Frisco, Texas

Area Profile

219,304 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Frisco, in Collin County.

75out of 100
Area Score
Top 4% of 4,196 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 15 sources
OpportunityTop 15% of 4,199 cities measured75
SchoolsTop 3% of 4,162 cities measured90
GrowthTop 8% of 4,224 cities measured75
Housing affordabilityTop 26% of 4,218 cities measured74
Climate2,800th of 4,225 cities measured65
Physical resilienceTop 42% of 4,226 cities measured66
Access2,160th of 4,226 cities measured92
Economic stabilityTop 12% of 4,226 cities measured75
The quick read

Frisco ranks in the top 15% of cities measured for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 4.3% and median household income of $150,212.

Public schools test above most of the state: 74% of students met the mathematics standard, placing the area in the top 3% of published profiles for schools.

Residential permitting has slowed: 3,405 units authorized over the past twelve months, 15% below the prior year. That follows a longer stretch moving the other way, through 2025.

These sentences are written by fixed rules from the measurements below — a statement appears because a number crossed a stated threshold, and the values behind it are stored with it. No figure anywhere on this site is invented, estimated or inferred to fill a gap. How this works.

At a glance

Population
219,304
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$150,212
Top 4% nationally
Density
3,197/sq mi
68.6 sq mi of land
Median age
38.3
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Texas
Nearest major airport
DAL
21 mi · Dallas Love Fld
Median home value
$642,100
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.3%, lower than in 51% of the 4,226 measured US cities.

Employment fell 0.2% over the past year, to 126,109 employed residents.

68% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 96% of measured US cities.

Median household income of $150,212 is higher than in 96% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$6,8212024 ACS 5-Year$150,212Top 4%of 29,2232024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,6872024 ACS 5-Year$68,614Top 7%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±0.7%2024 ACS 5-Year3.7%Top 18%of 31,7732024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±0.8 min2024 ACS 5-Year29.9 minBottom 34%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year67.5%Top 4%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year53.5%8th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentJuly 2026126,109Top 40%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (3 years)July 2026+4.9%Top 6%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (year over year)July 2026−0.2%Top 37%of 4,226July 2026
Labor forceJuly 2026131,74260th percentileof 4,226July 2026
Labor force participation ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year84.0%Top 28%of 31,5132024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wageDallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$70,630Top 45%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Median annual wageDallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$51,440Top 48%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Public transit to work ±0.1%2024 ACS 5-Year0.1%74th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)July 2026+0.5%Bottom 19%of 4,226July 2026
Unemployment rateJuly 20264.3%Top 49%of 4,226July 2026
Worked from home ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year37.8%97th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year

Unemployment rate

2021/072022/072023/072024/072025/072026/074.32.6
Monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent value 4.3% in July 2026. It has been falling, over a series running from 2020-01 to 2026-07. 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

2021202220232024150k134k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $150,212 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

Searches the 40 largest occupations here that have a published wage.

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.

74% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 74% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 15.0 students for every full-time teacher across 68 public schools, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
70
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
15.0
across 68 of them
Math proficiency
74.0%
Top 2% in Texas
Reading proficiency
74.1%
Top 2% in Texas
The 12 largest of 70 public schools, by enrollment.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Rock Hill H SPROSPER ISD2,44214.0——
Wakeland H SFRISCO ISD2,23017.091%92%
Reedy H SFRISCO ISD2,20117.181%91%
Lebanon Trail H SFRISCO ISD2,17316.289%85%
Centennial H SFRISCO ISD2,01815.682%85%
Lone Star H SFRISCO ISD2,00415.363%74%
Heritage H SFRISCO ISD1,99614.575%80%
Frisco H SFRISCO ISD1,98515.561%72%
Liberty H SFRISCO ISD1,79815.963%86%
Independence H SFRISCO ISD1,69815.464%83%
Memorial H SFRISCO ISD1,43913.372%76%
Daniel L Jones MiddlePROSPER ISD1,28615.7——

13.7% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with, not how the schools perform, so it is shown and not scored.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data, placed by ZIP code — which schools are in this place, not which one a particular address is zoned for. A dash in a proficiency column is a gap in the federal file, not a bad result. Proficiency is measured against Texas’s own standard, so it is ranked within state. How to read school figures.

