Quality of Life

Located just minutes of Dallas and Fort Worth, the City of North Richland Hills offers a variety of educational, entertainment, and healthcare opportunities. The City prides itself on its low crime rate as well as its fast emergency response times.

Education

The City of North Richland Hills is the proud home of many educational resources, including two award winning independent school districts, a selection of private schools ranging from pre-k to high school, and two colleges. North Richland Hills is also located within 30 minutes of a number of public and private universities. Educational opportunities abound for both children and adults in the City of North Richland Hills. For a list of all schools and unversities, please click here.

Entertainment & Cultural Arts

NRH₂O Family Water Park
The 60-acre park offers a 16,000 square foot wave pool, water slides, a two-person tube slide and an extensive water playground. NRH₂O features the Green Extreme, the World's tallest and longest uphill water roller coaster.

Iron Horse Golf Course
Iron Horse has been consistently voted among the best municipal golf courses in Texas. This challenging 18-hole Dick Phelps designed course surrounds golfers in a tranquil environment as the course meanders over scenic creeks and traverses under a railroad trestle.

NRH Athletics
The Athletic Division offers year round adult leagues, tournaments, special events, and youth volleyball leagues, which promote and active, enriched lifestyle for residents and surrounding communities. In addition a variety of youth sports camps are offered during the summer months to provide positive and healthy experiences for area youth.

NYTEX Sports Centre/Texas Brahmas
NYTEX Sports Centre features two indoor ice rinks. In addition to serving as the home for the Texas Brahmas, the center offers adult and youth hockey leagues and camps, figure skating and recreational skating. The facility also features The Hockey Shop, which sells Brahmas merchandise and a wide variety of hockey equipment and apparel, and ZuRoma, a Sicilian food restaurant. The City of North Richland Hills is proud to be the home of the Texas Brahmas hockey team!

Park & Trail Systems
With over 20 parks and special-use facilities, North Richland Hills makes the "great outdoors" accessible to everyone. The North Richland Hills Parks & Recreation Department has also developed a comprehensive citywide system of on and off-road trails and bicycle routes. Please click here to see a map of our Parks System

Art in Public Spaces
The City of North Richland Hills established an Art in Public Spaces Program in 2002. By integrating art into daily life, the program beautifies public areas, improves our quality of life and creates a distinctive identity for our community.

Library
The Library currently has more than 58,000 registered borrowers who use over 700,000 items each year. The Library strives to make each visit a rewarding experience for you and your family. The North Richland Hills Public Library opened its new location at 9015 Grand Avenue on April 19, 2008. The library offers a wide variety of books, videos, CDs, and other information resources and services.

Senior Center
The Bursey Road Senior Center and the Dan Echols Senior Center offer a wide variety of activities and classes to all North Richland Hills senior citizens, including craft and exercise classes, card games, and dinner parties.

Health Care

North Hills Hospital
North Hills Hospital strives to serve the community with the most state of the art services and treatments to date. The hospital recently underwent a $31.7 million renovation, which includes an award wining Heart Center, a Bariatric Center, and a new Women's Center.

They are proud to be the first hospital in the United States to receive the Cycle 2 Accreditation for our Chest Pain Center, along with being awarded by the American Society for Bariatric Surgery.

The Hospital's mission is to serve, to care for, and to assist in the healing of our Patients and their Families.

Safety & Security

Police
The mission of the NRH PD is to work in a partnership with citizens to maintain a safe, peaceful community by providing excellence in all police services dedicated to the highest standards of ethics and integrity while preserving and protecting life and property.

Number of Employees: 163
Number of Stations: 1
Part I Crimes: 2,491
Part II Crimes: 2,281
Response Times:
Priority I (In-Progress Emergencies): 5:45
Priority II (Non Life Threatening): 9:14
Priority III (Non Emergency Calls): 10:50

Fire
The North Richland Hills Fire Department is committed to the preservation of the lives and property of the citizens of North Richland Hills, Texas. This commitment is accomplished through: Public Education, Fire Prevention and Investigation, Emergency Medical Services, Fire Suppression and Rescue Services, and Emergency Management and Homeland Security Planning.

Number of Employees: 89
Number of Stations: 4
Response Times: 72% under 5 minutes
Fire Responses 2008: 1,846
EMS Responses 2008: 5,086
ISO Rating: 4 (with a Class 2 rating pending)