Live in Tanglewood

Tanglewood lies southwest of Texas Christian University on two old land grants, the 1854 Felix G. Beasley survey on the west and the 1876 James Howard survey along the creek, and on ground that was ranch and, in part, a dairy farm. It was laid out under covenants that required brick or stone houses with attached two-car garages and banned livestock, and most of what went up were single-story ranch houses. Its spine is Overton Park, a strip about a mile long that the Edwards family's Cassco Land Company deeded to the City in 1959. This guide takes the area the Tanglewood Neighborhood Association files with the City, about 382 acres between Hulen Street and Simondale Drive, which follows the backs of lots more often than streets. The 2020 census counted 1,680 people there, up from 1,444 on the same ground in 2010.

It is the owner-occupied side of the TCU neighborhoods. Owners lived in 401 of the 473 occupied homes in 2020, 85%, against 46% in Bluebonnet Hills south of the campus, and 552 residents, a third, were under 18. The association meets at Tanglewood Elementary, just outside its line on Overton Park Drive West, which the Texas Education Agency rated A (93) for 2026; 17.9% of its students counted as economically disadvantaged. The houses are changing: many new ones are built much larger than the ranch houses they replace.

Two thirds of it is inside the TCU overlay. When the Zoning Commission heard the TCU Residential Overlay on 8 October 2014, a resident asked for it to reach west to Overton Park, and the commission agreed. So on our count 1,215 of the 1,680 residents live inside it, where a one-family house may hold no more than three unrelated people, and the western third, toward Hulen Street, is outside it. For an owner-occupier the rule rarely bites; for anyone buying to rent to students, which side of the line the lot is on is the first question.

The price is the ZIP's, and the ZIP is bigger. Zillow's typical value for 76109, which runs east to TCU, was $688,194 in August 2026, up 5.4% on the year, against the City's single-family MLS median of $327,000; no published figure follows the association's line. The six taxing units on a Fort Worth ISD address add to 2.18908 per $100 for 2025, the Tarrant Regional Water District taking no homestead exemption. A homestead at the ZIP figure owes about $12,211 a year and the same house without the exemption about $15,065. No public improvement district reaches the area. The arithmetic is on the Fort Worth page.

The creek through the park is the flood line. FEMA puts 12.3% of the area in its 1% annual chance zone, 3.5% of it floodway, all along the creek in Overton Park, which the Census Bureau's map leaves unnamed and runs into a Clear Fork diversion channel on the western side. No census block's center falls in that zone, but 48 residents live on blocks in the 0.2% zone beside it, and the City marks another tenth of the area, outside FEMA's zone, as potential high water. The City's 2022 bond program pays for work to stabilize the creek's banks. The gas well layer shows no well inside the line; the nearest producing one is about 1.4 km away. The bus is route 052 on Hulen Street, once an hour.