLS and public records data, because no association or MLS median for the City could be read; Redfin's median for all home types was $289,808. Zillow's index, which models every home in each city, widens the gap a little: it stood at $295,800 for the City of Fort Worth in August, 1.8% lower on the year, and Zillow's index for the City of Greensboro stood at $263,264, flat on the year, about $32,500 apart against $5,189 on the medians. At 20% down, Fort Worth's $261,600 loan costs about $1,746 a month and Greensboro's $257,449 loan about $1,761 at 7.28%, or $1,718 at 7.03%, so the week's rise in rates makes Greensboro's mortgage the larger. Property tax is $5,044 a year in Fort Worth with a homestead and about $3,492 in Greensboro, and insurance is budgeted at $350 and $179 a month, the Fort Worth figure raised by North Texas hail and the Greensboro figure NerdWallet's average for the city, $2,150 a year for $400,000 of dwelling cover, and neither with a flood policy in it. The three lines come to about $2,516 and $2,231, roughly 37% and 42% of each city's 2024 median household income; at 7.03% Greensboro's would be about $2,188. Of the $285 gap the insurance is about $171 and the property tax $129, less the $16 a month more Greensboro pays on the mortgage, and at the same rate the gap would be about $328. The rents are on the same series, Apartment List's September medians for each city: a one-bedroom at $1,141 in Fort Worth and $1,010 in Greensboro, a two-bedroom $1,317 and $1,126. Zillow's observed rent index, measured for each city, was $1,615 in Fort Worth and $1,392 in Greensboro in August, about 23% and 26% of median income, so Greensboro is cheaper to rent in dollars and Fort Worth against local income. North Carolina forbids rent control, so nothing caps a Greensboro renewal.
The definitions match and so do the years: both cities' figures are the FBI's summarized counts for 2025 divided by Census Vintage 2025 populations, Fort Worth's read on 27 September and Greensboro's on 4 October 2026. Fort Worth is the lower on every line. Its 3,859 violent offenses come to 375 per 100,000 against Greensboro's 705 on 2,177, and its 22,886 property offenses to 2,226 against 2,996 on 9,248. Homicide was 78 in Fort Worth, about 7.6 per 100,000, against 37 in Greensboro, about 12.0, in a city less than a third Fort Worth's size. Greensboro's violent rate is a little more than twice the FBI's 2025 rates for reporting North Carolina agencies and for the nation, the highest of the three North Carolina cities this site compares, and of the US cities here only Houston's is higher in 2025. Both are falling. Fort Worth's violent offenses dropped 17% in 2025 and 29% in four years, and motor vehicle theft fell from 5,157 in 2024 to 3,616, though murders rose from 72 to 78, and FWPD then counted 36 from January through August 2026 against 54 in the same months of 2025. Greensboro's violent offenses were 23% below 2024's 2,820 in 2025, the drop its police department announced, and March to August 2026 brought 7% fewer than the same months of 2025; the FBI's January 2026 row for the department is plainly incomplete, so 2026 is compared from March. Its homicides have come down from a record 74 in 2023, and a quarter of the department's own 2025 count were tied directly to domestic violence, but its car thefts, 1,539 in 2025, are half again their 1,004 of 2019. Both sets of FBI counts come from a feed last refreshed on 15 September 2026 and can still be revised.
Greensboro has the colder winter and Fort Worth the far hotter summer, and both downtowns have taken a tornado. January averages 7.7 C at Meacham, inside Fort Worth, against 4.3 C at Piedmont Triad International Airport, about 7 miles west of Greensboro's center, with 32.8 nights a year at or below freezing against 68.4, and 4.1 cm of snow on the DFW Airport normals against 18.0 cm. July averages 29.5 C against 26.1 C. Meacham's normals count 105.5 days a year at 90F or above against Greensboro's 33.3, and 24.1 at or above 37.8 C (100F) against 0.2. The summer of 2026 showed the difference: Meacham had 55 days of 100F through 27 September, 31 of them in a row, while Greensboro's airport reached 100F once, on 2 July, its first since 2012, in a hot summer of 61 days at 90F or above through 29 September. Greensboro gets 1,116 mm of rain a year against Fort Worth's 898 mm; no Greensboro station is on the 1961-1990 sunshine series behind Fort Worth's 2,850 hours. Fort Worth's costly weather 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. Greensboro's deadliest is older: an F4 cut a seven-mile path through southern Greensboro and part of downtown on 2 April 1936 and killed 14, and tornadoes struck the area again in 2008 and the city in 2018. Its winter hazard is ice: cold air banked against the mountains to the west often turns storms to freezing rain, and the airport measured 10.3 inches of snow on 31 January 2026 and 3F two days later. Fort Worth's cold is rarer and was worse: 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 the storm's 246 deaths in Tarrant County.
