Dallas’ most walkable live-work-play community boasts a host of new apartments, trendy bars, hot restaurants, and much of the best shopping in town. Singles in their 20s often dominate the social scene along McKinney Avenue, but it’s mostly professionals on the other side of age 30 who have settled into the townhomes along the tree-lined roads farther north, closer to Knox Street.
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Getting to their favorite neighborhood bars and homes without having to get in a car. Trips on the McKinney Avenue Trolley are even free — though truthfully walking is often faster if you’re in a hurry.
That the neighborhood’s watering holes and restaurants are too often overrun by the sort of men disparagingly described by reference to a feminine hygiene product.
“Uptown” was a name invented by the developers who wholly reinvented this neighborhood into the land of polished mid-rises and upscale apartments we see today. Prior to the 2000s, it was generally considered another part of Oak Lawn. Some Oak Lawn loyalists still think it is.
The McKinney Avenue Trolley offers a free ride from Uptown, near Cityplace, to downtown Dallas.
High demand has made Uptown’s rental housing among the most expensive in the state.
The popular West Village development has apartments, restaurants, bars, and a boutique movie theater.
Mixed-use buildings — retail below, housing above — abound in Uptown, though they remain a rarity elsewhere in Dallas.
Cole Park provides plenty of green space with a playground, tennis courts, basketball courts, and shaded picnic tables.
It’s convenient to stop for a drink after a run, or a stroll, down the Katy Trail.
The Katy Trail Ice House is among the most popular bars in town — maybe a little too popular during the best weather.
McKinney Avenue offers plenty of options for dining, drinking, and all-around debauchery.
Uptown—dense and walkable by design—broke the mindset of suburban development we all grew up in.
The 2016 population of Uptown is estimated to be 20,627. That’s a change of +20.1% in the last five years. Over the next five years, the population is projected to change by +12.1%.
The number of households is 14,059, a change of +16.8% in the last five years. In the next five years, the number of households is projected to change +10.6%.
The average household size is 1.46.
The median household income is $88,044 and, of the entire population age 16 and over, 11.7% aren’t in the labor force. 4.9% of families live below the poverty line.
Among those employed, 3.5% are blue-collar workers, 90.0% are white-collar workers, and 6.5% are occupied as service industry or farm workers.
The average commute time for workers who live in this area is 21.0 minutes. The average number of vehicles per household is 1.4.
2.9% of Uptown homes are detached, single-family houses. The median owner-occupied home value is $383,521
20.4% of the homes are owner-occupied. The average length of residence among residents in owner-occupied homes is 9.5 years, while the average renter has been in the same home 5.4 years.
The median year the area’s housing units were built is 2001.
Uptown includes portions of these police beats: 121, 122, 124, 125
Throughout those beats during 2014, there were:
| Aggravated Assaults (non-family violence) | 22 |
| Aggravated Assaults (family violence) | 3 |
| Business Burglaries | 81 |
| Home Burglaries | 64 |
| Motor-Vehicle Burglaries | 449 |
| Auto Thefts | 128 |
| Business Robberies | 8 |
| Robberies of Individuals | 20 |
| Shoplifting Incidents | 37 |
| Other Thefts | 273 |
| Murders | 1 |
| Rapes | 6 |
| Dallas ISD Ben Milam Elementary | 79 |
| Dallas ISD Esperanza Medrano Elementary | 72 |
| Dallas ISD North Dallas High School | 57 |
| Dallas ISD Sam Houston Elementary | 82 |
| Dallas ISD Thomas J. Rusk Middle School | 47 |
