North Dallas is an area of numerous communities and neighborhoods in

Dallas Dallas () is the List of municipalities in Texas, third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of metropolitan statistical areas, fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 ...

Texas Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2 ...

(United States). The phrase "North Dallas" is also sometimes used to include any suburb or exurb north of Dallas proper within the metropolitan area. The majority of North Dallas is located in

Dallas County Dallas County may refer to: Places in the USA: * Dallas County, Alabama, founded in 1818, the first county in the United States by that name * Dallas County, Arkansas * Dallas County, Iowa * Dallas County, Missouri * Dallas County, Texas, the nin ...

, while a small portion is located in Collin and Denton Counties. North Dallas generally includes areas of Dallas north of Northwest Highway, along with

Lake Highlands Lake Highlands is a neighborhood constituting most of Northeast Dallas. The neighborhood is a collection of dozens of subdivisions served by Richardson ISD and Dallas ISD public schools, as well as an array of private schools. Geography Overview ...

and areas of Dallas north of IH-635 known as

Far North Dallas Far North Dallas is the section of the city of Dallas, Texas which extends north of the Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway. Far North Dallas is part of North Dallas but is viewed as a distinct area. The area has strong social, economic, and political ti ...

. The area has strong social and economic ties to the Dallas

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of Park Cities, and two

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s of Dallas,

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and

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. As Dallas has grown over the last several decades, the concept of "North Dallas" has changed from the area just north of downtown, along Central Expressway (where

North Dallas High School North Dallas High School is a public secondary school located in the Oak Lawn area of Dallas, Texas, United States. It enrolls students in grades 9- 12 and is a part of the Dallas Independent School District. As of 2017, the principal adminis ...

is located), to the far northern reaches of Dallas proper and the suburbs to the north of the city.

Neighborhoods

The following neighborhoods are generally considered part of or closely connected with North Dallas; however, some of them may not be located entirely within North Dallas or may be considered parts of North Dallas by some and not others. *Araglin Court *Arlington Park * Audelia *Brookshire Park *Caruth Hill *Churchill Way *Churchill Pointe * Bluff View *

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* Greenway Parks * Hamilton Park *Hillcrest Forest * Janmar * Melshire Estates * North Park *Meadow Glen *Midway Crossing *Midway Hills *Midway Hollow *Pagewood * Park Forest * Preston Hollow *Stoney Crooks *

Stemmons Corridor The Stemmons Corridor or Lower Stemmons is a stretch of industrial and commercial property in northwest Dallas, Texas ( USA). From downtown north, Interstate 35E (I-35E) is known as the Stemmons Freeway, named so for Leslie Stemmons by his son, ...

Vickery Meadows Vickery Meadow is an ethnically-diverse neighborhood consisting almost exclusively of apartment complexes in Northeast Dallas, Texas, United States. The Vickery Midtown Public Improvement District states the neighborhood is bounded by Northwest H ...

*Waterford *Webb Chapel

Lake Highlands

Lake Highlands, and its neighborhoods, are generally considered as part of North Dallas by people and media, while at the same time a distinct area. * Abrams Place * Alexander's Village * Bill Browne's Farm * Boundbrook Oaks Estates * Candlewood Creek * Caribbean Estates * Chimney Hill * Copperfield Community * Country Forest * Creekside at Lake Highlands * Forest Highlands * Forest Meadow * Glen Oaks * Hamilton Park * Highlands West * Highland Meadows * High Oaks Addition * Jackson Meadow * L Streets * Lake Highlands Estates * Lake Highlands North * Lake Highlands Square * Lake Highlands Village West * Lake Ridge Estates * Merriman Park/University Manor * Merriman Park Estates * Merriman Park North * Moss Farm * Moss Meadows * Northwood Heights * Oak Highlands * Oak Tree Village * Pebble Creek * Richland Park Estates * Rolling Trails * Royal Highlands * Royal Highlands Village * Royal Lane Village * Stults Road * Town Creek * Walnut Creek Estates * Whispering Hills * White Rock Valley * Woodbridge * Woodlands on the Creek * University Terrace * Urban Reserve

