Live in Berkeley Place

In 1901 William Joseph Rogers bought about 137 acres here for a grain and dairy farm. In 1907 the City paid $17,000 for the ravine on the west, "a wild and worthless area", which became Forest Park. The city annexed the area in 1922, and in 1924, the neighborhood association says, the Rogers farm, by then the last farm inside the city limits, was sold and cut into lots. The farmhouse survives on Warner Road, and Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel, later governor of Texas, lived in it. This guide takes the Berkeley Place association's filed area as its boundary: about 241 acres between Park Place Avenue, Eighth Avenue and the railroad, and Park Hill Drive, where the 2020 census counted 1,804 residents. The same method finds 1,362 on the 2010 blocks, but the block lines changed between the two counts, so the rise is approximate.

The rule that matters here is about who lives in the house. On 2 December 2014 the City Council approved the TCU Residential Overlay, about 2,500 acres within roughly a mile of the campus, after residents raised concerns about how many people were living in single-family houses. It limits a house in "A" one-family zoning to three unrelated occupants. A house already occupied by four or five was grandfathered, but that right ends if the occupancy stops for 24 months or more, and the cap does not apply to other zoning districts inside the overlay. All of Berkeley Place is inside it; Ryan Place, across Eighth Avenue, is not. There is no City historic district here, so exterior work needs no certificate from the City's landmarks commission.

Owners hold most of the homes, and no price follows the line. In 2020 owners lived in 514 of the 732 occupied homes, 70%. Every resident is in ZIP code 76110, where Zillow's typical value was $215,820 in August 2026, down 3.2% on the year, but the ZIP had 29,858 residents in 2020 and runs well beyond these streets; this guide found no published median for Berkeley Place. The six taxing units on a City and Fort Worth ISD address add to 2.1891 per $100 for 2025. A homestead at the ZIP figure owes about $2,837 a year, the same house without the exemption about $4,724, and one at the city's $327,000 median single-family sale about $5,044. The arithmetic is on the Fort Worth page.

The floodway runs along the southern edge. FEMA's effective map puts 3.0% of the area in the 1% annual chance zone, 2.4% of it regulatory floodway, along Park Hill Drive and in the southwest corner by Forest Park Boulevard; no census block's center falls in it. The City maps another 5% as advisory high-water area outside FEMA's zones, from its model of the Clear Fork of the Trinity, the river this side of the city drains to. The City's gas well layer has no well inside the line; the nearest producing well is about 1.8 km away.

The frequent bus is on Eighth Avenue. Trinity Metro's Route 006 runs every 15 minutes along the eastern edge, and the 053 on University Drive once an hour. TEXRail to DFW Airport starts at the T&P Station, about 3.3 km northeast.