Fort Worth · 76116
Living in Ridglea Hills, Fort Worth
About 1,400 homes between Camp Bowie and Vickery, most from the 1950s, on hills about 150 feet from low to high.
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Where it is
Ridglea Hills runs from Camp Bowie Boulevard south to Vickery Boulevard.
- 1Ridglea Hills Elementary
- 2Ridglea Hills Park
- 3Ridglea Country Club
- 4Luther Lake
- 5The Ridglea Theater
- Bryant Irvin and Vickery
The City of Fort Worth registers Ridglea Hills as the neighborhood between Camp Bowie Boulevard on the north and Vickery Boulevard on the south, on the city’s west side in ZIP code 76116. Its line on the east follows Bernie Anderson Avenue and Westridge Avenue, and on the west it runs to the railroad tracks west of Piedmont Road.
- North
- “Camp Bowie”
- South
- “Vickery”
- East
- “Bernie Anderson/Ridglea/ W.side of Westridge Ave”
- West
- “Railroad tracks west of Piedmont”
As the city’s registration for the Ridglea Hills Neighborhood Association lists them. In the east edge, “Ridglea” means the small neighborhood next door with that name. The city’s line runs along its border for part of the way.
If a description you read puts Bryant Irvin Road on the edge, check it against the city’s map. The city’s registration does not name Bryant Irvin as an edge, and the corner of Bryant Irvin and Vickery sits east of the line, outside the neighborhood.
Inside the line
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Ridglea Hills Elementary. Beside the park. Its grades, feeder schools and 2026 state ratings are under The school, below.
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Ridglea Hills Park. 6.1 acres of trails, a playground, shelters and grills. City parkland since 1960, named in April 1961, open dawn to dusk.
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Ridglea Country Club. Its first course opened on September 1, 1954, and the members bought the club in 1974. More of its land lies to the south, in Ridglea Country Club Estates.
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Luther Lake. About 10 acres of water. At Christmas, lights reflect on the water, and people come to see them.
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The Fuller House. A private home the oilman Andrew Fuller commissioned in 1953 from the architect A. Quincy Jones, with each room a different geometric shape.
Nearby, on Camp Bowie
The Ridglea Theater. Opened in December 1950, with a tower that acts as a sign for the entire Ridglea development. On the National Register of Historic Places since 2011.
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Road miles, measured from Ridglea Hills Park
- The Shops at Clearfork 2.0 mi
- The nearest I-30 on-ramp 2.5 mi
- The main gate at NAS JRB Fort Worth 5.5 mi
- TCU 6.0 mi
- Downtown Fort Worth 7.0 mi
Which Ridglea
Five neighborhoods on the city’s map carry the Ridglea name.
Ridglea Hills is one of five neighborhood associations the City of Fort Worth registers with Ridglea in the name, and the houses in them were built decades apart. If you have read three listings called Ridglea that describe three different kinds of house, this is why. The typical Ridglea North house was built in 1947 on a lot about 69 feet wide. The typical Ridglea Hills house was built in 1956 on a lot about 104 feet wide. A listing can call either one Ridglea.
| Neighborhood (the city’s name) | Where | Homes measured | Median year built | Median house | Median lot width |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ridglea Hills Includes 74 townhouses. | Camp Bowie to Vickery | 1,412 | 1956 | 2,351 sq ft | 104 ft |
| Ridglea Hills Addition | To the southwest | 345 | 1961 | 1,633 sq ft | 83 ft |
| Ridglea North Includes 11 condominium units. | North of Camp Bowie | 1,018 | 1947 | 1,574 sq ft | 69 ft |
| Ridglea Country Club Estates Its count includes 174 condominium units, so its house and lot medians would not compare with the other rows. We leave them out. | To the south, partly in Benbrook | 769 | 1972 | see note | see note |
| Ridglea | A 40-acre association next door on the east | 73 | 1951 | 2,004 sq ft | 96 ft |
Listings add a second name. The subdivision line on a listing often reads “Ridglea Hills Add.” That is a recorded plat, the map filed when the lots were first laid out, and this one covers 855 homes in Ridglea Hills and 243 in the Ridglea Hills Addition next door. A Ridglea Hills house can also be recorded under “Ridglea Add,” a plat that covers 339 homes here, 129 across Camp Bowie in Ridglea North, and all 73 in Ridglea, the 40-acre association on the east side. To know which neighborhood a house is in, look up its address on the city’s map.
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The school
Ridglea Hills Elementary sits inside the neighborhood, next to Ridglea Hills Park.
Ridglea Hills Elementary is a Fort Worth ISD school for pre-K through fifth grade, with free, full-day pre-K. It belongs to the district’s Arlington Heights feeder pyramid. That pyramid lists two middle schools, Monnig and Stripling, and Arlington Heights High School.
Fort Worth ISD assigns schools by street address. Look the house up in the district’s School Finder before you make an offer; it lists the schools zoned to that address.
The Arlington Heights feeder: Texas Education Agency ratings, 2026
Ridglea Hills Elementary
PreK–5
C79/100
Which middle school depends on the address.
