Live in Old Lake Highlands

Old Lake Highlands is the ground between White Rock Lake and Northwest Highway. An advertisement of 1927, which Flashback Dallas reproduces, offered some 117 acres on the lake's east shore as Lake Highlands, with lots at $1,100 to $1,200 and houses to be built of brick, hollow tile or stucco. Most of what stands came later: the census survey dates 47% of the homes in the block groups over the area to the 1950s and 63% to before 1960, and Dallas ISD established Hexter Elementary on Waterview Road in 1954. This guide covers the Old Lake Highlands Neighborhood Association's area as the association files it on the City's map: about 732 acres inside Northwest Highway, East Lake Highlands Drive and North Buckner Boulevard. The City says it does not check those lines.

Northwest Highway is the school line. The appraisal district's 2026 roll puts all 1,565 accounts inside the boundary that carry a jurisdiction code in the City of Dallas and Dallas ISD, and the district's 2026-27 attendance map puts the whole area in one feeder pattern: Hexter and Hill Middle, both inside the line, then Bryan Adams High in Casa View. In the strip just north of the highway, 319 of 344 accounts are in Richardson ISD, whose schools serve most of Lake Highlands. The Census Bureau's map puts only a 2.6-acre strip along the highway itself on the Richardson side. The two districts also tax differently: Richardson ISD's 2025 rate was 1.1052 per $100 against Dallas ISD's 0.993835, with the same exemptions, about $394 more a year on a $549,005 homestead.

It is mostly houses, and owners live in most of them. The roll counts 1,478 single-family parcels on a median lot of 8,822 square feet, the middle half between 7,888 and 10,923, plus 34 duplexes on Lullwater and Park Brook Drives and three apartment properties, two of them on East Lake Highlands Drive at the northeast corner. In 2020 owners lived in 1,316 of the 1,963 occupied homes, 67%, and the census block holding those two had 707 of the 4,242 residents. The association counts about 1,700 homes and the census 2,076 housing units, apartments included; this guide has not reconciled the two.

No price index follows the line. Zillow's figure for ZIP code 75218, which covers more than six times the area, was $549,005 in August 2026, up 2.4% on the year; the citywide MLS median single-family sale was $469,900, down 6.0%. Owners' own estimates in the census survey give block group medians from $451,600 to $726,800, with margins as wide as $157,517. On the 2025 rates a homestead at Zillow's figure owes the five taxing units about $8,934 a year and the same house without the exemption about $12,225; the arithmetic is on the Dallas page. No public improvement district reaches the area; the Lake Highlands district is about 1.3 km away.

The lake is across Buckner, and a park runs along it. Norbuck Park fills most of the strip between the houses and Buckner Boulevard, and the City's flood map reaches into the streets: zone AE covers about 5.5% of the area, and 59 single-family parcels touch it, the largest numbers on Baronne Circle, East Lake Highlands Drive and Bel Aire Drive. The association says the neighborhood sits on some of the highest elevations in Dallas; the USGS puts the guide's reference point at 542 feet, and this guide has not compared that with the rest of the city. DART's Route 20 runs along the highway every 20 minutes at peak and midday on weekdays, and White Rock Station on the Blue Line is about 1.4 km west of the northwest corner.