Live in Heritage
A Hillwood subdivision of 2000 on the far north edge of the city where every property owner pays the City's Heritage improvement district 0.145 per $100 on top of six tax rates, the schools are Keller ISD's, and the typical value in ZIP code 76244 was $381,034 in August 2026.
Heritage is the housing Hillwood began in 2000 east of what became Alliance Town Center, eleven years after its Fort Worth Alliance Airport opened a few miles north, and the City made it Public Improvement District 7 on 26 September 2000, at the owners' petition. The district's own manager and a resident advisory board spend its assessment on the medians, parks, ponds, screening walls and off-duty police patrols, and a separate homeowners association runs the clubhouse and seven pools. This guide takes the district's 1,130 acres as its boundary, where the 2020 census counted 10,318 residents, 14.5% more than on the same blocks in 2010, owners in 90% of the occupied homes and a third of the residents under 18. Zillow put the typical home in ZIP code 76244, which holds all of them and about 67,000 more people, at $381,034 in August 2026, down 0.8% on the year.
A Hillwood plan with its own line on the tax bill, on the Keller ISD side of the city
Public Improvement District 7, Heritage, on the City of Fort Worth's Public Improvement District Boundaries layer (PID_ID 7, established 26 September 2000, term 'Life Term'), about 1,130 acres. Traced against the Census Bureau's street file, the line follows North Riverside Drive (Old Denton Road on the Census file) on the west, Shiver Road on the south east of North Beach Street, Ray White Road on the east, and lot lines along Drexmore Road, Alta Vista Road and Broiles Lane on the north; it leaves out a block southwest of North Beach Street and Heritage Trace Parkway, down to Shiver Road. The district's own page describes it as the Heritage residential community between Riverside on the west and Ray White on the east. The Heritage homeowners association's registered area on the City's Neighborhood Organizations layer is 99% the same ground with the same residents. Heritage Trace Parkway crosses the middle. All of it is in Tarrant County, Keller ISD, ZIP code 76244 and the City's full-purpose limits, outside Loop 820 and east of Interstate 35W. The reference point is the population-weighted center of the district's 95 census blocks, near North Beach Street and Heritage Trace Parkway.
Heritage is Hillwood's. The developer that built Fort Worth Alliance Airport with the City, opened in 1989, lists Heritage among its communities of 2000, east of what is now Alliance Town Center, and on 26 September that year the City Council made it Public Improvement District 7 at the owners' petition. This guide takes the district's 1,130 acres between North Riverside Drive and Ray White Road, where the 2020 census counted 10,318 residents, 14.5% more than in 2010. Owners lived in 90% of the occupied homes and a third of residents were under 18: families in houses they own, most built in the 2000s.
The district is a second bill, and nobody inside it opts out. Every privately owned parcel pays0.145 per $100 of value on a house, 0.125 on commercial property, for fiscal 2025-26. The Tarrant County Tax Office bills it with the taxes, due by 31 January, as a first lien with no homestead exemption: about $552 a year on the ZIP code's typical value. Assessments raise $2.16 million a year, mostly for landscaping, and pay for irrigation, park improvements, screening walls, events and off-duty police patrols. They do not pay for the clubhouse and seven pools, which the homeowners association's dues cover, so an owner usually pays both. The City Council sets the rate each September.
The Heritage name runs past the district's line. Hillwood called Heritage a 2,300-acre development in 2009, twice the district's area, and the appraisal district's 2026 roll counts 4,510 houses in five subdivisions carrying the name, against 3,102 homes on the district's census blocks in 2020. The name is not proof either way: the City's boundary map and the notice Texas law requires before a binding contract are. The association's dues are not published; the resale certificate has them.
The schools are Keller ISD's, and so is the bill. Keller ISD levies 1.0852 per $100 against Fort Worth ISD's 1.0291, so the six units here add to 2.24518 per $100. On the $381,034 Zillow put on a typical home in ZIP code 76244 in August 2026, down 0.8% on the year and above the city's $327,000 median sale, a homestead owes about $6,804 with the district, a landlord $9,107; the method is on the Fort Worth page. The ZIP is far larger than Heritage.
The car decides the day. Trinity Metro's route 016 stops on North Riverside Drive, about 1.7 km from the reference point, every 30 minutes on weekdays until 8:38 p.m.; no 15-minute route comes within 13.6 km. FEMA puts 5.9% of the district in its 1% annual chance flood zone, with 192 residents in 2020, and the City marks advisory high-water areas on 7.9%. The City's gas well layer shows no well inside the line. There is no historic district or zoning overlay: the association's covenants and architectural review govern a new fence or addition.
