In 2023, the population of the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area in the United States was about 8.1 million people. This was a slight increase from the previous year, where the population was about 7.95 million people.

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In 2023, the GDP of the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area amounted to around 613.38 U.S. dollars, an increase on the previous year. The Dallas-Fort Worth metro area The Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington Metropolitan Statistical Area is composed of 12 counties within the U.S. state of Texas. Dallas–Plano–Irving and Fort Worth–Arlington are the two metropolitan divisions of the area. It is the economic and cultural hub of North Texas or North Central Texas, and is commonly referred to as the Dallas/Fort Worth metro area, DFW or The Metroplex by residents. Estimates of the 2022 population of the Metroplex were roughly 7.94 million inhabitants. The Dallas Cowboys The Dallas Cowboys are a well-known sports team from the city of Dallas in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. The Dallas Cowboy’s franchise value has risen greatly since 2002. The franchise was valued at 784 million U.S. dollars in 2002. As of 2022, the Dallas Cowboys franchise was valued around nine billion U.S. dollars. The Dallas Cowboys also ranked first on a list in terms of 2022 revenue of national football league teams, being the only team to have generated more than a billion U.S. dollars in revenue that year, about 406 million more U.S. dollars than the second ranked team, the Las Vegas Raiders. In 2022, the average ticket price for Dallas Cowboys games was 108 U.S. dollars.

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Resident Population in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX (MSA) was 8344.03200 Thous. of Persons in January of 2024, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Resident Population in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX (MSA) reached a record high of 8344.03200 in January of 2024 and a record low of 5196.18800 in January of 2000. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Resident Population in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX (MSA) - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on May of 2025.

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The USGS Central Region Energy Team assesses oil and gas resources of the United States. The onshore and State water areas of the United States comprise 71 provinces. Within these provinces, Total Petroleum Systems are defined and Assessment Units are defined and assessed. Each of these provinces is defined geologically, and most province boundaries are defined by major geologic changes.
The Bend Arch-Fort Worth Basin Province is located in north central Texas and south western Oklahoma, encompassing all or parts of Archer, Bandera, Baylor, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan Clay, Coleman, Collin, Comanche, Concho, Cooke, Coryell, Dallas, Denton, Eastland, Ellis, Erath, Foard, Gillespie, Grayson, Hardeman, Harmon, Haskell, Hill, Jack, Jackson, Johnson, Jones, Kendall, Kerr, Kimble, Know, Lampasas, Llano, Mason, McCulloch, McLennan, Menard, Mills, Montague, Palo Pinto, Parker, Real, Runnels, San Saba, Shackelford, Somervell, Stephens, Tarrant, Taylor, Throckmorton, Tillman, Wichita, Wilbarger, Wise, Young Counties in Texas and Harmon, Jackson and Tillman Counties in Oklahoma. The main population centers within the study area are Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. The main highway, I-20, generally traverses the area from east to west and I-35 traverses the eastern edge of the Province from north to south. The Colorado River, Brazos River and Pease River (RED RIVER) and their tributaries drain the area. For this study the Bend Arch-Fort Worth Province also includes Hardeman Basin.

The cities expected by industry experts to have the highest investor demands in the United States in 2023 were chosen due to their sustained population and job growth, attraction to educated millennials, high levels of economic diversity, and white-collar employment among others. Austin, Nashville, and Dallas Fortworth ranked highest among the top 15 cities with the highest projected investor demand in real estate in the United States for 2023.

BackgroundAs conscientious vaccination exemption (CVE) percentages rise across the United States, so does the risk and occurrence of outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles. In the state of Texas, the median CVE percentage across school systems more than doubled between 2012 and 2018. During this period, the proportion of schools surpassing a CVE percentage of 3% rose from 2% to 6% for public schools, 20% to 26% for private schools, and 17% to 22% for charter schools. The aim of this study was to investigate this phenomenon at a fine scale.Methods and findingsHere, we use beta regression models to study the socioeconomic and geographic drivers of CVE trends in Texas. Using annual counts of CVEs at the school system level from the 2012–2013 to the 2017–2018 school year, we identified county-level predictors of median CVE percentage among public, private, and charter schools, the proportion of schools below a high-risk threshold for vaccination coverage, and five-year trends in CVEs. Since the 2012–2013 school year, CVE percentages have increased in 41 out of 46 counties in the top 10 metropolitan areas of Texas. We find that 77.6% of the variation in CVE percentages across metropolitan counties is explained by median income, the proportion of the population that holds a bachelor's degree, the proportion of the population that self-reports as ethnically white, the proportion of the population that is English speaking, and the proportion of the population that is under the age of five years old. Across the 10 top metropolitan areas in Texas, counties vary considerably in the proportion of school systems reporting CVE percentages above 3%. Sixty-six percent of that variation is explained by the proportion of the population that holds a bachelor’s degree and the proportion of the population affiliated with a religious congregation. Three of the largest metropolitan areas—Austin, Dallas–Fort Worth, and Houston—are potential vaccination exemption "hotspots," with over 13% of local school systems above this risk threshold. The major limitations of this study are inconsistent school-system-level CVE reporting during the study period and a lack of geographic and socioeconomic data for individual private schools.ConclusionsIn this study, we have identified high-risk communities that are typically obscured in county-level risk assessments and found that public schools, like private schools, are exhibiting predictable increases in vaccination exemption percentages. As public health agencies confront the reemerging threat of measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases, findings such as ours can guide targeted interventions and surveillance within schools, cities, counties, and sociodemographic subgroups.