{"id":228992,"date":"2025-09-15T15:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/228992\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T15:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:09:09","slug":"dallas-fort-worth-crushed-competition-for-attracting-new-workers-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/228992\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas-Fort Worth \u2018crushed\u2019 competition for attracting new workers, data shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Years into its famous growth story<\/a>, North Texas has notched another accolade \u2014 the country\u2019s top large metro area for attracting workforce talent. <\/p>\n

Dallas-Fort Worth took the number one spot among metro regions with at least 250,000 people, according to Lightcast\u2019s annual Talent Attraction Scorecard<\/a> released on Monday. The global labor market data firm based its report on information from 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cDallas crushed,\u201d says Cole Napper, Lightcast\u2019s vice president of research who worked on the data. <\/p>\n

To come up with the scorecard, the firm compiled data on more than 900 American regions across seven different categories \u2015 including each region\u2019s overall, high-income and blue-collar job growth, plus college-educated and prime-age population growth. <\/p>\n

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The ranking weighted each component equally, but D-FW\u2019s impressive result came from its score in one category: \u201cCompetitive Effect.\u201d That term quantifies how much a given region\u2019s population has grown relative to what would be expected, based on Bureau of Labor Statistics data. <\/p>\n

D-FW\u2019s population, which is currently over 8 million<\/a> \u2014 or about 2 million people higher than 15 years ago \u2014 had shot up by a whopping 11.7 standard deviations above the mean, Lightcast found. That is the most dramatic score of any among the nearly 200 large metro areas in the study. <\/p>\n

\u201cDallas has been scoring quite well over the past decade,\u201d says Napper. \u201cIf I were to give my own hypothesis on why that\u2019s the case, it\u2019s because of a cumulative effect where growth begets more growth, attraction begets more attraction.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cAs a person who lives here,\u201d he added, \u201cI mean you see cranes all over Downtown and Uptown Dallas, right, but you see cranes 40 miles north of Dallas, and you see them 40 miles north of Fort Worth \u2026 This metro is booming, and it\u2019s going to continue.\u201d <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a boom that lately has been most visible in the form of the region\u2019s burgeoning financial sector<\/a>, with Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq and other marquee Wall Street names all expanding their North Texas presence in recent months. <\/p>\n

This month, the Canadian banking giant Scotiabank also got in on the action, announcing it would establish a 133,000-square-foot regional headquarters<\/a> at the Victory Commons One building, adjacent to American Airlines Center. <\/p>\n

\u201cTexas is the new financial services capital of America,\u201d Gov. Greg Abbott said in a statement praising the move. <\/p>\n

D-FW also scored relatively well in Lightcast\u2019s other categories, especially overall job growth and high-earning job growth, a category that would encompass the region\u2019s soaring tech sector.<\/p>\n

Another recent report, from the commercial real estate firm CBRE, found that North Texas had added nearly 50,000 tech workers<\/a> between 2021 and 2024, an increase that was second among U.S. metro areas behind only New York. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe AI data centers growing here are a huge piece of infrastructure that will set apart Dallas from the most of the world. The business-friendly environment in Texas partly drives this, along with the strong Fortune 500 presences,\u201d according to Darrell Hill, senior director of AI, analytics and marketing at LightHouse Strategy, a consulting firm. <\/p>\n

North Texas wasn\u2019t the only nearby metro to perform well in Lightcast\u2019s rankings: Among large metro areas, greater Austin came in second overall \u2014 with top 10 scores in every category \u2014 greater Houston came in 6th, and Killeen-Temple ranked 16th, with a top ranking for prime-age population growth. <\/p>\n

Florida metros filled out the rest of the top 10, led by Miami-Fort Lauderdale, Orlando and Destin, with areas in the Sun Belt and Mountain West also scoring well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Years into its famous growth story, North Texas has notched another accolade \u2014 the country\u2019s top large metro…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":228993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,64,1596,66255,79,23489,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,7987],"class_list":{"0":"post-228992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-economic-snapshot","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-evergreen-monthly","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa","22":"tag-workforce"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115208949874411313","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}