One of the most affluent towns in this guide set, the fastest market in it, and five school districts.
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Flower Mound is a Denton County town of about 81,270 people on the western side of the metro, and it is among the wealthiest places covered here - median household income $161,235 (ACS 2024), above Coppell’s $146,235 and well above Frisco or Plano, though behind Heath and Lucas. It is also the fastest-moving market on this site: homes average roughly 26 days on market against Frisco’s 42 and Prosper’s 98. The trap is the schools. The majority of the town is Lewisville ISD, but Argyle ISD serves a substantial share and Denton, Grapevine-Colleyville, and Northwest ISDs each cover small areas - five districts, assigned by address, in one town.
Affluent, established, and green - protected conservation land alongside upscale master-planned neighborhoods
Summers are hot and sunny with highs in the mid-to-upper 90s°F. Winters stay mild - expect 50°F afternoons mixed with the occasional cold snap. North Texas averages 229 sunny days, roughly 41 inches of rain, and minimal snow each year.
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Flower Mound’s golf-and-equestrian master-plan, with an elementary and middle school inside the community and mature, wooded lots.
One of Flower Mound’s largest family master-plans, with a big central amenity complex and an on-site athletic club.
A gated, guarded lakefront enclave on the north shore of Lake Grapevine - roughly 40 custom estates on two-plus-acre lots.
A 1,242-acre master-planned community in the Denton Creek District spanning Flower Mound, Northlake and Argyle, with 300-plus acres of preserved open space and trails.
Understanding Flower Mound's community composition helps buyers match lifestyle preferences with neighborhood character. The figures below reference recent American Community Survey estimates and city planning reports.
Total Population
≈81,270
Town of Flower Mound (Esri) 2024 estimate. The US Census ACS 2024 5-year estimate is a bit lower at 78,389; growth has slowed sharply under SMARTGrowth.
Population Density
≈1,894 per sq mi
US Census ACS 2024 5-year, across roughly 42 square miles of land - lower density than the inner suburbs, reflecting larger lots and preserved open space.
Median Household Income
$161,235
US Census ACS 2024 (QuickFacts/Data USA); the ACS 2024 5-year table reports $166,624 (±$13,365). Either way among the highest in this guide set.
Homeownership Rate
≈80.5%
US Census ACS 2024 - a settled, overwhelmingly owner-occupied town.
Median Age
44.3 years
US Census ACS 2024 5-year estimate (±2.5) - an established, mature-family town.
Flower Mound High SchoolHigh
Lewisville ISD. One of the two LISD comprehensive high schools serving the town.
Marcus High SchoolHigh
Lewisville ISD’s second comprehensive high school for the town.
LISD middle schoolsMiddle
Lewisville ISD middle campuses serving Flower Mound include Downing, Forestwood, Lamar, McKamy and Shadow Ridge.
LISD elementary campusesElementary
Lewisville ISD elementaries named on the town’s own school-resources page include Bluebonnet, Bridlewood, Donald, Flower Mound, Forest Vista, Garden Ridge, Liberty, Old Settlers, Prairie Trail, Timber Creek, Vickery and Wellington.
Argyle ISD (western Flower Mound)All
Argyle ISD serves the newer western part of town (e.g. Argyle West Elementary, Argyle Middle, Argyle High). A substantial share of the town, not a minor pocket.
Denton, Northwest & Grapevine-Colleyville ISDsAll
Each serves a small portion of Flower Mound per the town’s own statement - which is why five districts touch one town. Verify the exact address.
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Answers to common questions about living, buying, and relocating to Flower Mound, Texas.
Five of them, which is the single most important thing to know before you buy here. Lewisville ISD serves the majority of the town and Argyle ISD serves a substantial share, while Denton, Grapevine-Colleyville, and Northwest ISDs each cover small areas. The assignment is set by address, not by the town name or the neighborhood name, so run the exact address through the district’s boundary lookup before you are under contract.
The trackers disagree on the number and even the direction: Redfin put the May 2026 median at about $649,611, down 0.75% year over year, while another had it up 4.2% to roughly $688,000. What they agree on is that it is tight - about 26 days on market, roughly 3.2 months of supply, and sellers getting around 97.5% of original list. Treat any single median as approximate and get dated comps for your specific neighborhood.
The fastest covered on this site. Homes average roughly 26 days on market, against Frisco’s 42, The Colony’s 40, and Prosper’s 98, with about 3.2 months of supply and sellers receiving around 97.5% of original list price. If you are buying here, expect to move quickly and expect less negotiating room than the metro-wide softening might lead you to assume.
It is among the most affluent towns in this guide set. Median household income is $161,235 (ACS 2024) - above Coppell’s $146,235 and well above Plano or Frisco, though behind Heath and Lucas - and the median sale price runs in the $650K-$688K range depending on which tracker you read. The Cross Timbers conservation area includes multimillion-dollar homes. This is not a value play; it is the top end of the western side of the metro.
There is, and it is protected. The Flower Mound is a 12.5-acre remnant of native Blackland tallgrass prairie that rises about 50 feet above the surrounding land and has never been plowed, supporting more than 400 plant species. It was placed in conservancy in 1983 and designated a Texas Historic site in 1984. Spring, when the prairie is in wildflower bloom, is the time to walk up it. It is a fair emblem for the town generally: Flower Mound cites roughly 1,000 acres of parkland, 57 parks, 35 playgrounds and more than 60 miles of hike, bike and equestrian trails.
