Two Cities · A Dallas Census Data Explorer

2024 ACS 5-Year · North / CBD / South lens
The Edges

The edges of Dallas, by the numbers

Dallas is easier to read in extremes than averages. Each tract below holds a record (the richest, the emptiest, the most crowded, the most foreign-born, the most on SNAP). The math did the picking. Click one to read its numbers.

Two Cities / the line we draw
Dallas · Census 2024

The line we draw

There is no one Dallas. There are not two. The Trinity plus I-30 is a seam we draw because 1.3 million of them will not fit in anyone's head at once. The line holds on most of the numbers. Not on all.

By the math · 346 tracts · ACS 5-Year 2024
Source: 2024 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, Census tracts in Dallas (48113), Collin (48085), and Denton (48121) counties. Regional classification (North / CBD / South) is applied at the tract level. Figures are tract-level medians unless labeled as weighted aggregates. See the Explorer tab for the underlying data.