In a previous article I said that we probably should have lots of clubs to fill the void left by the latest spate of real estate investment clubs going out of business. After choosing a direction for dfwrein.info I decided I needed to find out just what area of Texas DFWREIN would be covering. I was shocked at the size of the market.
A few months after I got to Texas I read a book about The Metroplex. I don’t have it handy, but I was a bit stunned by how much The Metroplex has grown since then. I am in the habit of calling it the DFW Metroplex. Apparently it’s now the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area or just The Metroplex.
I distinctly remember there being only 13 cities in the area. It turns out there are many, many more cities, towns and Census designated areas. Heck, there are that many counties in The Metroplex. So, here’s a little run down of the cities and areas and towns and counties in the area.
- Dallas
- Fort Worth
- Arlington
- Carrollton
- Denton
- Frisco
- Garland
- Grand Prairie
- Irving
- McKinney
- Mesquite
- Plano
- Richardson
I guess those are the cities the book mentioned. Somehow I completely missed Arlington. I’ll contribute my lapse to being a new Texan. I have friends in McKinney which I thought was above the Metroplex. There I go thinking a gain.
- Addison
- Allen
- Azle
- Balch Springs
- Bedford
- Benbrook
- Burleson
- Cedar Hill
- Cleburne
- Colleyville
- Coppell
- Corinth
- Crowley
- Decatur
- DeSoto
- Duncanville
- Ennis
- Euless
- Farmers Branch
- Flower Mound
- Forest Hill
- Forney
- Glenn Heights
- Grapevine
- Greenville
- Haltom City
- Highland Village
- Hurst
- Keller
- Lancaster
- Lewisville
- Little Elm
- Mansfield
- Midlothian
- Mineral Wells (partial)
- Murphy
- North Richland Hills
- Rockwall
- Rowlett
- Sachse
- Saginaw
- Seagoville
- Southlake
- Terrell
- The Colony
- University Park
- Watauga
- Waxahachie
- Weatherford
- White Settlement
- Wylie
That’s 51 more. Many of those are bigger (in population) than the city I live near, Stephenville, TX which is outside the Metroplex. It seems I am often on the outside looking in. There are 12 counties:
- Collin
- Dallas
- Delta
- Denton
- Ellis
- Hunt
- Johnson
- Kaufman
- Parker
- Rockwall
- Tarrant
- Wise
Altogeter those areas and hundreds more tiny areas comprise The Metroplax. There are more than 6.2 million people represented here and this web site is dedicated to bringing you news about just one little niche item in The Metroplex.
