Live in Wedgwood
Fort Worth's biggest midcentury subdivision, built by one land company from 1954 on streets that mostly begin with W, where a house in ZIP code 76133 was typically worth $259,633 in August 2026 and the original plumbing is now around sixty years old.
Wedgwood Land Co. was formed in 1954 by E. L. Baker Sr., Irwin Krauss and S. G. Payte, who built it out over the next two decades around schools, a shopping village and the new highway, and gave almost every street a W name, after the English china. This guide joins the areas of three neighborhood associations registered with the City, Wedgwood East, Wedgwood Square and Wedgwood South, where the 2020 census counted 13,743 residents, 7.5% more than on the same blocks in 2010, and owners in 68% of the occupied homes. Zillow put the typical home in ZIP code 76133, which holds all of them and about 38,000 more people, at $259,633 in August 2026, down 1.6% on the year. The Wedgwood Historical Association won a state grant in 2026 toward a National Register nomination, which it says would bring owners no rules; no City historic district or zoning overlay touches the line.
One land company's postwar suburb, bought now for its size and its trees, and inspected for its pipes
Three areas registered as neighborhood associations on the City of Fort Worth's Neighborhood Organizations layer, taken together because they share the name, edges and no census blocks: Wedgwood Square (OBJECTID 44188, about 983 acres), Wedgwood East (44082, about 725 acres) and Wedgwood South (44120, about 238 acres), about 1,947 acres in all. The City says registration is voluntary and does not say it checks the lines. Traced against the Census Bureau's road layer, the joined line runs along Interstate 20 on the north, down Granbury Road on the northwest and South Hulen Street on the west; Woodway Drive divides the Square from the East, and Altamesa Boulevard closes both on the south; Wedgwood East runs east to Westcreek Drive and, at its southeast corner, McCart Avenue. Wedgwood South carries the line south of Altamesa between Hulen Street and Woodway Drive to the backs of the lots on Willow Way Road and Saldana Drive, where Candleridge begins. Wikipedia and the Fort Worth Report describe Wedgwood as Granbury Road, Interstate 20, McCart Avenue and Westcreek Drive, and Altamesa Boulevard, which is the Square and the East without the South; the historical association's proposed National Register district, bounded by Granbury Road, Interstate 20, Vega Court and Altamesa, is about 2,200 lots. All of it is in Tarrant County, Fort Worth ISD and ZIP code 76133. The reference point is the population-weighted center of the 225 blocks, beside Wedgwood Middle School.
Wedgwood was one company's project. Wedgwood Land Co. was formed in 1954 by E. L. Baker Sr., Irwin Krauss and S. G. Payte, who built it out over the next two decades around schools, a shopping village and the new highway. A sales brochure that year invoked the English china, and the developers gave almost every street a W, Wedgmont, Wrigley, Winifred and the rest, until, Werner Magnus wrote in his book Who Was Hulen?, the fire department asked them to stop. The houses are mostly brick ranches, and few streets have sidewalks. No single line is official, so this guide joins the areas of three neighborhood associations registered with the City, Wedgwood Square, Wedgwood East and Wedgwood South, about 1,947 acres south of Interstate 20 where the 2020 census counted 13,743 residents, up from 12,780 in 2010. The usual accounts stop at Altamesa Boulevard; Wedgwood South's streets below it are in because they carry the name.
Nothing on the City's map reviews what an owner does to a house here. No City historic district, zoning overlay or public improvement district touches the line. The Wedgwood Historical Association, founded in 2021, won a Texas Historical Commission grant of $21,800 in 2026, half the cost of a survey and a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, for about 2,200 lots between Granbury Road, Interstate 20, Vega Court and Altamesa Boulevard. Its president calls a listing an honorary badge with no rules for homeowners. It is a federal listing, not one of the City's 14 historic districts, where exterior work needs a certificate of appropriateness first.
No price index follows these streets. Wedgwood is all in ZIP code 76133, where Zillow's typical value was $259,633 in August 2026, down 1.6% on the year, but the ZIP holds about 38,000 other people, Candleridge among them, and this guide found no published median for Wedgwood itself. 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 $3,707 a year, the same house without the exemption about $5,684, and a homestead at the city's $327,000 median single-family sale price about $5,044. One unit, the Tarrant Regional Water District, takes no homestead exemption at all. The arithmetic is on the Fort Worth page. The cost the ZIP figure hides is age: a resident writing in the Fort Worth Report put the life of the original cast-iron plumbing at about fifty years and replaced her own at sixty.
