The Star, headquarters of the Dallas Cowboys, is the landmark Frisco is best known for, in a city that grew from a railroad stop into one of the fastest growing in the country and embraces the label Sports City USA. The PGA of America also sits here, along with Toyota Stadium and the Frisco Rough Riders. About 237,000 people live here, roughly 28 miles north of Dallas.
Day to day it is a family suburb, with master-planned neighborhoods like Starwood and Fields, big shopping at Stonebriar Centre and The Shops at Legacy, and several good hospitals. Few people come for a quiet weekend, but sporting events, the Nebraska Furniture Mart and holiday lights draw crowds. It ranks among the safer large Texas suburbs, and theft from cars is the main issue. The tradeoff is cost, since housing is expensive even though growth has slowed. Traffic on the Dallas North Tollway and SH 121 is heavy, spring brings hail and tornado risk, and summer passes 100 F.
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- Known as
- Sports City USA; Headquarters of the Dallas Cowboys and PGA of America; one of the fastest-growing US cities
- Founded
- 1902 settled (Lebanon community moved to the Frisco railroad stop); 1908 incorporated
- Languages
- English; Spanish; Hindi; Telugu; Chinese (Mandarin); Korean; Urdu
- Airports
- Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW), about 25 miles southwest; Dallas Love Field (DAL), about 30 miles south; McKinney National (TKI) and Addison (ADS) are general aviation only, no commercial service
- Tipping
- Restaurants 18-20%; bars $1-2 per drink or 15-20% of tab; taxis and rideshare 15-20%; hotel housekeeping $3-5 per night; bellhops $2-5 per bag; food delivery 15-20%; counter service optional
About this data
Population is Census Vintage 2025 (July 1, 2025) via QuickFacts (236,955); land area 68.64 sq mi from Census; median value and rent from Census ACS via QuickFacts. Metro figure 8,477,157 is the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington MSA figure supplied for this task; Frisco is not the anchor city. Elevation, coordinates, founding, event names and months (not verified as current), hotel ranges, tipping, cost-of-living index, airport distances, 1BR rent and crime figures are approximate or from general knowledge and not verified in this pass. Web fetch was limited, so lower confidence on those items. Official URLs seen in search results but not load-tested.
