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246,000 people, and most of the houses still trade around $305K

Garland is the 13th-largest city in Texas, 246,018 people at the 2020 census, and it still prices like a mid-size suburb. Citywide, the median sale landed around $305K at the end of 2025, and the trailing twelve months on Homes.com came in near $310K. For a city this big, that number is the story.

The stock explains it. More than half of Garland's housing went up between 1970 and 1999, and another quarter before that. This is brick-ranch country, mostly three-bedroom homes, which make up about 45% of the city, running roughly 1,400 to 2,800 square feet on modest lots. Location shifts the number: south Garland has recently traded around the low $290s, north Garland the mid $310s, and northeast Garland the low $320s.

Downtown square, Firewheel, Oakridge, Club Hill

Garland's neighborhoods don't blur together. Downtown Garland has an actual town square with a DART rail station at 5th and Walnut a short walk away. Firewheel, up in the northeast corner at PGBT and SH 78, sits around Firewheel Town Center, a 100-plus store open-air mall, and Firewheel Golf Park. Oakridge, established in 1985 with over 1,100 homes, wraps around the old country club course that reopened in 2013 as the public Duck Creek Golf Club. Club Hill, in southeast Garland near Lake Ray Hubbard, runs higher, with a twelve-month median around $375K.

New construction is thin here, which is normal for a built-out city. The biggest single play is Fireside by the Lake, a D.R. Horton community in the 75043 zip near Lake Ray Hubbard, about two miles from I-30, planned for roughly 600 homes at 1,712 to 2,903 square feet. Pricing has been running from the high $300s into the $400s, and it moves, so treat that as a starting point.

Two Blue Line stations and a boat ramp on Ray Hubbard

Garland has two DART Blue Line stations, Downtown Garland and Forest/Jupiter, and the train puts you in downtown Dallas in about 30 minutes. Driving, it's 15 to 19 miles, call it 20 to 30 minutes in light traffic, with I-30, I-635, SH 66, SH 78, and the PGBT all threading through town. Not many cities at this price give you both rail and that much highway.

The other quiet asset is Lake Ray Hubbard. Windsurf Bay Park puts 42 acres of shoreline inside the city limits, and Paul Jones Park has the boat ramp. If you want water access without waterfront pricing, southeast Garland is where I'd look.

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