Double OakTX
A town of 3,051.
Is Double Oak a good place to live?
For most people who can afford it, yes. Double Oak grades A overall, 10th among Texas's 640 graded towns. The median household earns $172K. It reports less crime per resident than 94% of U.S. towns and it is healthier than 93% of U.S. towns. The trade-off is money: the typical home is worth about $850K, 9.4 years of the Dallas metro’s $90K median household income. Double Oak’s income of the median household is $172,000, against $69,000 in Texas’ towns and $80,000 across U.S. towns. Double Oak's schools rank ahead of 75% of Texas towns. Among 549 Texas towns, just 10 have a higher midpoint home value than Double Oak.
What makes Double Oak stand out
Where Double Oak beats most towns.
99% of working residents leave Double Oak for work
Where Double Oak’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Double Oak grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Double Oak is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Double Oak: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Double Oak, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Double Oak.
Double Oak has less no health insurance than most of Texas and has hotter summers than nearly all U.S. towns, but it has homes that cost more against local pay than most of Texas.
More of Double Oak’s households are owner-occupiers than in the typical Texas or U.S. town
At 9.4 years of the Dallas metro’s $90K median household income, the typical home (about $850K) costs more against local pay than in 97% of Texas towns; that ratio is one input to its C− for cost of living. Values rose 3.7% in the past year while the Texas typical home fell 1.5%.
In the year to September 2026, typical home values climbed 3.7%. The rent at the middle of the market in Double Oak is $1,383 a month.
| Double Oak | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 98% | 69% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,383 a month | $1,206 a month | $1,185 a month |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
For safety, Double Oak earns an A
Violent crime is rare: 2 reported in 2025, 0.7 per 1,000 residents.
For Double Oak, the rate of thefts and burglaries is 2.9 per 1,000 residents. Its level of violent crime is 0.7 per 1,000 residents.
| Double Oak | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 2.9 per 1,000 residents | 10.7 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0.7 per 1,000 residents | 1.9 | 1.6 |
Violent crime per 1,000 residents
Property crime per 1,000 residents
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Double Oak stands out in Texas and nationally, with fewer of its adults 18 to 64 who have no health insurance
Its widest gap with Texas is no health insurance: 5.9% of those 18–64 have no health insurance, against 19.1% statewide. Against the 1,620 U.S. towns with household incomes like Double Oak’s, it is less healthy than 50%: its national edge comes with its incomes.
Among adults in Double Oak, 78% had a checkup this year. Against the Texas average, Double Oak comes out ahead on 21 CDC measures out of 31, and behind on 3. Two figures for adults here: 14% report frequent mental distress, 13% say their health is fair or poor.
| Double Oak | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 30% | 25% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 18% | 17% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 24% | 19% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 7.9% | 14% | 14% |
| What stands out | Double Oak | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 5.9% | 19.1% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 6.6% | 19.3% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10% | 6.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Double Oak sends most of its workers out of town
Double Oak has 474 jobs for its 1,680 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. 29.2% of workers work from home, against 14.4% across Texas.
0.7% of working residents work locally in Double Oak. The town had 474 jobs in 2023, up 306 from 2013. Half of commuters travel less than 17 miles. The top destinations are Dallas (17%), Flower Mound (11%) and Irving (9%).
| Double Oak | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 3.7% | 12% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.7% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 27 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
In Double Oak, expect mild winters and hot summers
July afternoons average 95.5°, hotter than in 97% of U.S. towns; January nights average 35.2°.
It almost never snows. The peak summer temperature for Double Oak comes to 96°F. Snow is almost unheard of.
| Double Oak | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| July high | 96°F | 95°F | 85°F |
| January low | 35°F | 37°F | 22°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Double Oak faces a moderate natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Expected damage from storms and floods is lower here than in 56% of U.S. communities. Since 1989, 15 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Double Oak. Households here have drawn federal disaster aid in 3 declared disasters, most recently in 2024.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Conserved land covers 0.1% of Double Oak
Just 1 of its 1,573 acres are conserved, so there is little public open land in Double Oak itself; its outdoors grade is D.
One park or preserve covers 1 acres in Double Oak.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. John B Wright Memorial Park | — | 1 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
AT&T Stadium and 77 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Double Oak. Close and well known come first.
Big draw22 mi Stadium & arenaAT&T Stadium
Big draw28 mi Stadium & arenaCotton Bowl
Big draw22 mi Stadium & arenaGlobe Life Field
Big draw19 mi Stadium & arenaTexas Stadium
21 mi Theme parkSix Flags Over Texas
22 mi Stadium & arenaChoctaw StadiumPhoto credits
AT&T Stadium: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Cotton Bowl: Robbiewest88, Public domain · Globe Life Field: Drone To Fly, CC BY 3.0 · Texas Stadium: Allspamme, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Six Flags Over Texas: Chris Hagerman from New Port Richey, FL, US, CC BY 2.0 · Choctaw Stadium: KENGRIFFEY24FAN, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Everything we know about Double Oak
Colleges nearby
5 within 15 miles of the center of Double Oak
About 5 of every 100 Double Oak residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Texas.
About Double Oak
Town in Texas, United States
Double Oak is a town in Denton County, Texas, United States. The population was 3,054 at the 2020 census.
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- Area
- 2.5 sq mi
- Elevation
- 659 ft
Double Oak’s neighbors
4 towns share a border with Double Oak.
| Town | TX rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Double Oak | #10 | A | C− | A | A− | A |
| Flower Mound | #22 | A− | D | A− | A− | A |
| Bartonville | — | — | D | — | B | C+ |
| Copper Canyon | — | — | C− | — | B+ | A |
| Lantana | #97 | B+ | C− | — | B | A+ |
Bartonville and Copper Canyon have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Bartonville, Copper Canyon and Lantana report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Double Oak with a neighbor →
Questions about Double Oak
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Double Oak, TX a good place to live?
For most people who can afford it, yes. Double Oak grades A overall, better than 90% of U.S. towns and #10 of 640 in Texas. It grades A for health, A for safety and A− for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a C−.
Is Double Oak, TX safe?
Yes, by national standards. Double Oak reports less crime per resident than 94% of U.S. towns, an A Safety Grade: 2 violent and 9 property crimes in 2025.
Is Double Oak, TX expensive?
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.