Victoria vs Fort Worth: which should you move to?
Victoria or Fort Worth? Housing, rent, crime, climate, income, taxes and transit, side by side, from each city's own published figures. Written for someone deciding where to live, not for a ranking.
Victoria
Fort Worth
The housing bills are in different currencies and do not net, and held against local pay they are not close. Mortgage, property tax and insurance on Victoria's single-family benchmark come to about $6,515 CAD a month, roughly 92% of the metro's 2020 median household income, against about $2,516 USD on Fort Worth's median single-family sale price, roughly 37% of the city's 2024 median; the Victoria house is 15.4 times income and the Fort Worth house about 4.0. The two get almost the same rain, and both have a military base on the edge of town, but the Fort Worth-Arlington-Grapevine division, Fort Worth's half of the Dallas-Fort Worth metro, is about six times Victoria's metro, and the job markets are near level on unemployment, 5.3% in Victoria and 4.6% in the division in July 2026 on unadjusted counts. Texas takes no state income tax and collects instead through a property tax of 1.54% of value against Victoria's 0.566%. Victoria has the safety, 4 homicide victims in the metro in 2025, 0.90 per 100,000, against 78 in Fort Worth, about 7.6. Choose Victoria to walk to work in a mild climate with public health care, if you rent or already hold equity. Choose Fort Worth to buy a house on a salary in a bigger job market, and budget for a roof that meets hail.
Victoria prices are in CAD and Fort Worth prices are in USD. The tables leave them in their own currency and compare ratios and rates instead; a conversion would be stale by the time you read it.
| Measure | Victoria | Fort Worth | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| City population | 91,867 (2021) | 1,028,117 (2025) | Not directly comparable |
| Metro population | 445,090 (2025) | 8,477,157 (2025) | Not directly comparable |
| Five-year growth Growth is pressure on rents and roads as much as it is opportunity, so it is reported without a winner. | 7.1% (2016-2021) | 11.9% (2020-2025) | Not directly comparable |
What a home costs in each
The figures the two cities' rent-versus-buy and mortgage calculators run on, read from the same tables.
| Measure | Victoria | Fort Worth | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benchmark home price MLS® HPI or equivalent benchmark. Lower is treated as the advantage, which is the buyer's view rather than the owner's. | $1,311,000 (July 2026) | $327,000 (August 2026) | Not directly comparable |
| Detached house benchmark Victoria and Fort Worth publish a single house index rather than a composite, so the two rows repeat. | $1,311,000 | $327,000 | Not directly comparable |
| Apartment or condominium benchmark | $548,600 | $330,000 | Not directly comparable |
| Two-bedroom rent | $2,076/mo (average, October 2025) | $1,317/mo (median, September 2026) | Not directly comparable |
| One-bedroom rent | $1,594/mo | $1,141/mo | Not directly comparable |
| 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. | 29.3% of a year's income | 19.2% of a year's income | Fort Worth |
| Mortgage payment on the benchmark, 20% down 25 years in Victoria against 30 in Fort Worth, each compounding the way its own country's lenders do. The rates are not a spread you can shop: they are what each market charges. | $5,712/mo at 4.34% | $1,746/mo at 7.03% | Not directly comparable |
| Price to household income Benchmark price divided by the median household income below. A ratio is comparable across currencies; the dollars are not. | 15.4× | 4.0× | Fort Worth |
| Property tax on the benchmark home The effective rate on market value, which is what the two rates have in common and what the Advantage column is decided on; the bills are in each city's own dollars. | $7,415/yr (0.566%, 2026) | $5,046/yr (1.543%, 2025) | Victoria |
| 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. | $24,220 (buyer pays) | None | Fort Worth |
| Rent control A cap protects a sitting tenant and does nothing for the next lease, so neither column is simply better. | 2.3% guideline (2026) | Forbidden by state law | Not directly comparable |
Victoria: The 2026 Class 1 residential total of $5.6559 per $1,000 of taxable value: municipal $3.7229 plus the CRD, local school, hospital district, BC Assessment, MFA and BC Transit levies, before the Home Owner Grant. Fort Worth: About 1.54% of value for a homesteaded owner, worked out on the $327,000 median single-family sale price. A house in the City of Fort Worth and Fort Worth ISD, the school district more of the city's residents live in than any other, is taxed by six units for 2025, which add to 2.18908 per $100 before any exemption. Each takes its own homestead exemption off the appraised value first, except one: Fort Worth ISD takes the state's $140,000 and nothing more, Tarrant County College 1% with the state's $5,000 floor, Tarrant County, the City and JPS Health Network 20% each, and the Tarrant Regional Water District, which pays for the Fort Worth Floodway, none at all. So Tarrant County levies 0.1862 per $100 on $261,600 after an exemption of $65,400, $487; City of Fort Worth levies 0.67 per $100 on $261,600 after an exemption of $65,400, $1,753; Fort Worth ISD levies 1.0291 per $100 on $187,000 after an exemption of $140,000, $1,924; Tarrant County College levies 0.11228 per $100 on $322,000 after an exemption of $5,000, $362; JPS Health Network levies 0.165 per $100 on $261,600 after an exemption of $65,400, $432; Tarrant Regional Water District levies 0.0265 per $100 on the full $327,000, with no homestead exemption, $87. The six come to $5,044 a year, 1.54% of the price. Without a homestead, as a landlord or a buyer who never files, the same house owes $7,158. In Keller ISD, the district the second most residents live in, the school line is 1.0852 per $100 after the same $140,000, and the same house comes to $5,149, 1.57%. On $295,800, Zillow's August 2026 value for a typical Fort Worth home, the Fort Worth ISD stack comes to $4,425, 1.50%, lower because the school district's flat exemption is a larger share of a cheaper house. These are the 2025 rates, the bills due by 31 January 2026. The City has since adopted 0.70565 for 2026, but when these figures were retrieved the Tarrant County Tax Assessor-Collector's table and the appraisal district's still ran to 2025, so the calculators stay on 2025 until all six units' 2026 rates are published.
