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There are few bigger chores than moving. It\u2019s really more than a mere chore \u2013 a super chore, if you will \u2013 to move, as you have to bundle up a seemingly endless amount of smaller chores to make it happen. For more than 2 million people in the U.S. last year, one of those tasks was \u201crenting a U-Haul.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2025, a massive number of those trucks were making their way to the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area, and one suburb north of Dallas specifically. The recently released U-Haul Growth Index <\/a>named Dallas as the leading \u201cgrowth metro\u201d in the U.S., with McKinney showing up as the No. 6 leading \u201cgrowth city\u201d in the country.\u00a0 Unsurprisingly, Texas ranked as the No. 1 \u201cgrowth state\u201d in the study.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cU-Haul customers arriving in Texas accounted for 50.7% of all one-way traffic in and out of the state last year (49.3% leaving),\u201d the announcement for the annual survey noted. \u201cCompared to 2024, customers coming to Texas rose 3% YOY while departures rose just 1% YOY. Texas also ranked first on the U-Haul Growth Index from 2016-18 and 2021-23.\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n There are plenty of brand-sponsored surveys that one should not take very seriously, but it\u2019s likely not a stretch to take U-Haul\u2019s numbers seriously, given their market dominance over the past few decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n U-Haul ranked states by their net gain or loss of more than 2.5 million customers in the U.S. and Canada who rented a one-way truck, trailer or moving containers in one state and dropped off their equipment in another state.<\/p>\n For regular readers of the Observer, McKinney finding itself high atop such a list <\/a>is less surprising than yet another disappointing Dallas Cowboys\u2019 season. In the past few months alone, McKinney has been named the best U.S. city for renters and the ninth safest suburb in the country<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n McKinney received high marks in the SmartAsset safety report in areas that people looking for a new place to call home would certainly be interested in, such as a low violent crime rate, a low property crime rate, a low number of traffic deaths, and a low number of reported drug overdoses.\u00a0<\/p>\n As for North Texas, the U-Haul honor is nothing new either.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cSecond verse, same as the first. The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area once again takes top honors as the No. 1 U-Haul growth metro, replicating its 2024 honor with the greatest net gain of one-way customers during 2025,\u201d the announcement read.<\/p>\n Reports on the number of people moving to the DFW area each year range from 170,000 to 200,000. Other warm-weather states and metro areas figured prominently inthe U-Haul Index, including Florida and Arizona.\u00a0<\/p>\n And since we in Dallas always like to beat Houston and Austin in just about anything, it\u2019s worth noting that they were behind Dallas in the No. 2 and No. 3 sports, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Texas sees a lot of moving trucks Adobe Stock There are few bigger chores than moving. It\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":518395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,7065,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-518394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-housing","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115900263245711050","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518394","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=518394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}