Texas Business and Employment: Jobs Increasing Steadily In North Dallas Suburbs

A round trip through the upscale Dallas suburbs north of the large city, including Frisco, McKinney, and Allen, covers only 29 miles. As a group, these three suburbs are approximately 40 miles from Dallas.

Carrollton TX, another fast-growing Dallas suburb, is located approximately 19 miles southwest of the first three suburbs mentioned and just about 18 miles northwest of Dallas.

Interestingly, for 2009 - 2012, the numbers of job listings are increasing in the two suburbs furthest away from Dallas: Frisco and McKinney; while job listings have declined somewhat but stabilized in Allen and Carrollton, both located closer to Dallas.

Carrollton TX is approximately 18 miles southwest of Frisco, the furthest west of the three most northerly located Dallas suburbs mentioned in this Hub. At this distance, Carrollton is also closer to Dallas than the other three locations. Carrollton draws what can be considered "overflow population" from Dallas proper, offering a smaller, convenient bedroom community that enjoys its own share of economic growth and business.

All four of the suburbs discussed here have been named in 2009 to the Forbes.com list of Best Places to Move. Job futures and major job listings are listed below for each locale and for the four suburbs as a whole.

Within 25 miles of Allen, Texas and encompassing all four Dallas suburbs discussed in this Hub, we find approximately 75,600 job openings (March - April 2012). Dallas offers additional opportunities.

1. Sales Associates, Salespersons, Salespeople
2. Shift Leaders - often in Fast Food and Casual Dining
3. Assistant Managers
4. Casual Dining and Fast Food Crew Members
5. Physical Therapists
6. Team Members - various retail and food establishments.
7. Restaurant General Managers
8. Delivery Drivers - small vehicles and light trucks.
9. Pizza Hut Team Members
10. Restaurant and Food Service Supervisors
11. Assistant General Managers
12. Assistant Managers
13. Full-time Shift Managers
14. Pizza Hut Delivery Drivers
15. Project Managers

Companies Doing the Most Hiring:

1. Raytheon - Largest employer in McKinney.
2. Tenet Healthcare
3. Pizza Hut and Pizza Hut/Yum! Brands, Inc.
4. Blockbuster
5. Baylor Health Care
6. Capital One
7. UnitedHealth Group
8. Perot Systems
9. JPMorgan Chase
10. Dr. Pepper/Snapple Group

1. Frisco Independent School District (with almost 10% of the city's employed workers)
2. T-Mobile
3. City of Frisco
4. Rodman Excavation
5. Collin County College
6. Amerisource Bergen Specialty Group
7. CLA USA, Inc
8. IKEA Frisco
9. Mario Sinacola & Sons Excavating
10. Target stores

BACKGROUND

What is now Frisco (formed in 1902) was settled in the early 1800s by European-Americans that found rich agricultural lands. They did this by traveling the well-known Shawnee Trail at the time, up from Austin. American railroads came through around 1850, followed by highway transportation, both of which helped transport and sell the crops grown in Frisco. The population increased slowly but steadily until 1960, when it began to rapidly expand.

In 2009, the city's population is 97,000 by the city report, and Frisco is one of the Forbes Best Places to Move for Work in America. Residents have tripled since 2000 alone, and Frisco looks to be able to continuing growing for years to come, considering increasing numbers of job listings in recent years (see graphs above)..

1. Raytheon
2. McKinney Independent School District
3. Collin County
4. Wal-Mart
5. Lattimore Materials
6. Blockbuster
7. McKinney Medical Center
8. City of McKinney
9. Collin County Community College
10. Torchmark Company

In 2009, McKinney's population is estimated to be about 121,000 people and the suburb is one the Forbes Best Places to Move for Work in America. It is also one of the Top 10 Fastest Growing Cities in America.

The city has a program since 1980 called “Main Street”, supported by the US National Trust for Historic Preservation.  This results in ongoing downtown revitalization, which is important to the continuing growth of McKinney.

1. Allen Independent School District (with over 10% of total Allen workers)
2. Presbyterian Hospital
3. City of Allen
4. Graphic Converting
5. Experian
6. Sanmina SCI
7. Celerity, Inc
8. Jack Henry & Associates
9. Sage Telecommunications
10. RCL Enterprises/ColorDynamics

BACKGROUND

Before whites came into the Allen area, the Caddo and Comanche Nations lived in the land. The moved back West as the whites moved in around 1840. These settlers used the Texas Road and the Central National Road on horseback and be stagecoach. The Houston and Texas Central Railroad and others followed in the early 1870s and helped spur industrial growth. Later, an Interurban line began operations in 1907 from the suburbs into Dallas for about 4 decades. By the 1960s, US 75 had replaced the railroads as the number one course for transport.

Today, the population is estimated to be about 82,000 people and the city is one the Forbes Best Places to Move for Work in America.

Because Carrollton is so near Dallas, additional frequent job listigns within 15 miles of this subburb most often include:

1. Project Managers
2. Account Executives
3. Business Analysts
4. Occupational Therapists
5. Administrative Assistants
6. Sales Representatives
7. Customer Service Representatives
8. Physicians - Internal Medicine
9. Sales Managers
10. Senior Field Support Engineers

BACKGROUND

The Carrollton area was first settled by European-Americans or whites around 1842 and 1844, after which a mill was constructed on the site. This included an English families and others who may have come from Carrollton, Illinois.

The town’s economy was agricultural and the Dallas-Wichita Railroad came through after the Civil War, 1878. This lent a hand to budding industries that included flour mills, cotton mills, gravel, and agricultural crops. A metal works was established in town during WWII.

The population began to grow quickly in the 1950s and by the 1980s, an overflow of population from Dallas began to move into Carrollton. In 2009, the population is estimated to be about 126,000 people and the city is one the Forbes Best Places to Move for Work in America.