Dallas-Fort Worth Fastest Growing U.S. Metro Area, Says Census Bureau

Candy Evans
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Moon over Fort Worth, Texas, the fastest growing US Metro Area
Moon over Fort Worth, Texas, the fastest growing US Metro Area

We must have something in North Texas that people want; they are all moving here. The U.S. Census bureau reports that Dallas-Fort Worth was the fastest-growing metro area in the U.S. in the past decade.

We added a whopping 1.3 million people, which is a 25 percent increase over the year 2000.

We are holding tight as the nation's fourth largest metro area, and all we have to do is add about 3 million more people and we will match Chicago, my hometown, and the nation's third largest metro area: They've got 9.6 million to our 6.5 million.

Where are these people coming from?

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