About Dallas

Dallas is a very large city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,197,816 people and 254 constituent neighborhoods, Dallas is the third largest community in Texas. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Dallas, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Dallas, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Dallas’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Dallas does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $37,628.

Dallas real estate is some of the most expensive in Texas, although Dallas house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Dallas is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Dallas is a city of sales and office workers, professionals and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dallas who work in office and administrative support (16.15%), sales jobs (11.55%) and management occupations (8.84%).

Also of interest is that Dallas has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

One thing noticeable about Dallas, is that it has a large population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile career starters. That’s because Dallas is full of single people in their 20s and 30s and who have undergraduate or graduate degrees and are starting careers in professional occupations. This makes Dallas a great place for young, educated career starters looking to find many people like themselves, with good opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun. In fact, Dallas is one of the top larger cities in America for educated single professionals to flock.

One important feature of Dallas is that it is one of the most car-oriented large cities in the country. In fact, 91.13% of people commute to and from work every day by private automobile, eschewing alternative forms of transportation, which are not widely available in Dallas anyway. So, if you like to drive, Dallas is the city for you! The landscape around Dallas reflects this: wide streets, parking lots, plenty of highways, malls, and shopping centers are what you'll find.

Dallas Information and Demographics

The percentage of people in Dallas who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 19.23%: 27.65% of adults in Dallas have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Dallas in 2000 was $22,183, which is wealthy relative to Texas, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $88,732 for a family of four. However, Dallas contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Dallas is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Dallas home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dallas residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Dallas also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 35.61% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Dallas include German, English and Irish.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Dallas's cultural character, accounting for 24.44% of the city’s population.

The most common language spoken in Dallas is English. Some people also speak Spanish.