How safe each city is, by the numbers it publishes
Police-reported figures for the most recent year each force or statistics agency has released. Rates describe a whole city or metro area, and the spread between neighbourhoods inside one city is usually wider than the gap between the two cities.
| Measure | Victoria | Fort Worth | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crime Severity Index Statistics Canada's weighted index for the metropolitan area, where 100 is Canada in 2006. American cities have no equivalent series. | 74.6 (2025) | Not published | Not directly comparable |
| Violent crime per 100,000 Canada counts every violent Criminal Code incident; the FBI counts four offences. The Canadian figure is always the larger one for that reason alone. | 1,542 (2025) | 375 (2025) | Not directly comparable |
| Property crime per 100,000 | 3,096 (2025) | 2,226 (2025) | Not directly comparable |
| 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. | 4 (2025) | 78 (2025) | Not directly comparable |
The Victoria CMA Crime Severity Index moved between 71 and 80 from 2021 to 2025 (72.7, 74.9, 80.2, 71.2, 74.6) with no sustained direction. The violent crime rate per 100,000 fell from 1,542 in 2021 to 1,439 in 2024 and then returned to 1,542 in 2025; the property crime rate fell from 3,319 in 2021 to 3,096 in 2025.
What the rates cover: Police-reported total violent Criminal Code violations, rate per 100,000, Victoria CMA, table 35-10-0177-01.
Homicides: Victoria CMA, 4 victims, 0.90 per 100,000 (table 35-10-0071-01). Counts were 5, 5, 2, 2 for 2021 through 2024.
On the FBI's definitions, violent offenses in Fort Worth went from 5,428 in 2021 to 4,876 in 2022, 4,849 in 2023, 4,641 in 2024 and 3,859 in 2025, a 17% drop in the last year and 29% in four, and property offenses from 25,186 to 26,275, 26,098 and a peak of 27,290 in 2024, then 22,886, 16% below it. Motor vehicle theft rose from 3,687 in 2021 to 5,157 in 2024 and fell to 3,616 in 2025, down 30%. In 2025 the CDE shows aggravated assaults down 18% (3,230 to 2,656), rapes down 18% (613 to 505), robberies down 15% (726 to 620), burglaries down 16% and larcenies down 12%, while murders rose 8% (72 to 78), the one violent measure that went up. Eddie Garcia, Dallas's former police chief, took over the department in September 2025 after months without a permanent chief, and FWPD's own figures for January through August 2026 against the same months of 2025 show robberies down from 436 to 269 and aggravated assaults from 1,842 to 1,557 as well as the drop in murders (WFAA). The 2025 CDE counts were read on 30 September 2026 from a feed last refreshed on 15 September and can still be revised.
What the rates cover: Computed: 3,859 violent offenses (murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault) in the FBI Crime Data Explorer's summarized data for the Fort Worth Police Department (ORI TX2201200) in calendar 2025, divided by the 1,028,117 Vintage 2025 city population. On the CDE's own agency population of 1,030,410 the rate is also 375. That is the lowest of the Texas cities this site compares, against 532 in San Antonio, 577 in Dallas and 890 in Houston. No FWPD total on this definition was found in anything fetched; the city's quarterly crime reports, as the Fort Worth Star-Telegram described them, count crimes against persons, a broader group that includes assaults and sex offenses, and put them 12% lower in the first half of 2025 than a year earlier.
Homicides: 78 murders and nonnegligent manslaughters in 2025 in the FBI CDE, against 72 in 2024, about 7.6 per 100,000 on the city population. Spectrum News, reading city data in February 2026, also put the year's homicides 8% above 2024. Most of the rise came early: the city's quarterly reports counted 20 homicides in January through March 2025 against 9 a year earlier and 43 in the first half against 31 (Fort Worth Star-Telegram). The CDE series has fallen from 118 in 2021, and 2026 has turned the other way: FWPD counted 36 murders through 31 August against 54 in the same months of 2025 (WFAA).
Winters, summers and what the weather can do to a house
| Measure | Victoria | Fort Worth | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| January mean | 4.6 °C | 7.7 °C | Not directly comparable |
| July mean | 17.2 °C | 29.5 °C | Not directly comparable |
| Precipitation a year | 901 mm | 898 mm | Not directly comparable |
| Snowfall a year | 39 cm | 4 cm | Not directly comparable |
| Sunshine a year | 2,109 hours | 2,850 hours | Fort Worth |
Environment and Climate Change Canada 1991-2020 normals at Victoria Int'l A (climate ID 1018620, at Sidney, 25 km north of downtown) for temperature, precipitation and snowfall. Sunshine is from the 1981-2010 normals at the same station; the 1991-2020 set does not publish a sunshine normal. Downtown is drier: Victoria Gonzales 1991-2020 normals show 5.8 C in January, 16.3 C in July and 110.6 mm in the wettest month against 155.3 mm at the airport.
Hazards: The region sits on the Cascadia subduction zone and carries Canada's highest earthquake risk; summers bring wildfire smoke from the BC interior and drought-driven watering restrictions, and winters bring atmospheric-river rain and occasional short snow events that stop traffic.
NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals for Fort Worth Meacham International Airport (station USW00013961), the city-owned general aviation field inside the city about 5 miles north-northwest of downtown: January mean 45.8F, July mean 85.1F, annual mean 65.9F, 35.34 in of precipitation. Meacham's normals carry no snowfall, so the 1.6 in of snow stored here is the normal at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (USW00003927), about 20 miles northeast of downtown, where the National Weather Service keeps the metro's official record. August is the warmest month by a tenth of a degree at 85.2F, with a mean high of 95.9F; July's mean high is 95.7F and January's mean low is 35.3F. October (4.46 in) is the wettest month, then May and June (4.02 in each), and January (2.05 in) the driest. The normals count 105.5 days a year at 90F or above, 24.1 at 100F or above and 32.8 nights at or below freezing. DFW Airport averages 46.3F in January and 85.7F in July with 37.01 in of rain, 20.3 days at 100F or above and 29.2 nights at or below freezing. Converted here to 7.7 C, 29.5 C, 898 mm and 4.1 cm. Those 24.1 days at 100F are more than Love Field's 22.4 for Dallas and fewer only than Austin's 28.7 among the Texas cities this site compares, although the July mean is 1.2 C below Dallas's. Sunshine hours are the older 1961-1990 NCDC means that Current Results lists for Dallas (2,850 hours, 61% of possible, and 135 clear days); it lists no separate Fort Worth figure, and the 1991-2020 normals do not include sunshine.
