
Big. Big Hair. Big Cars. Big Egos. Country music lovin’, beer-swillin’, two-steppin’. J.R. Ewing and ruthless oil men. Ladies who lunch between Botox sessions. Cowboys and longhorns and buckin’ broncos.
Big D. Ninth-largest city in the United States. Top of the heap in the country’s fourth-largest metropolitan area. Where America’s Team was born. Namesake of a wildly popular television drama that bequeathed the city its own theme song.
Don’t let Dallas’ iconic imagery mislead you into picturing the place as a homogenous patchwork of concrete and steel affixed atop the edge of the southern plains. Each of the city’s distinct neighborhoods has its own story to tell, and it’s our privilege to tell them all.
Big. Big Hair. Big Cars. Big Egos. Country music lovin’, beer-swillin’, two-steppin’. J.R. Ewing and ruthless oil men. Ladies who lunch between Botox sessions. Cowboys and longhorns and buckin’ broncos.
Country music has its fans here, and we do love a good craft brew or a night at the Round-Up, but Dallas today is better understood as a great American city striving to make itself even greater, a place so enamored of business innovation that the word “entrepreneur” is often spoken in tones of hushed reverence.
Dallas has grand plans. Always seems to have grand plans. The central dispute now is over transportation — whether more highway lanes through the central core are necessary to accommodate the new residents flooding into the metropolitan area. Will the city embrace greater density or subsidize suburban sprawl?
Neighborhood | Population | Area (Square Miles) | Pop. Density (Per Sq. Mile) | Median Age | Age 18+ | Household Income | Median Home Value | % Owner-Occupied | Avg. Commute in Minutes |
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Bent Tree | 10,215 | 2.59 | 3944.0 | 47.8 | 86.2% | $79,127 | $466,614 | 55.7% | 23.0 |
Bluffview | 4,617 | 1.43 | 3,228.7 | 38.9 | 75.0% | $64,001 | $624,068 | 61.9% | 22.0 |
Casa Linda | 4,175 | 1.46 | 2859.6 | 46.3 | 80.8% | $85,488 | $234,502 | 83.3% | 29.0 |
Central Dallas | 148,318 | 28.7 | 5,167.9 | 34.4 | 83.4% | $53,983 | $247,887 | 25.5% | 24.0 |
Deep Ellum - Expo Park | 2,621 | 0.63 | 4,160.3 | 34.0 | 87.9% | $53,659 | $275,131 | 6.3% | 23.0 |
Design District | 1,932 | 0.97 | 1,985.6 | 33.2 | 96.5% | $80,263 | $248,000 | 2.0% | 20.0 |
Devonshire | 1,542 | 0.54 | 2,860.9 | 39.8 | 72.0% | $158,766 | $858,317 | 83.1% | 20.0 |
Downtown | 13,041 | 2.87 | 4,543.9 | 34.6 | 92.2% | $72,224 | $337,404 | 12.2% | 24.0 |
East Dallas | 144,008 | 29.80 | 4,832.5 | 35.8 | 74.3% | $55,783 | $231,335 | 54.7% | 29.0 |
Eastwood | 809 | 0.26 | 3,111.5 | 49.1 | 81.7% | $92,912 | $262,820 | 94.7% | 30.0 |
Far North Dallas | 165,719 | 24.50 | 6,764.0 | 35.3 | 78.6% | $51,317 | $306,287 | 31.5% | 25.0 |
Forest Hills | 2,080 | 0.66 | 3,170.7 | 45.4 | 73.8% | $119,488 | $396,184 | 92.3% | 26.0 |
Greenway Parks | 1,583 | 0.43 | 3,681.4 | 42.6 | 77.9% | $104,688 | $712,517 | 57.8% | 21.0 |
Highland Park | 8,722 | 2.25 | 3,876.4 | 46.1 | 75.3% | $165,591 | $1,000,001 | 82.4% | 19.0 |
Hillside | 1,139 | 0.32 | 3,593.1 | 41.8 | 79.4% | $76,172 | $339,568 | 78.5% | 24.0 |
Hollywood Heights - Santa Monica | 2,067 | 0.34 | 6,097.3 | 37.1 | 74.7% | $98,079 | $393,044 | 71.7% | 26.0 |
Kiestwood | 939 | 0.26 | 3,668.0 | 39.4 | 76.3% | $65,624 | $140,680 | 86.2% | 26.0 |
Lake Highlands | 87,860 | 14.60 | 6,017.8 | 34.7 | 72.5% | $44,539 | $266,181 | 39.7% | 29.0 |
Lake Park Estates | 641 | 0.17 | 3,815.5 | 48.2 | 81.4% | $95,833 | $282,750 | 92.6% | 29.0 |