Far North Dallas

Far North Dallas includes areas north of IH-635, and may sometimes include portions of Lake Highlands that are also north of IH-635. Sometimes, Far North Dallas is also viewed as a distinct area from North Dallas. * Bent Tree * Briar Ridge * Chalfont Place * Chimney Hill * Cobblestone Square * Countrybrook * Frankford Creek Estates * Frankford Meadows * Haymeadow * Highland Creek * Highlands * Hillcrest Manor * Jackson Highlands * Le Louvre * Moss Creek * Northwood Hills * Oak Tree * Oakdale * Park Central * Parkway Lake Estates * Pepperwood Estates * Preston Creek * Preston Fairways * Preston Green * Preston Highlands * Preston North * Preston Port Estates * Preston Trail * Prestonwood * Renner * Spring Creek * Timberglen * Valley View * Whispering Springs * Williamsburg on Preston * Willow Falls * Willow Greene

Shopping

NorthPark Center NorthPark Center, sometimes referred to as NorthPark Mall, is an upscale, enclosed shopping mall in Dallas, Texas (United States). It is at the intersection of Loop 12 (Northwest Highway) and US 75 (North Central Expressway). Opened in 1965, it ...

Galleria Dallas The Galleria Dallas is a shopping mall and mixed-use development located at the intersection of Interstate 635 and the Dallas North Tollway in the North Dallas neighborhood of Dallas, Texas, United States. It was originally developed by Hines I ...

* Dallas Midtown

Education

Secondary

The Collin County portion of North Dallas is served by the

Plano Independent School District Plano Independent School District (PISD or Plano ISD) is an independent school district in southwestern Collin County, Texas, based in Plano. Plano ISD serves about of land, with of it within the City of Plano. The district also takes student ...

. Most of the

portion of North Dallas is served by the

Dallas Independent School District The Dallas Independent School District (Dallas ISD or DISD) is a school district based in Dallas, Texas (USA). It operates schools in much of Dallas County and is the second-largest school district in Texas and the seventeenth-largest in the U ...

, and students are zoned to either Emmett J. Conrad, Hillcrest,

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, or W. T. White High Schools.Dallas ISD

. (Maps
Hillcrest

JeffersonWhite
) Retrieved on 29 April 2007. All of Lake Highlands and portions of Far North Dallas in the Dallas County are served by the

Richardson Independent School District Richardson Independent School District (RISD) is a school district based in Richardson, Texas (USA). RISD covers and serves the city of Richardson and portions of the cities of Dallas and Garland (60 percent of RISD is in North Dallas, with 3 ...

. Lake Highlands students are zoned to

Lake Highlands High School Lake Highlands High School (LHHS) is a secondary school serving grades 9-12 in the Lake Highlands area of northeastern Dallas, Texas, United States, primarily serving the Lake Highlands community. The school is part of the Richardson Independent Sc ...

(Dallas) or Lloyd V. Berkner High School (Richardson), while portions of Far North Dallas are zoned to

J.J. Pearce High School J. J. Pearce High School is a high school located in Richardson, Texas, United States. It is named after Joseph Jones “J.J.” Pearce, the superintendent for the Richardson Independent School District (RISD) from 1946 to 1977. In 2018, it had an ...

(Richardson) or

Richardson High School Richardson High School (RHS) is a magnet high school in Richardson, Texas, United States with approximately 2,770 students and a student/teacher ratio of approximately 15:1 in the 20182019 school year. It is the oldest high school in the Richardso ...

(Richardson). The

Denton County Denton County is located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 906,422, making it the 7th-most populous county in Texas. The county seat is Denton. The county, which was named for John B. Denton, was establis ...

portion of North Dallas is served by the

Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District (CFBISD) is a school district based in Carrollton, Texas, United States. The district covers most of the cities of Carrollton and Farmers Branch and parts of Addison, Coppell, Dallas, and ...

