A historic downtown, five school districts, and no freeway in the city.
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Wylie sits about 24 miles northeast of central Dallas. It started life entirely in Collin County and grew until the city limits crossed into Dallas and Rockwall counties, which is why a Wylie address does not guarantee Wylie ISD. It is younger and faster-growing than neighboring Sachse (median age 35.3 vs 39.9; median household income $119,522 vs $131,808, ACS 2020-2024), and unlike most of its neighbors it has a real employment base of its own, anchored by the North Texas Municipal Water District. The honest trade-off: there is no freeway or tollway inside Wylie. SH-78 is the spine, and you reach the President George Bush Turnpike by driving southwest through Sachse and Garland.
A young, growing, new-construction-heavy suburb with a real historic downtown. Median age 35.3, 77.4% owner-occupied.
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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A large master-planned community built around the public Woodbridge Golf Club on Country Club Dr. It spans two counties, two cities (Wylie and Sachse) and two school districts (Wylie ISD and Garland ISD). It is the classic Wylie boundary trap. Confirm the county, city and district for the specific lot.
A master-planned community of 1,200+ lots across nine phases near Rush Creek, with paved walking trails, a stocked fishing pond, community pools, playgrounds and picnic areas. It has its own HOA.
A master-planned community on the east side of Wylie with parks, trails and pools. Kreymer Elementary (Wylie ISD) shares the name.
An established Wylie subdivision listed in the city's HOA and subdivision directories, built out as conventional suburban single-family housing.
A Wylie subdivision adjacent to the much larger Woodbridge master-planned community that surrounds the Woodbridge Golf Club.
A master-planned community off FM 1378 toward St. Paul, widely marketed with a Wylie 75098 address. Verify the city limit and the school district for any listing here, because parts of Inspiration are commonly described as being in or near St. Paul rather than inside Wylie’s city limits.
One of Wylie’s largest master-planned communities - more than 1,200 lots across nine phases, built out over close to two decades by Highland Homes, HistoryMaker and CastleRock. It sits between Lake Lavon and Lake Ray Hubbard on the south side of town, stays comparatively affordable for Collin County, and is served by Wylie ISD with an elementary school right at its edge.
Understanding Wylie'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
60,334
US Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate, roughly double neighboring Sachse.
Median Age
35.3 years
US Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year. Younger than Sachse (39.9). Wylie is the newer-construction, earlier-family-stage suburb of the pair.
Median Household Income
$119,522
US Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year. Lower than Sachse’s $131,808.
Homeownership
77.4% owner-occupied
US Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year (14,469 owner-occupied of 18,701 occupied units).
Wylie High SchoolHigh
One of Wylie ISD’s two comprehensive 6A high schools.
Wylie East High SchoolHigh
Wylie ISD’s second comprehensive 6A high school. Which of the two a house feeds is boundary-dependent within the district.
Achieve AcademyHigh
Wylie ISD’s alternative high school campus.
Burnett, Cooper and McMillan Junior High SchoolsMiddle
Wylie ISD junior high campuses, grades 7-8. Wylie ISD’s grade bands are K-4 elementary, 5-6 intermediate, 7-8 junior high, 9-12 high school, unlike neighboring Garland ISD’s structure.
Davis and Draper Intermediate SchoolsMiddle
Wylie ISD intermediate campuses, grades 5-6: the step between elementary and junior high that doesn’t exist in every district.
Wylie ISD elementary campuses (K-4)Elementary
Eleven campuses per the district’s own profile: Akin, Birmingham, Bush, Cox, Dodd, Groves, Kreymer, Smith, Tibbals, Watkins and Whitt. (Cox and Whitt also serve the Collin County portion of neighboring Sachse.)
Wylie ISD (district)All
41 square miles, 19,500+ students, 23 campuses. It serves most of the Collin County portion of Wylie, plus families in Sachse, Murphy, Lucas, Lavon and St. Paul. It does not serve the whole city; see the FAQ on districts.
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Answers to common questions about living, buying, and relocating to Wylie, Texas.
Most of Wylie is Wylie ISD, but a Wylie address does not guarantee it, and this is the most consequential thing a buyer here can check. Wylie ISD’s own district profile confirms it serves the City of Wylie (the Collin County portion) along with families in Sachse, Murphy, Lucas, Lavon and St. Paul: 41 square miles, 19,500+ students, 23 campuses. Because the city limits crossed into Dallas and Rockwall counties as Wylie grew, other districts reportedly also serve parts of the city: Garland ISD in the Dallas County portion, Rockwall ISD in the Rockwall County portion, and small Collin County pockets in Community ISD, Plano ISD and Princeton ISD. Those four are reported rather than confirmed from a primary source, so treat them as a reason to check, not a map. Verify your specific address: Wylie ISD 972-429-3000, Garland ISD 972-494-8201.
