City comparison · 2,844 km apart · two countries, two currencies

Vancouver vs Dallas: which should you move to?

Vancouver or Dallas? Housing, rent, crime, climate, income, taxes and transit, side by side, from each city's own published figures. Written for someone deciding where to live, not for a ranking.

Skyline of Vancouver
British Columbia · Canada

Vancouver

Photograph: Skyline of Vancouver · Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0 · source
Downtown across the Trinity
Texas · United States

Dallas

Photograph: Downtown across the Trinity · Tony Webster · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source
The short answer

The two housing bills are in different currencies, but held against local pay they are far apart. Mortgage, property tax and insurance come to about $5,239 CAD a month in Vancouver, roughly 70% of the metro's 2020 median household income, and about $3,529 USD in Dallas, roughly 57% of the city's 2024 median, on homes that cost 12.1 and about 6.3 times those incomes. The tax sits in opposite places: British Columbia takes about $20,500 CAD of $100,000 in income tax and 0.336% of a home's value, while Texas takes no income tax and an effective 1.58%, $7,448 a year on the Dallas median house. Dallas has the labor market, 4.2% metro unemployment in July 2026 against 6.0%, and the far larger airport. Homicide favors Vancouver by a wide margin: 26 in 2025, about 3.5 per 100,000 with 11 of them from one attack, against 140 in Dallas, about 10.5. Choose Vancouver to live without a car, for coverage that comes with residency and an 18.2 C July. Choose Dallas for the job market, the flights and a house bought on a salary.

Vancouver prices are in CAD and Dallas prices are in USD. The tables leave them in their own currency and compare ratios and rates instead; a conversion would be stale by the time you read it.

Population
MeasureVancouverDallasAdvantage
City population662,248 (2021)1,329,491 (2025)Not directly comparable
Metro population3,088,036 (2025)8,477,157 (2025)Not directly comparable
Five-year growth
Growth is pressure on rents and roads as much as it is opportunity, so it is reported without a winner.
4.9% (2016-2021)1.9% (2020-2025)Not directly comparable
01: Housing

What a home costs in each

The figures the two cities' rent-versus-buy and mortgage calculators run on, read from the same tables.

Housing costs
MeasureVancouverDallasAdvantage
Benchmark home price
MLS® HPI or equivalent benchmark. Lower is treated as the advantage, which is the buyer's view rather than the owner's.
$1,088,800 (July 2026)$469,900 (August 2026)Not directly comparable
Detached house benchmark
Dallas publishes a single house index rather than a composite, so the two rows repeat.
$1,822,900$469,900Not directly comparable
Apartment or condominium benchmark$688,000$310,000Not directly comparable
Two-bedroom rent$2,638/mo (average, October 2025)$1,853/mo (average, August 2026)Not directly comparable
One-bedroom rent$1,860/mo$1,416/moNot directly comparable
Two-bedroom rent against median income
A year of two-bedroom rent as a share of the median household income below. A household paying the median rent out of the median income is a fiction, but it is the same fiction in both columns and it crosses currencies.
35.2% of a year's income29.9% of a year's incomeDallas
Mortgage payment on the benchmark, 20% down
25 years in Vancouver against 30 in Dallas, each compounding the way its own country's lenders do. The rates are not a spread you can shop: they are what each market charges.
$4,744/mo at 4.34%$2,509/mo at 7.03%Not directly comparable
Price to household income
Benchmark price divided by the median household income below. A ratio is comparable across currencies; the dollars are not.
12.1×6.3×Dallas
Property tax on the benchmark home
The effective rate on market value, which is what the two rates have in common and what the Advantage column is decided on; the bills are in each city's own dollars.
$3,663/yr (0.336%, 2026)$7,448/yr (1.585%, 2025)Vancouver
Transfer tax on the benchmark home
Compared as a share of the price. Where the seller pays it, it is a cost of leaving rather than arriving.
$19,776 (buyer pays)NoneDallas
Rent control
A cap protects a sitting tenant and does nothing for the next lease, so neither column is simply better.
2.3% guideline (2026)Forbidden by state lawNot directly comparable

Vancouver: The 2026 total residential levy of $3.36394 per $1,000 of taxable value, including the provincial school, TransLink, BC Assessment, Metro Vancouver and MFA portions, before the Home Owner Grant. Dallas: About 1.58% of value for a homesteaded owner, worked out on the $469,900 median single-family sale price. A house in the City of Dallas and Dallas ISD is taxed by five units for 2025, which add to 2.22671 per $100 before any exemption. Each takes its own homestead exemption off the appraised value first: Dallas ISD the state's $140,000 and a further 10% of its own, and Dallas County, the City, Dallas College and the Parkland Hospital District 20% each. So Dallas County levies 0.2155 per $100 on $375,920 after a $93,980 exemption, $810; City of Dallas levies 0.6988 per $100 on $375,920 after a $93,980 exemption, $2,627; Dallas ISD levies 0.993835 per $100 on $282,910 after a $186,990 exemption, $2,812; Dallas College levies 0.106575 per $100 on $375,920 after a $93,980 exemption, $401; Parkland Hospital District levies 0.212 per $100 on $375,920 after a $93,980 exemption, $797. The five come to $7,446 a year, 1.58% of the price. Without a homestead, as a landlord or a buyer who never files, the same house owes $10,463. The appraisal district's own typical homestead is cheaper than the typical sale: its certified median market value for a City of Dallas homestead was $364,530 for the 2025 appraisal year, the value on 1 January 2025 these rates were levied on, and $364,000 for 2026. On $364,530 the same five units come to $5,465, 1.50%, lower because the school district's flat exemption is a larger share of a cheaper house. These are the 2025 rates, the bills due by 31 January 2026. The appraisal district's 2026 table was still its estimate of 4 March 2026 when these figures were retrieved, so the calculators stay on 2025 until the five units' 2026 rates are published.

