Live in Diamond Hill

Diamond Hill grew on the rise northeast of the Union Stock Yards, which opened north of the Trinity in 1889, and of the Armour and Swift plants built beside them after 1902. Its school opened in 1904 on 28th Street, and Fort Worth annexed the community in 1922, the year Niles City, the stockyards' own small city, came to an end. This guide takes the Diamond Hill-Jarvis neighborhood association's area on the City's map as its boundary: about 2,856 acres between North Main Street and Interstate 35W, from 28th Street and Brennan Avenue up to Meacham Boulevard, where the 2020 census counted 15,150 residents, 2.5% fewer than on the same blocks in 2010, and 31% of them were under 18.

The Stockyards is next door, not inside. The Stockyards has no guide of its own, because almost nobody lives inside any City line around it. None of its historic district or its improvement district reaches this far; the district lies southwest, across 28th Street and North Main. What Diamond Hill shares is the Stockyards/Northside tax increment district, which captures the growth in value and adds no rate, over about a third of its area and 238 residents, and North Side Station, the TEXRail stop on the southern edge that serves as the Stockyards' transfer point. The Orange Line leaves from there through the Stockyards to downtown every 15 minutes, and trains run about every 30 minutes to DFW Airport. But no bus runs through the middle of the association's area: the reference point is 1.28 km from the nearest stop, and Route 054 runs along 28th Street every 30 minutes.

The gas field is at the edges. The City's layer shows 32 gas wells inside the line, 31 of them producing and all but one run by BKV North Texas, on six pad sites clustered along the rail corridor on the west, near Meacham Boulevard and beside Interstate 35W. The City bars a new well within 600 feet of a house, school or park without a waiver; the pads already here are another matter, so look at the City's gas well status map for any lot you consider.

The flood line runs through the neighborhood, not beside it. FEMA's effective map, from 2019 here, puts 7.1% of the area in the 1% annual chance zone, 2.9% of it regulatory floodway, along a creek the map calls only Stream WF-4, which runs south through the middle from near Meacham Boulevard to the West Fork, and along Stream MC-1 by the rail corridor. 1,311 residents live on blocks inside that zone. The City's own maps add 13.9% in advisory high-water areas along Marine Creek and Little Fossil Creek, and 1.5% in a regulatory area from its Tony's Creek Neighborhood storm drain study, which has governed development since July 2024.

The ZIP figure covers more than twice as many people. ZIP code 76106 holds 15,118 of the residents and 36,521 people in all; Zillow put its typical home at $187,273 in August 2026, up 0.7% on the year, against the NTREIS median of $327,000 for a single-family sale in the whole city. Owners lived in 60% of the occupied homes in 2020. The six taxing units on a City and Fort Worth ISD address add to 2.18908 per $100 for 2025: a homestead valued at the ZIP figure owes about $2,271 a year, and without the exemption about $4,100. About half the area, with 13,707 of its residents, is in the City's Neighborhood Empowerment Zone Area One until June 2029, where an owner-occupied house may qualify for a City tax abatement. The arithmetic is on the Fort Worth page.