Which Highland Hills do you mean?
Type the bare query into a national rental marketplace and it silently resolves to whichever metro your location implies. Type it into an AI assistant or open a new session somewhere else, and that assumption disappears.
| Location | State / metro | Area type | Rent signal (dated) | True in-boundary inventory |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highland Hills village | Cuyahoga County, OH (Cleveland suburb) | Small incorporated village, 1.96 sq mi | $880 median gross rent, 2024 | Thin, see below |
| Highland Hills neighborhood | Dallas, TX (ZIP 75241) | Urban residential neighborhood in a large city | $1,118 to $1,726 depending on source | Moderate, spread across several ZIPs |
| Highland Hills (branded communities) | San Antonio TX; Mankato MN; Dothan AL | Single leasing-office properties using the name | Not independently verified; property-specific | Not applicable, these are buildings |
A renter, buyer, or investor searching this term needs to pick a row before anything else on this page is useful.
Is “Highland Hills” always the same place?No. It names at least two distinct, unrelated U.S. locations with real population and rental markets (Cuyahoga County, OH and Dallas, TX), plus several apartment communities elsewhere that use the name as a brand rather than a place name.
Highland Hills, Ohio
662 residents lived in the village at the 2020 Census, with a 2025 estimate near 789. Median household income sits at $41,615, and median gross rent is $880 as of 2024. That single number undersells the actual renting experience here: the village is served by Warrensville Heights City School District, and it hosts Cuyahoga Community College’s Eastern Campus at 4250 Richmond Road, Highland Hills, OH 44122, a genuinely notable anchor for a place this small.
That address and the village’s own demographic profile don’t even agree on a ZIP: the college’s handbook lists 44122, while City-Data’s village-wide profile circulates under 44128. If you’re mailing something or filtering a job search by ZIP, check both codes rather than assuming one.
The bigger practical issue for renters is scarcity, not price. Live inventory checked on major marketplaces during this research turned up only one unit whose address actually sits inside the village’s 1.96 square miles; everything else labeled “Highland Hills” on those same search pages sat in adjacent Beachwood, Shaker Heights, or Warrensville Heights listings tagged as nearby.
Why do rental sites show listings that aren’t really in Highland Hills?Marketplaces build neighborhood search pages around a name and a rough radius, not a legal boundary. A village this small and this light on apartment stock will always get padded with adjacent-suburb listings labeled “nearby,” accurate but easy to miss if you’re only scanning photos and prices.
Highland Hills, Dallas, Texas
ZIP 75241 covers the neighborhood, served by Dallas ISD with three elementary attendance zones (Ervin, Young, and Pease) inside it, per zipdatamaps.com. The ZIP’s 2024 population is 35,075, and its median household income is $53,998, well above the Ohio village’s figure.
Rent is where this market gets genuinely contested. The ZIP-wide 2024 median gross rent is $1,449, covering a 27-square-mile area that extends well past the residential core most people mean by “Highland Hills.” A live-listing average from a major marketplace, checked during this research, put the figure at $1,118, with unit-level rents from $1,075 to $1,789. NeighborhoodScout’s proprietary model, which draws the boundary more tightly and calls it “Highland Hills Park,” puts average rent at $1,726 and dates most of the housing stock to 1940 to 1969, mostly owner-occupied single-family homes.
Comparing the two Highland Hills at a glance
The two markets aren’t comparable on affordability alone: Dallas is a working residential pocket of a 1.3-million-person city, and Ohio’s Highland Hills is a village smaller than most apartment complexes. What they share is the same disambiguation problem and the same marketplace habit of padding results with adjacent listings.
| Data point | Highland Hills, OH | Highland Hills, Dallas, TX |
|---|---|---|
| Rent figure (source) | $880 median gross rent, 2024 | $1,118 to $1,726 depending on source |
| Household income | $41,615 | $53,998 |
| School district | Warrensville Heights CSD | Dallas ISD |
| In-boundary rental supply | Thin, mostly adjacent-suburb spillover | Moderate, spread across multiple ZIPs |
| Governing tax system | Ohio mills, 35% taxable-value basis | Texas percent-of-appraised-value basis |
That last row deserves attention before either market becomes an investment decision, because the two states calculate the bill in fundamentally different units.
How do rents in the different Highland Hills compare?They don’t scale the way a simple cost-of-living gap would suggest. Ohio’s village rent is roughly half Dallas’s ZIP-wide median, but Dallas’s own numbers disagree with each other by over $600 depending on the source, so treat any single Dallas figure as a starting range.
If you’re buying or investing
None of the four marketplace pages reviewed for this research address a buyer or investor angle; they’re built for renters clicking through listings. The tax mechanics alone justify a separate look. In Cuyahoga County, the Highland Hills Corp–Warrensville Heights CSD taxing district carries an official gross rate of 135.930 mills for tax year 2025, collection year 2026. Ohio taxes only 35% of market value, and Cuyahoga County’s median effective rate runs near 2.27% once reduction factors apply. Dallas works differently: the City of Dallas rate is $0.6988 per $100 of valuation, and stacking the city, Dallas ISD, Dallas County, Parkland Hospital District, and Dallas College brings the combined effective rate to roughly 2.22 to 2.23% of taxable value, close to Ohio’s figure despite the different math.
| Jurisdiction | Tax basis | Current rate |
|---|---|---|
| Highland Hills Corp–W Hts CSD (OH) | 35% of market value, mills | 135.930 mills, TY2025/CY2026 |
| Cuyahoga County (effective, countywide) | Same, post-reduction | ≈2.27% |
| City of Dallas | Full appraised value minus exemptions | $0.6988/$100 |
| Dallas combined (city, ISD, county, Parkland, Dallas College) | Same | ≈2.22 to 2.23% |
A landlord weighing both markets is choosing between a low-rent, high-vacancy-risk village where the surrounding suburbs may be the more realistic target, and a larger, more liquid Dallas ZIP where the rent ceiling itself is unsettled.
Is Highland Hills a good buy-and-hold investment area?Neither market has published, dated cap-rate or vacancy-trend data specific to the neighborhood, so this is an open research question rather than a settled answer. What’s verifiable today is each state’s tax basis, and the fact that Ohio’s village has very little apartment stock to buy into in the first place.
Common mistakes when searching “Highland Hills” apartments
Trusting a marketplace’s neighborhood label as a legal boundary is the single biggest mistake. Dallas’s own version of Highland Hills is split across at least four ZIP codes (75241, 75216, 75232, and 75134) depending on which rental site you check, and Ohio’s village gets padded with adjacent-suburb listings the same way. Check the actual address and ZIP against the specific Highland Hills you mean before deciding a listing counts.
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