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Fort Worth is often overshadowed by its larger neighbor Dallas, Texas. The TV show “Dallas” made the city world-famous, though it is based on the real-life location of South Fork Ranch 25 miles north of Dallas. The Dallas Cowboys are a national team, though their stadium is located in the Fort Worth suburb of Arlington, Texas. But how does Dallas differ from Fort Worth aside from having name recognition?
The population of Dallas is 1.3 million. Fort Worth is significantly smaller. It is home to around 900,000 people. For comparison, the entire Dallas-Fort Worth metro area is home to roughly 7.5 million people.
Fort Worth covers 355 square miles. Dallas is barely any bigger; it covers 383 square miles. This gives Fort Worth a significantly lower population density. The real density in Dallas is even greater because there are large areas like the Trinity River Forest and Dallas Love Field that don’t allow for new construction. This gives Fort Worth an edge over Dallas because infill development could allow Fort Worth’s population to grow.
Downtown Dallas and south Dallas are the oldest neighborhoods in the city. For example, Reunion Tower is named after a French colony that was founded there in the 1850s. Dallas expanded north along I-75 as soon as it was built. Then it surrounded University Park and Highland Park before continuing growth through annexation. Far North Dallas stretches from Loop 635 to the George Bush Tollway. It is mostly contained within the Dallas North Tollway and Highway 75. Then you hit established suburbs like Plano and Frisco.
Fort Worth didn’t aggressively expand north until after the development of Alliance Airport. The cargo-only airport north of Fort Worth became a shipping hub, and that in turn led to an influx of manufacturers and residential construction. That has occurred in the past twenty years.
Development around Dallas-Fort Worth Airport is still going on. That’s understandable given that the airport was originally built on empty farmland equidistant between the two cities.
The top industries in Dallas are technology, financial services and defense. The Texas Instruments plant that invented the microchip is located in Dallas, and there are a number of microchip wafer fabrication plants in north Dallas. Telecom company AT&T is headquartered in Dallas. McKesson is a healthcare IT and medical supply distributor. They are headquartered in the DFW area.
The presence of several large airports affects the area’s economy. The headquarters of Southwest Airlines is in Dallas, while the headquarters of American Airlines’ parent company is in Fort Worth. CBRE Group is one of the largest commercial real estate services firms in the country. Its headquarters are in Dallas.
Fort Worth’s economy is more closely tied to oil and gas. Exxon Mobile’s headquarters are in Irving. However, Energy Transfer Equity, a top 100 company, is based in Dallas, as is petroleum refiner HollyFrontier Corporation. Smaller energy firms fill the suburbs. This includes Pioneer Natural Resources, Fluor Corporation and Vistra Energy.
Defense is another major player in the Fort Worth economy. This is mostly due to the large Lockheed Martin factories in Fort Worth and the Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base. But there are major defense contractors like Raytheon in the Dallas area.
In both cities, health and education are major employers. Texas Health Resources is located in Fort Worth and runs several hospitals. But Dallas has several major hospitals in downtown including world-class children’s hospitals. The Dallas and Fort Worth School districts both employ more than ten thousand people. And the DFW area has a number of universities. The University of Texas Arlington campus is closer to Fort Worth than Dallas, but the University of North Texas is just north of Dallas. There are a dozen smaller colleges in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Then there are quirks such as the Texas A&M law school is located in Fort Worth.
Dallas and Fort Worth both have ballets and symphony centers. Fort Worth is notable for having a science and history museum, modern art museum, American art museum, and the Kimbell Art Museum that has works that don’t fall into any of those categories. Fort Worth is also home to the National Cowgirl Museum and Sid Richardson Museum. This showcases Fort Worth’s Western heritage.
Dallas has its own museum of art. Ross Perot founded the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. Dallas has a holocaust museum and the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealy Plaza to memorialize where JFK was killed. The Frontiers of Flight Museum is located in Dallas. The CR Smith Museum documents this history of American Airlines; that’s located in Fort Worth.
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