Is Trophy Club a good place to live?
For most people who can afford it, yes. Trophy Club grades A overall, 11th of 640 graded towns in Texas. The median household earns $201K. It is healthier than 94% of U.S. towns and it reports less crime per resident than 94% of U.S. towns. The trade-off is money: homes are expensive, about $686K for a typical one and 7.6 times the Dallas metro’s $90K median household income. 68% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Trophy Club, where Texas’ towns sit at 23% and U.S. towns at 29%. On the outdoors, just 37 of Texas’ 1,000 towns do better. The biggest park or preserve is Independence Park East, at 20 acres.
What makes Trophy Club stand out
Where Trophy Club beats most towns.
Trophy Club has grown 70% since 2010
8,024 counted in 2010 and 13,688 in 2020; an estimated 13,695 in 2025.
Growth has leveled off: within 1% of 2020, after 70.6% in the decade before.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
How Trophy Club grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Trophy Club is from typical.
Its grades run from A+ for jobs and income (better than 99% of comparable towns) to D for cost of living (better than 14%), so the A overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
AT&T Stadium and 78 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Trophy Club. Close and well known come first.
Big draw18 mi Stadium & arenaAT&T Stadium
Big draw18 mi Stadium & arenaGlobe Life Field
Big draw28 mi Stadium & arenaCotton Bowl
Big draw19 mi Stadium & arenaTexas Stadium
18 mi Theme parkSix Flags Over Texas
18 mi Stadium & arenaChoctaw StadiumPhoto credits
AT&T Stadium: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Globe Life Field: Drone To Fly, CC BY 3.0 · Cotton Bowl: Robbiewest88, Public domain · 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 Trophy Club: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Trophy Club, 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 Trophy Club.
Trophy Club has less food insecurity 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.
Trophy Club’s grade for cost of living is a D
At 7.6 years of the Dallas metro’s $90K median household income, the typical home (about $686K) costs more against local pay than in 95% of Texas towns; that ratio is one input to its D for cost of living.
The median rent in Trophy Club is $1,992 a month. The typical Trophy Club home is worth about $686,000, down 0.6% in a year, more than twice the Texas typical home. 88% of households own their home in Trophy Club.
| Trophy Club | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,992 a month | $1,206 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 88% | 69% | 73% |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
On state tests, Trophy Club’s schools beat 73% of Texas districts
Its public schools are run by Northwest ISD. Three of its 6 schools are below, each with why it’s listed. The largest public high school is Byron Nelson H S, with 2,969 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medlin MiddleLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 1,109 | A |
| Byron Nelson H SLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 2,969 | A |
| Samuel Beck ElTop results in townGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 642 | A+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within TX on state tests and graduation
Compared with most of Texas and the rest of the country, trail density in Trophy Club is higher
Trophy Club’s trail density is 3.2 miles per square mile. 13 miles of trail in 5 parks and preserves. 6.2% of the land in Trophy Club is conserved.
| Trophy Club | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 3.2 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 6.2% | 1.9% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Harmony Park | 0.6 mi | 12 |
| 2. Independence Park East | — | 20 |
| 3. Trophy Club Park | 0.1 mi | 15 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Fewer of Trophy Club’s adults worry about having enough food than in the typical Texas or U.S. town
Its widest gap with Texas is food insecurity: 6.4% of its 9,842 adults worry about having enough food, against 19.3% statewide. Against the 1,042 U.S. towns with household incomes like Trophy Club’s, it is less healthy than 67%: its national edge comes with its incomes.
6.4% of Trophy Club adults worry about having enough food.
| Trophy Club | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 10% | 15% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 30% | 25% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 24% | 19% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 6.4% | 20% | 14% |
| What stands out | Trophy Club | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 6.4% | 19.3% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 7.1% | 19.1% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 8.4% | 6.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Trophy Club’s grade for safety is an A
Violent crime is rare: 3 reported in 2025, 0.2 per 1,000 residents.
Violent crime per 1,000 residents
Property crime per 1,000 residents
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Most working residents commute out of Trophy Club
Trophy Club has 1,543 jobs for its 6,432 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. Jobs based here grew from 972 in 2013 to 1,543.
Most working residents leave Trophy Club for work: only 2% work in town. Jobs based in Trophy Club grew to 1,543 in 2023, 571 more than in 2013. The top destinations are Dallas (14%), Fort Worth (12%) and Irving (8%).
| Trophy Club | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $201,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 25% | 9.6% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 2.1% | 12% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.8% | 8.3% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Mild winters and hot summers in Trophy Club
July afternoons average 95.7°, hotter than in 97% of U.S. towns; January nights average 35.2°.
Trophy Club has mild winters and hot summers. Snow is almost unheard of.
| Trophy Club | 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
Trophy Club faces a moderate natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 53% of U.S. communities. Since 2003, 21 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Trophy Club.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Everything we know about Trophy Club
Colleges nearby
4 within 15 miles of the center of Trophy Club
About 5 of every 100 Trophy Club residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Texas.
13 miles of trails in Trophy Club
6.2% of the town is conserved land, across 5 parks and preserves.
About Trophy Club
Town in Texas, United States
Trophy Club is a town located primarily in Denton County, Texas, United States (with a very small fraction extending into Tarrant County). It is an affluent suburb of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. When established in the 1970s, it was one of the earliest premier planned communities in Texas, built around the only golf course designed by Ben Hogan. It is located west of the DFW Airport and south of the western edge of Grapevine Lake, spanning the county line separating Denton and Tarrant along State Highway 114. The population was 13,688 in 2020.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Established
- 1973
- Area
- 4.0 sq mi
- Elevation
- 607 ft
- Area code
- 817
Trophy Club’s neighbors
3 towns share a border with Trophy Club.
| Town | TX rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trophy Club | #11 | A | D | A | B+ | A |
| Westlake | — | — | D− | — | B+ | A+ |
| Roanoke | #144 | B | D | B− | B+ | A |
| Southlake | #6 | A | D | B+ | A+ | A+ |
Westlake has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Westlake reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Trophy Club with a neighbor →
Questions about Trophy Club
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Trophy Club, TX a good place to live?
For most people who can afford it, yes. Trophy Club grades A overall, better than 90% of U.S. towns and #11 of 640 in Texas. It grades A for health, A for safety and B+ for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Trophy Club, 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 D.