Is Willow Park a good place to live?
For most people who can afford it, yes. Willow Park grades B+ overall, ranked 83rd of 640 in Texas. The median household earns $132K and CDC estimates put its residents' health ahead of 83% of the country. What holds it back is price: homes are expensive, about $421K for a typical one and 4.7 times the Dallas metro’s $90K median household income. Willow Park’s median rent is $2,415 a month, above both Texas’ towns ($1,206 a month) and U.S. towns ($1,185 a month).
What makes Willow Park stand out
Where Willow Park beats most towns.
Willow Park has grown 72% since 2010
3,982 counted in 2010 and 4,936 in 2020; an estimated 7,439 in 2025.
Growth hasn’t slowed: 38.9% since 2020, after 24% in the decade before.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
How Willow Park grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Willow Park is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
AT&T Stadium and 36 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Willow Park. Close and well known come first.
Big draw32 mi Stadium & arenaAT&T Stadium
Big draw33 mi Stadium & arenaGlobe Life Field
34 mi Theme parkSix Flags Over Texas
33 mi Stadium & arenaChoctaw Stadium
17 mi Stadium & arenaAmon G. Carter Stadium
17 mi MuseumKimbell Art MuseumPhoto credits
AT&T Stadium: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Globe Life Field: Drone To Fly, CC BY 3.0 · Six Flags Over Texas: Chris Hagerman from New Port Richey, FL, US, CC BY 2.0 · Choctaw Stadium: KENGRIFFEY24FAN, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Amon G. Carter Stadium: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Kimbell Art Museum: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain
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Moving to Willow Park: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Willow Park, 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 Willow Park.
Willow Park fares better on crime within Texas than nationally, has hotter summers than nearly all U.S. towns and has less food insecurity than most of Texas.
Willow Park’s grade for health is an A−
Its widest gap with Texas is food insecurity: 8.1% of its 3,689 adults worry about having enough food, against 19.3% statewide. Against the 4,332 U.S. towns with household incomes like Willow Park’s, it is healthier than 51%, a smaller edge than it has nationally: part of it comes with its incomes.
20% of Willow Park adults get no exercise outside work. Willow Park beats the Texas average on 14 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 2. 8.1% of Willow Park adults worry about having enough food.
| Willow Park | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 30% | 25% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 8.1% | 20% | 14% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 17% | 16% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 24% | 19% |
| What stands out | Willow Park | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 8.1% | 19.3% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 8.6% | 19.1% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.4% | 6.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Willow Park’s public schools outperform 80% of Texas districts
Its A− for schools comes with a D for cost of living: the typical home is worth about $421K.
Its public schools are run by Aledo ISD. Two of its 4 schools are below, each with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| McCall ElLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–5 | Grades K–5 | 451 | A |
| New JjaepLargest public high schoolGrades 8–12 | Grades 8–12 | 6 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within TX on state tests and graduation
Willow Park’s grade for cost of living is a D
The typical Willow Park home is worth about $421,000, down 0.7% in a year, 42% above the Texas typical home.
Typical home value
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Willow Park faces a low natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 74% of U.S. communities. Since 1981, 2 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Willow Park.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Mild winters and hot summers in Willow Park
July afternoons average 94.9°, hotter than in 96% of U.S. towns; January nights average 34.3°. The Benbrook Dam weather station, 14 miles away, records that the frost-free season runs about 245 days: longer than most of the country, but shorter than 84% of Texas places with climate records.
Willow Park has mild winters and hot summers. The July high in Willow Park is 95°F. Snow is almost unheard of.
| Willow Park | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| July high | 95°F | 95°F | 85°F |
| January low | 34°F | 37°F | 22°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
About one in three of Willow Park’s working residents commute to Fort Worth
Willow Park has about as many jobs (2,529) as working residents, but only 62 people both live and work here.
Most working residents leave Willow Park for work: only 3% work in town. Willow Park’s average trip to work is 30 minutes. Jobs based in Willow Park grew to 2,529 in 2023, 489 more than in 2013.
| Willow Park | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $132,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 30 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 2.7% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 10% | 12% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Less crime per resident in Willow Park than in 57% of U.S. towns
At 15.7 crimes per 1,000 residents a year, it reports less crime than 71% of Texas’s graded towns. Reported crimes fell from 78 to 45 over the last three FBI years, a drop beyond ordinary year-to-year swings.
Violent crime per 1,000 residents
Property crime per 1,000 residents
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
0% of Willow Park is conserved land
Just 2 of its 4,163 acres are conserved, so there is little public open land in Willow Park itself; its outdoors grade is D.
0.0 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Willow Park North Playground | — | 3 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Willow Park
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Willow Park
About 7 of every 100 Willow Park residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Texas.
About Willow Park
City in Texas, United States
Willow Park is a city in Parker County, Texas, United States. The population was 4,936 in 2020. Willow Park was the location of Trinity Meadows Race Track, one of the first horse racing tracks opened once Texas legalized parimutuel betting. However, it was never seriously considered for upgrade to first-class status. Lone Star Park opened after Trinity Meadows Race Track closed due to a federal lawsuit and violations of the federal Clean Water Act. It is home to Squaw Creek golf course, located just off Ranch House Road. KTVT, Channel 11 in Fort Worth operates a 1 million watt doppler radar in Willow Park.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 6.6 sq mi
- Elevation
- 932 ft
- Area code
- 817
Willow Park’s neighbors
2 towns share a border with Willow Park.
| Town | TX rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Willow Park | #83 | B+ | D | B | A− | A− |
| Weatherford | #252 | C+ | C− | C+ | B− | B |
| Hudson Oaks | #309 | C | D | C− | B− | B |
Questions about Willow Park
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Willow Park, TX a good place to live?
For most people who can afford it, yes. Willow Park grades B+ overall, better than 68% of U.S. towns and #83 of 640 in Texas. It grades A− for health, B for safety and A− for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Willow Park, 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.