The 10 Worst Fort Worth Suburbs

The 10 Worst Fort Worth Suburbs To Live For 2025

We’ll get the ball rolling with Sansom Park, the absolute worst place to live around Fort Worth according to the data.

And in the world of worst rankings, Sansom Park beat the competition pretty handily thanks to scoring in the bottom 15% in three major categories. Income is the worst in the Fort Worth area, and to make matters worse, the city ranks 2nd worst when it comes to home values.

But hey, at least it’s cheap to live there. But there’s a reason for that… it’s Sansom Park.

You won’t feel bad about not having a great income for the area. There aren’t a bunch of places to spend your money anyway.

Welcome to Everman. Home to KMart, Big Lots, and a lot of gas stations.

This city is 11.2 miles to Fort Worth. Income levels here are the 7th lowest in the metro area, where families bring in about $60,068 a year, which only goes so far even on a shoestring budget.

But on the bright side, there are a lot of fast food joints in the area.

Back up the highway we go for the third worst Fort Worth suburb you can live in. You might have expected to see Pelican Bay on here. While the cost of living is low, your entertainment and work options are limited. And that’s an understatement.

In terms of numbers, it’s in the worst 15% for insurance, and the adult high school dropout rate is poor compared to other Fort Worth suburbs.

But at least there are lovely parks to bring the kids during the day.

If you live in Keene, most likely you struggle to make ends meet every month. It ranks as the 2nd lowest Fort Worth suburb for median household incomes.

Not only that, but this is the 15th worst unemployed suburb you can live in if you choose to live near Fort Worth. Remember, we looked at 65 cities for this study.

Keene is about 26.7 miles to downtown.

Forest Hill has the distinction of being a Fort Worth suburb. Which means that’s about all it has going for it.

All snarkiness aside, Forest Hill has the 4th lowest home values in the metro Fort Worth area, where the median price is $171,300. The median income is $250,001.

Forest Hill has an unemployment rate of 5.59% which ranks 13th worst.

Cockrell Hill has 3,736 residents that probably know it’s a pretty crummy place to live when you look at the data. (Or, if you’ve ever been there, you don’t need to look at the data.)

Incomes are towards the bottom, and the poverty rate sits at 7.223415682062298%.

Ah, Lake Worth. You rank as the 7th worst place to live around Fort Worth.

It’s the place with the 4th most out of work residents in the Fort Worth metro area (8.98%).

River Oaks is a city about 3.0 miles from Fort Worth, but Fort Worth probably wishes it was further away. It ranks as the 8th worst burb for 2018.

You’d be hard-pressed to find a worse place to live. River Oaks has the 2nd most uninsured people, 11th worst incomes, and has the 26th highest unemployment rate (3.99%) in the entire Fort Worth metro area.

Homes only cost $202,800 for a reason. That’s cheap for Fort Worth standards.

If you absolutely have to live near Fort Worth, then Alvarado might be a place for you to consider as it’s only the 9th worst Fort Worth suburb.

About 3.14% of residents are out of work.

Rounding out the ten worst Fort Worth suburbs to call home is Grand Prairie.

Located 20.1 miles outside the city, Grand Prairies is a real pit when you look at the data. Its residents have the 14th highest unemployment rate (5.15%), and poverty is far above the area average.