The flood risk is mostly off FEMA's map. FEMA puts 0.1% of the area in its 1% annual chance zone, with no census block's center inside it. The City's advisory Potential High Water Areas, flood risk it maps beyond FEMA's zones, cover 9.9%, with 459 residents on blocks centered in them. A branch of Sycamore Creek drains Wedgwood East toward the creek, which runs northeast through the city to the Trinity's West Fork. And there is gas under the lawns: the City's layer shows 11 producing wells inside the line, all run by one operator, and in 2008 owners here and in Candleridge signed about 1,400 leases at $15,000 an acre.
The frequent bus runs along the edge. Trinity Metro's Route 6, every 15 minutes to Fort Worth Central Station, stops twice on McCart Avenue at Wedgwood East's southeast corner, about 1.5 km from the reference point. Route 52 runs about hourly on Hulen Street, and TEXRail starts downtown, about 11 km away.
- Pay for a camera inspection of the sewer line to the street before the option period ends
- Check the lot against FEMA's map and the City's Potential High Water Areas, and price flood cover either way
- Look up gas wells and pad sites near the address on the City's gas well map, and ask the seller whether the minerals were leased
- Run the address through Fort Worth ISD's School Finder, because the district publishes no zone map
- File the homestead exemption with the Tarrant Appraisal District once you live there
How Wedgwood got here
- 1954E. L. Baker Sr., Irwin Krauss and S. G. Payte form Wedgwood Land Co.; a sales brochure that year invokes the English china maker, and the developers give almost every street a W name.
- 1955Wedgwood Park, 6.7 acres in what is now Wedgwood Square, is the oldest park inside the line by the year the City's park layer gives it.
- 1977Krauss Baker Park, 24.6 acres in Wedgwood East carrying two of the developers' surnames, is dated this year on the City's park layer.
- 1999On 15 September a gunman kills seven people, most of them teenagers, at a youth rally at Wedgwood Baptist Church, then himself.
- 2008In May, after a joint committee of the Candleridge association and the Wedgwood neighborhood association negotiated from October 2007, about 1,400 owners sign Barnett Shale gas leases at $15,000 an acre and a 25% royalty.
- 2010The census counts 12,780 residents on the blocks inside today's three association lines.
- 2020The census counts 13,743 residents and 5,590 homes inside the line; owners live in 3,614 of the 5,297 occupied homes.
- 2021In March residents found the Wedgwood Historical Association to document the neighborhood and seek a National Register listing; its Parade of Homes has raised money for it every year since.
- 2026In May the Texas Historical Commission grants the association $21,800, half the $43,600 cost of the survey and nomination, with the City as sponsor, for a district of about 2,200 lots.
Four neighborhood parks, and the long greenbelt just south
The largest park inside the line is Krauss Baker Park, 24.6 acres of the City's in Wedgwood East. Wedgwood Park, 6.7 acres dated 1955 on the City's layer, sits in Wedgwood Square beside Bruce Shulkey Elementary, and Little People and Southwest parks are smaller. South across the line, Candleridge Park runs about 86 acres along Sycamore Creek around French Lake, with more than two and a half miles of paved trail. West across Hulen Street, Patricia LeBlanc Park has tennis courts and sports fields.
What the map does not show: the walk to them. Few streets have sidewalks, and July brings about 28 days reaching 32 °C, so the old street trees are the shade.
24 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.
Showing 1–12 of 24 places, nearest first.
Method: distances are straight lines from the population-weighted center of Wedgwood's 2020 census blocks multiplied by a road factor, with a tiered speed model for the drive: honest ranges, not routed times.
Every gym within reach
The City's Southwest Community Center on Welch Avenue is inside the line, with a gymnasium, a fitness room and a gymnastics training facility. The nearest YMCA is the Ryan Family YMCA on McCart Avenue south of Sycamore School Road.
- Southwest Community Center: about 0.9 km, fitness center on the City's Bronze Tier
- Ryan Family YMCA: about 5.5 km
- Krauss Baker Park: about 1.2 km, free
| Facility | What it is | Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Southwest Community Center open | The City's center at 6300 Welch Avenue, inside the line: a gymnasium, a Bronze Tier fitness center, a gymnastics training facility, pickleball and sand volleyball; open weekdays and Saturday mornings, closed Sunday. | 3–4 min |
| Ryan Family YMCA open | The nearest YMCA of Metropolitan Fort Worth branch, at 8250 McCart Avenue south of Sycamore School Road. | 8–12 min |
| Krauss Baker Park open | The free option: 24.6 acres of the City's inside Wedgwood East, and Candleridge Park's paved trails just south. | 3–5 min |
The free option is Krauss Baker Park's 24.6 acres.
