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By Job Gal | July 1, 2008
Dallas, Texas
Dallas, located in Northeast Texas, is the third-largest city in the state and the ninth-largest city in the country. It is the economic center of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area, which includes 12 counties and is the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the nation.
Dallas was founded in 1841 by John N. Bryan and incorporated as a city in 1856. The city is named after Vice President George Mifflin Dallas. The city has a long history as a center for the oil and cotton industries.
Dallas is home to 15 billionaires, who live in the Preston Hollow area north of the city, making it ninth in the world among cities with the most billionaires. The city also is currently the third most popular destination for business travel.
Dallas’s Job Market
Dallas is listed as a gamma world city by the Loughborough University Globalization and World Cities Study Group & Network. By 1900, Dallas was the largest inland cotton market on Earth, and in the 1930s, oil was discovered east of the city. At the end of World War II Dallas had developed prominent telecommunications and information technology industries.
Dallas’s fastest growing industries are: petroleum, telecommunications, computer technology, banking and transportation.
Work Trends
Mean travel time to work: 26.9 minutes
Dallas unemployment rate: 4.5 percent
National unemployment rate: 5 percent
Dallas’s Largest Employers
Centex
2728 N. Harwood St.
Dallas, TX 75201
Texas Instruments
12500 TI Blvd.
Dallas, TX 75243
Dean Foods
2515 McKinney Ave.
Dallas, TX 75201
Southwest Airlines
2702 Love Field Dr.
Dallas, TX 75235
Tenet Healthcare
13737 Noel Rd.
Dallas, TX 75240
Energy Future Holdings
1601 Bryan St.
Dallas, TX 75201
Energy Transfer Equity
3738 Oak Lawn Ave.
Dallas, TX 75219
Calanese
1601 W. L.B.J. Freeway
Dallas, TX 75234
Atmos Energy
5430 L.B.J. Freeway
Dallas, TX 75240
Affiliated Computer Services
2828 N. Haskell Ave.
Dallas, TX 75204
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Dallas Statistics
Population
Total population: 1,208,318
Persons under five-years old: 8.3 percent
Persons under 18-years old: 26.6 percent
Persons 65-years and older: 8.6 percent
Female: 49.6 percent
White: 50.8 percent
Black: 25.9 percent
American Indian and Alaska Native: .5 percent
Asian: 2.7 percent
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander: less than 1 percent
Other: 17.2 percent
Multi-racial: 2.7 percent
Hispanic or Latino: 35.6 percent
Education
High school graduates: 70.4 percent
Bachelor’s degree or higher: 27.7 percent
Housing
Housing units: 484,117
Homeownership rate: 43.2 percent
Median value of owner-occupied housing units: $89,800
Households: 451,833
Persons per household: 2.58
Income
Median household income: $37,628
Per capita income: $22,183
Persons below poverty: 17.8 percent
Transportation
Airports: Dallas/Fort Worth International, Dallas Executive, Addison
Railroads: Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Trinity Railway Express
Weather
Annual precipitation: 37.1 inches
Average low temp. in January: 36 degrees
Average high temp. in July: 96 degrees
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