Dallas-Fort Worth Has One of the Top 5 Fastest-Growing Economies in the US

“During the peak months of the COVID-19 pandemic, no metro area’s population grew more than Dallas-Fort Worth,” a new report states. And that’s helped propel the region into having one of the fastest-growing economies in the country.

“More intense innovative activity leads to higher rates of economic progress," researchers for an international conference noted last year. That's certainly true of Dallas-Fort Worth, which had the No. 5 fastest-growing economy of any U.S. metro this year, according to the American Growth Project. DFW and the other top four metros on the list share a key distinction: They're all hubs for tech and innovation.