- Ask for the seller's notice of the improvement district assessment and check the address on the City's PID map
- Order the homeowners association's resale certificate and read its dues and covenants
- Check that the tax statement lists Keller ISD and the water district with the other four units
- Run the address through Keller ISD's School Zone Finder: grades 5 to 12 split Heritage down the middle
- Look the lot up on FEMA's flood map before you price a flood policy
How Heritage got here
- 1989On 14 December Fort Worth Alliance Airport opens north of today's Heritage, built by the City, the Federal Aviation Administration and Ross Perot Jr.'s Hillwood Development as an industrial airport.
- 2000Hillwood starts Heritage, which it lists among its communities of 2000. On 26 September the City Council creates Public Improvement District 7, Heritage, by Resolution 2675, after the owners petitioned for it.
- 2001Heritage Addition Park, a City community park of about 40 acres inside the district, enters the City's park layer.
- 2009In August Hillwood breaks ground on 78 more lots at Heritage Trace Parkway and Exposition Way, calling Heritage a 2,300-acre development with 232 homes started in the previous year.
- 2010The census counts 9,012 residents on the blocks inside today's district line.
- 2020The census counts 10,318 residents and 3,102 homes inside the line; owners live in 2,719 of the 3,036 occupied homes, and 3,447 residents are under 18.
- 2021The City names the Heritage homeowners association its neighborhood of the year, as a resident wrote in the Fort Worth Report the following year.
- 2024On 10 April H-E-B opens its first Tarrant County store at 3451 Heritage Trace Parkway, just west of the district at Alliance Town Center.
- 2025On 16 September the City Council adopts the district's fiscal 2025-26 budget of $2,850,470 and keeps the assessment at 0.145 per $100 for houses and 0.125 for commercial property.
Six City parks inside the line, kept to the district's standard
The City's park layer puts six parks inside the district: most of North Park, about 62 acres by the YMCA; Heritage Addition Park, about 40; Barksdale, about 21, with a pond the association says is stocked with bass and catfish; Sinclair, about 17; Ninnie Baird, about 16; and tiny Camp Worth. The assessment pays for extra mowing, tree care and irrigation in them.
What the map does not show: the association's members-only pools and courts, and the greenbelt trails it counts among 200 acres of open space.
Elsewhere in Fort Worth, not Heritage
25 places, with real drive times
Road-adjusted distance and drive time from the centre of the community to each destination, nearest first. Filter by category.
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Method: distances are measured from the population-weighted center of the district's 95 census blocks, near North Beach Street and Heritage Trace Parkway. Each is straight-line distance times a road factor, with a tiered speed model: honest ranges, not routed times.
Every gym within reach
The Northpark YMCA at 9100 North Beach Street, on the edge of North Park, is the nearest gym. The association's clubhouse on Courtright Drive has a fitness center and seven pools for members. The City's nearest community center, Betsy Price, is west of Interstate 35W, and its two public pools are far to the south.
- Northpark YMCA: about 0.8 km by road
- Heritage HOA Clubhouse and pools: about 1.6 km, members only
- Marine Park Pool: about 20 km by road, closed after its season ended on 5 September
| Facility | What it is | Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Northpark YMCA open | The YMCA of Metropolitan Fort Worth's branch at 9100 North Beach Street, which the City's community center layer lists as the North Park YMCA joint use facility, on the edge of North Park. | 3–4 min |
| Heritage HOA Clubhouse open | The homeowners association's clubhouse and fitness center at 9536 Courtright Drive, beside its 10-acre pool complex of seven pools, open to members; the district's assessment does not pay for them, the association's dues do. | 4–6 min |
| Betsy Price Community Center open | The nearest City community center, west across Interstate 35W. | 12–18 min |
| North Park open | The free option: the City's 62-acre park beside the YMCA, and the trails of Barksdale, Ninnie Baird and Heritage Addition parks inside the district. | 3–4 min |
| Marine Park Pool & Aquatic Center closed | The nearer of the City's two public pools, 303 N.W. 20th Street on the North Side; its 2026 season ended on 5 September. | 17–26 min |
The free option is the trail network of the district's parks, beginning at North Park, a few minutes' walk from the reference point.
