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Rendon is a census-designated place — an unincorporated community with no city government — in southern Tarrant County, about twelve miles southeast of downtown Fort Worth.

Settlement at Rendon began in the latter half of the nineteenth century, when the community was originally known as Cross Roads, and the Hopper family arrived in the area in 1880.

A post office opened at Rendon in 1891, taking its name from Joaquin Rendon, the original land grant holder in the region.

By the mid-1890s Rendon had flour mills, two cotton gins, and a blacksmith shop, but its population was only twenty-five people.

Rendon organized its own volunteer fire department in 1954, and its local school was consolidated into the Mansfield Independent School District in 1967.

Rendon stayed a community of about ninety residents through the 1970s and 1980s before Fort Worth's suburban sprawl and nearby Interstate 35W development triggered dramatic growth in the 1990s.

Rendon first appeared as a census-designated place in the 1990 census with 7,658 people, and its population reached 13,533 at the 2020 census.

Rendon has about 4,776 households spread over roughly 24.6 square miles, about 84.8% of its homes are owner-occupied, and its median household income of about $117,888 is well above the Texas median.