, and students are zoned to R.L. Turner High School or

Newman Smith High School Newman Smith High School is a public high school in Carrollton, Texas, United States in the Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District. The school opened in 1975, and is named after the former CFBISD superintendent Newman Smith. Smith H ...

Colleges and universities

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(SMU) is a

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al university in University Park. SMU was founded in 1911 by the

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and now enrolls 6,500

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, 1,200 professional students in the

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and

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departments, and 3,500

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. According to sources such as the U.S. News & World Report, SMU is the best overall undergraduate college in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and the third best in the State of Texas. *

The University of Texas at Dallas The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD or UT Dallas) is a public research university in Richardson, Texas. It is one of the largest public universities in the Dallas area and the northernmost institution of the University of Texas system. It wa ...

(UTD), part of the state public

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, is located in the city of

, is adjacent to Far North Dallas, and is in the heart of the ''

Telecom Corridor The Telecom Corridor is a technology business center in Richardson, Texas, a northern suburb of Dallas, which contains over 25 million square feet (2.3 million square meters) of office space and accounts for over 130,000 jobs. Located in the Dall ...

''. UT Dallas, or UTD, is renowned for its work in combining the arts and technology, as well as for its programs in engineering, computer science, economics, international political economy, neuroscience, speech and hearing, pre-health, pre-law and management. The university has many collaborative research relationships with

UT Southwestern Medical Center The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern or UTSW) is a public academic health science center in Dallas, Texas. With approximately 18,800 employees, more than 2,900 full-time faculty, and nearly 4 million outpatient ...

. UT Dallas is home to approximately 21,145 students. *

Richland College Dallas College Richland Campus (often stylized as Richland or RLC) is a public community college in Dallas, Texas. The school was founded in 1972 and is part of Dallas College. It is the largest campus in the college, featuring about 20,000 st ...

, part of the

Dallas County Community College District Dallas College is a public community college with seven campuses in Dallas County, Texas. It serves more than 70,000 students annually in degree-granting, continuing education, and adult education programs. Dallas College offers associate degr ...

, is located within Lake Highlands. The school was founded in 1972 and is the largest school in the DCCCD, featuring nearly 22,000 students. Richland is the only community college to receive the

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. *

Brookhaven College Dallas College Brookhaven Campus (Brookhaven or BHC) is a public community college in Farmers Branch, Texas. It is one of seven campuses of Dallas College, and it opened in 1978, making it the newest campus in Dallas College (excluding satellit ...

, part of the Dallas County Community College District, is located near Far North Dallas. Brookhaven opened in 1978, making it the newest college in DCCCD, featuring nearly 11,000 students * Texas A&M's TAMU-Dallas campus (the Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Dallas)TAMU-Dallas
is also located in the Far North Dallas. TAMU-Dallas is the home of the Urban Living Laboratory, which is a research and urban lifestyle community built with state-of-the-art green technologies.Urban Living Laboratory - Dallas
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Libraries

The area is served by seven branches of the

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system: * Audelia Road Branch Library * Fretz Park Branch Library * Park Forest Branch Library * Preston Royal Branch Library * Renner Frankford Branch Library * Timberglen Branch Library * Walnut Hill Branch Library

Economy

North Dallas is home to the headquarters of Texas Instruments (TI). TI is the No. 4 manufacturer of semiconductors worldwide after Intel, Samsung and Toshiba, and is the No. 2 supplier of chips for cellular handsets after Qualcomm, and the No. 1 producer of digital signal processors (DSPs) and analog semiconductors, among a wide range of other semiconductor products. Major business areas in North Dallas include the

Platinum Corridor The Platinum Corridor is a neighborhood and office submarket in the Dallas, Texas ( USA) area. Beginning just north of Interstate 635 in north Dallas, the corridor hugs the Dallas North Tollway for north to State Highway 121 in Frisco. It r ...

, Preston Center, and the

. Since 2016 both Studio Movie Grill and

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have their headquarters in the Hidden Grove Office Building in North Dallas.

