The 10 Worst Neighborhoods In Fort Worth For 2022

The 5 Worst Neighborhoods In Fort Worth For 2022

As you'd expect, this section lies southeast of downtown. No surprises there. It also borders Lake Arlington...maybe a little surprise if you were expecting an unbroken urban landscape. Don't get too excited, though...you won't find any sprawling waterfront estates. Rather, you're more likely to discover trailers down by the water.

A substantial poverty problem drags this community down. The unemployment rate isn't horrible at 5.9%. However, wages remain low, with a median income sitting at $31,691. At least the cost of living stays affordable. This starts with housing prices, with a median home value of $53,724.

I-35 provides the main traffic artery for Northeast Fort Worth. You'll also find major thruways on E. Belknap St. and the blandly named Airport Freeway. However, despite these major highways, the neighborhood isn't just a web of asphalt. You also get touches of nature in places like Riverside Park, which sits along the West Fork Trinity River.

Still, life in the area isn't a preverbal walk in the park. Serious financial concerns dog most of the residents. The jobless rate hovers at a respectable levels, but the median income only reaches $40,654.

A neighborhood with a spot called Rodeo Park should be a wild ride. And, to add to the excitement, the Texas Cowboy Hall Of Fame sits just outside the area. These features complement a host of restaurants and stores...basically all the amenities a resident could want.

There's a problem though. The local economy is a tough bronco to break. The unemployment rate stands at a respectable 4.2%. However, it's tough to find a job in the area that pays more than $40,000. In fact, the local median income reaches just $37,189.

Yes, Southside ranks as the number 4 worst part of Fort Worth for 2022. But, even so, it really has a lot going for it. You've got plenty of amenities, including Glenwood Park for daytime walks and a hip area of bars and restaurants just over the I-35 in a neighborhood conveniently known as "Near Southside." The area also has a clear community spirit, as evidenced by the Lenora Butler Rolla Museum.

Yet, it's hard to ignore the hardships the area faces as well. As you've probably guessed based on the rest of this list, economic troubles hamper the neighborhood's progress. For example, Southside supports a median income of just $37,624.

Scroll around these worst-neighborhood lists and you'll find some areas of overwhelming poverty and urban blight. Things can get pretty scary. Sycamore isn't one of those seemingly hopeless locations. Still, a sluggish economy lands it at number 4 on this list of worst areas of Fort Worth in 2022.

Sycamore has an elevated unemployment rate of 5.4%. Finding work isn't a cinch, but the jobless figure is far from devastating. Similarly, the median income sits at the unremarkable level of $44,497. Not great, of course, but not the depths of destitution either.

Meanwhile, neighborhood real estate values remain within the means of most locals. The median home value stands at $85,861.

Methodology: How we determined the worst Fort Worth neighborhoods in 2022

To figure out how bad a place is to live in, we only needed to know what kinds of things people like and then decide what places have the least amount of those things. We threw the following criteria into this analysis in order to get the best, most complete results possible. We used this set of criteria for each neighborhood in Fort Worth:

• High unemployment (Less jobs)
• Low median income (Less pay)
• Low population density (No things to do)
• Low home values (No one's willing to pay to live here)
• High crime (Estimated)

Then, we ranked each neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas for each of these criteria from worst to best.

Next, we averaged the individual rankings for each criteria into a "Worst Score".

The neighborhood with the lowest "Worst Score" ranks as the worst neighborhood of Fort Worth.

Read on below to learn more about these terrible places around Fort Worth to live. Or skip to the end to see the list of all 16 neighborhoods ranked from worst to best.

This list is a scientific analysis based on real data and is completely unbiased. Hold on to your pants.