All of DFWHomes across Dallas-Fort Worth
Home base is McKinney and Melissa. I've sold across North Texas.
U.S. Census Bureau, March 26, 2026. Source
The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro (11 counties): the Census Bureau's Vintage 2025 metro estimates and its March 26, 2026 release. The gain is from the April 1, 2020 estimates base (7,638,294) to July 1, 2025, the largest numeric gain of any U.S. metro. The picture is the model below: an illustration, not to scale.
Where North Texas is growing.
Each column is a city, as tall as it grew in a year.
One-year growthU.S. top fiveHome baseOpenComing
The growth ring
Four of the five fastest-growing U.S. cities of 20,000 or more are here: Celina, Princeton, Melissa and Anna (U.S. Census Bureau, 2025).
- Open
North on US 75
Texas Instruments began production at its newest Sherman fab in December 2025.
- Under construction
Up the Tollway
Six more miles, from US 380 to FM 428. NTTA expects late 2027.
- Open
SH 121 and Legacy
The Sam Rayburn Tollway runs 26 miles, from Business 121 to US 75.
East: Rockwall, Fate and Royse City
Kaufman County grew 5.7% in a year, third among U.S. counties of 20,000+ by percent (U.S. Census Bureau, 2025).
West: the lake towns
Little Elm and The Colony sit on Lewisville Lake, which stores water for the City of Dallas.
- Open
Rail and the airports
The DART Silver Line opened Oct. 25, 2025: 26 miles and 10 stations, Plano to DFW Airport.
The two downtowns
Fort Worth added 19,512 people in a year, the second-largest gain of any U.S. city (U.S. Census Bureau, 2025).
That's a lot of ground. Let me walk you through it.
As of October 2026. Sources
Columns: one-year change, July 1, 2024 to July 1, 2025 (the Census Bureau's Vintage 2025 estimates), from the U.S. Census Bureau's Vintage 2025 city estimates and its May 14, 2026 release (Table 3, the fastest-growing cities of 20,000 or more; Table 4, the largest gains). Where the change is below zero (Allen -0.3%, Plano -0.1%, Flower Mound -0.5%, Irving -0.6%, DeSoto -0.2%, Dallas -0.1%) a city shows its base only. Kaufman County: the Census Bureau's March 26, 2026 release (Table 7). Van Alstyne has under 20,000 people, so it is not in the national ranks.
Texas Instruments, Dec. 17, 2025 (its fabs and jobs are TI's own figures); NIST CHIPS award pages for GlobalWafers; KTEN via SEDCO (GlobalWafers' opening); KXII via SEDCO (Coherent, June 16, 2026); NTTA's Dallas North Tollway and Sam Rayburn Tollway pages; Universal's release via Visit Frisco (its official opening date, July 1, 2026); Visit Frisco (the 2027 PGA Championship); Frisco EDC (The Star, PGA Frisco); Toyota; Community Impact, Sept. 22, 2026 (Toyota Stadium); U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Lewisville Lake); the Town of Little Elm, the City of The Colony and the Town of Flower Mound; TSHA (Rockwall); DART's Silver Line and launch release (DART's rail ends at Parker Road Station in Plano and DART lists no rail project north of it; McKinney, Allen, Frisco, Prosper, Celina, Anna and Melissa are not DART member cities, per DART); DFW Airport's December 2025 traffic report and its Aug. 11, 2025 release (Terminal F, under construction, drawn in glass beside the airport); Public Law 109-352 (Love Field); the City of McKinney, Sept. 24, 2026 (the airport terminal); the City of Dallas (the convention center); TxDOT, Dallas County construction projects (I-35E, August 2026).
Placement: Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (the counties, lakes, rivers, highways, runways and the Silver Line), each place on its own verified point. Relief: elevation from the USGS 3D Elevation Program (public domain), through the Terrain Tiles open dataset, smoothed and cut into three thin sheets of glass at 150, 200 and 250 meters, raised about 4 times. Distances are to scale; the relief, roads, columns and markers are not.
A diagram · not to scale
Find your city.
US 75
Plano
Counties: Collin, Denton
People on July 1, 2025: 293,028
Change in one year: −367 −0.1%
Toyota Motor North America's headquarters.
Allen
County: Collin
People on July 1, 2025: 113,447
Change in one year: −289 −0.3%
A railroad town from 1870.
