Highland Park Apartments
Apartments in and around Highland Park, the town next to Dallas. AptViva tracks their move-in specials, so you don’t have to.
Communities in Highland Park
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Living in Highland Park
Highland Park is its own town, next to Dallas and not a Dallas neighborhood: its residents voted to incorporate on November 29, 1913. Dallas surrounds it on the south, east and west, and the city of University Park lies to the north; the two towns together are called the Park Cities. The town covers about 2.2 square miles.
Most of the town is houses. Apartments are a small part of it, so we also look in the Dallas neighborhoods along its edges. John S. Armstrong began developing the land as Highland Park in 1906, with twenty percent of the original land set aside for parks, and Highland Park Village, at the southwest corner of Mockingbird Lane and Preston Road, opened in 1931.
Commute times from Highland Park
- Downtown DallasDrive: 11 min
- Southern Methodist University, University ParkDrive: 6 min
- UT Southwestern Medical CenterDrive: 10 min
- Dallas Love FieldDrive: 10 min
- DFW AirportDrive: 31 min
From Preston Road at Armstrong Parkway. Drive times without traffic, checked October 2026; rush hour adds time. Your shortlist gets its own times, address by address.
Getting around
- No DART rail line runs through the town. The closest station is SMU/Mockingbird, just east of it at Mockingbird Lane and US 75, on the Red, Orange and Blue lines, with 140 free parking spaces. The next stop south, Cityplace/Uptown, is under US 75 at Haskell Avenue. By car, the Dallas North Tollway is the toll road north toward Addison and Plano and south toward downtown, and US 75 runs along the east side. Dallas Love Field is to the northwest.
Close to home
Exall Lake and the parkland along Turtle Creek are the green spaces. Highland Park Village is a National Historic Landmark, and there are shops and restaurants on Knox Street, just outside the town to the southeast.
For groceries, Tom Thumb is at 3878 Oak Lawn Ave and 7117 Inwood Rd, Trader Joe’s at 4525 Cole Ave and La Michoacana Meat Market at 2420 N. Fitzhugh Ave. CareNow urgent care is at 4501 Lemmon Ave.
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Questions about Highland Park
Is Highland Park part of Dallas?
No. It is a separate town. Its residents voted to incorporate on November 29, 1913, and Dallas’s efforts to annex it ended in 1945 (Handbook of Texas). Dallas surrounds it on three sides.
Are there apartments in Highland Park?
Some. About one in eight homes in the town is in a building with five or more units (U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020–2024). We also search the Dallas neighborhoods next to it, such as Knox Henderson and Oak Lawn.
What are the Park Cities?
Highland Park and University Park, its neighbor to the north. Each is its own town, and Dallas surrounds them both.
Is there a train station in Highland Park?
Not inside the town. The nearest is SMU/Mockingbird, just east at Mockingbird Lane and US 75, on the Red, Orange and Blue lines.
What is Highland Park Village?
A shopping center at Mockingbird Lane and Preston Road that opened in 1931. It is a National Historic Landmark.
Which school district serves Highland Park?
Most of the town is in Highland Park ISD; the part west of the Dallas North Tollway is in Dallas ISD (Wikipedia). Check any address with the district before you sign a lease.
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