{"id":81373,"date":"2025-12-09T05:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T05:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/81373\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T05:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T05:42:12","slug":"fort-worth-suburb-has-the-cheapest-rent-in-dfw-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/81373\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth suburb has the cheapest rent in DFW right now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After American shoppers spent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/claraludmir\/2025\/12\/02\/black-friday-sets-new-online-spending-record-with-118-billion-in-sales\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">$11.5 billion<\/a> on Black Friday  this year, it&#8217;s safe to say many people are watching their wallets this holiday season, including renters. And a new report is shedding light on the North Texas cities that are shelling out the most for their rent, and which lucky suburbs are the most affordable.<\/p>\n<p>Zumper&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zumper.com\/rent-research\/dallas-tx#rent-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">newest monthly rent report<\/a>, released December 2, analyzed active listings from the previous month across all cities in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. It tracked the most and least expensive rent prices for one- and two-bedroom apartments, and determines the cities with the fastest growing rents. Listings were aggregated by city to calculate median asking rents.<\/p>\n<p>Zumper found the statewide median rent for a one bedroom apartment came out to $1,126 last month.<\/p>\n<p>Cleburne &#8211; far-flung suburb located 32 miles south of Fort Worth &#8211; had the most affordable rent for a one-bedroom apartment in all of Dallas-Fort Worth, with median prices adding up to an even $1,000. Cleburne&#8217;s single-bedroom rent costs are 10.7 percent lower than they were a year ago, the report additionally found, so residents may not be as stretched thin when it comes to saving for their holiday gift-giving this year.<\/p>\n<p>The median cost for a two-bedroom apartment in Cleburne came out to $1,190 last month, which is 8.5 percent more affordable than it was in November 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Six more Dallas-Fort Worth cities had more affordable single-bedroom rent prices than the statewide median:<\/p>\n<p>Benbrook \u2013 $1,020Arlington \u2013 $1,080Denton \u2013 $1,090Hurst \u2013 $1,100Bedford and Mesquite \u2013 $1,110<\/p>\n<p>Rent in Fort Worth proper for both one- and two-bedroom apartments are also trending downwards when compared to last November&#8217;s prices. A single-bedroom unit had a median asking price of $1,190, about 6.3 percent cheaper than last year&#8217;s asking price. Two-bedroom units cost $1,450, which is 9.4 percent lower than this time last year.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas-Fort Worth cities with the most expensive rent prices<br \/>On the opposite end of the rent affordability spectrum, Frisco and The Colony tied for having the highest rent prices in Dallas-Fort Worth in November. According to the study&#8217;s findings, the median rent price for a single-bedroom apartment came out to $1,620 last month in both cities. In Frisco, that&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/dallas.culturemap.com\/news\/real-estate\/dallas-frisco-zumper-rent-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">$10 lower<\/a> than what it cost for the same apartment in June.<\/p>\n<p>Frisco residents are expected to budget <a href=\"https:\/\/dallas.culturemap.com\/news\/city-life\/holiday-spending-2025-flower-mound\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">$3,491<\/a> for their holiday presents this year, WalletHub says, which means they might be watching their spending a lot more than other North Texas residents.<\/p>\n<p>For two-bedroom units, median rent prices in Frisco rose 3.3 percent from October to $2,200. A two-bedroom apartment in The Colony rose 0.9 percent month-over-month to $2,130.<\/p>\n<p>Grapevine&#8217;s median rent prices were the third-priciest out of all cities in Dallas-Fort Worth. Zumper found that the median price for a one-bedroom apartment came out to $1,470, and two-bedroom units cost $1,840 in November.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas tied with Plano for the fourth-highest rents in the metro area, the report said. Single-bedroom units cost the same amount between both cities ($1,470) while two-bedroom units were more expensive in Dallas ($2,060) than in Plano ($2,030).<\/p>\n<p>For comparison, the price of one bedroom unit in Dallas was $30 cheaper in October, while two bedroom units cost $20 less than November&#8217;s asking price. In September, asking rent for single-bedroom apartments added up to $1,480, while two bedroom units cost $2,100 per month.<\/p>\n<p>These are the median rent prices for one- and two-bedroom apartments across Dallas-Fort Worth:<\/p>\n<p>Richardson \u2013 $1,420 for one-bedroom units; $1,750 for two-bedroom unitsMcKinney \u2013 $1,400 for one-bedroom units; $1,850 for two-bedroom unitsCarrollton \u2013 $1,360 for one-bedroom units; $1,730 for two-bedroom unitsLewisville \u2013 $1,300 for one-bedroom units; $1,700 for two-bedroom unitsBurleson \u2013 $1,250 for one-bedroom units; $1,620 for two-bedroom unitsWeatherford \u2013 $1,240 for one-bedroom units; $1,370 for two-bedroom unitsIrving \u2013 $1,220 for one-bedroom units; $1,650 for two-bedroom unitsGrand Prairie \u2013 $1,170 for one-bedroom units; $1,560 for two-bedroom unitsNorth Richland Hills \u2013 $1,160 for one-bedroom units; $1,460 for two-bedroom unitsHaltom City \u2013 $1,150 for one-bedroom units; $1,430 for two-bedroom units<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After American shoppers spent $11.5 billion on Black Friday this year, it&#8217;s safe to say many people are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[102,116,118,117,19152,111,8218,24454],"class_list":{"0":"post-81373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","11":"tag-fort-worth-news","12":"tag-housing-report","13":"tag-real-estate","14":"tag-rent","15":"tag-rent-prices"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}