A Great Place to Live...

Living in Dallas Texas will give you a big city experience in the big state. Dallas is a little bit R&B, some country, a little bit Latin, and a whole lot of history, arts, culture and business in the center of the fourth-largest metropolitan statistical area in the United States.

Is Dallas a good place to live? The answer is Yes! In 2022, Homes.com ranked the country’s top 25 metropolitan areas on “family-friendliness.” Dallas came out on top. In ranking Dallas as the best U.S. metro area in which to raise a family, Homes.com considered the crime rate, cost of living, quality of K-12 schools, availability of parks and childcare services, and average commute times. Homes.com weighs the factors, with school quality having the highest value and commute times the lowest.

Dallas is Affordable

Dallas, Texas’s cost of living is 2% higher than the national average. You don’t have to have children to love Dallas. It is also a great city for singles and couples, with plenty of housing, entertainment and career choices. Texans do not pay state or local personal income taxes. If you move to Dallas, you will pay property taxes and sales tax.

Dallas residents’ median annual income is approximately $45,000, although one source places it at $15,000 higher. Unfortunately, Dallas’s crime rate is better than only 9% of U.S. cities. Dallas tallies 7.75 violent crimes per 1,000 residents, and 32.38 property crimes per 1,000 residents.

The good news? Dallas’s police chief recently spoke out to reassure residents that law officers are proactively working to reduce crime in the city. As in any major city, some neighborhoods are far safer than others, and residents can take precautions to minimize their chances of being victimized. In the city, the Crime Watch program encourages neighbors to work with law enforcement and other agencies to reduce residential crime—without becoming vigilantes, of course.