How this comparison works

Every neighborhood below gets the same short entry: where it is and what kind of housing it has, then its transit, then two travel times. The groups follow the map, and the order inside each group is not a preference.

Rent

The Census publishes rent by city, not by neighborhood name. The citywide figures for Dallas, by number of bedrooms, are on our Dallas page. Inside the city, what moves the rent is the building: a new high-rise, an older garden-style complex and a small historic building on the same street can be far apart.

So for each neighborhood we describe the housing the public record shows, and current ranges come from the communities we work with. Decision: neighborhood rent source

Commute

Two times for each neighborhood, to downtown Dallas. Drive times without traffic, checked October 2026; rush hour adds time. Transit times are from Google Maps for a weekday departure at 8 a.m., the same hour our city pages use.

Transit

The rail line, streetcar or trolley that serves the neighborhood, with its nearest station, from DART’s records and Wikipedia articles that cite them. Where there is no station, we say so. We do not list bus routes, because they change. Our guide to DFW by train covers the whole network.

What we left out on purpose: rankings, safety, schools and who lives where. We describe places, not people, and every neighborhood is open to every renter.

Downtown and the edge of the core

Downtown

The business district inside the freeway loop formed by I-35E, I-30, I-345 and Woodall Rodgers Freeway. Its housing has grown through dozens of residential conversions and new high-rise condominiums, and its redeveloped Main Street now has residential towers.

Transit

All four DART light-rail lines cross downtown, and Akard station, on Pacific Avenue, serves all four. Union Station is the Trinity Railway Express stop for Fort Worth and the start of the Dallas Streetcar.

To DFW Airport

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Deep Ellum

East of the elevated I-345, running to Exposition Avenue, and tied to downtown by Pacific, Elm, Main, Commerce and Canton streets. The name is a corruption of Elm Street. Music venues and restaurants share the blocks with urban residential buildings.

Transit

Deep Ellum station, on the Green Line, opened September 14, 2009. Baylor University Medical Center station, also on the Green Line, serves the eastern end.

To downtown Dallas

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Victory Park

A master-planned district northwest of downtown, north of Woodall Rodgers Freeway and along I-35E, built around the American Airlines Center, which opened in July 2001. Its plan calls for more than 4,000 residences.

Transit

Victory station serves the Trinity Railway Express and DART light rail, with the Green and Orange lines on a regular schedule. The Katy Trail starts at the American Airlines Center.

To downtown Dallas

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Design District

Between I-35E on the north and east, Wycliff Avenue and the Trinity River levee on the west, and Continental Avenue on the south. A former warehouse district known for design showrooms and galleries, it has added restaurants and upscale apartments.

Transit

No station inside the district. Market Center station, on the Green and Orange lines, opened in December 2010 on Harry Hines Boulevard, north of I-35E.

To downtown Dallas

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North of downtown

Uptown

North of downtown, between US 75 on the east and the Katy Trail on the northwest, with Woodall Rodgers Freeway along its south side. It was built dense, much of it in a new-urbanist style.

Transit

The M-Line Trolley runs free between Cityplace/Uptown station and St. Paul station downtown, with 40 stops. Cityplace/Uptown, on the Red, Blue and Orange lines, is the only underground station on DART.

To downtown Dallas

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Oak Lawn

Inside Turtle Creek Boulevard, Central Expressway, Highland Park, Inwood Road and Harry Hines Boulevard, by its usual lines. The city treats it as one planning district, Planned Development District No. 193.

Transit

Market Center and Southwestern Medical District/Parkland stations, on the Green and Orange lines, are inside Oak Lawn. Inwood/Love Field station is at its western end, with the Love Link bus to the Love Field terminal.

To downtown Dallas

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Knox Henderson

North of Uptown and east and south of Highland Park, centered on Knox Street, Henderson Avenue, McKinney Avenue and Cole Avenue, with the Katy Trail running through.

Transit

No station on Knox Street or Henderson Avenue: the Red, Blue and Orange lines run in a tunnel under US 75 between Cityplace/Uptown and SMU/Mockingbird stations.

To downtown Dallas

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Highland Park (next to Dallas)

A separate town, incorporated in 1913, between the Dallas North Tollway and US 75. Dallas surrounds it on three sides and University Park borders it on the north.

Transit

Highland Park voters chose to leave DART in a May 2, 2026 election. The town’s replacement is an on-demand service.

To downtown Dallas

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East Dallas

Lower Greenville

Greenville Avenue between Belmont Avenue and Mercedes Avenue, and the older additions around it, such as Vickery Place and Greenland Hills, dating from the 1910s and 1920s. The Granada Theater has stood on the avenue since 1946.