Fort Worth's half of the Dallas-Fort Worth metro has about three times Greensboro's jobs and is adding them faster, and the two economies are more alike than their sizes. BLS counted 1,222,100 nonfarm jobs in the Fort Worth-Arlington-Grapevine division in August 2026, 1.5% more than a year earlier, and 374,600 in the Greensboro-High Point metro, 3,500 more, a gain of 0.9%. On the same unadjusted basis unemployment in July was 4.6% in the Fort Worth division and 4.1% around Greensboro, against 4.4% nationally, though Greensboro's fell on the year partly because its labor force shrank, by about 11,000 people. Fort Worth's economy is industrial and logistical: 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, Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth has 4,553 direct employees, BNSF and American Airlines are headquartered in the city, and AllianceTexas in the far north counts 73,134 jobs by its developer's figures. Greensboro's is too, at a smaller scale: manufacturing is 47,300 of the metro's jobs, about one in eight, though it lost 1,500 in the year, with the Volvo Group and Thomas Built Buses among Guilford County's ten largest employers, Mack Trucks and Volvo Trucks of North America headquartered in the city, Honda Aircraft and Boom Supersonic's factory at the airport, Toyota's battery plant nearby, and FedEx's mid-Atlantic hub where Interstates 40, 73 and 85 meet. Cone Health, with 13,000 staff, is Guilford County's largest employer, and health care added the most metro jobs in the year, 1,800. Neither profile carries a wage figure. City median household income was $82,503 in Fort Worth and $63,516 in Greensboro in 2024, Greensboro's with a margin of error of $3,723 either way, and the metros' $92,733 and $66,072. Tax is North Carolina's flat rate against none. A single filer on $100,000 pays about $17,157 in Greensboro for 2025, $3,708 of it to the state, and $13,449 in Fort Worth; North Carolina's rate falls from 4.25% to 3.99% for 2026, which brings the Greensboro figure to $16,651. Sales tax runs the other way, 8.25% in Fort Worth, with half a cent for transit and half for the crime control district, against 6.75% in Guilford County, the lowest rate any North Carolina county charges. So does property tax. Fort Worth's six units add to 2.18908 per $100; Fort Worth ISD grants the state's $140,000 and nothing more, and Tarrant County, the City and JPS Health Network take 20% off a homestead. Greensboro's bill is two lines for fiscal 2027, Guilford County's 78.95 cents and the City's 79.85, 158.80 cents per $100, charged on values from the County's 2022 revaluation that the Department of Revenue measured at 68.31% of sale prices, so about 1.085% of what a house sells for, with no homestead exemption in it. On the same $321,811 house Fort Worth's six units would charge about $4,941 against $3,492, and on $327,000 Greensboro's rate would charge about $3,548 against Fort Worth's $5,044. At the two medians the property tax gap, $1,552 a year, is what North Carolina's 2025 rate takes from about $49,300 of income; at Greensboro's median household income the North Carolina tax would be about $2,158.
Neither city's workers use much transit, and Fort Worth's use it least. In 2024, 0.7% of Fort Worth's workers took transit, the third-lowest share of any city this site compares, and 1.1% walked or cycled, against 1.6% and 2.8% in Greensboro, where the margin puts transit anywhere from about 1.0% to 2.2%; 74.9% of Fort Worth's workers drove alone against 67.3%, and 10.5% worked from home against 16.7%. Trinity Metro carried 6,180,600 trips in 2025, 906,800 of them on TEXRail, the 27.2-mile commuter line from downtown to DFW Airport, and runs the Trinity Railway Express to Dallas with DART; its next step is a 2.1-mile TEXRail extension to the Medical District, estimated at about $167 million and due to open in 2029. The Greensboro Transit Agency carried 2,329,584 trips in 2025 on its buses and demand-response service, less than half its 2012 peak and 9.1% fewer than in 2024, for reasons not found, and there is no rail transit; Trinity Metro carried about two and a half trips for every one of its. Greensboro's trains are intercity: six Amtrak round trips a day stop at the J. Douglas Galyon Depot downtown, four of them the Piedmont between Raleigh and Charlotte, and 210,652 passengers used the station in fiscal 2025. Commutes there are short and local: 71.8% of the city's workers worked inside it in 2024 and the mean commute was 22 minutes. The airports are of different orders. DFW, American's largest hub, about 20 miles northeast of downtown Fort Worth, handled 85,660,127 passengers in 2025. Piedmont Triad International, west of Greensboro and run for Greensboro, High Point and Winston-Salem, handled 2,029,298, with scheduled service to 14 US destinations, and is a FedEx Express hub; the state's two larger airports are about 90 miles away at Charlotte and 77 at Raleigh.
Coverage is where the two cities part most. North Carolina has expanded Medicaid, and about 740,000 people statewide are covered through the expansion, though from 1 January 2027 most expansion adults aged 19 to 64 must show 80 hours a month of work, school or volunteering and renew every six months. Texas has 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%, against 7.5% in the City of Greensboro, 8.6% in North Carolina and 8.2% nationally. JPS Health Network's John Peter Smith Hospital, Fort Worth's Level I trauma center, 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, and Cook Children's Medical Center has 452 licensed beds. Greensboro's anchor is Cone Health, a nonprofit acquired in December 2024 by Risant Health, which Kaiser Permanente created: its Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital has 517 beds, is a Level II trauma center and is the largest hospital in its four-county region. Neither profile verified a wait time. The two school districts are almost the same size and both are losing students. Fort Worth ISD, built for 90,000 students, had 67,315 in 2025-26, has approved closing 18 campuses by June 2029, and since 24 March 2026 has been governed by a board of managers the Education Commissioner appointed; it covers about half the city. Guilford County Schools, the countywide district and the third-largest in North Carolina, had 67,620 students in 2024-25, has lost enrollment since 2018-19, and in 2025 proposed closing four small elementary schools. TCU has 12,980 students. Greensboro has two public universities, N.C. A&T, the largest historically Black university in the country, with 15,275 students in fall 2025, and UNCG, with 18,682, and 13.5% of its residents aged three and over were in college or graduate school in 2024, about twice the national share.