Monnig Middle
6–8
D61/100
Stripling Middle
6–8
C79/100
Arlington Heights High
9–12
B83/100
The houses
Most homes in Ridglea Hills date from the 1950s.
Of the neighborhood’s 1,412 homes, 909 carry a 1950s build year in the appraisal district’s records, and the median is 1956. Another 203 date to the 1960s. Fewer than one in ten carries a build year from 2000 on, and 44 of those are townhouses. Half the homes here have more than 2,351 square feet of living space, and one in four has more than 2,996. Seven in ten record a two-car garage, and one in four records a pool.
Ridglea Hills sits outside all fourteen of Fort Worth’s local historic districts, so exterior work on a house here needs no historic review. Near Camp Bowie, three townhouses inside the line, and part of at least one house lot, sit in the city’s Camp Bowie zoning district. That district has its own design review before the city accepts a permit to build, add on or change the outside, so check the parcel’s zoning first.
The lots
The median lot in Ridglea Hills is about 104 feet wide.
66 of the 68 lots under 50 feet wide are townhouse lots.
Measured from the city’s parcel map, the median lot here is about 104 feet across and 155 feet deep, with a recorded lot area of 15,000 square feet, about a third of an acre. That width is about twice the 50 feet that A-5, the zoning on most of the land here, sets as its minimum. Of the 1,412 lots, 883 are at least 100 feet wide, and all but 91 are at least 75.
For comparison, the same measurement puts the median lot at about 78 feet wide in Westcliff and about 50 in Arlington Heights.
- Half the lots measure
- about 95 to 121 ft wide
- the middle half of the 1,412
- Lots 150 feet or wider
- 158
- about one in nine of the 1,412
- Half the lots hold
- 12,600 to 17,424 sq ft
- about 0.3 to 0.4 acre
The hill
The ground here rises about 150 feet from its lowest point to its highest.
We sampled the ground at 308 evenly spaced points inside the city’s line, using the U.S. Geological Survey’s elevation data, and the highest and lowest points we found are about 150 feet apart. On the same kind of grid, Ridglea North across Camp Bowie varies by about 40 feet, and the Ridglea Hills Addition by about 70. The federal soil survey maps about half the neighborhood as soil on 3 to 20 percent slopes, with limestone as close as about a foot below the surface.
A slope changes what it takes to build on a lot. An addition may need a foundation that steps down with the grade, and a pool or an outdoor kitchen may need retaining walls. Rain has to be routed around the house, and rock near the surface makes digging cost more.
Our designers and builders check the grade of a lot before we draw anything, and our estimate accounts for the slope. When the foundation needs engineering, an outside structural engineer designs it. On a sloped lot, the foundation and the drainage help decide where an addition falls in the range below. Home additions covers the rest of what changes the price.
Home additions in Fort Worth
$60,000–$420,000
a bump-out at the low end, a full second story at the top.
Ranges for a home addition in Fort Worth, not a quote. Before there are drawings, a range is the only honest number anyone can give you — the spread between a high and a low bid on the same job is routinely 20% or more. We bill cost-plus, so when there is a plan you see the actual materials, labor and subcontractor costs, plus our overhead and profit, rather than a single figure with the unknowns padded into it.
What changes the price
- Which kind of addition. A bump-out borrows the roof and structure you already have; a second story needs engineering, a staircase, a new roofline and every system re-integrated.
- Whether a bathroom is in it. Plumbing into new square footage is $15,000–$35,000 on its own, and how far it sits from existing lines decides where in that band you land.
- What the existing house can carry. Whether the foundation extends, whether a bearing wall is in the way, and whether the framing can take a floor above it are answers that come from opening things up, not from the curb.
- Per square foot
- $175–$400
- How long it takes
- 3–9 months
- Fort Worth permit fees
- $1,200–$3,500
- Set aside a contingency
- 15–20% of budgetfor what the existing house turns out to be hiding
The floodplain
About 3 in every 100 Ridglea Hills lots sit in FEMA’s mapped floodplain.
Of the 1,412 home lots here, 43 have their center inside the flood zone FEMA maps for a 1-in-100 chance of flooding in any year, often called the 100-year floodplain, and 134 touch it. Checked both ways, Ridglea North and the Ridglea Hills Addition have none.
Some of that mapped ground is around Luther Lake, which is held by a dam. In a May 2024 inspection the city found the dam’s headwall bowing, with no damage or leaks reported, and the Fort Worth Report wrote in December 2025 that repairs would start in early 2026. We found no later report on whether they are finished, as of October 2026.
The counts above are for lots. A lender decides whether a house needs flood insurance from where the building itself sits on FEMA’s map. If you are looking at a house near the lake or on low ground, look up the parcel on FEMA’s flood map and read the flood questions on the seller’s disclosure before you make an offer.
Our work nearby
Three of our projects in the Ridglea area.
Our design and construction teams did the work on all three. On two, our brokerage also handled the home transaction: buying and selling, design and construction, under one roof. Each card names the neighborhood on the city’s map where we could confirm it.
