Live in Pleasant Grove

Pleasant Grove is the southeast community that Dallas took in piece by piece. The Handbook of Texas dates its first settlers to the 1840s and says the City began annexing it in the late 1940s and had all of it inside the limits by 1962. This guide does not cover all of it. It covers the Pleasant Grove Unidos Neighborhood Association's area as the association files it on the City's map: about 935 acres south of Lake June Road, between Pemberton Hill Road and North Jim Miller Road, down to Great Trinity Forest Way. The Handbook bounds the wider community, unofficially, from Bruton Road to the Trinity River and from White Rock Creek to Cheyenne Road, and puts its old center at Lake June Road and Buckner Boulevard, about 1.6 km east of this line. On the City's annexation layer, the whole of the association's area came in by one ordinance, on 30 December 1949.

It is a postwar subdivision of single-family houses. The Handbook counts Pleasant Grove growing from 120 people in 1943 to 3,500 in 1952, and the census survey dates 55% of the homes in the four block groups over the area to 1950 through 1969, 35% to the 1950s alone, with median years built from 1957 to 1974. The appraisal district's 2026 roll counts 1,989 single-family parcels inside the line on a median lot of 7,500 square feet, the middle half between 7,196 and 8,042, and 152 vacant residential lots. Neither source records a house's style, so this guide cannot say how many are the one-story ranch houses the era is known for.

The census found a Hispanic majority and more owners than the city has. Its blocks held 8,374 people in 2020, 66% of them Hispanic or Latino against 42% citywide, 30% Black and 32% under 18. Owners lived in 1,324 of the 2,381 occupied homes, 56% against 40% for Dallas, and 189 homes stood empty, 115 of them for rent. The survey's later estimate for the four block groups puts the Hispanic share at 48%, and this guide cannot say whether that is a change or sampling error.

Prices are among the lowest in the city. Zillow's typical home in ZIP code 75217, which covers far more than this line, was $197,986 in August 2026, down 1.8% on the year and the fourth lowest of the 40 ZIP codes it places in Dallas; the citywide MLS median single-family sale was $469,900, down 6.0%. Owners' own estimates in the census survey give block group medians of $155,500 to $200,800. On the 2025 rates a homestead at Zillow's figure owes the five taxing units about $2,332 a year, only $380 of it to Dallas ISD because the school district's $140,000 exemption takes most of the value, and the same house without the exemption about $4,409; the arithmetic is on the Dallas page. No public improvement district reaches the area.

The City's complaint and police files are the two counts that follow the line. In 2025 the 311 system logged 1,218 Code Compliance requests located inside it, about 145 per 1,000 residents of 2020 against 105 citywide; a request is a report, not a finding of a violation. The police department's public incident file places 413 distinct incidents dated 2025 inside the line, about 49 per 1,000 residents against 80 for the city, 31 of them including an offense against a person; it counts reports, not arrests or convictions. Lake June Station on the Green Line is inside the line, and the City's flood map puts only 1.9% of the area in the 1% annual chance zone, with no house lot's center in it.