{"id":561035,"date":"2026-02-02T13:55:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/561035\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T13:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:55:19","slug":"dfw-ranks-among-top-25-most-livable-u-s-metros-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/561035\/","title":{"rendered":"DFW ranks among top 25 most livable U.S. metros in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans looking for the right place to live with a good balance between location, community, and quality of life can find that right here in <strong>Dallas-Fort Worth<\/strong>, according to a national <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\/blog\/rental-market\/market-snapshots\/most-livable-metro-areas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">study<\/a> from RentCafe.<\/p>\n<p>The North Texas region stood out as the No. 1 most livable metro area in Texas, and the 24th most livable U.S. metro for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>RentCafe&#8217;s report analyzed 149 U.S. metro areas across 17 key indicators, including cost of living, income growth rates, &#8220;social association&#8221; rates, a food index, and others. <\/p>\n<p>The top three most livable American metros are Washington, D.C. (No. 1); Portland, Maine (No. 2); and Kansas City, Missouri (No. 3). <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how Dallas-Fort Worth performed in the study&#8217;s three main rankings compared to the rest of the U.S.:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ee-ul\">\n<li>No. 28 \u2013 Socioeconomics<\/li>\n<li>No. 38 \u2013 Quality of life<\/li>\n<li>No. 52 \u2013 Location and community<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to the findings, more than a third (34.4 percent) of Dallas-Fort Worth&#8217;s 8.25 million residents are renters, and less than a tenth (9.7 percent) of residents are living in poverty. The city has an unemployment rate of 4.5 percent, and less than half (45.7 percent) of DFW workers report having a &#8220;long commute.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The cost of living in Dallas-Fort Worth is 2 percent lower than the national average, the report said, and residents&#8217; income has grown 6 percent over the last five years, though the report doesn&#8217;t elaborate on what those income figures are.<\/p>\n<p>Based on a survey from CountyHealthRankings.com, RentCafe says Dallas residents experience about three &#8220;physically unhealthy&#8221; days on average, and an average of five &#8220;mentally unhealthy&#8221; days. Only 17.4 percent of DFW residents are reportedly &#8220;physically inactive&#8221; and 10.6 percent report they are uninsured. <\/p>\n<p>Overall, 10 more Texas metros earned spots in the report, but they surprisingly all landed outside the top 100 most livable U.S. metros:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ee-ul\">\n<li>No. 117 \u2013 Killeen<\/li>\n<li>No. 125 \u2013 Corpus Christi<\/li>\n<li>No. 127 \u2013 Houston<\/li>\n<li>No. 130 \u2013 Austin<\/li>\n<li>No. 134 \u2013 Beaumont<\/li>\n<li>No. 138 \u2013 El Paso<\/li>\n<li>No. 145 \u2013 Lubbock<\/li>\n<li>No. 147 \u2013 San Antonio<\/li>\n<li>No. 148 \u2013 Brownsville<\/li>\n<li>No. 149 \u2013 McAllen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Americans looking for the right place to live with a good balance between location, community, and quality of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":561036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,1596,7371,7372,241371,189215,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-561035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-america","tag-dallas","tag-fort-worth","tag-fortworth","tag-most-livable-metros","tag-rentcafe","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116001382448490674","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561035","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=561035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}