Hazards: Hail is the costly routine hazard. On the evening of 5 May 1995 a supercell dropped hail up to softball size on Mayfest, the outdoor festival on the bank of the Trinity River, where more than 10,000 people were caught in the open: more than 400 were hurt and 60 seriously enough to be hospitalized, though no one died at the festival. The storms went on to kill one driver in a swollen creek in western Tarrant County and 19 people in Dallas County, most of them in floodwater, and the National Weather Service puts the damage at about $2 billion, one of the costliest hailstorms in history. Cotality counted more than 235,000 Texas homes hit by damaging hail in 2025, far more than in any other state, with the risk concentrated in Dallas-Fort Worth and the other Texas Triangle metros. Tornadoes have hit the center of the city. At 6:18 pm on 28 March 2000 a tornado touched down near Castleberry High School, about 4 miles west of downtown, and tracked east along West 7th Street, nearly destroying the Cash America building and heavily damaging Mallick Tower before it weakened over downtown, where debris broke 80% of the windows in the Bank One building and 1,300 of the 5,000 in the Union Pacific Resources building. Two people died and about 80 were injured, 6 of them hospitalized; the Texas Tech damage survey rated it F2. A second tornado later that evening did F3 damage in Arlington and Grand Prairie without a death, and NOAA counts the storms of 28 and 29 March across the South at $690 million ($1.27 billion in 2024 dollars). Flooding shaped the city's form. In May 1949 a night of 6 to 12 in of rain overflowed the Trinity, killing 10 people and leaving more than 13,000 homeless, and the Army Corps of Engineers later built the 27 miles of levees of the Fort Worth Floodway, which the Tarrant Regional Water District maintains. The Corps' $1.16 billion Central City project, known locally as Panther Island, is to carry the river around downtown through new bypass channels and protect more than 2,400 acres; work on the northern half of the channel is due to begin late in 2026 and the project to be finished in 2032. Flash floods on the creeks are the more frequent danger: on 21 and 22 August 2022, 9.56 in (243 mm) fell at Meacham over the two days, 5.11 in (130 mm) of it on the 22nd, and the National Weather Service measured 8.41 in in Fort Worth, with flooding reported from Como and the John T. White neighborhood to West 7th Street; the city's 2016 floodplain plan counted more than $1 billion of stormwater improvements needed. Heat is the constant. The normals give Meacham 24.1 days a year at or above 100F (37.8 C). The summer of 2026 has been among its hottest: 55 days at 100F or above through 27 September, fourth in its record after 72 in 2011, 64 in 2023 and 62 in 1998, and 31 in a row from 3 August to 2 September, the longest run it has recorded; its highest reading is 112F (44.4 C), on 12 July 1998 and 4 September 2000. At DFW Airport the National Weather Service counts 52 days of 100F in 2026 through 22 September, tied for fifth, against the record of 71 in 2011. Cold is rare and badly handled. Winter Storm Uri took Meacham to -2F (-18.9 C) on 16 February 2021, tying 31 January 1949 for the lowest in its record, and DFW Airport also fell to -2F, the lowest there since 1953, with 5.0 in (12.7 cm) of snow over the storm. ERCOT cut power across the state grid from 15 to 18 February and about 4.5 million customers lost it at the worst; Texas counted 246 deaths from the storm, 11 of them in Tarrant County. In January 2026 Winter Storm Fern brought 2.4 in (6.1 cm) of snow and sleet to DFW Airport and a low of 11F (-11.7 C) at Meacham on the 25th.
What people earn and what the government takes
| Measure | Victoria | Fort Worth | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $85,000 CAD (2020) | $82,503 USD (2024) | Not directly comparable |
| Unemployment rate Statistics Canada and the Bureau of Labor Statistics define unemployment slightly differently; the Canadian measure runs about a point higher on the same labour market. | 5.0% (July 2026) | 4.6% (July 2026) | Not directly comparable |
| Sales tax | 12% | 8.25% | Fort Worth |
| 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. | 53.5% | 37% | Fort Worth |
| Income tax on $100,000, single filer Computed from each jurisdiction's brackets at a single filer's $100,000 and rounded to the dollar, so a gap of a dollar is rounding rather than tax. Two cities in one province or state are shown as Even, because there the two cells describe the same tax and whatever separates them is method. | $20,503 CAD | $13,449 USD | Not directly comparable |
In the 2021 Census the region's largest employers by sector were health care (29,750 workers), public administration (27,780), retail (22,540) and professional, scientific and technical services (19,655), per the South Island Prosperity Partnership's 2025 socio-economic profile. Victoria's unemployment rate is usually among the lowest of Canadian CMAs; the same report notes shortages in health care and construction and an ageing population.
Main sectors: Health care and social assistance, Public administration (provincial capital, CFB Esquimalt), Retail trade, Professional, scientific and technical services including software, Tourism, accommodation and food services.
BC has no payroll tax on employees beyond CPP and EI, and MSP health premiums were eliminated in 2020. Property transfer tax applies on purchase (1% to 3%, plus 20% foreign-buyer tax in the Victoria CMA) and a speculation and vacancy tax applies to homes left empty.
BLS counted 1,222,100 nonfarm jobs in the Fort Worth-Arlington-Grapevine Metropolitan Division in August 2026 (not seasonally adjusted, preliminary), up 17,800 or 1.5% on the year. Professional and business services grew fastest (+5.0%, to 159,300), then mining, logging and construction (+4.8%, to 92,100), leisure and hospitality (+4.4%, to 145,500) and transportation and warehousing (+2.1%, to 102,600), while financial activities (-2.0%), information (-1.8%) and government (-0.6%, to 136,000) shrank; federal employment fell 9.0%, from 16,700 to 15,200. Manufacturing held at 110,000, of which aerospace product and parts manufacturing was 23,600, up 1.3%. The seasonally adjusted series (SMS48231040000000001) was 1,223,400 in August 2026, 1.5% above August 2025. The Texas Comptroller credits Lockheed Martin with about 49,000 direct and indirect workers in Fort Worth and a $9 billion regional impact, and 25,579 direct employees across Texas, and counts 4,553 direct and 21,266 total jobs and $2.75 billion of state GDP for Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth in 2025. Hillwood's annual report puts AllianceTexas's economic impact at $12.9 billion in 2025 and $142.9 billion since it opened in 1989, and Hillwood says the Comptroller has recognized it as the primary inland port for the southwestern United States. American Airlines, with 103,440 staff in 2024, and BNSF Railway, with about 36,000, are both headquartered in the city (Wikipedia).
Main sectors: Aerospace and defense (Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, which builds the F-35 at Air Force Plant 4; Bell Textron, headquartered in the city; Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, the former Carswell Air Force Base), Airlines and freight rail (American Airlines, headquartered in the city, with its largest hub at DFW Airport; BNSF Railway, headquartered in the city), Logistics and advanced manufacturing at AllianceTexas in far north Fort Worth, which Hillwood says holds 602 companies and 73,134 jobs, Trade, transportation and utilities, the division's largest sector by payroll jobs (289,300 in August 2026), Health care and education (JPS Health Network, Cook Children's Medical Center, Texas Christian University and its medical school).
