Lewisville, Texas

Area Profile

131,080 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Lewisville, in Denton County.

65out of 100
Area Score
Top 33% of 2,944 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 22% of 3,904 published cities70
Schools1878th of 2,668 published cities36
GrowthTop 37% of 2,973 published cities57
Housing affordability2438th of 4,223 published cities76
Climate2410th of 4,223 published cities68
Physical resilienceTop 44% of 4,182 published cities65
AccessTop 15% of 4,226 published cities99
Economic stabilityTop 14% of 4,226 published cities76
The quick read

Lewisville ranks in the top 22% of published city profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 4.1% and median household income of $89,233.

Residential permitting has slowed: 517 units authorized over the past twelve months, 50% below 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
131,080
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$89,233
Top 26% nationally
Density
3,224/sq mi
40.7 sq mi of land
Median age
35.0
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
$378,500
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.1% is lower than 59% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 0.3% over the past year, to 79,818 employed residents.

41% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 82% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$3,214$89,233Top 26%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,556$46,697Top 21%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate7.9%Bottom 37%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute26.4 minBottom 48%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher40.7%Top 18%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment79,818Top 42%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)2.6%Top 17%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.3%Top 36%June 2026
Labor force83,260Top 42%June 2026
Labor force participation75.9%Top 7%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)0.4%Top 37%June 2026
Unemployment rate4.1%Bottom 41%June 2026
Unemployment rate
2021/062022/032022/122023/092024/062025/032025/102026/065.33.0
Monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent value 4.1% 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
202120222023202489k72k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $89,233 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.

28% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 34% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 12.8 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
19
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
12.8
across all schools here
Math proficiency
27.8%
Bottom 23% in Texas
Reading proficiency
34.4%
Bottom 25% in Texas
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
LEWISVILLE H SLEWISVILLE ISD4,00113.3
FOUNDERS CLASSICAL ACADEMY - LEWISVILLE · charterTEXAS COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMIES91216.050%71%
STEM ACADEMY AT HEDRICK MIDDLELEWISVILLE ISD87213.642%47%
SOUTHRIDGE ELLEWISVILLE ISD69614.224%31%
MILL STREET ELLEWISVILLE ISD66514.58%21%
MARSHALL DURHAM MIDDLELEWISVILLE ISD64611.322%27%
DELAY MIDDLELEWISVILLE ISD59810.929%32%
ROCKBROOK ELLEWISVILLE ISD58212.728%30%
LAKELAND ELLEWISVILLE ISD58112.420%20%
CENTRAL ELLEWISVILLE ISD57313.019%25%
PARKWAY ELLEWISVILLE ISD57112.729%33%
LEWISVILLE ELLEWISVILLE ISD50912.419%22%

71.5% 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 $1,670 takes 22% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 4.2 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
22.5%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.2×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,670
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$378,500
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income4.24Top 23%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate46.3%Bottom 7%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±98054,237Top 1%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$31$1,670Top 16%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$6,871$378,500Top 20%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income22.5%Top 27%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate4.3%Bottom 25%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
57/ 100
Top 37% of 2,973 published city profiles
Permitting is decreasing, 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 8% since 2020, reaching 135,983 in 2024.

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

Population is still rising, but more slowly than in the preceding year.

At 3.9 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
517
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
3.9
Top 36% nationally
Year over year
−50%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
34.8%
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
20202021202220232024136k126k
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
202020222023202420252k444
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was higher than 2020 (+70%).

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.

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, 10.9 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.8"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
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
Seasonal temperature swing39°F1991-2020 Normals

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.

Physical risk

65 / 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, strong wind, wildfire, 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 Lewisville rather than Lewisville 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
Dallas Love FldDAL16 mi8,800 ft
Perot Fld/Fort Worth AllianceAFW20 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 County1,307,93059vs Lewisville
Fort WorthTarrant County963,19464vs Lewisville
ArlingtonTarrant County397,74261vs Lewisville
PlanoCollin County290,59472vs Lewisville
IrvingDallas County256,49257vs Lewisville
GarlandDallas County246,84458vs Lewisville
FriscoCollin County219,30476vs Lewisville
McKinneyCollin County210,60075vs Lewisville
Grand PrairieDallas County201,88362vs Lewisville
DentonDenton County152,86666vs Lewisville
MesquiteDallas County149,29958vs Lewisville
CarrolltonDenton County133,74065vs Lewisville

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

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 Lewisville

2 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
7506766,913$78,75265
7505717,958$82,80364