McKinney
County: Collin
People on July 1, 2025: 236,001
Change in one year: +8,504 +3.7%
The county seat, named for Collin McKinney.
Melissa
County: Collin
People on July 1, 2025: 29,969
Change in one year: +3,791 +14.5% U.S. No. 4
Where SH 121 splits off US 75.
Anna
County: Collin
People on July 1, 2025: 35,245
Change in one year: +3,249 +10.2% U.S. No. 5
A railroad town, platted in 1883.
Van Alstyne
County: Grayson
People on July 1, 2025: 8,012
Change in one year: +795 +11.0%
About 12 miles south of Sherman.
Sherman
County: Grayson
People on July 1, 2025: 52,417
Change in one year: +2,068 +4.1%
Where TI's newest fab began production.
Denison
County: Grayson
People on July 1, 2025: 26,822
Change in one year: +247 +0.9%
Eisenhower's birthplace, near Lake Texoma.
The Tollway
Frisco
Counties: Collin, Denton
People on July 1, 2025: 236,955
Change in one year: +1,796 +0.8%
The Star and PGA of America's headquarters.
Prosper
Counties: Collin, Denton
People on July 1, 2025: 45,605
Change in one year: +1,094 +2.5%
NTTA's Tollway extension through town: late 2027.
Celina
Counties: Collin, Denton
People on July 1, 2025: 64,427
Change in one year: +12,710 +24.6% U.S. No. 1
Also the nation's fastest-growing city in 2023.
West
Little Elm
County: Denton
People on July 1, 2025: 62,727
Change in one year: +1,902 +3.1%
A lake town on Lewisville Lake.
The Colony
County: Denton
People on July 1, 2025: 46,196
Change in one year: +222 +0.5%
“City by the Lake,” home of Grandscape.
Lewisville
Counties: Denton, Dallas
People on July 1, 2025: 139,006
Change in one year: +2,956 +2.2%
Lewisville Lake stores water for Dallas.
Flower Mound
Counties: Denton, Tarrant
People on July 1, 2025: 79,540
Change in one year: −424 −0.5%
Named for a hill called “The Mound.”
East
Wylie
Counties: Collin, Rockwall, Dallas
People on July 1, 2025: 63,842
Change in one year: +934 +1.5%
A Santa Fe railroad town, from 1886.
Rockwall
County: Rockwall
People on July 1, 2025: 53,980
Change in one year: +477 +0.9%
County seat, near Lake Ray Hubbard.
Fate
County: Rockwall
People on July 1, 2025: 29,007
Change in one year: +1,600 +5.8%
A railroad town on SH 66.
Royse City
Counties: Rockwall, Collin, Hunt
People on July 1, 2025: 28,307
Change in one year: +1,908 +7.2%
Home of its historic MKT Depot.
Dallas County
Dallas
Counties: Dallas, Collin, Denton, Rockwall
People on July 1, 2025: 1,329,491
Change in one year: −1,808 −0.1%
The 9th most populous U.S. city.
Irving
County: Dallas
People on July 1, 2025: 257,076
Change in one year: −1,561 −0.6%
Home of Las Colinas, beside DFW Airport.
DeSoto
County: Dallas
People on July 1, 2025: 56,681
Change in one year: −136 −0.2%
On I-35E, with a landmark entrance tower.
U.S. Census Bureau, July 1, 2025. Sources
People and one-year change (July 1, 2024 to July 1, 2025): the Census Bureau's Vintage 2025 Texas city estimates, the county parts in its city dataset, and the ranks in its May 14, 2026 release (Table 3: the fastest-growing U.S. cities of 20,000 or more, where Celina is No. 1, Melissa No. 4 and Anna No. 5; Table 5: Dallas is the 9th most populous U.S. city). Every county a city reaches is listed. Van Alstyne has under 20,000 people, so it has no national rank. The bars share one scale.