Property tax is the local levy that matters. Tax Foundation puts Texas's effective property tax rate on owner-occupied homes at 1.40%, and school districts must exempt $140,000 of a homestead's value from their tax. On 15 September 2026 the City Council adopted a $3.33 billion operating budget for fiscal 2027 unanimously and raised the city's rate by 3.565 cents to 70.565 cents per $100 of taxable value on a 7 to 4 vote, to help close a $94 million shortfall. The city says the average homeowner's bill will still fall, by $8.19 to $1,643.64 on a home valued at $232,925, because the Tarrant Appraisal District has not reappraised residential property since 2024 and the average value dropped; the city's total taxable value rose only 0.89%, to $130.2 billion (Fort Worth Report, Community Impact, CBS Texas). The budget also raises stormwater, water, sewer, solid waste and environmental fees by about $7 a month for the average resident. The county, school district, JPS hospital district, Tarrant County College and other levies on the same bill belong to the housing layer.
Whether you need a car
| Measure | Victoria | Fort Worth | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| System | Victoria Regional Transit System (BC Transit buses and handyDART); no rail. BC Ferries and Harbour Air, Helijet and the Coho and Clipper ferries connect to Vancouver and Seattle. | Trinity Metro buses (147 fixed-route and 76 demand-response vehicles), the 27.2-mile TEXRail commuter line with 9 stations from T&P Station downtown through North Richland Hills and Grapevine to DFW Airport Terminal B (opened January 2019), the Trinity Railway Express to Dallas run with DART, ZIPZONE on-demand zones and the downtown Blue Line circulator; Fort Worth is the only full member, with Forest Hill, Grapevine, North Richland Hills and River Oaks partial members | Not directly comparable |
| Commute by public transit | 7.7% (2021) | 0.7% (2024) | Victoria |
| Walk or cycle to work | 15.3% (2021) | 1.1% (2024) | Victoria |
| Airport | Victoria International Airport (YYJ), at Sidney, 1,986,057 passengers in 2025, up 6.1% on 2024 and the busiest year since 2018 (Victoria Airport Authority 2025 Annual Report). Domestic-heavy; most international trips connect through Vancouver or Seattle. | Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW), about 20 miles northeast of downtown Fort Worth and midway between the two cities, handled 85,660,127 passengers in 2025, 2.5% fewer than 2024's 87,817,864, per the airport's December 2025 traffic report; American Airlines, headquartered in Fort Worth, carried 82.6% of them, and TEXRail runs from downtown to Terminal B. Fort Worth Meacham International Airport, owned by the city about 5 miles north-northwest of downtown, has no scheduled airline service and serves general aviation; its 1933 American Airways hangar is on the National Register of Historic Places (Wikipedia). | Not directly comparable |
No verified systemwide annual total. BC Transit's 2025 year-in-review (Dec 19, 2025) reports the busiest route, the 95 Blink RapidBus, at more than 11,000 daily boardings; the Victoria Regional Transit Commission's Nov 2025 service plan reports 58.53 boardings per service hour by end of 2024, up 17.6% year over year and 21.2% above pre-COVID. Wikipedia cites APTA's Q4 2025 report at 26.56 million boardings for 2025 but the APTA PDF could not be fetched.
Trinity Metro carried 6,180,600 unlinked trips in 2025, 4,554,400 of them by bus and 906,800 on TEXRail, and about 22,100 a weekday in the second quarter of 2026, 2,800 of them on TEXRail (APTA ridership reports, as cited by Wikipedia; APTA's PDFs refused the fetcher), against 30.7 million for VIA in San Antonio, 52.8 million for DART and 78.0 million for Houston's METRO. The Trinity Railway Express, which Trinity Metro runs with DART between downtown Fort Worth and downtown Dallas, carried 1,337,600 trips in 2025 (APTA, same source). The system is paid for by a half-cent sales tax Fort Worth has levied since 1984, half what DART's and METRO's cities pay. TEXRail runs every 30 minutes until 7 pm and hourly after, and a 2.1-mile extension to the Medical District on the Near Southside, estimated at about $167 million, is due to break ground by the end of 2026 and open in 2029 (Wikipedia).
Health care, schools and what each city is like
Health care
Care is paid for by BC's Medical Services Plan, with no premiums since 2020, and delivered by Island Health; prescription drugs outside hospital are covered through income-tested Fair PharmaCare, so many households carry employer extended-health plans for drugs, dental and physio. Greater Victoria has three hospitals, Royal Jubilee (the cardiac and cancer referral site for Vancouver Island), Victoria General (trauma and pediatrics) and Saanich Peninsula; the region has a well-known shortage of family doctors, and BC runs a central waitlist (Health Connect Registry) to attach new patients to primary care.
Education
The University of Victoria (about 22,000 students) is the main research university, with Camosun College for trades and transfer programs and Royal Roads University in Colwood for working adults; the University of Victoria is regularly placed in the top three Canadian comprehensive universities by Maclean's. Public K-12 is run by the Greater Victoria School District (SD61) in the core, with Sooke (SD62) in the fast-growing West Shore and Saanich (SD63) on the peninsula; there are no charter schools in BC, and French immersion seats in SD61 are allocated by lottery.
Living there
Victoria is a government and university town at the south tip of Vancouver Island with the mildest winters in Canada, a walkable and bikeable core, and a large retiree population; the trade-off is island logistics, with every mainland trip by 95-minute ferry or a short flight, and a housing market priced close to Vancouver's. Most growth since 2016 has gone to Langford and the West Shore, 15 to 25 km out along a congested Highway 1, while the City of Victoria itself is dense apartment and heritage-house neighbourhoods where a third of commuters walk or cycle. Downtown has visible street homelessness and open drug use concentrated around Pandora Avenue, which shows up in the higher-than-national violent crime rate for a metro this size.
Health care
Care is paid for through employer or marketplace insurance, Medicare and Medicaid, and Texas is one of the ten states that have not expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (KFF). It had the highest uninsured rate of any state in 2024: 16.7%, or 5,152,427 of 30,799,312 people, against 8.2% nationally and 12.0% in Georgia, the next highest, on the ACS 2024 1-year estimates. The City of Fort Worth's rate was 18.9% (189,692 of 1,003,516), Tarrant County's 16.9% and the metro's 16.2%. JPS Health Network, the Tarrant County Hospital District, runs John Peter Smith Hospital, the county's public hospital, a Level I trauma center and the only psychiatric emergency site in the county; on 16 April 2026 it broke ground on a $1.5 billion replacement hospital at South Main and East Morphy streets, part of a $2.5 billion building plan backed by an $800 million bond from 2018, which will take it from 582 beds to more than 740 when it opens in 2030 (Fort Worth Report). Cook Children's Medical Center has 452 licensed beds and a Level II pediatric trauma center (Wikipedia). TCU's Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine took its first class in 2019. This file did not verify a wait time figure for primary or specialist care.