What people underestimate is that both cities are taxing houses on old values, and that the two bills do not behave alike after a purchase. Fort Worth's council, on 15 September 2026 by 7 to 4, took the City's rate from 67 cents to 70.565 to help close a $94 million shortfall, and the City says the average homeowner's bill will still fall a little because the appraisal district has not reappraised houses since 2024. Greensboro's values are older still. Guilford County reappraised every property for 1 January 2026 and mailed the notices in February; Senate Bill 889, signed on 19 June 2026, put the new values off to the 2027 bills, so the 2026 bills are on the values of the 2022 revaluation, and the County and the City raised their rates instead, from 140.30 cents in 2025-26, about 0.958% of market value, to 158.80. The 2027 bills will carry the new values at rates not yet set; the County estimates its own revenue-neutral rate on them at 58.54 cents. A Fort Worth buyer starts at full appraised value, because the 10% homestead cap lapses on a sale, and the exemption has to be filed, or the median owes $7,158. A Greensboro buyer does not reset the assessment by buying, so the seller's bill is the guide to the 2026 one. Both have charges the rate does not show. Newer Fort Worth subdivisions on the northern and western edges often sit in a public improvement district, where each lot in Walsh Ranch's first phase owes $482 to $1,559 a year, and in Keller ISD the same $327,000 house pays $5,149. Greensboro's stormwater and solid waste charges come on the City's water bill, about $8.74 a month for a typical house on figures this site could read only secondhand, because the City's own fee pages refused its requests, and inside the Dunleath and College Hill historic districts and the Downtown Improvement District the tax bill carries 5, 1 and 9 cents more per $100. Closing differs a little. Texas has no transfer tax and no tax on the loan, and the Texas seller customarily buys the buyer's owner's title policy, $1,901 on Fort Worth's median. North Carolina charges the seller an excise of $1 per $500, about $644 on Greensboro's median, nothing on the loan, and requires an attorney at closing. Greensboro's insurance is moving from a low base: the Rate Bureau settlement raised the Triad's territory 8.2% in June 2025 and 8.3% in June 2026, against a request of 36.6%. And the growth runs at very different speeds. Fort Worth added 19,512 residents in 2024-25, the second-largest gain of any US city, and has grown 11.9% since 2020, the fastest of the twelve US cities of more than a million, though Tarrant County lost 6,978 more residents to the rest of the country than it gained. Greensboro added 2,312, 0.8%, and has grown 3.2% since 2020, its metro 3.8%, and migration from abroad added more than twice as many people to Guilford County as the rest of the country did. It is the Gate City, a railroad and textile town where four N.C. A&T students sat down at the Woolworth's lunch counter on 1 February 1960 and began the sit-in movement; the building is now the International Civil Rights Center and Museum.
Better here
- Violent crime ran 375 per 100,000 in 2025 against 705 in Greensboro, property crime 2,226 against 2,996, and homicide about 7.6 per 100,000 against 12.0, on the same FBI counts.
- City median household income was $82,503 in 2024 against $63,516, and the carry takes about 37% of it against 42% in Greensboro.
- Texas levies no income tax, so $100,000 pays $13,449 in federal tax for 2025 against about $17,157 in Greensboro.
- The Fort Worth division's 1,222,100 nonfarm jobs grew 1.5% in the year to August 2026, about three times the Greensboro metro's 374,600, with Lockheed Martin, BNSF and American Airlines in the city.
- DFW, American's largest hub, handled 85,660,127 passengers in 2025, and TEXRail runs from downtown to the airport.
- The city grew 11.9% from 2020 to 2025, the fastest of the twelve US cities of more than a million.
Worse here
- Mortgage, property tax and insurance come to about $2,516 a month on the August 2026 median, against $2,231 in Greensboro at 7.28%, or $2,188 there at the same 7.03% rate.
- Property tax takes about 1.54% of the median with a homestead against about 1.085% in Greensboro, and on the same $321,811 house Fort Worth's six units would charge about $4,941 against $3,492.
- The City of Fort Worth's uninsured rate was 18.9% in 2024 against 7.5% in the City of Greensboro, and Texas has not expanded Medicaid.
- The normals count 24.1 days a year at or above 37.8 C (100F) against 0.2, and Meacham had 55 days of 100F through 27 September 2026.
- Insurance is budgeted at $350 a month against $179, raised by North Texas hail.
- Only 0.7% of workers took transit in 2024, and sales tax is 8.25% against 6.75% in Guilford County.
Choose Fort Worth if
- you work in aerospace, defense, freight rail, airlines or logistics around AllianceTexas
- you want lower crime and higher household incomes than Greensboro's
- you fly often and want DFW within reach
- you would pay about $285 a month more to own, and earn enough that no state income tax outweighs the higher property tax
The Fort Worth guide · Neighborhoods · Fort Worth rent vs buy · Fort Worth mortgage calculator
Better here
- Mortgage, property tax and insurance come to about $2,231 a month on a single-family median within $5,189 of Fort Worth's, against $2,516, or $2,188 at the same 7.03% rate.
- Property tax is about 1.085% of market value for fiscal 2027 against 1.54%, and insurance is budgeted at $179 a month against $350.
- North Carolina has expanded Medicaid, and the City of Greensboro's uninsured rate was 7.5% in 2024 against 18.9% in the City of Fort Worth.
- The normals count 0.2 days a year at or above 37.8 C (100F) against 24.1, and July averages 26.1 C against 29.5 C.
- Sales tax is 6.75% in Guilford County, the lowest rate any North Carolina county charges, against 8.25% in Fort Worth.
- N.C. A&T and UNCG enrolled nearly 34,000 students in fall 2025, six Amtrak round trips a day stop downtown, and 16.7% of workers worked from home in 2024.
Worse here
- Violent crime ran 705 per 100,000 in 2025 against 375 in Fort Worth, a little more than twice North Carolina's rate, and homicide about 12.0 per 100,000 against 7.6.
- A single filer on $100,000 pays about $17,157 in income tax for 2025, $3,708 of it to North Carolina, against $13,449 of federal tax alone in Fort Worth.
- City median household income was $63,516 in 2024 against $82,503, and the metro's jobs grew 0.9% in a year against 1.5%.
- January averages 4.3 C with 68.4 freezing nights and 18.0 cm of snow on the normals, and freezing rain is a more pressing winter hazard than snow.
- The 2027 tax bills will carry the County's deferred 2026 values at rates not yet set, so the current 158.80 cents describes values from 2022.
- Piedmont Triad International handled 2,029,298 passengers in 2025, with scheduled service to 14 US destinations, and the state's larger airports are 77 and 90 miles away.
Choose Greensboro if
- you work in manufacturing, trucks, aviation, logistics or health care, or at N.C. A&T or UNCG
- you want to own at about $2,231 a month rather than $2,516 on a smaller insurance budget
- you may need Medicaid, or work in a job with thin health coverage
- you will weigh the violent crime rate street by street and read the seller's tax and water bills before you buy
The Greensboro guide · Neighborhoods · Greensboro rent vs buy · Greensboro mortgage calculator
Fort Worth or Greensboro, in short
Is Fort Worth or Greensboro cheaper to live in?