Keller ISD, with a line through the middle for grades 5 to 12
Every resident is in the Keller Independent School District. On its 2025-26 zones, Bette Perot Elementary, rated A (91) for 2026, takes 39% of residents and Lone Star, B (84), 38%. From grade 5 the western 55% go to Timberview Middle and Timber Creek High, the eastern 45% to Parkwood Hill, Hillwood Middle and Central High; both high schools rated B (84).
| School | Board | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Bette Perot Elementary School | Keller Independent School District | 9345 General Worth Drive, inside the district. On Keller ISD's 2025-26 zone layers, the only ones its School Zone Finder serves, it is the elementary for 4,001 of the district's 2020 residents, 39%; Lone Star holds 3,963, Eagle Ridge 1,686 and Freedom 668. The Texas Education Agency rated Bette Perot A, 91, for 2026 and A, 90, for 2025; Eagle Ridge fell from B, 82, to C, 79, and Freedom from B, 88, to B, 80. |
| Lone Star Elementary School | Keller Independent School District | 4647 Shiver Road, inside the district: the elementary zone at the reference point and for 3,963 residents, 38%, early education to grade 4. Rated B, 84, for 2026 and 2025. Keller ISD runs elementary to grade 4, intermediate 5 and 6, and middle 7 and 8. |
| Timberview Middle School | Keller Independent School District | 10300 Old Denton Road, grades 5 to 8: the zone for the western 5,687 residents, 55%, for both the intermediate and middle grades. Rated B, 86, for 2026 after B, 88. |
| Hillwood Middle School | Keller Independent School District | 8250 Parkwood Hill Boulevard, grades 7 and 8, with Parkwood Hill Intermediate across the street for 5 and 6: the zones at the reference point and for 4,631 residents, 45%. Hillwood rated B, 82, for 2026 after B, 89; Parkwood Hill B, 83, both years. |
| Timber Creek High School | Keller Independent School District | 12350 Timberland Boulevard: the high school for the same 5,687 residents, 55%. Rated B, 84, for 2026 and 2025. Central High School, 9450 Ray White Road, just east of the district, takes the other 4,631 and the reference point, also B, 84, both years. |
Check the exact address on Keller ISD's School Zone Finder before you commit. It serves only the 2025-26 zones, so confirm the 2026-27 assignment with the district.
Month by month, what living here looks like
Not a highlights reel: the actual annual rhythm, including the dates residents have to remember.
- The appraisal district values every property as of 1 January; last year's tax bill, with the improvement district's assessment on it, is due by 31 January
- Highs near 13.6 °C and lows near 1.8 °C at Fort Worth Meacham, with about 11 nights at or below freezing on the 1991 to 2020 normal
- Penalty and interest begin on unpaid tax bills and unpaid district assessments on 1 February
- Highs near 15.8 °C and about seven freezing nights; 61 mm of rain
- Highs near 20.0 °C and lows near 8.1 °C, with 80 mm of rain
- The spring storm season begins: check the roof's age and the policy's wind and hail deductible before it does
- Between 24 and 29 April 2026 the National Weather Service counted tornadoes in Wise and Parker counties, one of them EF3, and hail up to softball size across North Texas
- Highs near 24.2 °C and 78 mm of rain
- 15 May, or 30 days after the Tarrant Appraisal District mails its notice if that is later, is the deadline to protest a value
- 102 mm of rain, one of the two wettest months with June; highs near 28.6 °C
- The homeowners association's seven pools and the Heritage Hurricanes swim team's season
- Highs near 33.1 °C, with about 22 days reaching 32 °C on the normal, and 102 mm of rain in storms
- The association's July 4 Freedom Celebration, one of its three main events with the Easter egg hunt and the Christmas tree lighting
- Highs near 35.4 °C, with about 28 days reaching 32 °C and nine reaching 38 °C
- The improvement district's manager holds its annual meeting on the next year's budget in August, and the homeowners association holds its own annual meeting the same month
- The hottest month on the normal: highs near 35.5 °C and about 11 days reaching 38 °C
- The City Council holds the district's public hearing and adopts its service plan and assessment rate in September; in 2025 it kept 0.145 per $100
- Highs near 31.3 °C, with about 15 days reaching 32 °C; 66 mm of rain
- 113 mm of rain, the wettest month on the normal; FEMA puts 5.9% of the district in its 1% annual chance zone; Whites Branch is the one named stream crossing it
- Highs near 25.5 °C and lows near 13.3 °C
- Downtown Fort Worth's Parade of Lights is on Sunday 22 November 2026 at 6 p.m.
- Highs near 19.0 °C and the first freezing nights, about two on the normal
- The homeowners association's Christmas tree lighting
- Highs near 14.3 °C and lows near 2.9 °C, with about nine nights at or below freezing
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