No. Lovejoy ISD borders Wylie ISD to the northwest but does not serve any part of the City of Wylie. Several third-party real estate sites conflate the two. If a Wylie listing advertises Lovejoy ISD, verify it with the district before you rely on it.
No, and this is the honest trade-off of living here. Wylie has no freeway and no tollway inside the city. SH-78 is the main artery, an arterial road running southwest through Sachse and Garland toward Dallas and northeast toward Lavon. FM 544 heads west toward Murphy, Plano and the SH-190/PGBT corridor, and FM 1378 (Country Club Road) runs north toward Lucas and Parker. The nearest President George Bush Turnpike access is reached via SH-78 through Sachse and Garland; the turnpike does not run through Wylie. If a listing implies direct turnpike access, it’s wrong.
The one sourced number is the ACS mean one-way commute: 31.4 minutes (2020-2024 5-year), for residents who don’t work from home. Central Dallas is about 24 miles away. The practical routes are FM 544 west toward Plano and Murphy, and SH-78 southwest to the PGBT for Richardson and Dallas. We don’t publish door-to-door drive times because no credible source gives them and they swing widely by address and hour. Run your own commute at the time you’d actually be driving it.
The most defensible public figure is the US Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year median value of owner-occupied homes: $387,000. That’s a self-reported home value, not a sale price. When we checked, published market numbers disagreed badly: one source showed a March 2026 median sale price of $367K while another showed a June 2026 median list price of $550K, which are different measures 50% apart. Ask Mali for the current NTREIS sale median with an explicit as-of month rather than trusting an aggregator.
Both, and Wylie is genuinely better on this than its neighbors. The North Texas Municipal Water District is headquartered here: it is the region’s water treatment hub, drawing from Lavon Lake, and the city’s largest employer at roughly 1,002 people. The City of Wylie employs about 533, Sanden International about 225, and Collin College’s Wylie Campus about 190. The EDC points to supply chain and logistics, precision manufacturing, and window and door manufacturing as the city’s sectors. Two caveats: those headcounts come from the Wylie EDC’s own employer file, which is undated, so treat them as approximate. And despite what some sites claim, Texas Instruments is not a Wylie employer. Even with a real local base, the 31.4-minute mean commute says most residents still work elsewhere.
It’s the rare North Texas suburb with a real downtown. N. Ballard Avenue has a restored historic core with shops, restaurants and Olde City Park, and the city leans into it: “Wide Awake Wylie.” Bluegrass on Ballard each May brings bluegrass bands, a 225-car show and 100+ craft vendors into that park for free. Beyond downtown it’s a young, fast-growing, new-construction-heavy suburb: median age 35.3, 27.7% of residents under 18, 77.4% owner-occupied. Lavon Lake is about five miles north and Lake Ray Hubbard is to the south, though neither is inside the city.
They’re the two halves of the same corridor and they’re genuinely different. Sachse is older, smaller and higher-income (median age 39.9, median household income $131,808, 84.7% owner-occupied), and the PGBT runs through it, so the drive out is shorter. Wylie is roughly twice the size, younger (35.3), lower-income ($119,522), 77.4% owner-occupied, and has more new construction, a real downtown and a real employment base, but no freeway inside the city. All figures are ACS 2020-2024. Both have the same school-district trap: verify the address, not the mailing city.
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Every public campus inside Wylie 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.
Wylie 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.
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Wylie homes are taxed by 4 separate governments, and the combined 2025 adopted rate is 1.95% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Wylie ISD | 1.175200 | 60% |
| City of Wylie | 0.543438 | 28% |
| Collin County | 0.149343 | 8% |
| College district | 0.081220 | 4% |
| Combined | 1.949201 | 100% |
Collin County has no hospital district, which is the main structural reason its cities run below their Dallas County neighbours rather than anything about how Wylie budgets.
No exemption
$9,746
What an investor or second-home owner pays.
With homestead
$7,982
Effective rate 1.5964% of market value.
You keep
$1,764
Per year, once the exemption is filed and granted.
| Unit | Exemption | Taxed on | Tax |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wylie ISD | $140,000 | $360,000 | $4,231 |
| City | none adopted | $500,000 | $2,717 |
| County | $25,000 | $475,000 | $709 |
| College district | $100,000 | $400,000 | $325 |
Every school district in Texas must exempt $140,000 of a homestead's value. Cities, counties and college districts may each adopt up to 20% on top, and several here adopt nothing at all - which is why this has to be worked out one unit at a time rather than netted against the combined rate. Year one is billed at full market value; the 10% appraisal cap starts the January after your exemption is granted.
Collin County has 28 special districts levying their own rate on top of everything above - 23 Municipal Utility Districts, 3 Municipal Management Districts, 1 Water Control & Improvement Districts, 1 Fresh Water Supply Districts. Adopted 2025 rates run from 0.41 to 1.20 per $100. At the top of that range a district adds more than half again the entire Wylie 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 Wylie 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.