Transit

No rail station on Lower Greenville. SMU/Mockingbird station, at Mockingbird Lane and US 75, is the northernmost stop shared by the Red, Orange and Blue lines.

To downtown Dallas

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Old East Dallas

A group of historic neighborhoods east of downtown. East Dallas was its own city until 1890, when Dallas annexed it, and it includes the Swiss Avenue, Munger Place and Junius Heights historic districts.

Transit

Baylor University Medical Center station, on the Green Line, is at the edge it shares with Deep Ellum.

To downtown Dallas

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Lake Highlands

Most of Northeast Dallas, bordered on the south by Northwest Highway and White Rock Lake and on the north and east by Richardson and Garland. Most of it was built in the late 20th century, and the car is the main way to get around.

Transit

The Blue Line crosses it, with White Rock, Lake Highlands and LBJ/Skillman stations; Forest Lane and LBJ/Central, on the Red and Orange lines, are also counted among its stations. Light rail has served it since 2001.

To downtown Dallas

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White Rock Lake

A city reservoir finished in 1911 after a water shortage, now ringed by White Rock Lake Park, with a trail for walking, running and cycling, the Bath House Cultural Center and the Dallas Arboretum.

Transit

White Rock station, on the Blue Line, sits on Northwest Highway and connects to the White Rock Creek Trail, which leads to the lake.

To downtown Dallas

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Across the Trinity

Bishop Arts

In north Oak Cliff, around Bishop Avenue and Davis Street, about two miles southwest of downtown. The blocks were built in the 1920s as warehouses and shops; in the 1930s, a trolley stop on Davis was the busiest in Dallas.

Transit

The Dallas Streetcar reached the district on August 29, 2016, with a direct ride to Union Station.

To downtown Dallas

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Oak Cliff

Its own town from 1887 until Dallas annexed it in 1903, across the Trinity River from downtown, with neighborhoods from the turn of the 20th century and from its middle decades.

Transit

The Red and Blue lines run through it. 8th & Corinth station, opened in 1996, is where the two lines split, and Dallas Zoo station is on the Red Line.

To downtown Dallas

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Trinity Groves

A restaurant and retail development in West Dallas at the western end of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, which opened in 2012. It runs a restaurant concept incubator, and its plans call for apartments.

Transit

No rail station. The Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge connects Singleton Boulevard with Woodall Rodgers Freeway in downtown.

To downtown Dallas

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West Dallas

West of downtown, north of Oak Cliff and east of Irving and Grand Prairie, with most of it in the Trinity River floodplain. Since the bridge opened, condominiums, townhomes and apartments have gone up along Singleton Boulevard and Fort Worth Avenue. Ask for the lease’s flood notice (§92.0135).

Transit

Light rail: West End, Union Station and Victory stations; our train guide has the lines.

To downtown Dallas

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North Dallas

Bachman Lake and Royal Lane

Bachman Lake, 205 acres, was built in 1903 as an early water supply and sits on the northwest edge of Love Field, under its landing path, with a 3.3-mile trail around it.

Transit

Bachman station, on the Green and Orange lines, is at the west end of the lake. Royal Lane station, on the Green Line, opened in December 2010. For Love Field, the Love Link bus runs from Inwood/Love Field station.

To downtown Dallas

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Preston Hollow

Usually drawn between Northwest Highway on the south, Royal Lane on the north and Hillcrest Road on the east. It was a separate town until Dallas annexed it in 1945, and its western estate area is known for large lots.

Transit

No station named for it. Check the transit time below before you count on rail.

To downtown Dallas

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Prestonwood

A neighborhood of Far North Dallas, north of LBJ Freeway, around Preston Road. Far North Dallas grew mostly in the late 20th century, and the car is the main way to get around.

Transit

Knoll Trail station, on the Silver Line near Arapaho Road and the Dallas North Tollway, serves the apartment and office buildings around it and Prestonwood Town Center. It has no parking lot of its own.

To downtown Dallas

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Far North Dallas

The part of Dallas north of LBJ Freeway (I-635) and south of the President George Bush Turnpike, with Addison, Farmers Branch, Richardson, Carrollton and Plano around it. Most of it was built in the late 20th century at low density, and the car is the main way to get around.

Transit

The Silver Line, open since October 25, 2025, crosses it with one station, Knoll Trail. DART dropped planned stations at Coit Road and Preston Road in 2018.

To downtown Dallas

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Reading the comparison

Two neighborhoods with the same drive time can be very different on transit, and the reverse. Start from where you need to be on a weekday and how you want to get there, then look at the housing each place has.

If you are coming from outside Texas, our Moving to Dallas-Fort Worth guide covers the rest of the move, and the rent calculator gives you a budget to bring to the search.