Dallas - Fort Worth, TX

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Dallas encompasses half of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest city in the United States. Dallas is home to the fourth-largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies in the country and is the largest economic center of the 12-county Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. DFW has strong submarket occupancy rates, is home to more shopping centers per capita, and has the third-largest concentration of corporate headquarters for publicly traded companies in the U.S.

Over the past decade, DFW has grown by some 1.3 million people to reach a population of just under 7.7 million, making it the nation’s fourth-largest metro. Population has surged almost three times faster than the average for the nation’s 50 largest metros. Much of this growth has come from net domestic migration. Among America’s top 20 metros, DFW boasts the fourth-highest rate of net inbound migration. From 2010 to 2020, DFW saw net inbound migration from elsewhere in the U.S. of more than 430,000—more than any other U.S. metro. It’s projected that DFW will reach 10 million people sometime in the 2030s, surpassing Chicago to become America’s third-largest metro area. The metroplex owes its growth to railroads, interstate highways, and airports, plus an unusual degree of economic freedom and affordability. DFW’s economy is the fourth-largest in the U.S., with a 2020 real GDP of just over $620.6 billion. DFW’s economy is primarily based on banking, commerce, insurance, telecommunications, technology, energy, healthcare, medical research, transportation, and logistics. The city of Dallas is home to nine Fortune 500 companies, while the Metroplex hosts 22. Moreover, it is the only metro area in the country home to three of the top-10 largest Fortune 500 companies by revenue.

Dallas is the best-ranked city on the Regulatory Climate Index thanks to its efficient local regulations. Entrepreneurs and small businesses can expect a welcoming business environment across all five areas of local regulation. Dallas scores above average across each meaningful measure of an interaction that a business has with a local government agency through procedure, time, and cost. These rankings reflect the city’s efforts to develop programs and initiatives to strengthen the business environment, provide access to capital, and encourage economic growth at the local level.

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Best Places for Business and Careers (Forbes, 2019)

Fortune 500 Companies Call Dallas Home (Fortune)

Largest Metropolitan Area in the United States

Largest Concentration of Corporate Headquarters in the United States

Most Economic Development Projects in U.S. Metros (Site Selection, 2020)