Education
Fort Worth is served by Fort Worth ISD and, in parts, by fourteen other districts, among them Keller, Northwest, Eagle Mountain-Saginaw, Crowley and Arlington (the 2020 Census school district map, as cited by Wikipedia). Fort Worth ISD is now under state control: after a campus received a fifth straight failing rating, Education Commissioner Mike Morath decided in October 2025 to intervene, and on 24 March 2026 he replaced the elected trustees' authority with a nine-member board of managers led by Pete Geren and named Peter Licata, formerly of Broward County, superintendent. It is the second-largest takeover in Texas history, after Houston ISD's. The board opened by saying roughly 63% of students do not read at grade level and 29% are proficient in math (Fort Worth Report). The district, built for 90,000 students, had 67,315 in 2025-26 on Texas Education Agency data and projected about 66,500 for 2026-27; it has lost more than 12,000 in five years and in May 2025 approved closing 18 campuses by June 2029 (CBS Texas). Texas Christian University (12,980 students in fall 2025) is about 4 miles from downtown, and the city also holds Texas Wesleyan University, UNT Health Fort Worth and Texas A&M University's law school and downtown campus.
Living there
Fort Worth has grown faster than any other US city of a million people: 11.9% since 2020, and 19,512 residents in 2024-25, a gain second only to Charlotte's; it passed a million in 2024. It is the western half of the Dallas-Fort Worth metro and works differently from Dallas: its economy leans on aircraft, airlines and freight, from the F-35 line at Lockheed Martin's plant and Bell's helicopters to the headquarters of American Airlines and BNSF and the warehouses and factories of AllianceTexas, and household income, at $82,503, is higher than in Dallas, Houston or San Antonio. It is built for the car: 74.9% of workers drive alone and 0.7% take transit, the lowest share of any city this site compares, though TEXRail runs to DFW Airport. Violent crime, at 375 per 100,000 on the FBI's counts, is the lowest of the Texas cities here. Summer is long and hot, with 24 days a year at 100F or above and 31 in a row in 2026, and hail and tornadoes are the costly weather. Texas takes no income tax, and 18.9% of residents have no health insurance. The open questions are the costs of growth: the council raised its property tax rate in September 2026 to cover a $94 million gap as appraisals stalled, the state took over the shrinking Fort Worth ISD in March 2026, and the Panther Island flood channels around downtown are not due until 2032.
Where each city wins, and where it loses
Victoria's headline is the real estate board's single-family benchmark for the Victoria Core, $1,311,000 CAD in July 2026, 2.8% below a year earlier. The Fort Worth figure is the North Texas Real Estate Information System's median single-family sale price for the City of Fort Worth, $327,000 USD in August 2026 on 805 sales, 0.9% below a year earlier. It is a city-level median of what sold, where Victoria's is a benchmark modeled on a typical house, and the two are built differently; Zillow's index for the City of Fort Worth stood lower, at $295,800. The Victoria house is 15.4 times the metro's 2020 median household income of $85,000 CAD and the Fort Worth median about 4.0 times the city's 2024 median of $82,503 USD. At 20% down, Victoria's mortgage at 4.34% is $5,712 CAD a month over 25 years, and Fort Worth's $261,600 loan at Freddie Mac's 7.03% of 24 September 2026 about $1,746 USD over 30. Property tax is $7,415 CAD a year in Victoria, 0.566% on the city's 2026 rate, against $5,044 USD in Fort Worth, an effective 1.54% with a homestead from six taxing units in the City and Fort Worth ISD, and $7,158 without. With insurance at $185 CAD and $350 USD a month, the Fort Worth figure priced for hail and with no flood policy in it, the owners carry about $6,515 CAD and $2,516 USD, roughly 92% and 37% of local median income. A two-bedroom averaged $2,076 CAD in October 2025, and Fort Worth's median two-bedroom rent was $1,317 USD in September 2026. Only British Columbia caps rent on an existing tenancy.
Homicide is the only count that crosses the border intact, and Victoria is far lower on it. The Victoria metro recorded 4 homicide victims in 2025, 0.90 per 100,000, after 5, 5, 2 and 2 in the four years before; Fort Worth recorded 78 in the FBI's file, about 7.6 per 100,000, against 72 in 2024, and its police department counted 36 through August 2026 against 54 in the same months of 2025. Geography blurs even that, because Victoria's figures cover a metro of 445,090 and Fort Worth's a city of 1,028,117. The rest are different instruments. The Victoria metro's Crime Severity Index was 74.57 in 2025, just under the national 75.0; American cities have no equivalent. Victoria's violent rate of 1,542 per 100,000 counts every violent Criminal Code violation, common assault and uttering threats included; the Fort Worth 375 is 3,859 offenses of murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault in the FBI's Crime Data Explorer, divided by the Census estimate, because no Fort Worth Police Department total on those definitions was found. Property crime, 3,096 per 100,000 against 2,226, is defined differently too. Victoria's index has moved sideways since 2021, while Fort Worth's violent offenses dropped 17% in 2025 and stood 29% below 2021, the lowest rate of the Texas cities this site compares. The Fort Worth counts were read on 30 September 2026 and can still be revised.
The two get almost exactly the same precipitation, 901.2 mm a year at Victoria International and 898 mm at Fort Worth Meacham, the city's own airport, and little else about the climates is alike. January averages 4.6 C at the Victoria airport and 5.8 C downtown at Gonzales, against 7.7 C in Fort Worth; July averages 17.2 C in Victoria against 29.5 C in Fort Worth, where August is a tenth of a degree warmer and the normals count 105.5 days a year at or above 32.2 C (90F) and 24.1 at or above 37.8 C (100F). The summer of 2026 brought Meacham 55 days of 100F through 27 September, 31 of them in a row. Victoria gets a 38.6 cm snow normal and the Fort Worth area 4.1 cm, measured at DFW Airport. Sunshine, on different vintages, is 2,108.8 hours against 2,850 on the older Dallas series, since none is published for Fort Worth. Victoria's rain arrives in winter; Fort Worth's comes in spring and autumn storms, wettest in October, May and June, and those storms carry its hazards. Hail is the costly routine one: on 5 May 1995 a storm dropped hail up to softball size on the Mayfest festival beside the Trinity River and hurt more than 400 people. A tornado tracked along West 7th Street into downtown on 28 March 2000 and killed two, and in August 2022, 243 mm fell at Meacham in two days and flooded neighborhoods along the creeks. Cold is rare and badly handled: Winter Storm Uri took Meacham to -2F (-18.9 C) in February 2021 while ERCOT cut power across the state grid, and Tarrant County counted 11 of the state's 246 deaths. Victoria sits on the Cascadia subduction zone and carries Canada's highest earthquake risk, and its summers bring wildfire smoke.