Four are worth knowing, and they differ more than the price band suggests. Bridlewood is the golf-and-equestrian master-plan, with an elementary and a middle school inside the community and mature wooded lots. Wellington is one of the largest family master-plans, built around a big central amenity complex and an on-site athletic club. Chateau du Lac is the gated, guarded lakefront enclave on the north shore of Lake Grapevine, roughly 40 custom estates on two-plus-acre lots. Canyon Falls is a 1,242-acre master-planned community in the Denton Creek District spanning Flower Mound, Northlake and Argyle, with more than 300 acres of preserved open space. Note that Canyon Falls straddles town and district lines, so the school question is especially live there.
It depends entirely on which side of the metro you work on, and this is the town’s real trade-off. Flower Mound is in Denton County on the western side, which is the opposite side from the Collin County corridor most North Texas buyers start their search on. Las Colinas and Irving run roughly 20-30 minutes; the Legacy West and Plano corridor is more like 35-45. The routes are FM 2499, FM 1171 (Cross Timbers Road), SH-121 and I-35E. There is no passenger rail in the town - the DCTA A-train serves Denton and Lewisville, not Flower Mound - so it is car-dependent. Mean travel time to work is about 26 minutes (ACS 2024), close to the metro norm.
More than the parks-and-prairie image suggests. The town’s employment base is concentrated in the Lakeside districts on Grapevine Lake: the Lakeside Business District, with more than 100 businesses, and the 140-acre Lakeside Trade Center industrial park east of FM 2499. Stryker Communications, BNSF Logistics headquarters and a Best Buy distribution center are the anchors, alongside HD Supply, Custom Ink, Mohawk and several others. That said, plenty of residents still commute out toward Las Colinas or Legacy West, so do not buy here on the assumption you will work in town.
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Every public campus inside Flower Mound city limits, with the letter grade and score the Texas Education Agency published for it in 2025. Enrolment and grades come straight from TEA's accountability download and the federal school directory, so nothing here is a third-party score that nobody refreshes.
Flower Mound is split across 2 school districts. Two houses on the same street can feed different districts, and boundaries in this corridor get redrawn most years as new campuses open. Confirm the assignment for the exact address with the district before you write an offer - and if the school is a reason you are buying, ask Mali to put the district's written confirmation in your file.
Denton County · 19 campuses in town
Denton County · 2 campuses in town
Flower Mound also has campuses run by Texas College Preparatory Academies. Open-enrollment charters admit by application and lottery from a wide area, so buying a particular house never assigns a child to one.
Argyle ISD · Grades PreK-5
Lewisville ISD · Grades PreK-5
Lewisville ISD · Grades PreK-5
Lewisville ISD · Grades PreK-5
Lewisville ISD · Grades PreK-5
Lewisville ISD · Grades PreK-5
Lewisville ISD · Grades PreK-5
Lewisville ISD · Grades PreK-5
Lewisville ISD · Grades PreK-5
Lewisville ISD · Grades PreK-5
Lewisville ISD · Grades PreK-5
Lewisville ISD · Grades PreK-5
Lewisville ISD · Grades PreK-5
Lewisville ISD · Grades 6-8
Lewisville ISD · Grades 6-8
Lewisville ISD · Grades 6-8
Lewisville ISD · Grades 6-8
Lewisville ISD · Grades 6-8
Argyle ISD · Grades 9-12
Lewisville ISD · Grades 9-12
Lewisville ISD · Grades 9-12
Texas College Preparatory Academies · Grades K-12
Flower Mound homes are taxed by 3 separate governments, and the combined 2025 adopted rate is 1.69% per year of appraised value. That is the number before any exemption and before the special districts below - which is why the figure on a listing page and the figure on your first tax bill are so rarely the same.
| Taxing unit | Rate per $100 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Lewisville ISD | 1.117800 | 66% |
| City of Flower Mound | 0.387277 | 23% |
| Denton County | 0.185938 | 11% |
| Combined | 1.691015 | 100% |
Denton County has neither a community-college district nor a hospital district, so a Flower Mound bill has three lines where a Dallas County bill has five. That structural difference, not municipal thrift, is most of the gap when you compare rates across the metro.
We are not publishing a homestead estimate for Flower Mound. The rates above come from the Comptroller's statutory filings and are solid, but the exemption each taxing unit has adopted is confirmed here by only one published schedule - and those schedules demonstrably lag a council vote. (One 2025 county schedule still listed a town at 12.5% months after it had voted to 20%.) A figure built on that would look precise and be wrong, so you get the rates and a real answer instead: ask Mali, or call the appraisal district, and we will confirm the exemptions in writing before you budget from them.
Denton County has 48 special districts levying their own rate on top of everything above - 22 Municipal Utility Districts, 3 Municipal Management Districts, 11 Water Control & Improvement Districts, 12 Fresh Water Supply Districts. Adopted 2025 rates run from 0.07 to 1.20 per $100. At the top of that range a district adds more than half again the entire Flower Mound stack, and none of it is reduced by a homestead exemption.
These follow subdivision boundaries, not city limits, so two houses a mile apart in Flower Mound can differ by a full point. They are most common in newer master-planned communities, because that is what the bonds paid to build.
A Public Improvement District is not a taxing unit. It is an assessment a city levies on the specific parcels that benefited from the roads, water and amenities its bonds paid for - set per parcel, absent from every rate table and every listing-site tax estimate, and not reduced by a homestead exemption because it is not a tax. It typically runs the life of the bonds, often 20 to 40 years, and can frequently be paid off in a lump sum. In a new-build community that is the difference between the budget you built and the payment you owe, and the option period is when you find out.
HOA dues are a private contract with the neighbourhood association. They are not on the tax bill, not collected by the county, not deductible, and not touched by any exemption - and a community can have an HOA and a MUD and a PID at once, which is the combination that catches people out. Ask for the dues, the transfer fee, the reserve study and any special assessment in writing, and read them alongside the tax bill rather than instead of it.