Everything else equal, we can all agree that living in a cheaper place is better than living in a more expensive place.
I’d much rather pay $500/mo in rent than $1,000. And I’d rather pay $2 for coffee than $5.
And while every neighborhood in Fort Worth might be more expensive than living in rural Texas, there are certain neighborhoods that are definitely cheaper.
What exactly are those Fort Worth neighborhoods where your dollar goes a little further — you can get that one bedroom instead of the studio?
Instead of relying on public opinion and speculation, we wanted to get the facts straight and determine which neighborhoods in Fort Worth are the cheapest using Saturday Night Science.
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Methodology: How we determined the cheapest Fort Worth hoods in 2026
To rank the cheapest places to live in Fort Worth, we had to determine what criteria define “cheap” and then apply Saturday Night Science.
Using Census and extrapolated BLS data, we arrived at the following set of criteria:
- Overall Cost Of Living
- Rent To Income Ratio
- Median Home Value To Income Ratio
We then ranked each neighborhood with scores from 1 to 16 in each category, where 1 was the cheapest.
Next, we averaged the rankings for each neighborhood to create a cheap neighborhood index.
And finally, we crowned the neighborhood with the lowest cheapest neighborhood index, the “Cheapest City Neighborhood In Fort Worth.” We’re lookin’ at you, Far Northwest.
We updated this article for 2026. Skip to the end to see the list of all the neighborhoods in the city, from cheapest to most expensive.
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Detailed list of the cheapest neighborhoods to live in Fort Worth for 2026
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| Rank | Neighborhood | Cost Of Living Index |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Far Northwest | 97 |
| 2 | Northside | 87 |
| 3 | South East | 86 |
| 4 | Far North | 100 |
| 5 | Far West | 97 |
| 5 | Northeast | 89 |
| 7 | Southside | 89 |
| 8 | Eastside | 94 |
| 8 | Sycamore | 91 |
| 10 | Downtown | 98 |
| 11 | Western Hills-Ridglea | 95 |
| 12 | Far South | 98 |
| 13 | Tcu-West Cliff | 112 |
| 14 | Wedgwood | 105 |
| 15 | Arlington Heights | 117 |
| 16 | Far Southwest | 101 |
Source: U.S. Census ACS 2020-2024. All 16 Fort Worth neighborhoods.
Summary
Summary: Lowest cost places to live in Fort Worth
If you’re measuring the neighborhoods in Fort Worth where prices are low, and it’s cheap to live, this is an accurate list.
The most affordable neighborhoods in Fort Worth are Far Northwest, Northside, South East, Far North, Far West, Northeast, Southside, Eastside, Sycamore, and Downtown.
As mentioned earlier, the neighborhoods in Fort Worth aren’t all cheap. Far Southwest takes the title of the most expensive neighborhood to live in Fort Worth.
We ranked the neighborhoods from cheapest to most expensive in the chart below. Not sold on Texas? Take the two-minute Find Your Place quiz and see which state actually fits you.
Questions and answers
Cheapest Neighborhoods In Fort Worth FAQs
What is the cheapest neighborhood in Fort Worth?
Far Northwest is the cheapest neighborhood in Fort Worth for 2026. It posts the best combination of overall cost of living, rent against income, and home prices against income. Northside and South East are next.
What are the cheapest neighborhoods in Fort Worth?
The cheapest neighborhoods in Fort Worth are Far Northwest, Northside, South East, Far North, Far West, Northeast, Southside, Eastside, Sycamore, and Downtown. We ranked all 16 neighborhoods in the city.
How do you decide which neighborhoods are cheapest?
Three measures: an overall cost of living index, rent-to-income, and home-value-to-income, all from Census tract data. Scoring costs against local incomes keeps one luxury tower from skewing the math.
Is a cheap neighborhood a bad neighborhood?
Not necessarily — this ranking measures what things cost relative to income, nothing else. Check our safest neighborhoods in Fort Worth ranking before you sign a lease, because cheap and safe are separate questions.
What is the most expensive neighborhood in Fort Worth?
Far Southwest lands at the expensive end of the 16 neighborhoods we scored. If your budget disagrees with it, the rest of the list runs cheaper.