Greensboro, to own and to rent in dollars, though Fort Worth is cheaper against local income. The cities were priced a week apart, Fort Worth at Freddie Mac's 7.03% of 24 September 2026 and Greensboro at 7.28% of 1 October, and both prices are August medians of single-family houses sold inside each city, $327,000 in Fort Worth on NTREIS and $321,811 in Greensboro on Redfin. At 20% down the mortgage is about $1,746 against $1,761. Property tax is $5,044 a year with a homestead against about $3,492, and insurance $350 a month against $179, so the three lines come to about $2,516 in Fort Worth and $2,231 in Greensboro, or $2,188 at the same 7.03%, roughly 37% and 42% of each city's median household income, $82,503 and $63,516. Zillow's index keeps the order, $295,800 for the City of Fort Worth, and Zillow's index for the City of Greensboro stood at $263,264. Zillow's observed rent index was $1,615 in Fort Worth and $1,392 in Greensboro in August. North Carolina takes income tax, $3,708 on $100,000 for 2025, and Texas does not; sales tax is 8.25% in Fort Worth against 6.75% in Guilford County. Greensboro's carry leaves out the City's stormwater and solid waste charges on the water bill, and neither includes a flood policy.
Is Fort Worth or Greensboro safer?
Fort Worth, on every line, on figures built the same way. Both are the FBI's summarized counts for 2025 divided by Census estimates. Violent offenses ran 375 per 100,000 in Fort Worth against 705 in Greensboro, property offenses 2,226 against 2,996, and homicide was 78 in Fort Worth, about 7.6 per 100,000, against 37 in Greensboro, about 12.0. Both are falling: Fort Worth's violent offenses dropped 17% in 2025 and its police counted fewer murders in January to August 2026 than a year earlier, and Greensboro's violent offenses dropped 23% in 2025 and a further 7% in March to August 2026 against the same months of 2025. Greensboro's violent rate is still a little more than twice North Carolina's. Every rate here is a count divided by a Census estimate rather than a published rate, and the counts can still be revised.
Which has the better job market, Fort Worth or Greensboro?
Fort Worth's, by size, growth and income, though Greensboro's unemployment was lower in July. BLS counted 1,222,100 nonfarm jobs in the Fort Worth-Arlington-Grapevine division and 374,600 in the Greensboro-High Point metro in August 2026, 1.5% and 0.9% more than a year earlier, and unemployment was 4.6% and 4.1% in July on the same unadjusted basis; Greensboro's labor force shrank by about 11,000 in the year. Both build vehicles: Fort Worth the F-35 at Air Force Plant 4, with BNSF and American Airlines headquartered in the city, and Greensboro trucks, buses and aircraft, with manufacturing about one metro job in eight, alongside Cone Health and its two universities. Median household income was $82,503 in the City of Fort Worth in 2024 against $63,516 in Greensboro, and $92,733 and $66,072 across the metros.
Does Texas having no income tax make Fort Worth cheaper than Greensboro?
For a renter it saves the state tax outright; for an owner at the two medians, only above about $49,300 of income, and the insurance takes much of it back. A single filer on $100,000 pays about $17,157 in Greensboro for 2025, $3,708 of it to North Carolina, against $13,449 of federal tax alone in Fort Worth, and North Carolina's flat rate drops from 4.25% to 3.99% for 2026. Fort Worth's six taxing units take $5,044 a year on the median with a homestead, about 1.54%, against about $3,492 on Greensboro's nearly identical median, about 1.085% of market value for fiscal 2027, a difference of $1,552 a year, which North Carolina's 2025 rate matches at about $49,300 of income; at Greensboro's median household income of $63,516 the North Carolina tax would be about $2,158. But Fort Worth's insurance is budgeted at $171 a month more, about $2,052 a year, and sales tax is 8.25% against 6.75% in Guilford County, so a median household that owns comes out ahead in Greensboro. Both bills can move: a Fort Worth buyer is taxed on full appraised value rather than the seller's capped one, and Greensboro's 2027 bills will carry the County's deferred 2026 values at rates not yet set.
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.
- Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places in Texas: April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2025 (SUB-EST2025) · US Census Bureau · retrieved Supports: City population, Five-year growth, Violent crime rate, Property crime rate, Homicides, Character
- Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places of 50,000 or More (all states, SUB-EST2025) · US Census Bureau · retrieved Supports: City population, Five-year growth, Character
- Annual Resident Population Estimates and Components of Change for Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas and Their Counties: April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2025 (CBSA-EST2025-ALLDATA) · US Census Bureau · retrieved Supports: Metro population, Five-year growth
- Crime Data Explorer summarized agency data, Fort Worth Police Department (TX2201200): violent crime, property crime, homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft and arson, 2021-2025 · FBI · retrieved Supports: Violent crime rate, Property crime rate, Homicides, Crime trend, Character
- Dallas sees drop in violent crime while Fort Worth sees increase in homicides · Spectrum News · retrieved Supports: Homicides, Crime trend
- After 'puzzling' spike in homicides, Fort Worth leaders look to new police chief · Fort Worth Star-Telegram (via Yahoo News) · retrieved Supports: Violent crime rate, Homicides
- 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
- US Climate Normals 1991-2020, station USW00013961 Fort Worth Meacham International Airport (Access Data Service) · NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · retrieved Supports: January mean, July mean, Annual precipitation, Climate normals, Climate hazards, Character, January 45.8F, July 85.1F and August 85.2F from the monthly series, which carries no snowfall normal for this station, and annual mean 65.9F, precipitation 35.34 in and the counts of days at 90F and 100F and nights at freezing from dataset=normals-annualseasonal-1991-2020 for the same station
- 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
- Dallas/Fort Worth: Annual and Consecutive 100 Degree Days (last updated 22 September 2026) · National Weather Service, Fort Worth/Dallas · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards
- Average Annual Sunshine in US Cities · Current Results (NCDC Comparative Climatic Data, 1961-1990) · retrieved Supports: Sunshine hours, Climate normals
- Mayfest Hailstorm, May 5, 1995 · National Weather Service, Fort Worth/Dallas · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards
- Cotality 2026 Report: Hail risk now rivals major hurricanes (2026 Severe Convective Storm Risk Report) · Cotality · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards
- March 28, 2000: 10th Anniversary, a review of the March 28, 2000 tornadoes affecting Fort Worth and Arlington (from NWS Storm Data) · National Weather Service, Fort Worth/Dallas · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards
- Damage Survey and Assessment of Fort Worth Tornado, 28 March 2000 · Texas Tech University Wind Science and Engineering Research Center · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards
- 2000 Fort Worth tornado outbreak · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards
- Weather and Climate Billion-Dollar Disasters to affect the U.S. from 1980-2024 (events list) · NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards
- Flood Protection · Tarrant Regional Water District · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards
- Panther Island bypass project moves forward after Trinity River dams, flood storage delays · Fort Worth Report · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards, Character
- 'Boom, here we're hit with it again.' How historic rains flooded homes and neighborhoods across Tarrant County · Fort Worth Report · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards
- February 2021 Winter Storm-Related Deaths, Texas (mortality surveillance report) · Texas Department of State Health Services · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards
- The Timeline and Events of the February 2021 Texas Electric Grid Blackouts · The University of Texas at Austin Energy Institute · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards
- ACS 2024 1-year tables B08301 and B19013 for Fort Worth city, Tarrant County and the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington MSA · Census Reporter API (US Census Bureau ACS) · retrieved Supports: Median household income, Transit commute share, Walk and cycle commute share, Character
- ACS 2024 1-year table B27001 (health insurance coverage) for the 50 states, DC, the US, Tarrant County, Fort Worth city and the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington MSA · Census Reporter API (US Census Bureau ACS) · retrieved Supports: Health care, Character
- Local Area Unemployment Statistics, Fort Worth-Arlington-Grapevine, TX Metropolitan Division (LAUDV482310400000003), the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington MSA (LAUMT481910000000003), Fort Worth city (LAUCT482700000000003), Tarrant County (LAUCN484390000000003) and the US rate (LNU04000000), not seasonally adjusted · US Bureau of Labor Statistics · retrieved Supports: Unemployment rate
- Current Employment Statistics, Fort Worth-Arlington-Grapevine, TX Metropolitan Division: total nonfarm (SMU48231040000000001, SMS48231040000000001), supersectors (SMU4823104xx00000001) and aerospace product and parts manufacturing (SMU48231043133640001) · US Bureau of Labor Statistics · retrieved Supports: Main sectors, Labour market
- 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
- AllianceTexas Drives $142.9 Billion in Economic Impact for North Texas · Hillwood · retrieved Supports: Main sectors, Labour market, Character
- United States Air Force Plant 4 (Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, F-35 production) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Main sectors
- American Airlines (headquarters, DFW hub, employees) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Main sectors, Labour market, Airport passengers
- BNSF Railway (headquarters, employees) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Main sectors, Labour market
- Bell Textron (headquarters) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Main sectors
- City Sales and Use Tax (city rate table) · Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts · retrieved Supports: Sales tax
- Transit Sales and Use Tax (Fort Worth MTA, effective April 1, 1984) · Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts · retrieved Supports: Sales tax, Transit ridership
- Special Purpose District Sales and Use Tax (Fort Worth Crime Control District, effective October 1, 1995) · Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts · retrieved Supports: Sales tax
- Texas Tax Rates & Rankings · Tax Foundation · retrieved Supports: Top marginal income tax, Income tax on $100,000, Tax notes, Character
- 2025 Tax Brackets and Federal Income Tax Rates · Tax Foundation · retrieved Supports: Top marginal income tax, Income tax on $100,000
- 2026 Tax Brackets and Federal Income Tax Rates · Tax Foundation · retrieved Supports: Top marginal income tax, Income tax on $100,000
- Property Tax Exemptions · Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts · retrieved Supports: Tax notes
- Fort Worth passes $4.35B budget and property tax rate increase · Community Impact · retrieved Supports: Tax notes, Character
- 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
- Annual Resident Population Estimates for Combined Statistical Areas: April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2025 (CSA-EST2025-ALLDATA) · US Census Bureau · retrieved Supports: Metro population, Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point, NC CSA (268) 1,776,615 in 2025
- 2025 Gazetteer Files: Places, North Carolina · US Census Bureau · retrieved Supports: point, City population, Climate normals, Greensboro city (3728000): 134.744 sq mi of land, 5.24 sq mi of water, internal point 36.09485, -79.823624
- Greensboro, North Carolina (history, geography, climate, economy, education, transportation) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: City population, Climate hazards, Main sectors, Transit system, Airport passengers, Education, Character, 2020 census 299,035; the Gate City; Cone brothers' textile plants; the Woolworth's sit-in of 1 February 1960 and the International Civil Rights Center and Museum; cold-air damming and freezing rain; the F4 tornado of 2 April 1936 (14 killed) and tornadoes on 7 May 2008 and 15 April 2018; records of 104F (1911, 1914) and -8F (21 January 1985); headquarters including Honda Aircraft, Mack Trucks and Volvo Trucks of North America; FedEx regional operations; Interstates 40, 73 and 85; 77 miles from Raleigh and 90 from Charlotte; colleges and Guilford County Schools as the state's third-largest district
