Live in Crestwood

Crestwood fills a bend of the West Fork of the Trinity, two and a half miles from downtown. W. J. Bailey owned most of it by 1906; the realtors' profile of the neighborhood says he sold it in 1939 to the developers Jack Loffland and A. C. Luther, while the Crestwood Association's account, as CandysDirt reported it, starts in 1930 with sales to Charles Daggett and Mary Pratt. Either way, most of the houses went up in the 1940s, when the bomber plant and the air base came to Fort Worth, under deed rules that barred any house costing less than $5,000. This guide takes the association's area on the City's map as its boundary: about 213 acres between White Settlement Road, the Greenwood cemetery on the east and Rockwood Park Drive, which follows the river round the north and west. The 2020 census counted 1,176 residents there, up from 1,070 on the same ground in 2010.

The river is the deciding fact, and the levee is why the map looks mild. The flood of May 1949 heavily damaged Crestwood, the profile says, and after it the Army Corps of Engineers rebuilt the Fort Worth Floodway, from 1950 to 1968; the Tarrant Regional Water District now keeps 27 miles of those levees. On FEMA's map today, 26.5% of Crestwood is shaded as reduced risk because of a levee, 3.2% lies in the 1% annual chance zone and 1.1% in the 0.2% zone, though no resident's block has its center in either. The City maps another 9.0% of the area that FEMA does not: storm drain inundation from its Near West Side study and advisory high-water areas drawn mostly from its Lakeworth model of the West Fork, over the blocks of 94 residents. No gas well or pad site is inside the line; the nearest producing well is 0.61 km from the reference point.

The houses are one-family, and the one big site is changing hands. About nine tenths of the ground is zoned for one-family houses, with 22 acres held to half-acre lots since a 2007 case, and no City historic district touches it; one property carries the City's landmark overlay. The exception is on White Settlement Road: Crestwood Place Apartments, nine brick blocks around a courtyard that opened on 30 June 1940. Fort Worth Housing Solutions and Ojala Holdings bought it in October 2022 and told more than 100 residents in June 2023 that its 114 units would become about 210 homes for residents 55 and older, within the site's zoning of 24 units an acre. No timeline had been released then, and this guide found none since.

No price follows the association's line. Every resident is in ZIP code 76107, where Zillow's typical value was $363,670 in August 2026, down 0.5% on the year, but the ZIP held 31,591 people in 2020. The City's median single-family sale was $327,000. Owners live in 62% of the occupied homes. The six taxing units on a City and Fort Worth ISD address add to 2.18908 per $100 for 2025: a homestead at the ZIP figure owes about $5,772 a year, the same house without the exemption about $7,961. No public improvement district adds to it. The arithmetic is on the Fort Worth page.

The bus is thin. The nearest 15-minute route, Route 2 on Camp Bowie Boulevard, stops 2.16 km from the reference point. Route 53 runs hourly along White Settlement Road, and the nearest TEXRail station is on the North Side, 4.7 km away. At University Drive to the east, ground was broken on 5 March 2026 for Westside Village, whose first 308 apartments and office tower are due in 2028.