Live in Northside

The Union Stock Yards opened north of the Trinity in 1889, and after Armour and Swift agreed in 1902 to build packing plants beside them, workers from Central Europe settled here, in a town the stockyard officials incorporated that year as North Fort Worth. The plants opened in 1903 and began to draw Mexican families too, and the Handbook of Texas calls the North Side still the city's most ethnically diverse part in the early twenty-first century. Fort Worth annexed the town in 1909, and Marine Park came with it. This guide takes the North Side neighborhood association's area on the City's map as its boundary: about 1,247 acres from 28th Street down to Grand Avenue above the West Fork, and from McKinley Avenue to North Main, where the 2020 census counted 13,326 residents, 6.7% fewer than on the same blocks in 2010.

The Stockyards has no guide of its own, and this is its residential side. Almost nobody lives inside any City line drawn around it: seven residents in the historic district in 2020 and 120 in its improvement district. The shops on East Exchange Avenue, Cowtown Coliseum and Billy Bob's Texas are across North Main and outside the association's line. What is inside is a corner: the blocks west of Main around West Exchange Avenue, 14% of the City's 60-acre Stockyards historic district. There, the City requires a certificate of appropriateness before a permit for exterior alterations, new building or demolition, approved by staff or by the Historic and Cultural Landmarks Commission. The same corner holds 115 of the 120 residents of the Stockyards public improvement district, which added 0.12 per $100 for 2025. A small Circle Park conservation district is also inside; this guide could not read what it requires.

The ZIP figure is closer to the neighborhood than most, and it is still not a price for it. ZIP code 76164 holds every resident here and 2,276 more beyond the line; Zillow put its typical home at $188,081 in August 2026, down 0.7% on the year, against the NTREIS median of $327,000 for a single-family sale in the whole city. Owners lived in 58% 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 $2,287 a year, the same house without the exemption about $4,117, and inside the improvement district about $226 more. The whole area is in 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.

Marine Creek is the mapped flood line; the river bluff is the one the City adds. FEMA's effective map, from 2019 here, puts 2.7% of the area in the 1% annual chance zone, along Marine Creek in the northeast corner, with 62 residents on blocks inside it. The City's advisory Potential High Water Areas, which FEMA does not map, cover 15.3%, most of it along the West Fork below Grand Avenue; 1,273 residents live on blocks in either kind of City area. The City's gas well layer shows no well inside the line.

The frequent bus runs up the edge. Trinity Metro's Orange Line stops eight times inside the line on North Main, every 15 minutes from 5 a.m. to 1 a.m., between downtown and North Side Station, where TEXRail runs about every 30 minutes to downtown and DFW Airport. Route 091 along 28th Street runs every 30 minutes.