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New flooring, paint and lighting through the living areas
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Questions
What people ask about Ridglea Hills, the Addition, the club and the association.
What is Ridglea Hills known for?
Ridglea Hills is known for its hills, its 1950s houses on wide lots, and what sits inside the boundary Fort Worth draws for the neighborhood: Ridglea Hills Park, Ridglea Hills Elementary, Luther Lake, where Christmas lights reflect on the water, and part of Ridglea Country Club. Its highest and lowest ground are about 150 feet apart.
What is the difference between Ridglea Hills and Ridglea Hills Addition?
They are two neighborhoods, each with its own association. Ridglea Hills is the larger one, about 1,400 homes between Camp Bowie and Vickery. The Ridglea Hills Addition is a smaller neighborhood of 345 homes to the southwest, built a little later, on narrower lots. The mix-up comes from a recorded plat named Ridglea Hills Addition that covers homes in both neighborhoods, so a listing that says “Ridglea Hills Add” can be in either one. The city’s map tells you which neighborhood a given house is in.
Is Ridglea Country Club in Ridglea Hills?
Partly. The club’s address on Bernie Anderson Avenue is inside the city’s Ridglea Hills line, and so are about 126 acres the appraisal district lists in the club’s name. About 150 more acres in the club’s name lie to the south, in Ridglea Country Club Estates, a different neighborhood with its own association, part of it in Benbrook.
Is there an HOA in Ridglea Hills?
There is a neighborhood association, and joining it is voluntary. By its own account, the Ridglea Hills Neighborhood Association is run entirely by volunteers, holds several member-only events a year, and asks members to pay dues at the beginning of the calendar year. A townhouse development inside the neighborhood may have its own owners’ association, and a house’s title commitment will show it, along with any deed restrictions.
Are there condos or townhouses in Ridglea Hills?
There are townhouses: the appraisal district records 74 inside the city’s Ridglea Hills line, most built since 2000. It also records 21 duplexes and two apartment parcels there. We found no condominium units in its records inside that line or crossing it, so by those records a condo listed as Ridglea Hills is outside the city’s boundary.
Why do listing sites show such different prices for Ridglea Hills?
Because each one draws the neighborhood differently. Some use the 76116 ZIP code, which also takes in Ridglea North, the Ridglea Hills Addition and part of Ridglea Country Club Estates. Some go by the plat name, which crosses into the Addition. Some mix in condos, and the city’s line contains none. A median from a wider area will not match one from the city’s line, so ask which boundary a figure uses before you compare it. For one specific house, our real estate agents will put together a free comparative market analysis.
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Your next step
Buy, sell, remodel or add on in Ridglea Hills, with one team.
- 1 Tell us the house: a listing you like, or the house you own.
- 2 We look it up: which Ridglea it is in, the flood map, and the schools it is zoned to.
- 3 You get two numbers: what the house is worth, from our real estate agents, and what changing it would cost, from our designers and builders.
If you are buying, do this before your option period ends. After it closes, you lose the right to back out for any reason you choose, so check the flood map, the school zone and the slope while you still can.
Buy it, sell it, remodel it or add on: we’ll say which one we would pick, and then you decide.
Sources
Verified October 2026. Boundary: the City of Fort Worth’s registration for the Ridglea Hills Neighborhood Association and the association’s outline in the city’s GIS. Homes, build years, house sizes, lot sizes, garages and pools: Tarrant Appraisal District parcels (tax year 2025) as the city’s GIS publishes them, read on October 6, 2026. “Homes” are the parcels the appraisal district classes as single-family, townhouse or condominium, counted only where the whole parcel sits inside the line, so counts run slightly low. Duplexes, apartments, club land and which city a parcel is in: the same records. Lot widths are the short side of each parcel’s mapped shape, not a survey. Build years are assessment records, not permit dates. Elevation: the U.S. Geological Survey’s 3DEP elevation service, 308 evenly spaced points. Soil: USDA Soil Data Access, map unit 372375. Floodplain: FEMA’s National Flood Hazard Layer, zones AE and AE floodway, panels 48439C0280K and 48439C0285L, each lot counted two ways: by its center point, and by whether any part of it touches the zone. Schools: Fort Worth ISD’s school pages and feeder pyramids; ratings from the Texas Education Agency’s 2026 accountability reports. Park: City of Fort Worth Parks. Club: Ridglea Country Club. Luther Lake: the Fort Worth Report, December 3, 2025, and the lake’s outline in the city’s map layers. Theater: Historic Fort Worth and the National Register of Historic Places, 2011; its location from the appraisal district’s parcel. Distances: road miles along the shortest driving route Google Maps offered from the park’s address on October 7, 2026, rounded to the nearest half mile. Zoning, historic districts and historic designations: the City of Fort Worth’s zoning map layers. The Camp Bowie district’s design review: the city’s Camp Bowie Boulevard Revitalization Code. You won’t find sale prices, asking prices, days on market or assessed values here. Listing sites change the first three every day, and each one draws Ridglea Hills its own way. An assessed value is set for property tax, and it can differ from what a house sells for.