The lines: City of McKinney, McKinney's History; Toyota, company history (its North American headquarters came together in Plano in 2017); the Handbook of Texas on Allen, Van Alstyne, Rockwall, Fate and Irving; the Handbook of Texas and the City of Melissa's Melissa Lake Park page; City of Anna, Anna History; Texas Instruments, Dec. 17, 2025; the Texas Historical Commission's Eisenhower Birthplace and Discover Denison; The Star and the Frisco EDC (PGA of America's headquarters opened in Frisco in 2022); NTTA's Dallas North Tollway page (Phase 4A, US 380 to FM 428: "Late 2027"); the Town of Little Elm; the City of The Colony; the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Lewisville Lake stores water for the City of Dallas); the Town of Flower Mound (a hill about 650 feet above sea level); the City of Wylie (its first Santa Fe train, Oct. 13, 1886); the City of Royse City; the City of Fate; the City of DeSoto (a landmark tower more than 50 feet tall at I-35 and Pleasant Run Road).
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2025
Oct. 25
DART Silver Line
26 miles and 10 stations, Plano to DFW Airport.
OpenDecember
Texas Instruments, Sherman
TI plans up to four fabs here.
In production
2026
July 1
Universal Kids Resort, Frisco
Universal's first regional theme park for kids.
Open- Today October 2026
Nov. 11
McKinney National Airport terminal
Avelo nonstops to nine cities by Dec. 17.
Opening
2027
May 17-23
PGA Championship
At PGA Frisco.
ComingSeptember
Sunset Amphitheater, McKinney
20,000 seats; completion now set for September 2027.
Under constructionFirst phase
DFW Airport Terminal F
First 15 gates expected in 2027 (DFW, 2026).
Under construction
2030
End of 2030
Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Dallas
Being rebuilt to about 2.1 million square feet.
Under construction
As of October 2026. Sources
DART's Silver Line page, launch release and schedule (effective Sept. 21, 2026; McKinney, Allen, Frisco, Prosper, Celina, Anna and Melissa are not DART member cities, and DART lists no rail project north of Parker Road Station in Plano); Texas Instruments, Dec. 17, 2025 (its plans are TI's own); Universal's release via Visit Frisco (July 1, 2026 is Universal's official opening date); the City of McKinney, Sept. 24, 2026; Visit Frisco (the 2027 PGA Championship) and the Frisco EDC; Community Impact, Jan. 7, 2026 and Venu (Sunset Amphitheater); DFW Airport, May 1, 2025 and Aug. 11, 2025, and its Board's April 2, 2026 agenda item on Terminal F (ten gates in May 2027 and five more by the end of 2027, DFW's latest stated timing); the City of Dallas convention center master plan.
What a home costs to hold.
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0%
state or local income tax
Per the Texas Comptroller.
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$140,000
off your home's taxable value for school taxes, with a homestead
$60,000 more at 65 or older, or disabled.
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county rate per $100, tax year 2025
Cities, school districts, MUDs and PIDs add their own.
Send me an address; I'll check every rate.
Tax year 2025 rates. Sources
Income tax: the Texas Comptroller, Taxes of Texas: A Field Guide (December 2025): “Texans pay federal income taxes but not state or local income taxes.” Homestead: the Comptroller's property tax exemptions page (Tax Code §11.13: a $140,000 school district exemption, $60,000 more at 65 or older or disabled; its example: a $300,000 home pays school taxes “as if it was worth only $160,000”; the application is filed “before May 1”). Each county's appraisal district is linked below.
County rates per $100 of taxable value, tax year 2025: the Comptroller's 2025 county rates and levies. A county's rate is one line of a bill: the city, the school district, a college district and any MUD or PID add their own (McKinney MUD No. 2, for one, levied $1.05 per $100 for tax year 2025, per the Comptroller's 2025 total rates). Each city page shows its own bill.
Tax year 2026 adopted county rates: Collin County 0.151414 (Collin County Tax Office) and Denton County 0.183394 (Denton County). Dallas County adopted 0.248650, above its voter-approval rate, so a county tax rate election is set for Nov. 3, 2026; if voters reject it, 0.224650 applies (Dallas County).
Appraisal districts: Collin, Denton, Tarrant, Dallas, Rockwall and Grayson. General information, not legal or tax advice.
Real results
I've sold across North Texas.
The heart of it is McKinney, Allen, Frisco, Plano, Prosper and Celina. North up US 75 through Melissa, Anna and Van Alstyne to Sherman and Denison. West: Little Elm, The Colony, Lewisville, Flower Mound. East: Rockwall, Royse City, Fate. A light sprinkle in Dallas and Irving, and a couple toward DeSoto.
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