The Fort Worth-Arlington-Grapevine Metropolitan Division, the city's half of the Dallas-Fort Worth metro, holds 2,735,059 people, about six times Victoria's 445,090, and both have a base on the payroll. The division counted 1,222,100 nonfarm jobs in August 2026, 1.5% more than a year earlier. Lockheed Martin builds the F-35 at Air Force Plant 4, and the Texas Comptroller credits it with about 49,000 direct and indirect workers in Fort Worth; Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth counts 4,553 direct jobs, Bell Textron, American Airlines and BNSF Railway are headquartered in the city, and Hillwood says AllianceTexas holds 602 companies and 73,134 jobs. The division's unemployment rate was 4.6% in July 2026, not seasonally adjusted. The Victoria metro's was 5.0% seasonally adjusted and 5.3% unadjusted on the three-month average, so on the closest like-for-like basis the two are near level. Victoria's largest sectors in the 2021 census were health care with 29,750 workers, public administration, which includes the provincial capital and CFB Esquimalt, with 27,780 and retail with 22,540. Median household income was $85,000 CAD for the Victoria metro in 2020, against $82,503 USD in the City of Fort Worth in 2024 and $92,733 across its metro. The tax systems collect in opposite places. British Columbia takes income and sales tax: about $20,503 CAD on $100,000, 20.5% before CPP and EI, a top combined rate of 53.5% and 12% on purchases. Texas takes no income tax, so the same salary pays $13,449 USD in federal tax for 2025, the top rate is the federal 37% and sales tax is 8.25%. Property tax carries the load instead, an effective 1.54% on the Fort Worth median against 0.566% in Victoria, though on these two homes Victoria's bill is the larger number.
Victoria's commuters leave the car, and Fort Worth's almost never do. In the 2021 census 32.1% of City of Victoria commuters walked or cycled, the highest share of any Canadian city, and 11.1% took the bus; across the metro those shares fall to 15.3% and 7.7%, because most growth since 2016 has gone to Langford and the West Shore, 15 to 25 km out. That census was taken in May 2021 and understates normal transit use. In Fort Worth 1.1% of workers walked or cycled in 2024, 0.7% took transit, the lowest share of any city this site compares, and 74.9% drove alone. BC Transit publishes no verified systemwide total for Victoria; its busiest route, the 95 Blink RapidBus, carries more than 11,000 boardings a day. Trinity Metro carried 6,180,600 trips in 2025, 906,800 of them on TEXRail, a 27.2-mile commuter line from downtown to DFW Airport's Terminal B, and the Trinity Railway Express to Dallas carried 1,337,600 more. Flying favors Fort Worth by a wide margin, though the airport is shared: DFW, about 20 miles northeast of downtown and midway between Fort Worth and Dallas, handled 85,660,127 passengers in 2025, against 1,986,057 at Victoria International, which sends most international trips through Vancouver or Seattle.
In Victoria the bill for care is settled by British Columbia's Medical Services Plan, with no premium since 2020, and Island Health runs Royal Jubilee, Victoria General for trauma and pediatrics and Saanich Peninsula. The problem there is attachment: family doctors are scarce enough that BC runs a central Health Connect Registry to place new patients. In Fort Worth the problem is coverage. Care is bought through an employer or marketplace plan, Medicare or Medicaid, and Texas is one of ten states that have not expanded Medicaid; it had the highest uninsured rate of any state in 2024, 16.7%, and the City of Fort Worth's was 18.9%. JPS Health Network, the county's hospital district, runs John Peter Smith Hospital, a Level I trauma center, and broke ground in April 2026 on a $1.5 billion replacement that is to take it from 582 beds to more than 740 in 2030; Cook Children's Medical Center has 452 licensed beds. No wait time figure was verified for either city. Greater Victoria runs three public school districts, with no charter schools anywhere in BC and French immersion seats drawn by lottery. Fort Worth ISD, where about half the city's residents live, has been run by a state-appointed board of managers since 24 March 2026, after a campus's fifth straight failing rating; built for 90,000 students, it had 67,315 in 2025-26 and is closing 18 campuses by June 2029. The University of Victoria teaches about 22,000 students, and Texas Christian University 12,980.
What people underestimate is what each figure leaves out. A BC buyer hands over $24,220 in property transfer tax on the Victoria benchmark house, and Texas has no transfer tax. But the Fort Worth carry buys no flood insurance, because a homeowners policy does not pay for rising water. Its $5,044 tax assumes a filed homestead at an address in the City and Fort Worth ISD at 2025 rates; one of the six units, the Tarrant Regional Water District, takes no homestead exemption at all, the same house in Keller ISD pays $5,149, and a newer house on the northern or western edge often sits in one of the fifteen public improvement districts the City lists, which add 0.155 per $100 in Park Glen or a yearly installment of $482 to $1,559 in the first phase of Walsh Ranch. On 15 September 2026 the City Council voted 7 to 4 to raise the city's own rate from 0.67 to 0.70565 per $100, to close a $94 million shortfall. The City also counts 2,351 gas wells inside its limits, and the mineral rights under a lot are often not the seller's to sell. Fort Worth added 19,512 residents in 2024-25, the second-largest gain of any US city, while the Victoria metro sits at the south tip of an island, where every mainland trip that is not a flight is a 95-minute ferry. Victoria's 4.34% renews after a five-year term, where the Fort Worth 7.03% holds for thirty years; at 6.67%, the August rate Charlotte and the Florida cities on this site were written at, the carry would be about $2,453.
Better here
- There were 4 homicide victims in the metro in 2025, 0.90 per 100,000, against 78 in Fort Worth at about 7.6.
- In the 2021 census 32.1% of City of Victoria commuters walked or cycled, the highest share of any Canadian city, against 1.1% in Fort Worth in 2024.
- July averages 17.2 C on the 1991-2020 normals, against 29.5 C at Fort Worth Meacham, where the same normals count 105.5 days a year at or above 32.2 C (90F).
- The Medical Services Plan covers physician and hospital care with nothing due at the point of use and has charged no premium since 2020, where 18.9% of Fort Worth residents had no health insurance in 2024.
