WELCOME TO DALLAS!

As your local Dallas REALTOR®,  I think it's important for you to know all you can about the area you're planning to call home. Whether you're planning a move to the Dallas area, or have lived here your entire life, we know you'll find the generosity of the people in Dallas very welcoming and will also enjoy the fine amenities and recreations that Dallas has to offer. Here's just a quick overview of the demographics and highlights of the Dallas area:                                                                                          

• The Dallas/Fort Worth Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area (DFW) reported 5.2 million residents in the 2000 Census, making it the largest metropolitan area in Texas, the ninth largest metro in the country and larger than 31 U.S. states. (Census 2000)
• DFW is comprised of two Primary Metropolitan Statistical Areas (PMSAs), Dallas on the east with 3.5 million residents and Fort Worth on the west with a population of 1.7 million. (Census 2000)
• The median age in DFW is 32.1 compared to the U.S. average of 35.3.
• DFW continues to add population at the same levels of the previous decade, bringing the population to nearly 6 million residents.

ACCESSIBILITY

        DFW is a major hub for air and ground transportation . . .

DFW's central location is equally close to North America's largest business centers: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Toronto.

The region's Central Time Zone location, one hour behind the East Coast and two hours ahead of the West

Direct flight time from DFW to nearly any city in the continental U.S. takes four hours or less.

DFW International Airport is the world's third busiest airport handling over 55 million passengers with an estimated 2,150 daily flights to approximately 210 destinations, including 36 international destinations.

The Dallas region is served by DFW International based American Airlines and Dallas Love Field based Southwest Airlines. 

Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) provides a network covering 700-square-miles in Dallas and 13 surrounding suburban communities and serving 210,000 passengers a day. By 2015, DART plans to have 93 miles of light rail and 22 miles of commuter rail in full operation.

The average commute time is 27.5 minutes in the DFW area.

EDUCATION & TRAINING

The DFW region is home to some of the most exclusive and high quality educational and training institutions in America, providing the area with a highly-educated workforce . . .

• The Dallas/Fort Worth area is served by more than 100 Independent School Districts (ISD) enrolling an estimated one million students. Nearly 150 accredited private and parochial schools are in the Dallas area enroll 64,000 students.
• Enrollment exceeds 70,000 students at the six top public universities in DFW that offer baccalaureate and graduate degrees. Another 20 colleges and universities in the DFW area enroll nearly 50,000 students plus six community college districts, several of which offer multiple campuses, enroll more than 100,000 students.
• The six major public universities in DFW granted nearly 4,600 doctoral degrees in the last decade.
• The metro reports more than 100 campuses of proprietary schools licensed by the Texas Workforce Commission.
• Dallas offers the largest number of college and high school educated residents of any metro in the state of Texas and among the highest in the nation. Approximately, 2.6 million residents in DFW hold high school diplomas and more than 920,000 have completed at least four years of college.

REAL ESTATE

DFW offers one of the most attractive real estate markets among major metropolitan areas…

• New building permits for single-family homes continue to rise each year.
• The Dallas area offers a variety of housing styles and neighborhoods, including beautiful historical homes surrounded by large trees and gentle rolling hills, to upscale urban areas that offer ultra-modern townhomes, lofts and high-rises.
• The DFW Metroplex has a low cost of living, several points below the national average, and lower than major east and west coast cities.
  

HEALTH CARE

DFW is a major medical center providing "state-of-the-art" health care supported by aggressive research and education programs . . .

• The Dallas area is home to 50 hospitals, with more than 12,500 beds, and over 5,500 physicians, practicing a total of 72 specialties.
• Twelve members of the National Academy of Sciences and four active Nobel Laureates are on faculty at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
• Two of the nation's top rated hospitals are located in Dallas: Parkland Memorial Hospital and Baylor University Medical Center.
• The Dallas region is an international medical center for burns and trauma care and a leading transplant center of the Southwest. The area also has the largest single-site delivery facility in the nation at Parkland Memorial Hospital, where 13,000 babies are delivered annually. (Parkland Hospital)
• Schools exclusively devoted to higher education in the health sciences include Baylor College of Dentistry, Baylor University School of Nursing, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, and the University of Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
  

QUALITY OF LIFE

        Dallas/Fort Worth has a multitude of cultural and recreational amenities . . .