Dallas/Fort Worth? Or Dallas AND Fort Worth? via Axiometrics

In most people’s minds, the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth are inseparable, even though they’re 60 miles apart and are the seats of two different counties (Dallas County and Tarrant County, respectively). Travelers regularly fly into—and out of—Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Both cities, and their suburbs, are lumped together with the appellation of “DFW Metroplex” or simply, “Metroplex.” Thanks to Interstates 20 and 30, not to mention rail transportation courtesy of the Trinity Railway Express, travel between these two cities seats is fairly easy.

Though linked together through infrastructure and designation, these two cities have different economies; Dallas—Big D—is more oriented toward professional services, whereas Fort Worth—Cowtown—has more of a manufacturing and distribution base. It’s these differences that make it logical for the Office of Management and Budget to be split the cities and their suburbs into two Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs): Dallas-Plano-Irving MSA and Fort Worth-Arlington MSA.

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