Lakewood | 15,513 | 4.88 | 3,178.9 | 40.1 | 75.2% | $87,462 | $436,651 | 64.3% | 27.0 |
Lakewood Heights | 2,374 | 0.37 | 6,451.1 | 36.8 | 72.4% | $94,521 | $408,067 | 65.3% | 25.0 |
Little Forest Hills | 1,823 | 0.39 | 4,650.5 | 42.7 | 79.2% | $79,422 | $267,996 | 75.6% | 28.0 |
Lochwood | 4,998 | 1.23 | 4,063.4 | 43.1 | 78.9% | $64,010 | $224,344 | 80.2% | 31.0 |
Love Field | 12,348 | 4.74 | 2,605.1 | 34.7 | 74.9% | $49,806 | $162,874 | 52.5% | 25.0 |
Lower Greenville | 7,706 | 1.14 | 6,759.6 | 35.4 | 81.0% | $73,273 | $347,451 | 46.5% | 25.0 |
M Streets - Vickery Place | 6,212 | 0.98 | 6,332.3 | 36.8 | 80.8% | $79,409 | $368,998 | 55.0% | 22.0 |
Medical District | 3,843 | 1.42 | 2,706.3 | 31.7 | 85.0% | $44,085 | $137,977 | 7.3% | 23.0 |
Midway Hollow | 6,292 | 1.26 | 4,993.7 | 39.7 | 76.8% | $71,669 | $275,966 | 77.2% | 24.0 |
Mount Auburn | 5,871 | 0.54 | 10,852.1 | 29.9 | 68.3% | $32,751 | $107,920 | 55.8% | 28.0 |
North Dallas | 53,101 | 16.80 | 3,160.8 | 45.9 | 79.2% | $82,970 | $589,173 | 63.4% | 23.0 |
North Oak Cliff | 73,206 | 10.80 | 6,778.3 | 31.8 | 69.8% | $41,722 | $125,510 | 50.5% | 30.0 |
Northaven Park | 2,956 | 1.05 | 2,815.2 | 47.2 | 76.2% | $120,210 | $398,864 | 94.9% | 23.0 |
Northeast Dallas | 140,007 | 21.70 | 6,451.9 | 32.7 | 72.8% | $40,542 | $259,708 | 28.4% | 29.0 |
Northwest Dallas | 92,727 | 28.90 | 3,208.5 | 32.5 | 71.1% | $44,918 | $223,836 | 45.5% | 26.0 |
Northwood Hills - Valley View | 10,718 | 3.58 | 2,993.9 | 38.3 | 74.9% | $94,378 | $422,051 | 65.9% | 26.0 |
Oak Cliff | 275,381 | 72.20 | 3,814.1 | 32.3 | 70.4% | $33,236 | $93,983 | 51.2% | 31.0 |
Oak Lawn | 31,933 | 3.01 | 10,609.0 | 38.2 | 82.9% | $59,680 | $307,773 | 38.1% | 22.0 |
Old East Dallas | 37,899 | 3.92 | 9,668.1 | 33.2 | 77.2% | $42,864 | $288,801 | 20.3% | 26.0 |
Old Lake Highlands | 3,838 | 0.95 | 4,035.8 | 43.3 | 78.5% | $72,524 | $269,270 | 70.0% | 27.0 |
Park Cities | 43,690 | 9.01 | 4,849.1 | 36.4 | 74.4% | $142,338 | $1,000,001 | 73.4% | 19.0 |
Pleasant Grove | 58,753 | 11.30 | 5,199.4 | 28.6 | 66.0% | $37,988 | $80,975 | 68.6% | 35.0 |
Preston Highlands | 1,468 | 0.35 | 4,242.8 | 46.2 | 79.3% | $115,296 | $333,960 | 81.6% | 24.0 |
Preston Hollow | 15,536 | 6.11 | 2,542.7 | 50.4 | 80.0% | $120,858 | $767,055 | 79.5% | 21.0 |
Preston Trail | 125 | 0.18 | 694.4 | 59.5 | 90.4% | $132,692 | $594,079 | 76.2% | 23.0 |
Prestonwood | 13,678 | 2.62 | 5,220.6 | 44 | 78.6% | $84,745 | $299,563 | 71.2% | 26.0 |
Ridgewood Park | 775 | 0.23 | 3,429.2 | 40.9 | 81.9% | $89,362 | $306,140 | 84.7% | 25.0 |
South Dallas/Fair Park | 26,898 | 12 | 2241.5 | 36.2 | 74.4% | $23,647 | $66,089 | 37.1% | 34.0 |
Southeast Dallas | 167,167 | 61.40 | 2,722.6 | 29.1 | 66.6% | $37,233 | $85,233 | 60.6% | 34.0 |
Southwest Dallas | 62,203 | 37.60 | 1,654.3 | 28.8 | 68.3% | $46,683 | $121,586 | 57.0% | 30.0 |
The Peninsula | 466 | 0.15 | 3,191.8 | 45.8 | 78.7% | $81,571 | $284,848 | 81.9% | 25.0 |
University Park | 24,130 | 3.71 | 6,504.0 | 27.1 | 73.7% | $172,170 | $1,000,001 | 75.9% | 18.0 |
Uptown | 20,627 | 1.55 | 13,307.7 | 33.3 | 95.9% | $88,044 | $383,521 | 20.4% | 21.0 |
West Dallas | 29,381 | 16.00 | 1,836.3 | 28.2 | 65.2% | $31,804 | $85,770 | 54.2% | 28.0 |
Wilshire Heights | 1,537 | 0.35 | 4,442.2 | 37.1 | 74.9% | $95,510 | $399,896 | 83.0% | 24.0 |
Casa View | 36,853 | 11.2 | 3290.4 | 32.3 | 70.5% | $42,997 | $111,251 | 55.7% | 33.0 |
Glen Abbey | 24 | 0.15 | 52.25 | 91.67% | $87,500 | $750,000 | 35.71% | 23.0 | |
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