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Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metro Area

The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro area is made up of 11 counties in Texas; the largest are Dallas County, Tarrant County, and Collin County. About 8,477,157 people lived there on July 1, 2025 (Census estimate), 11.0% more than in April 2020.

Collin County, centralDallas County, centralDenton County, outlyingEllis County, centralHunt County, outlyingJohnson County, centralKaufman County, outlyingParker County, outlyingRockwall County, centralTarrant County, centralWise County, outlyingDallasFort Worth
Central Outlying 11 counties in Texas
Population, July 2025
8,477,157 11.0% more than in April 2020
Type
Metropolitan statistical area
Counties
11: 6 central, 5 outlying
Land area
8,676 sq mi (22,471 km²)
Time zone
Central TimeUTC-06:00 in January; UTC-05:00 in July
State
Texas
Combined statistical area
Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK
CBSA code
19100
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Counties in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro area, largest first

CountyRolePopulation, July 2025Share of the area
Dallas CountyCentral2,661,39731.4%
Tarrant CountyCentral2,248,46626.5%
Collin CountyCentral1,297,17915.3%
Denton CountyOutlying1,069,34612.6%
Ellis CountyCentral240,8672.8%
Johnson CountyCentral218,0482.6%
Kaufman CountyOutlying209,2352.5%
Parker CountyOutlying184,7672.2%
Rockwall CountyCentral140,7381.7%
Hunt CountyOutlying123,3361.5%
Wise CountyOutlying83,7781.0%

A central county holds the area’s core, an urban area of at least 50,000 people. An outlying county is in the area because of commuting: at least a quarter of its workers have jobs in the central counties, or at least a quarter of the people working there live in them. A county belongs to one metro or micro area at most, and it counts whole, countryside included.

Principal cities, largest first

  1. Dallas1,307,930 people
  2. Fort Worth963,194 people
  3. Arlington397,742 people
  4. Plano290,594 people
  5. Irving256,492 people
  6. Denton152,866 people
  7. Richardson118,731 people
  8. Grapevine51,139 people

OMB names the area after its largest principal cities. A principal city is the area’s largest city, plus any other city that is very large or a big job center, and smaller ones with at least as many jobs as working residents (2020 Census and commuting figures). People counts are American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates.

Metropolitan divisions

The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro area is big enough to be split into 2 metropolitan divisions, each a job center with the counties that commute to it.

Part of the Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK combined statistical area

OMB joins neighboring metro and micro areas into a combined statistical area when enough people commute between them. The other 9 areas in this one, largest first:

  1. Sherman-Denison, TX Metro Area153,613 people
  2. Athens, TX Micro Area88,595 people
  3. Granbury, TX Micro Area70,501 people
  4. Corsicana, TX Micro Area57,181 people
  5. Durant, OK Micro Area51,367 people
  6. Gainesville, TX Micro Area44,461 people
  7. Bonham, TX Micro Area39,265 people
  8. Sulphur Springs, TX Micro Area39,063 people
  9. Mineral Wells, TX Micro Area30,791 people

Bordering metro and micro areas, nearest first

Areas with a county on this area’s edge. Distances are straight lines between the areas’ largest cities.

  1. Corsicana, TX Micro Area52 mi south
  2. Sherman-Denison, TX Metro Area58 mi north
  3. Gainesville, TX Micro Area62 mi north
  4. Granbury, TX Micro Area64 mi southwest
  5. Bonham, TX Micro Area64 mi northeast
  6. Athens, TX Micro Area68 mi southeast
  7. Sulphur Springs, TX Micro Area71 mi east
  8. Mineral Wells, TX Micro Area76 mi west
  9. Waco, TX Metro Area89 mi south

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A metro or micro area is a statistical area that OMB draws for federal statistics. It is not a city, a local government or a mailing address, and it is not a measure of urban and rural: whole counties count, rural parts included. Programs that use metro areas, such as housing income limits or wage rates, can use their own version of these lists; check the program’s own list for an address.

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