Is Glenn Heights a good place to live?
Glenn Heights earns a D, 459th of 640 graded towns in Texas. What it does well: the median household earns $82K. On history, just 32 of Texas’ 1,000 towns do worse. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 78% of U.S. towns. The biggest park or preserve is Heritage Park, at 45 acres.
Glenn Heights has grown 80% since 2010
11,278 counted in 2010 and 15,819 in 2020; an estimated 20,327 in 2025.
Growth hasn’t slowed: 28.2% since 2020, after 40.3% in the decade before.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
How Glenn Heights grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Glenn Heights is from typical.
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AT&T Stadium and 70 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Glenn Heights. Close and well known come first.
Big draw19 mi Stadium & arenaAT&T Stadium
Big draw17 mi Stadium & arenaCotton Bowl
Big draw19 mi Stadium & arenaGlobe Life Field
Big draw20 mi Stadium & arenaTexas Stadium
19 mi Theme parkSix Flags Over Texas
19 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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Moving to Glenn Heights: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Glenn Heights, 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 Glenn Heights.
Glenn Heights has hotter summers than nearly all U.S. towns, has home values still below their peak and sends most of its workers to Dallas and beyond.
About one in three of Glenn Heights’ working residents commute to Dallas
Glenn Heights has 1,008 jobs for its 7,985 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. Jobs based here grew from 625 in 2013 to 1,008.
Most working residents leave Glenn Heights for work: only 1% work in town. Glenn Heights’ average trip to work is 33 minutes, against 25 minutes in Texas’ towns and 25 minutes across U.S. towns. Jobs based in Glenn Heights grew to 1,008 in 2023, 383 more than in 2013.
| Glenn Heights | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 33 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.6% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Work from home | 14% | 9.6% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 13% | 12% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Glenn Heights’ public schools trail 72% of Texas districts
Its public schools are run by Red Oak ISD. One of its 4 schools is below, with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Russell P Schupmann ElLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 756 | C+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within TX on state tests and graduation
Glenn Heights has mild winters and hot summers
July afternoons average 95.2°, hotter than in 96% of U.S. towns; January nights average 36.8°.
Glenn Heights has mild winters and hot summers. Glenn Heights’ July high is 95°F, where Texas’ towns sit at 95°F and U.S. towns at 85°F. The January low in Glenn Heights is 37°F.
| Glenn Heights | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| July high | 95°F | 95°F | 85°F |
| January low | 37°F | 37°F | 22°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Younger than Texas overall
People 65 and older are 7% of residents (13% statewide). Glenn Heights has grown 28% since 2020, to 20,327 residents in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate. 28% of Glenn Heights residents are under 18.
| Glenn Heights | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aged 65 or older | 7.3% | 14% | 18% |
| Under 18 | 28% | 26% | 22% |
| Median age | 33.8 years | 35.9 years | 40.5 years |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 27% | 23% | 29% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±3.5 points. Across Texas, 50.1% of residents are women. Median age: women 34.5, men 33.0.
| Glenn Heights | TX | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 12.4% | 13.3% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 15.5% | 11.7% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 11.6% | 9.7% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 13.4% | 14.5% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 12.9% | 14.1% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 12.3% | 12.3% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 14.6% | 11.1% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 3.9% | 8.2% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 3.4% | 5.2% | 7% |
| No diploma | 15.8% | 14% | 10.4% |
| High school | 28.3% | 24.3% | 26% |
| Some college | 19.8% | 20.1% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 9% | 7.7% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 16.1% | 21.5% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 11% | 12.3% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
Glenn Heights is less healthy than 58% of U.S. towns
Glenn Heights beats the Texas average on 6 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 8. 41% of adults sleep under 7 hours in Glenn Heights.
| Glenn Heights | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 41% | 39% | 36% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 23% | 20% | 14% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 15% | 14% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 22% | 23% |
| What stands out | Glenn Heights | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 4.2% | 6.1% |
| Fewer adults with heart disease | 4.3% | 5.6% |
| More adults facing a utility shut-off | 15% | 10.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The typical home in Glenn Heights is valued at about $326K
The typical value, about $326K, is 9% below its August 2022 peak. 71% of renter households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, against 51.7% across Texas.
The typical Glenn Heights home is worth about $326,000, down 2.5% in a year, 10% above the Texas typical home. Glenn Heights’ median rent is $1,675 a month.
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Violent crime per 1,000 residents
Property crime per 1,000 residents
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Heritage Park | 0.3 mi | 45 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Moderate risk in Glenn Heights, with heat waves at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 51% of U.S. communities. Since 2000, 5 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Glenn Heights.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Everything we know about Glenn Heights
Colleges nearby
4 within 15 miles of the center of Glenn Heights
About 6 of every 100 Glenn Heights residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Texas.
99% of working residents leave Glenn Heights for work
Where Glenn Heights’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Glenn Heights
City in Texas, United States
Glenn Heights is a city in Dallas and Ellis counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 11,278 at the 2010 census, and 15,819 in 2020.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Established
- 1969
- Area
- 7.2 sq mi
- Elevation
- 676 ft
- Area code
- 972
Glenn Heights’s neighbors
4 towns share a border with Glenn Heights.
| Town | TX rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glenn Heights | #459 | D | D | B− | C | C+ |
| Ovilla | #94 | B+ | D | A | B | B+ |
| Oak Leaf | — | — | C+ | — | B− | B+ |
| DeSoto | #561 | D | D | C | C− | C+ |
| Red Oak | #362 | C− | D | C+ | B− | B− |
Oak Leaf has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Oak Leaf reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Glenn Heights with a neighbor →
Questions about Glenn Heights
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Glenn Heights, TX a good place to live?
Glenn Heights grades D overall, better than 13% of U.S. towns and #459 of 640 in Texas. It grades C+ for health, B− for safety and C for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Glenn Heights, TX expensive?
Yes. That is 3.6 years of the area's median household income ($90,275 across the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D.