Prices for everything a household buys run about 2% above the national average — the Bureau of Economic Analysis index reads 102.5, against 100 for the nation. Nationally, housing drives most of the spread between places in this index; other goods vary far less.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s house price index for the Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX Metropolitan Division is up 35% over five years, and up 0.5% over the last year. It follows repeat sales of the same homes, so it measures price change rather than which homes happened to sell.

Homeowners here who pay a tax bill pay a median of $9,572 a year in real estate taxes, about 1.49% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $2,664, some 32% above the $2,014 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $2,664 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $106,500 a year, about 71% of the median household income here of $150,212.

The typical renter household here spends 28% of its income on rent, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $2,014 a month.

A median home at $642,100 costs 3.2 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $199,797, above the historic benchmark of about 3 times income.

Cost of living
102.5

Prices here run about 2% above the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Published for the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metro Area as a whole. Prices are regional — people shop, commute and rent across a metropolitan area rather than within a city boundary — so this describes the cost of living around this place better than a figure drawn to its own limits would.

Rent as a share of income
28.1%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.2×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$2,664
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$2,014
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$642,100
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against Frisco’s median household income of $150,212, which describes the place rather than you. Enter your own and the ratio is recomputed against it. It stays in this browser.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Cost of living indexthe Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metro Area’s figure2023102.5Bottom 42%of 3,7002023
Home price change (1 year)the Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX Metropolitan Division’s figure2026 Q2+0.5%11th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX Metropolitan Division’s figure2026 Q2+35.4%28th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX Metropolitan Division’s figure2026 Q2+92.5%49th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.12024 ACS 5-Year3.2Bottom 30%of 26,8152024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year65.9%30th percentileof 31,7172024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±1,2332024 ACS 5-Year80,35399th percentileof 32,1772024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$2,274Bottom 12%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$3,354Bottom 14%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$2,664Bottom 13%of 4,072FY2026
Median gross rent ±$652024 ACS 5-Year$2,014Bottom 8%of 23,1202024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$10,1372024 ACS 5-Year$642,10093rd percentileof 29,1112024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$1872024 ACS 5-Year$9,57299th percentileof 26,4402024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$7,9102024 ACS 5-Year$199,797Top 2%of 27,5482024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.04%2024 ACS 5-Year1.49%78th percentileof 20,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year28.1%Top 49%of 22,9502024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±1232024 ACS 5-Year18593rd percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year0.2%53rd percentileof 31,8952024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year3.7%31st percentileof 31,7692024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±6042024 ACS 5-Year3,14599th percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year

These measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with. They compare housing cost with local earnings only: transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not in them. How to read affordability, the two rent figures and the cost-of-living index.

Development Momentum

75/ 100
Top 8% of 4,224 published city profiles
The most recent move in permitting was upward, in a series running from 2020 to 2025. That is the direction of the recent run. The chart below compares the first year with the last, which can point the other way.

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 16% since 2020, reaching 235,208 in 2024.

Permitting has turned upward after moving the other way the year before: 5,652 units authorized in 2025, up 324% on the prior year.

71% of the 3,405 units permitted over the past twelve months are in buildings of five or more homes, so new supply is concentrated in apartments and condominiums rather than detached houses.

At 15.5 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
3,405
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
15.5
Top 5% nationally
Year over year
−15%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
71.1%
units in 5+ unit buildings

Population, annual estimates

20202021202220232024235k203k
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. It has been rising for the last 4 years, over a series running from 2020 to 2024.

Housing units permitted per year

2020202120222023202420256k1k
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was higher than 2020 (+78%).

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 95°F and January a low of 34°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 38.3 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 40, in the Good band, and about 11 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station MCKINNEY MUNI AP, 13.5 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND4.8"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index2024 calendar year772024 calendar year
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals38.3"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals34°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals95°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals51991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 1002024 calendar year112024 calendar year
Median air quality index2024 calendar year402024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals40°F1991-2020 Normals

Air quality

Median air quality index
40
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
77
90th percentile index
Days above 100
11
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. Air quality is measured by EPA monitors and published by county only where a monitor sits; a county without one shows nothing rather than an estimate, and a county reading is still the county’s. How to read climate and air quality.