Three campuses inside the line, and a finder that answers one address at a time
Every block is in the Fort Worth Independent School District. For the reference point, the district's School Finder returns Bruce Shulkey Elementary, rated B (80) for 2026, Wedgwood Middle School, D (69), and Southwest High School on Altamesa Boulevard, B (88), all three inside the line.
| School | Board | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Bruce Shulkey Elementary School | Fort Worth Independent School District | 5533 Whitman Avenue, inside the line: the elementary Fort Worth ISD's School Finder returns for the reference point for 2026-27, grades PK to 5. The Texas Education Agency rated it B, 80, for 2026 after C, 74, for 2025; 79.6% of its students counted as economically disadvantaged. The district publishes no zone map, so this is the reference point's school only; J. T. Stevens Elementary (6161 Wrigley Way, C, 74, for 2026) and Westcreek Elementary (3401 Walton Avenue, C, 71, after D, 68) are also inside the line, and each address has to be run through the finder. |
| Wedgwood Middle School | Fort Worth Independent School District | Inside the line, 3909 Wilkie Way on TEA's campus list; the district's finder gives it as 5713 Wimbleton Way. The middle school zoned for the reference point, rated D, 69, for 2026 after F, 59, for 2025; 88.5% economically disadvantaged. The finder lists it as grades 7 and 8 while TEA lists 6 to 8, and the finder names no separate sixth-grade campus, so where a sixth grader here goes is unconfirmed. |
| Southwest High School | Fort Worth Independent School District | 4100 Altamesa Boulevard, inside the line: the high school zoned for the reference point, grades 9 to 12. Rated B, 88, for 2026 after C, 77, for 2025; 83.0% economically disadvantaged. |
These are the reference point's schools, not Wedgwood's. Fort Worth ISD publishes no zone map, so run the exact address through its School Finder. The finder lists Wedgwood Middle as grades 7 and 8 and names no sixth-grade campus, so ask the district where a sixth grader goes.
Month by month, what living here looks like
Not a highlights reel: the actual annual rhythm, including the dates residents have to remember.
- The Tarrant Appraisal District values every property as of 1 January, and the 2025 bill is due by 31 January
- Highs near 13.6 °C and lows near 1.8 °C at Meacham, with about 11 nights at or below freezing on the 1991 to 2020 normal, the most of any month
- Penalty and interest begin on unpaid property tax bills on 1 February
- Highs near 15.8 °C, about seven freezing nights and 61 mm of rain
- March, April and May are North Central Texas's peak season for tornadoes and severe storms, the National Weather Service in Fort Worth says
- Highs near 20.0 °C and 80 mm of rain
- Highs near 24.2 °C and 78 mm of rain, in the middle of the spring severe-storm season
- The first days reaching 32 °C: about one in April on the normal
- 15 May, or 30 days after the appraisal district mails its notice if that is later, is the deadline to protest a value
- 102 mm of rain, the last month of the spring storm peak; 0.1% of the area is in FEMA's 1% annual chance zone, but 9.9% is in the City's advisory Potential High Water Areas
- 102 mm of rain on the normal and highs near 28.6 °C
- Highs near 33.1 °C, with about 22 days reaching 32 °C on the normal
- 102 mm of rain, as wet as May, then the summer dries out
- Highs near 35.4 °C, with about 28 days reaching 32 °C and nine reaching 38 °C
- 55 mm of rain on the normal
- Highs near 35.5 °C and lows near 23.6 °C, with about 11 days reaching 38 °C, the most of any month
- 57 mm of rain on the normal
- Highs near 31.3 °C, with about 15 days reaching 32 °C on the normal
- 66 mm of rain
- The Wedgwood Historical Association's Parade of Homes has run each autumn since 2021, on 16 September in 2023; the 2026 date was not posted on 30 September
- National Night Out is on the first Tuesday of October in Texas, 6 October in 2026
- 113 mm of rain, the wettest month on the normal, and a secondary severe-storm season into November
- Highs near 19.0 °C and lows near 7.4 °C, with 64 mm of rain
- The first freezing nights of the season, about two on the November normal
- Highs near 14.3 °C and lows near 2.9 °C, with about nine nights at or below freezing
- 67 mm of rain on the normal
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