Flower Mound, Texas

Area Profile

78,389 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Flower Mound, in Denton County.

79out of 100
Area Score
Top 2% of 2,944 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 16% of 3,904 published cities74
SchoolsTop 3% of 2,668 published cities91
GrowthTop 4% of 2,973 published cities82
Housing affordabilityTop 21% of 4,223 published cities95
Climate2410th of 4,223 published cities68
Physical resilienceTop 44% of 4,182 published cities64
AccessTop 8% of 4,226 published cities99
Economic stabilityTop 5% of 4,226 published cities81
The quick read

Flower Mound ranks in the top 16% of published city profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 4.2% and median household income of $161,235.

Development activity is both elevated and accelerating — 681 housing units permitted over the past twelve months, up 1138% on the prior year.

A major airport is 11 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
78,389
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$161,235
Top 4% nationally
Density
1,869/sq mi
41.9 sq mi of land
Median age
43.5
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Denton County
Texas
Metro area
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
Nearest major airport
DFW
11 mi · Dallas-Fort Worth Intl
Median home value
$560,200
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.2% is lower than 55% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 0.3% over the past year, to 43,891 employed residents.

66% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 95% of measured US cities.

Household income is higher than at least 96% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$7,234$161,235Top 4%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,542$73,350Top 5%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate4.3%Bottom 20%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute27.9 minTop 43%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher65.5%Top 5%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment43,891Bottom 47%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)1.5%Top 28%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.3%Top 36%June 2026
Labor force45,814Bottom 47%June 2026
Labor force participation69.9%Top 18%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$70,630Top 45%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$51,440Top 48%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.8%Top 9%June 2026
Unemployment rate4.2%Bottom 45%June 2026
Unemployment rate
2021/062022/032022/122023/092024/062025/032025/102026/064.32.9
Monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent value 4.2% in June 2026. A break in the line is a month the Bureau of Labor Statistics did not publish for this area — it is left empty rather than estimated.
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024161k145k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $161,235 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Fast Food and Counter Workers128,380$28,070
General and Operations Managers125,090$111,010
Stockers and Order Fillers111,100$37,590
Retail Salespersons100,340$33,400
Customer Service Representatives96,930$44,990
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand81,940$38,510

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

67% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 69% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 14.6 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
20
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
14.6
across all schools here
Math proficiency
66.6%
Top 3% in Texas
Reading proficiency
69.2%
Top 2% in Texas
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
FLOWER MOUND H SLEWISVILLE ISD3,42616.1
MARCUS H SLEWISVILLE ISD2,99814.9
FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY OF FLOWER MOUND · charterTEXAS COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMIES94916.956%65%
STEM ACADEMY AT FORESTWOOD MIDDLELEWISVILLE ISD89414.276%77%
MCKAMY MIDDLELEWISVILLE ISD75715.486%82%
WELLINGTON ELLEWISVILLE ISD73114.175%74%
LAMAR MIDDLELEWISVILLE ISD71614.672%67%
PRAIRIE TRAIL ELLEWISVILLE ISD67214.356%64%
BLUEBONNET ELLEWISVILLE ISD66815.973%71%
MARJORY VICKERY ELLEWISVILLE ISD63514.431%35%
SHADOW RIDGE MIDDLELEWISVILLE ISD62315.277%77%
LIBERTY ELLEWISVILLE ISD57414.375%75%

13.4% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Texas’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $2,231 takes 17% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.5 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
16.6%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.5×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$2,231
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$560,200
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income3.47Top 37%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate82.5%Top 36%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±71528,789Top 2%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$83$2,231Top 6%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$16,382$560,200Top 10%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income16.6%Bottom 35%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2.3%Bottom 16%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →
Development Momentum
82/ 100
Top 4% of 2,973 published city profiles
Permitting is increasing, measured from 2020 to 2025.

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

Population has grown 5% since 2020, reaching 79,990 in 2024.

Permitting has turned upward after moving the other way the year before.

73% of recently permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes, so new supply is concentrated in apartments and condominiums rather than detached houses.

At 8.7 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
681
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
8.7
Top 16% nationally
Year over year
+1138%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
73.4%
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202480k76k
Census Population Estimates Program, July 1 of each year. These annual estimates are designed for year-over-year comparison, unlike the ACS five-year figure shown as this profile's population.
Housing units permitted per year
2020202220232024202551972
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was lower than 2020 (−73%).

Weather & climate

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 96°F and January a low of 36°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 37.0 inches, including 1.6 inches of snow.

Air quality measures a median index of 47, in the Good band, and about 28 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

30°50°70°90°110°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station DALLAS FT WORTH AP, 11.1 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.8"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index87.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation37.0"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall1.6"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low36°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high96°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 100282024 calendar year
Median air quality index47.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing39°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
47
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
87
90th percentile index
Days above 100
28
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

64 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are hail, cold wave and lightning.

HailHigh
Cold waveModerate
Winter weatherModerate
LightningModerate

Low or minimal exposure: tornado, heat wave, ice storm, inland flooding, wildfire, strong wind, earthquake, hurricane, landslide, drought.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Denton County records 2.7 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 9.3 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 7.8 per 100,000 residents in Denton County.

Homicide
2.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
9.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
7.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
11.2
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Denton County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around Flower Mound rather than Flower Mound itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

6 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 11 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Dallas-Fort Worth IntlDFW11 mi13,401 ft
Perot Fld/Fort Worth AllianceAFW12 mi11,125 ft
Dallas Love FldDAL20 mi8,800 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Other cities in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
DallasDallas County1,307,93059vs Flower Mound
Fort WorthTarrant County963,19464vs Flower Mound
ArlingtonTarrant County397,74261vs Flower Mound
PlanoCollin County290,59472vs Flower Mound
IrvingDallas County256,49257vs Flower Mound
GarlandDallas County246,84458vs Flower Mound
FriscoCollin County219,30476vs Flower Mound
McKinneyCollin County210,60075vs Flower Mound
Grand PrairieDallas County201,88362vs Flower Mound
DentonDenton County152,86666vs Flower Mound
MesquiteDallas County149,29958vs Flower Mound
CarrolltonDenton County133,74065vs Flower Mound

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

ZIP codes in Flower Mound

2 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
7502849,094$149,43680
7502226,090$177,35779