Transportation

As the majority of North Dallas was developed in the late 20th century, the primary mode of local transportation is the

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and the area has a low density compared with neighborhoods built in the early 20th century. Efforts made by the City of Dallas and

Dallas Area Rapid Transit Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) is a transit agency serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex of Texas. It operates buses, light rail, commuter rail, and high-occupancy vehicle lanes in Dallas and twelve of its suburbs. In , the system had a ...

to increase the availability of alternative modes of transportation have received varying degrees of support from North Dallas residents. Since 1996, two light rail lines flanking North Dallas on the east have been constructed and well-received, and two more flank North Dallas on the west, in

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. However, plans to build a commuter or light rail line ''through'' the North Dallas area along the "Cotton Belt" (the St. Louis Southwestern Railway) has met opposition from residents and local organizations. Dallas, Texas road map

North Dallas' road network was developed according to the

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school of

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. Roads in the area are separated into major

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s, high-capacity principal arterial roads, mid-capacity minor arterial roads, mid-capacity

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s, and minor

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s. The most organized of these systems is North Dallas' modified

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of principal arterial roads, which runs on a standard N/S/E/W grid.

Highways

The routing of limited-access highways through North Dallas is based on the area's proximity to Dallas' downtown freeway loop, as Dallas' freeway system was built according to the hub-and-spoke paradigm. North Dallas' major north-south highways radiate out of the downtown freeway loop and cut through North Dallas at various angles. * I-35E (TX)

Interstate 35E runs northwest/southeast. * Toll Texas DNT new

Dallas North Tollway runs north/south. * US 75

U.S. Highway 75 (Texas), U.S. Highway 75 ( Central Expressway) runs northeast/southwest. Additionally, four separate beltways arc across North Dallas: in order from their proximity to downtown: * Texas Loop 12

Northwest Highway (Texas State Highway Loop 12, Loop 12) * I-635 (TX)

Interstate 635 (Texas), Interstate 635 * Belt Line Road (Texas), Belt Line Road * Toll Texas PGBT new

President George Bush Turnpike

Thoroughfares

*Abrams Road *Arapaho Road *Audelia Road *Coit Road *Forest Lane *Frankford Road *Greenville Avenue *Hillcrest Road *Inwood Road *Marsh Lane *Midway Road *Preston Road *Royal Lane *Skillman Street *Spring Valley Road *Walnut Hill Lane

Light rail

DART began operating its light rail lines in North Dallas in 1996: The Red Line (Dallas Area Rapid Transit), Red Line connects North Dallas to Oak Cliff, south Dallas, downtown Dallas, downtown, Uptown Dallas, Uptown,

and Plano, Texas, Plano. The Blue Line (Dallas Area Rapid Transit), Blue Line connects North Dallas to south Dallas, downtown, Uptown, east Dallas,

, and Garland, Texas, Garland. The Green Line (Dallas Area Rapid Transit), Green Line and Orange Line (Dallas Area Rapid Transit), Orange Line lines run just to the west of North Dallas in

. The two lines serve Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, DFW Airport, Irving, Texas, Irving and Las Colinas, Carrollton, Texas, Carrollton, Farmers Branch, Texas, Farmers Branch, the

, Victory Park, Dallas, Victory Park, downtown, Deep Ellum, Dallas, Deep Ellum, Fair Park, south Dallas and Pleasant Grove, Dallas, Pleasant Grove. Lines and stations in North Dallas include: * : LBJ/Skillman (DART station), LBJ/Skillman Rail Station : Lake Highlands Station : White Rock Station * and : LBJ/Central Station : Forest Lane Station : Walnut Hill (DART station), Walnut Hill Station : Park Lane (DART station), Park Lane Station : Lovers Lane Station

Air

Dallas's Love Field Airport is located in North Dallas, near the Bluff View and

neighborhoods. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex's major international airport, Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, is located a short distance to the northwest. Additionally, Addison Airport, a general aviation airport, is located adjacent to North Dallas in

References

External links

North Dallas Neighborhood Alliance

TAMU-Dallas

University of Texas at Dallas
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