River Oaks

Written by Eric Duran — Founder and Realtor, The Fort Real Estate · Updated October 20, 2026

The short answer: River Oaks sits two minutes and half a mile from the NAS JRB main gate, closer than anywhere else on this site. 53 homes closed in the twelve months to October 2026 at a $250,000 median — 1,380 square feet built around 1951, about $201 a foot — under contract in a median 27 days at 96.7% of asking. Two things catch people out: it is Castleberry ISD, not Fort Worth ISD, and at 2.558% it carries the highest property tax rate of the west-side cities.

River Oaks is its own incorporated city inside Fort Worth — a little over a square mile in 76114, with its own city hall and its own school district. Most people assume it is a Fort Worth neighborhood. It is not, and that has real consequences for your tax bill and your schools.

It is also the closest residential address to the NAS JRB Fort Worth main gate by a wide margin. From Long Avenue and River Oaks Boulevard the gate is two minutes away, half a mile, arriving at 6:30 on a weekday morning. Nothing else on the west side is in the same range. River Oaks also has its own East Gate, open 6:00–9:00 AM and 3:00–6:00 PM on weekdays and closed on holidays — useful on a standard shift, less so on a rotating one, and worth checking against your own schedule before you buy.

The housing stock is mostly original post-war construction. The median home that closed in the past year was built in 1951, about 1,380 square feet on a fifth of an acre, at $250,000. Forty of the 53 closed sales were built before 1960 and ran a median $232,500. The twelve built since 2000 ran $414,900 for about 2,070 square feet, so there is newer product here, just not much of it.

Two things buyers should weigh honestly. First, the tax rate: 2.558% for 2026 — the City of River Oaks at 0.818931, Castleberry ISD at 1.246900, plus the Tarrant County base. That is the highest combined rate of any city on the west side. Against Westworth Village at 1.996%, the difference on a $250,000 home is roughly $1,400 a year.

Second, this is a slow market to sell into. Over the twelve months to October 2026, 58 River Oaks listings came off the market without a recorded sale against 53 that closed — the weakest ratio of any west-side city we track. Homes that did sell moved reasonably: 27 days to contract at 96.7% of original asking. The difficulty is not speed, it is getting priced right in the first place.

Castleberry ISD serves the city, not Fort Worth ISD. Confirm the attendance zone for a specific address before making an offer.