- Crime Data Explorer summarized agency data, Greensboro Police Department (NC0410200): violent crime, property crime, homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft and arson, 2018-2025 and 2026 to date, with North Carolina and national rates · FBI · retrieved Supports: Violent crime rate, Property crime rate, Homicides, Crime trend, Character, Violent 1,860 (2018), 2,466, 2,723, 2,642, 2,456, 2,514, 2,820 and 2,177 (2025: 37 + 87 + 436 + 1,617); property 11,168 (2019), 11,005, 10,777, 11,423, 11,446, 10,410 and 9,248 (2025: 1,317 + 6,292 + 1,539 + 100); homicides 44, 60, 51, 41, 74, 43 and 37 for 2019 to 2025; agency population 310,328 for 2025; January to September 2026 violent 37, 131, 206, 190, 152, 163, 176, 191 and 48 and property 78, 513, 669, 759, 757, 788, 785, 788 and 234; 2025 rates for reporting North Carolina agencies 330.6 violent, 1,810.8 property and 6.5 homicide, and for the US 329.3, 1,552.1 and 4.3; NIBRS reporting since 1 January 2019; data through 09/2026, refreshed 15 September 2026
- Crime Data Explorer summarized agency data, 2025 violent crime: Winston-Salem (NC0340200), Fayetteville (NC0260100), Charlotte-Mecklenburg (NC0600100), Raleigh (NC0920100), Durham (NC0320100) and High Point (NC0410300) police departments · FBI · retrieved Supports: Violent crime rate, 2025 violent offenses and CDE populations: Winston-Salem 1,915 (257,431), Fayetteville 1,284 (209,151), Charlotte-Mecklenburg 5,787 (1,035,037), Raleigh 2,007 (508,719), Durham 1,557 (307,140), High Point 623 (119,581)
- Crime in North Carolina 2024: Annual Summary Report of 2024 Uniform Crime Reporting Data · North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation · retrieved Supports: Violent crime rate, Property crime rate, Crime trend, Table 5, crime index offenses for selected cities and sheriff's offices: Greensboro 2023 2,509 violent, 11,362 property, 72 murders; 2024 2,816 violent, 10,331 property, 42 murders, 83 rapes, 528 robberies, 2,163 aggravated assaults; Gastonia 709, Winston-Salem 2,060, Asheville 762, Durham 1,862, Raleigh 2,402 violent in 2024; statewide 2024 violent rate 388.4; published October 2025
- 2025 Crime Stats For Greensboro Released: Homicides, Overdoses Down · The Assembly (Greensboro Thread) · retrieved Supports: Violent crime rate, Property crime rate, Homicides, From the Greensboro Police Department's provisional 2025 data: 42 homicides against 45 in 2024 and a record 74 in 2023; 1,601 aggravated assaults against 2,173; 426 robberies against 528; 15,006 property crimes against 17,208; 10 of 40 homicides by mid-December tied directly to domestic violence
- Greensboro sees drop in violent crime · WFDD · retrieved Supports: Homicides, Crime trend, Violent crime down 23% and property crime down 11% in 2025 against 2024; a quarter of 2025 homicides tied directly to domestic violence
- US Climate Normals 1991-2020, station USW00013723 Piedmont Triad International Airport (Access Data Service) · NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · retrieved Supports: January mean, July mean, Annual precipitation, Annual snowfall, Climate normals, Climate hazards, Character, January 39.7F, July 78.9F and August 77.3F, the monthly highs, lows, rain and snow from the monthly series; annual mean 59.6F, precipitation 43.95 in, snowfall 7.1 in, 33.3 days at 90F, 0.2 at 100F, 68.4 nights at or below 32F, 10.2 at or below 20F and 3.6 days with a high at or below 32F from dataset=normals-annualseasonal-1991-2020 for the same station
- US Climate Normals 1991-2020, station USC00313625 Greensboro WTP (cooperative station) (Access Data Service) · NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · retrieved Supports: Climate normals, January 39.9F, July 79.5F, 45.89 in a year and 42.1 days at 90F; no snowfall normal
- NCEI data search, normals-monthly-1991-2020 stations within 36.3N to 35.9N and 80.1W to 79.6W · NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · retrieved Supports: Climate normals, USW00013723 Piedmont Triad Intl AP at 36.0969N, 79.9433W; USC00313625 Greensboro WTP at 36.0831N, 79.8045W; the other stations near the city are CoCoRaHS precipitation gauges
- Global Historical Climatology Network daily summaries, Piedmont Triad International Airport (USW00013723), 2010-2026 · NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · retrieved Supports: Climate hazards, Snowfall 12.0 in on 9 December 2018 and 10.3 in on 31 January 2026; 3F on 2 February 2026; 102F on 29 June 2012 and 100F on 2 July 2026; 61 days at or above 90F in 2026 through 29 September; gusts of 74.0 mph on 13 July 2015 and 68.9 mph on 18 September 2026; precipitation 4.60 in on 16 September 2018 and 4.13 in on 11 October 2018
- ACS 2024 1-year tables B19013, B25003 and B01002 for Greensboro city, Guilford County, the Greensboro-High Point MSA, North Carolina, the US and Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham and Winston-Salem · Census Reporter API (US Census Bureau ACS) · retrieved Supports: Median household income, Character
- ACS 2024 1-year tables B08007 (place of work by county), B08008 (place of work by place), B08013 (aggregate travel time) and B08303 (travel time to work) for Greensboro city and Guilford County · Census Reporter API (US Census Bureau ACS) · retrieved Supports: Labour market
- ACS 2024 1-year table B08301 (means of transportation to work) for Greensboro city, Guilford County, the Greensboro-High Point MSA, North Carolina, the US, Charlotte and Raleigh · Census Reporter API (US Census Bureau ACS) · retrieved Supports: Transit commute share, Walk and cycle commute share, Labour market
- ACS 2020-2024 5-year table B08301 (means of transportation to work) for Greensboro city and Guilford County · Census Reporter API (US Census Bureau ACS) · retrieved Supports: Transit commute share, Walk and cycle commute share
- ACS 2024 1-year tables B14001 and B14007 (school enrollment by level) for Greensboro city, Guilford County, the Greensboro-High Point MSA, North Carolina and the US · Census Reporter API (US Census Bureau ACS) · retrieved Supports: City population, Education, Greensboro city: 297,824 aged 3 and over, 35,401 enrolled in college undergraduate years and 4,812 in graduate or professional school; North Carolina 564,392 and 153,786 of 10,679,906; US 17,005,362 and 4,797,493 of 329,362,620
- ACS 2024 1-year table B27001 (health insurance coverage) for Greensboro city, Guilford County, the Greensboro-High Point MSA, North Carolina, the US, Charlotte and Raleigh · Census Reporter API (US Census Bureau ACS) · retrieved Supports: Health care