- Its heavy rain comes in winter atmospheric rivers, not the spring storms that bring Fort Worth hail and, in March 2000, a tornado through downtown.
- An existing tenancy is capped at 2.3% for 2026 under BC rules, while Texas forbids rent control by statute outside a declared disaster.
Worse here
- The benchmark house was 15.4 times the metro's 2020 median household income of $85,000 CAD in July 2026, against about 4.0 times for the Fort Worth single-family median in August 2026.
- Mortgage, property tax and insurance come to about $6,515 CAD a month on the July 2026 benchmark, roughly 92% of that median, and a buyer pays $24,220 in property transfer tax at closing.
- Property tax on the benchmark house is $7,415 CAD a year, more dollars than the $5,044 USD on the Fort Worth median, though at 0.566% of value against 1.54%.
- Income tax on $100,000 is about $20,503 CAD for 2025 against $13,449 USD of federal tax in Fort Worth, and sales tax is 12% against 8.25%.
- Family doctors are scarce enough that BC runs a central Health Connect Registry, and about 1.4 million British Columbians had no primary care provider in mid-2025.
- Victoria International handled 1,986,057 passengers in 2025 against 85,660,127 at DFW, and every mainland trip that is not a flight is a 95-minute ferry.
Choose Victoria if
- you want health coverage that stays with you between jobs
- you would rather walk or cycle to work inside a small core than drive across a large metro
- you plan to rent, or already hold housing equity, because 15.4 times median household income is not a salary purchase
- you want a July averaging 17.2 C and no summer of 100F days
The Victoria guide · Neighbourhoods · Victoria rent vs buy · Victoria mortgage calculator
Better here
- The median single-family sale price of $327,000 USD in August 2026 is about 4.0 times the city's 2024 median household income, against 15.4 times for Victoria's benchmark house.
- Mortgage, property tax and insurance come to about $2,516 USD a month on that median, roughly 37% of local median income against about 92% in Victoria, and Texas charges no transfer tax.
- The Fort Worth-Arlington-Grapevine division counted 1,222,100 nonfarm jobs in August 2026 and unemployment of 4.6% in July on an unadjusted count, in a division about six times Victoria's metro.
- Texas levies no income tax, so $100,000 pays $13,449 USD in federal tax for 2025 and $13,170 for 2026, against about $20,503 CAD in Victoria.
- DFW handled 85,660,127 passengers in 2025 against 1,986,057 at Victoria, TEXRail runs to it from downtown, and there is no ferry between the city and the rest of the continent.
- January averages 7.7 C on the 1991-2020 normals against 4.6 C at Victoria International, and the older Dallas series records 2,850 hours of sunshine a year.
Worse here
- There were 78 homicides in 2025, about 7.6 per 100,000, against 4 victims and 0.90 per 100,000 in the Victoria metro.
- Property tax on the median is $5,044 a year for the 2025 tax year with a homestead, an effective 1.54%, and $7,158 without one, and the City Council voted in September 2026 to raise the city's rate.
- Only 1.1% of workers walked or cycled to work in 2024 and 0.7% took transit, against 32.1% and 11.1% in the City of Victoria in 2021.
- The normals count 24.1 days a year at or above 37.8 C (100F), 2026 brought 55 of them by late September, and hail is the costly routine hazard.
- Texas had the highest uninsured rate of any state in 2024, 16.7%, the City of Fort Worth's was 18.9%, and Texas is one of ten states that have not expanded Medicaid.
- Fort Worth ISD, where about half the city lives, has been under a state-appointed board since March 2026 and is closing 18 campuses by June 2029.
Choose Fort Worth if
- you want to own a house on one or two salaries rather than on equity you already hold
- you want a metro division of 2.7 million where aircraft, airlines and freight hire
- you fly often and want to leave without a ferry or a connection through Vancouver
- you have employer health insurance you trust, will drive to most things and will insure a roof against hail
The Fort Worth guide · Neighborhoods · Fort Worth rent vs buy · Fort Worth mortgage calculator
Victoria or Fort Worth, in short
Is Victoria or Fort Worth cheaper to live in?
Fort Worth, and not narrowly, once each bill is read against its own city's pay, because the currencies do not convert here. A Victoria owner pays about $6,515 CAD a month on mortgage, property tax and insurance for the benchmark single-family house, roughly 92% of the metro's 2020 median household income of $85,000 CAD. A Fort Worth owner pays about $2,516 USD on the city's median single-family sale price of $327,000, roughly 37% of the city's 2024 median of $82,503 USD, even at 7.03% against 4.34%; Zillow's index for the City of Fort Worth stood lower, at $295,800. A BC buyer also pays $24,220 in property transfer tax on the benchmark, and a Texas buyer pays none, though the Fort Worth figure has no flood insurance in it. Renting is closer: a two-bedroom averaged $2,076 CAD in October 2025 in Victoria and had a median of $1,317 USD in Fort Worth in September 2026, about 29% and 19% of each city's median household income. Income and sales taxes favor Fort Worth, $13,449 USD against about $20,503 CAD on $100,000 and 8.25% against 12%, though Victoria's taxes pay for health care.
Is Victoria or Fort Worth safer?
Victoria, by a wide margin on homicide, the only count that crosses the border intact: 4 victims in the Victoria metro in 2025, 0.90 per 100,000, against 78 in Fort Worth, about 7.6 per 100,000. The other rates measure different things. Victoria's violent rate of 1,542 per 100,000 counts every violent Criminal Code violation, common assault and uttering threats included, while the Fort Worth 375 is murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault on the FBI's definitions. Property crime, 3,096 per 100,000 against 2,226, is defined differently as well. Victoria's metro Crime Severity Index was 74.57 in 2025, just under the national 75.0, and has moved sideways since 2021, while Fort Worth's violent offenses dropped 17% in 2025, homicides rose from 72 to 78, and the police count for 2026 ran at 36 through August against 54 a year earlier. A metro rate also misses the street homelessness and open drug use around Pandora Avenue in downtown Victoria.
Which has the better climate, Victoria or Fort Worth?
Victoria, unless a warm winter matters more to you than a mild summer. January averages 4.6 C at Victoria International and 7.7 C in Fort Worth, but July is 17.2 C in Victoria against 29.5 C at Fort Worth Meacham, where the normals count 105.5 days a year at or above 32.2 C (90F) and 24.1 at or above 37.8 C (100F). The two get almost the same precipitation, 901.2 mm against 898 mm, but Fort Worth's comes in storms that bring hail and the occasional tornado, and Victoria gets more snow, a 38.6 cm normal against 4.1 cm. Sunshine is measured on different vintages, 2,108.8 hours for Victoria on the 1981-2010 normals and 2,850 for the Dallas series on 1961-1990. Victoria's hazards are Cascadia earthquake risk and summer wildfire smoke; Fort Worth's are hail, long runs of 100F heat, creek flash floods and the rare hard freeze, like February 2021, when ERCOT cut power across the state grid.