Physical risk

66 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are tornado, inland flooding and hail, with tornado alone responsible for 53% of it. Tornado and inland flooding are independently rated low or minimal nationally, so this describes how the loss is composed, not how large those hazards are.

HailHigh
Cold waveModerate
LightningModerate

Low or minimal exposure: tornado, heat wave, inland flooding, ice storm, strong wind, winter weather, wildfire, earthquake, hurricane, landslide, drought, avalanche, coastal flooding, tsunami, volcanic activity.

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.

Violent crime
98
per 100,000 residents · 2025 calendar year
Property crime
790
per 100,000 residents · 2025 calendar year

Below these are deaths rather than offenses, published for the county. The two measure different things and are not comparable with each other.

Frisco's police department reported 98 violent offenses per 100,000 residents, lower than most places with a department reporting. Property crime runs at 790.

Collin County records 1.8 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, lower than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 9.0 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, since the figure counts suicides and accidents as well as homicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 7.4 per 100,000 residents in Collin County.

Homicide
1.8
per 100,000 residents
Firearm deaths, all intents
9.0
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
7.4
per 100,000 residents
Suicide
12.4
per 100,000 residents

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides, so the firearm figure and the homicide figure above it count some of the same deaths twice over. They overlap and should not be added together.

Offenses are reported to the FBI by Frisco’s own police department and shown only where it reported every month of the year; a partial year is withheld rather than scaled up. Reported crime is what police recorded, which is not the same as what happened. Death rates are crude rates — deaths divided by population, not adjusted for age — except where a count was too small for the CDC to publish and it modeled the rate, which the card marks. They come from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC by county and not below it. So they describe the county around Frisco (Collin County) rather than Frisco itself. Neither is part of the Area Score. How to read crime rates and death rates.

What this profile does not cover

Each of these is absent for a reason, not by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them; the weighting is on the methodology page.

Taxes
Income and sales taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Property taxes are shown in the housing section but are not part of the score. The cost-of-living index above is a price level for all consumption, not a household budget, and it excludes taxes. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house.

Access

6 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest Dallas Love Fld at 21 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±0.5%2024 ACS 5-Year97.7%Top 14%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle21 miBottom 41%of 4,226NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle6Top 27%of 4,226NASR current cycle
No internet access ±0.6%2024 ACS 5-Year1.5%Top 17%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Dallas Love FldDAL21 mi8,800 ft
Dallas-Fort Worth IntlDFW22 mi13,401 ft
Perot Fld/Fort Worth AllianceAFW31 mi11,125 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 County1,307,93060Dallas vs Frisco
Fort WorthTarrant County963,19462Fort Worth vs Frisco
ArlingtonTarrant County397,74261Arlington vs Frisco
PlanoCollin County290,59470
IrvingDallas County256,49259
GarlandDallas County246,84458
McKinneyCollin County210,60072
Grand PrairieDallas County201,88362
DentonDenton County152,86667
MesquiteDallas County149,29956
CarrolltonDenton County133,74065
LewisvilleDenton County131,08065

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.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource period
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle
SafetyFederal Bureau of Investigation, Crime Data Explorer
Summarized offense counts by law enforcement agency
2025 calendar year
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 Normals
HousingU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
July 2026
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWS
Access, Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-Year
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimate
SafetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
March 2025 to February 2026; May 2025 to April 2026
SchoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2018-19 school year; 2024-25 school year
HousingU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research
Fair Market Rents
FY2026
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar year
HousingU.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency
House Price Index (traditional, all-transactions)
2026 Q2
Current conditionsNOAA National Weather Service
National Weather Service current conditions
Live observation, read when the page opens

Profile recalculated October 8, 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 every source with how often each updates.

ZIP codes in Frisco

4 ZIP areas

Every ZIP area in Frisco with census figures of its own, largest first.

ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeMedian home valueArea Score
7503589,682$166,590$608,90076
7503453,818$111,122$729,70074
7503352,795$174,762$652,10076
7503633,496$151,645$564,50075