- Local Area Unemployment Statistics, Greensboro-High Point, NC MSA (LAUMT372466000000003), Guilford County (LAUCN370810000000003), Greensboro city (LAUCT372800000000003), Raleigh-Cary (LAUMT373958000000003) and Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia (LAUMT371674000000003) MSAs, North Carolina (LAUST370000000000003) and the US (LNU04000000), not seasonally adjusted · US Bureau of Labor Statistics · retrieved Supports: Unemployment rate
- Current Employment Statistics, Greensboro-High Point, NC MSA: total nonfarm (SMU37246600000000001), supersectors (SMU3724660xx00000001), health care and social assistance (SMU37246606562000001) and federal, state and local government · US Bureau of Labor Statistics · retrieved Supports: Main sectors, Labour market, Character
- Guilford County Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, Statistical Section, Table 11: Principal Employers · Guilford County · retrieved Supports: Main sectors, Labour market, Health care, Character, 2025: Cone Health 13,000, Guilford County School System 10,667, City of Greensboro 3,753, United States Postal Service 3,683, The Volvo Group 3,037, Guilford County Government 2,975, High Point University 2,723, Ralph Lauren Corporation 2,671, North Carolina A&T State University 2,307, Thomas Built Buses 2,000; total county employment 351,900; 2016 list including High Point Regional Health System, UNCG and Bank of America
- Toyota Battery Manufacturing North Carolina · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Main sectors, A plant near Greensboro, announced 6 December 2021, which began shipping batteries in mid-2025
- Boom Technology · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Main sectors, Overture Superfactory at Piedmont Triad International Airport, construction completed in June 2024; Overture flights estimated for 2030
- Current Sales and Use Tax Rates · North Carolina Department of Revenue · retrieved Supports: Sales tax, Guilford 6.75%; Wake 7.25%* and Mecklenburg 8.25%* (* including the 0.50% transit rate); 50 of the 100 counties at 6.75%; Mecklenburg's additional 1% effective July 1, 2026; rates exclude prepared meals taxes
- Tax Rate Schedules · North Carolina Department of Revenue · retrieved Supports: Top marginal income tax, Income tax on $100,000, Tax notes, 4.25% for taxable years beginning in 2025; 3.99% after 2025
- North Carolina Standard Deduction or North Carolina Itemized Deductions · North Carolina Department of Revenue · retrieved Supports: Income tax on $100,000, Single $12,750
- County and Municipal Tax Rates, Effective Tax Rates and Special District Rates, Fiscal Year 2025-2026 · North Carolina Department of Revenue · retrieved Supports: Tax notes, Character, Guilford County / Greensboro: sales assessment ratio 0.6831, latest appraisal 2022, county rate 0.7305, municipal rate 0.6725, combined 1.403, effective combined 0.9583; Wake / Raleigh 0.5171 + 0.355 = 0.8721 (effective 0.8319); Mecklenburg / Charlotte 0.4927 + 0.2741 = 0.7668 (effective 0.6808); special districts: Greensboro Downtown Improvement District 0.09, College Hill Historic District 0.01, Dunleath Historic District 0.05
- North Carolina County Property Tax Rates for the Last Five Years, 2025 · North Carolina Department of Revenue · retrieved Supports: Tax notes, Guilford .7305 in 2025-26, 2024-25, 2023-24, 2022-23 and 2021-22; latest revaluation 2022, next scheduled 2026
- Board of Commissioners Adopts Balanced Fiscal Year 2027 Budget · Guilford County · retrieved Supports: Tax notes, Character, 78.95 cents per $100 for FY2027, up 5.9 cents, adopted 25 June 2026; SB 889 signed 19 June 2026: 2026 bills on 2025 values, 2026 reappraisal values applied to 2027 bills, next reappraisal 2032; estimated revenue-neutral rate of 58.54 cents for FY2028 on the 2026 values
- Board of Commissioners Approves Balanced $847.3 Million Budget for Fiscal Year 2025-2026 · Guilford County · retrieved Supports: Tax notes, Property tax rate kept at 73.05 cents per $100 for 2025-26
- Greensboro Adopts Budget With Big Tax Rate Increase · Rhino Times · retrieved Supports: Tax notes, Character, City of Greensboro 2026-27 rate 79.85 cents per $100, up 12.6 cents from 67.25, adopted 16 June 2026 on the 2022 values; taxable base about $40.1 billion against about $56.1 billion after revaluation
- Zillow Home Value Index and Observed Rent Index, city files, August 2026 · Zillow Research · retrieved Supports: Tax notes, Character, Greensboro (region 11722) all-homes value (City_zhvi_uc_sfrcondo_tier_0.33_0.67_sm_sa_month.csv) $263,264 in August 2026 against $263,146 a year earlier, up 0.04%, and observed rent (City_zori_uc_sfrcondomfr_sm_month.csv) $1,392 against $1,362, up 2.1%; the same month for Raleigh $428,671 and $1,577, Charlotte $392,573 and $1,744, El Paso $238,475, San Antonio $247,453 and $1,386, Houston $261,740
- Monthly Module Adjusted Data Release, complete monthly ridership with adjustments and estimates (City of Greensboro, NTD 40093; Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation, NTD 40173) · Federal Transit Administration, National Transit Database (via data.transportation.gov) · retrieved Supports: Transit ridership
- Greensboro Transit Agency · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Transit system, Transit ridership, Fifteen routes almost entirely inside the city; HEAT; Access GSO; 2,329,500 riders in 2025; first battery-electric buses in municipal service in North Carolina in 2018
- J. Douglas Galyon Depot · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Transit system, Amtrak's Crescent, Carolinian and Piedmont; GTA, Greyhound and PART at the depot
- Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2025: State of North Carolina · Amtrak · retrieved Supports: Transit system, Transit ridership, Greensboro (GRO) 210,652 and Charlotte (CLT) 365,614 boardings and alightings in fiscal 2025; Piedmont four round trips daily
- Piedmont Triad International Airport (location, ownership, carriers, annual passengers) · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Airport passengers, Main sectors, Annual passengers from the airport's statistics: 2,145,929 (2019), 1,959,182 (2024), 2,029,298 (2025); 14 US destinations; FedEx mid-Atlantic hub; Honda Aircraft headquarters; HAECO Americas acquired by AAR in 2025; Marshall maintenance facility; Boom Superfactory
- NCDHHS Launches the Know What's Next Toolkit on Medicaid Changes Starting Oct. 1, 2026 · North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services · retrieved Supports: Health care
- Cone Health · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Health care, Main sectors
- Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Health care, 517 beds; Level II trauma center; largest hospital in its four-county region; Simkins v. Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital (1963); acquired by Risant Health on 1 December 2024
- N.C A&T is First HBCU Ever to Enroll More Than 15,000 Students · North Carolina A&T State University · retrieved Supports: Education, Character, Fall 2025 enrollment 15,275, up 6.7% from 14,311; 2,018 graduate students; largest public HBCU for the 12th year and largest HBCU for the fourth
- North Carolina A&T enrollment reaches new heights with record freshman class · HBCU Gameday · retrieved Supports: Education, An estimated 15,700 students in fall 2026, including a record 3,214 first-year students
- UNCG Achieves Highest Enrollment in Four Years · UNC Greensboro · retrieved Supports: Education, Character, 18,682 students in fall 2025, up 3.7%
- UNCG Fall 2026 enrollment reaches highest level since 2020 · UNC Greensboro (PR Newswire) · retrieved Supports: Education, More than 19,000 students in fall 2026
- North Carolina A&T State University · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Education, Character
- Guilford College · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Education, Founded in 1837 by members of the Religious Society of Friends
- Bennett College · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Education, Bennett students took part in the 1960 campaign to integrate the lunch counters
- Guilford Technical Community College · Wikipedia · retrieved Supports: Education
- Search for Public School Districts: Guilford County Schools (3701920) · US Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (Common Core of Data) · retrieved Supports: Education, 67,620 students in 2024-25; 121 schools in the 2025-26 directory
- Guilford County Schools considers four elementary school closures due to low enrollment · WFDD · retrieved Supports: Education
- 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
- Primary Mortgage Market Survey, 24 September 2026 · Freddie Mac · retrieved Supports: A 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaging 7.03%, up from 6.95% the week before and 6.30% a year earlier
- 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
- Greensboro, NC housing market · Redfin · retrieved Supports: A median sale price of $321,811 for single-family homes in Greensboro in August 2026, down 2.9% year over year, on 660 homes sold, from the page's single-family series, A median sale price of $289,808 for all home types in August 2026, down 0.066% year over year, on 882 homes sold, up 9.7%, Figures based on Redfin calculations of home data from MLS and/or public records
- 2026-2027 tax property rates · Guilford County Tax Department · retrieved Supports: Rate code 01, Guilford County and Greensboro: county 0.78950, total 1.58800 per $100, Greensboro (City only) 0.79850, Special tax district codes: Dunleath Historic District 0.05000, Greensboro Downtown Improvement District 0.09000, College Hill Historic District 0.01000; rate codes 19, 20 and 24 total 1.63800, 1.59800 and 1.67800
- Sales assessment ratio studies as of January 1, 2025 · North Carolina Department of Revenue, Local Government Division · retrieved Supports: Guilford County last reappraised in 2022, A median sales assessment ratio of 68.31% for Guilford: assessed values are 68.31% of sale prices, on sales from 1 January to 31 December 2024, An effective county tax rate of 0.4990% against a nominal 0.7305%, and a coefficient of dispersion of 17.48, Guilford's next reappraisal listed as 2026, and Wake's ratio as 95.39%
- Rent estimates summary, September 2026 · Apartment List · retrieved Supports: For the City of Greensboro (FIPS 3728000), September 2026: $1,143 overall, $1,010 for one bedroom and $1,126 for two, with rents down 0.58% on the month and 1.31% on the year, For Guilford County: $1,154 overall, $1,011 for one bedroom and $1,123 for two
- Median household income, median home value, median gross rent by bedrooms, tenure and association fees, tables B19013, B25077, B25031, B25064, B25003, B25142 and B25143, 2024 American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Greensboro city · United States Census Bureau, via the Census Reporter API · retrieved Supports: A median household income of $63,516 and a median owner-occupied home value of $290,200, 64,566 of 129,645 occupied homes owner-occupied, A median gross rent of $1,314: $1,124 for one bedroom, $1,311 for two and $1,495 for three, 24,696 owner-occupied units paying a required association or condominium fee, at a median of $83 a month, 1,155 of them $300 or more
- School enrollment by level, tables B14001 and B14007, 2024 American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Greensboro city · United States Census Bureau, via the Census Reporter API · retrieved Supports: 297,824 residents aged 3 and over, 35,401 of them enrolled in college undergraduate years and 4,812 in graduate or professional school
- TIGERweb, 2020 Census incorporated places · United States Census Bureau · retrieved Supports: Greensboro city (GEOID 3728000): 299,035 residents and 131,976 housing units at the 2020 census
- 2024 proposed homeowners insurance increase settlement table · North Carolina Department of Insurance · retrieved Supports: Territory 310, the cities of Greensboro and Winston-Salem and Alamance, Forsyth and Guilford counties: a Rate Bureau request of 36.6%, settled at 8.2% from 1 June 2025 and 8.3% from 1 June 2026
- North Carolina homeowners insurance · NerdWallet · retrieved Supports: An average Greensboro premium of $2,150 a year, $179 a month, for $400,000 of dwelling cover, against $2,420 in Raleigh, updated 4 August 2026
- Renters insurance in North Carolina · NerdWallet · retrieved Supports: An average Greensboro renters premium of $165 a year, $14 a month, for $30,000 of personal property
- Greensboro water bill 2026: bill explained, charges and fees · US Water Bill Guide (secondhand: the City's own stormwater rates page refused this site's request) · retrieved Supports: Stormwater for single-family property in tiers by impervious area: Tier A $1.80 a month, Tier B $3.24, Tier C $4.68, and no charge below 600 square feet, Water, sewer and stormwater billed together by the City of Greensboro
- Average monthly utility bills in Greensboro, North Carolina · utility-rates.com (secondhand: the City's own solid waste pages refused this site's request) · retrieved Supports: A residential solid waste fee of $5.50 a month, from a City notice of the fiscal 2025-26 fee change, verified 14 July 2026