What does the Fort Worth monthly figure leave out?
Three things a Fort Worth buyer should price before comparing it with Victoria's. First, flood insurance: the $350 a month budgeted for a homeowners policy, which is high because of hail, does not cover rising water, and that needs a separate policy priced on the address. Second, the address: the $5,044 tax bill is the six units on a homesteaded house in the City and Fort Worth ISD at 2025 rates, the city voted in September 2026 to raise its own rate, the Tarrant Regional Water District on the same bill takes no homestead exemption, and a newer house on the edge of the city may sit in a public improvement district or, outside the limits, a utility district levying up to 1.00 per $100. Third, the ground: the City counts 2,351 gas wells inside its limits, and the mineral rights under a lot are often not the seller's. Victoria's figure has its own addition, the $24,220 transfer tax at closing, and its 4.34% rate renews after five years where the Fort Worth 7.03% is fixed for thirty.
Where the figures come from
Housing figures are the ones behind each city's calculators, dated on those pages. The rest are listed here with the date they were retrieved. See the methodology for how facts, estimates and opinion are kept apart.
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- Population and dwelling counts: Census metropolitan areas, census agglomerations and census subdivisions (table 98-10-0003-01) · Statistics Canada · retrieved Supports: population.metro (2021 census count), population.growthPct5y (CMA comparison)
- Population estimates, July 1, by census metropolitan area and census agglomeration (table 17-10-0148-01) · Statistics Canada · retrieved Supports: Metro population
- Crime severity index and weighted clearance rates, police services in census metropolitan areas (table 35-10-0026-01) · Statistics Canada · retrieved Supports: Crime Severity Index, Crime trend
- Incident-based crime statistics, by detailed violations, police services in census metropolitan areas (table 35-10-0177-01) · Statistics Canada · retrieved Supports: Violent crime rate, Property crime rate, Crime trend
- Number and rate of homicide victims, by census metropolitan areas (table 35-10-0071-01) · Statistics Canada · retrieved Supports: Homicides
- Canadian Climate Normals 1991-2020, Victoria Int'l A (climate ID 1018620) · Environment and Climate Change Canada · retrieved Supports: January mean, July mean, Annual precipitation, Annual snowfall
- Canadian Climate Normals 1991-2020, Victoria Gonzales (climate ID 1018610) · Environment and Climate Change Canada · retrieved Supports: climate.note (downtown comparison)
- Canadian Climate Normals 1981-2010, Victoria Int'l A · Environment and Climate Change Canada · retrieved Supports: Sunshine hours
- Household income statistics by dwelling and household characteristics: census metropolitan areas (table 98-10-0061-01) · Statistics Canada · retrieved Supports: Median household income
- Household income statistics by household type: census subdivisions (table 98-10-0057-01) · Statistics Canada · retrieved Supports: economy.medianHouseholdIncome (city figure in note)
- Labour force characteristics, three-month moving average, by census metropolitan area, seasonally adjusted (table 14-10-0459-01) · Statistics Canada · retrieved Supports: Unemployment rate
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- Personal income tax rates · Province of British Columbia · retrieved Supports: Top marginal income tax
- Provincial sales tax (PST) · Province of British Columbia · retrieved Supports: Sales tax
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- Main mode of commuting by commuting duration, time leaving for work, age and gender: census metropolitan areas (table 98-10-0457-01) · Statistics Canada · retrieved Supports: Transit commute share, Walk and cycle commute share
- Main mode of commuting by commuting duration, time leaving for work, age and gender: census subdivisions (table 98-10-0458-01) · Statistics Canada · retrieved Supports: transit.transitModeSharePct (city), transit.walkBikeModeSharePct (city)
- Year in review: a successful 2025 for BC Transit · BC Transit · retrieved Supports: Transit ridership
- 2026/27 Annual Service Plan, Victoria Regional Transit Commission report #14 · BC Transit · retrieved Supports: Transit ridership
- 2025 Annual Report · Victoria Airport Authority · retrieved Supports: Airport passengers
- The sky's the limit: Victoria airport has high hopes for year ahead · Victoria News · retrieved Supports: transit.airport (exact passenger count 1,986,057)
- Hospitals and health centre locations · Island Health · retrieved Supports: Health care
- 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
- July 2026 statistics: Victoria Real Estate Board monthly news release · Victoria Real Estate Board · retrieved Supports: Victoria Core single-family benchmark of $1,311,000, down 2.8% year over year, Victoria Core condominium benchmark of $548,600, down 2.2% year over year, Victoria Core townhouse benchmark of $857,300, 673 sales and 3,847 active listings board-wide in July 2026
- Rental Market Survey: Victoria (CY), average rent by bedroom type, October 2025 · Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation · retrieved Supports: One-bedroom average rent of $1,594, Two-bedroom average rent of $2,076, Three-bedroom-plus average rent of $3,035, Victoria CMA vacancy rate of 3.3%
- 2026 Property Tax Mill Rate · City of Victoria · retrieved Supports: 2026 Class 1 residential total rate of $5.6559 per $1,000 of taxable value, Municipal residential rate of $3.7229, of which $1.3782 is police, Additional school tax of 0.2000 above $3 million and 0.4000 above $4 million
- Home owner grant · Province of British Columbia · retrieved Supports: The grant of up to $770 on an eligible principal residence outside the northern and rural area
- Premium information for homeowner and small rental loans · Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation · retrieved Supports: Mortgage default insurance premium rates by loan-to-value
- Regulations amending the Insurable Housing Loan Regulations and the Eligible Mortgage Loan Regulations (SOR/2025-55) · Canada Gazette, Part II · retrieved Supports: The $1.5 million insured price cap, 30-year amortization for first-time buyers and new builds
- Minimum qualifying rate for uninsured mortgages · Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions · retrieved Supports: The qualifying rate of the contract rate plus two points, or 5.25%
- Interest rates charged for new and existing lending by chartered banks · Bank of Canada · retrieved Supports: The default mortgage rate of 4.34%, uninsured five-year-plus fixed, funds advanced May 2026
- Property transfer tax · Province of British Columbia · retrieved Supports: Transfer tax brackets, First-time buyer and new build exemptions
- Rent increases · Province of British Columbia · retrieved Supports: 2026 rent increase guideline of 2.3%
- 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