02: Crime and safety

How safe each city is, by the numbers it publishes

Police-reported figures for the most recent year each force or statistics agency has released. Rates describe a whole city or metro area, and the spread between neighbourhoods inside one city is usually wider than the gap between the two cities.

Crime
MeasureVancouverDallasAdvantage
Crime Severity Index
Statistics Canada's weighted index for the metropolitan area, where 100 is Canada in 2006. American cities have no equivalent series.
83.5 (2025)Not publishedNot directly comparable
Violent crime per 100,000
Canada counts every violent Criminal Code incident; the FBI counts four offences. The Canadian figure is always the larger one for that reason alone.
709 (2025)577 (2025)Not directly comparable
Property crime per 100,0004,067 (2025)3,081 (2025)Not directly comparable
Homicides
Counts, not rates, and a single year in a small city moves a long way on chance alone. What each figure covers is under the table.
26 (2025)140 (2025)Not directly comparable
Vancouver

The Vancouver CMA Crime Severity Index fell from 92.33 in 2022 to 82.29 in 2024, then edged up 1.5% to 83.51 in 2025 while Canada's fell 5%. Within the city, VPD counts show violent crime down 15% from 6,288 incidents in 2023 to 5,343 in 2025 (the lowest rate in the five-year table) and property crime down 9% from its 2023 peak, while weapons offences and possession of stolen property rose sharply in 2025.

What the rates cover: City of Vancouver only (VPD), 5,343 violent Criminal Code incidents, 7.09 per 1,000 population, converted to per 100,000. Not a CMA figure.

Homicides: City of Vancouver (VPD culpable homicide). 11 of the 26 were victims of the April 2025 Lapu-Lapu Day festival vehicle attack; 2024 had 11 and 2023 had 15. About 3.5 per 100,000 on the city's 753,100 population estimate; the VPD table rounds the rate to 0.03 per 1,000.

Dallas

On the FBI's definitions, violent offenses in Dallas went from 11,181 in 2021 to 10,255 in 2022, 9,025 in 2023, 8,747 in 2024 and 7,674 in 2025, a 12% drop in the last year and 31% in four, and property offenses from 46,991 to 49,224, a peak of 52,641 in 2023, then 45,106 and 40,962, 22% below the peak. Motor vehicle theft drove most of that swing: 11,818 in 2021, 18,457 in 2023 and 11,162 in 2025. In 2025 the CDE shows aggravated assaults down 12% (5,826 to 5,144), robberies down 10% (2,235 to 2,020), rapes down 27% (505 to 370) and murders down 23% (181 to 140). On its own definitions DPD reported violent crime down 12%, robberies down 10%, aggravated assaults down 12% and sexual assaults down 13%. The 2025 CDE counts were read on 27 September 2026 from a feed last refreshed on 15 September and can still be revised.

What the rates cover: Computed: 7,674 violent offenses (murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault) in the FBI Crime Data Explorer's summarized data for the Dallas Police Department (ORI TXDPD0000) in calendar 2025, divided by the 1,329,491 Vintage 2025 city population. On the CDE's own agency population of 1,331,217 the rate is 576. DPD does not publish a total on this definition. The violent crime its Violent Crime Reduction Plan tracks is murder, robbery and aggravated assault, with family-violence and other aggravated assaults counted separately and rape left out. Its public incident dataset on Dallas OpenData, which the city describes as a research copy rather than the authoritative count, lists only 57 murder incidents and 12 family-violence aggravated assault incidents for 2025, so it cannot rebuild either total.

Homicides: 140 murders and nonnegligent manslaughters in 2025 in the FBI CDE, against 181 in 2024, about 10.5 per 100,000 on the city population. DPD's own year-end count was 141 homicides against 184 in 2024, a 23% drop (CBS Texas, February 2026); nothing fetched explains the gaps of one and three cases between the two series. The high point in the CDE series since 2021 is 244, in 2023.

03: Climate

Winters, summers and what the weather can do to a house

Climate normals
MeasureVancouverDallasAdvantage
January mean4.1 °C8.8 °CNot directly comparable
July mean18.2 °C30.7 °CNot directly comparable
Precipitation a year1,160 mm973 mmNot directly comparable
Snowfall a year37 cm4 cmNot directly comparable
Sunshine a yearNot published2,850 hoursNot directly comparable
Vancouver

Environment and Climate Change Canada 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Int'l A (climate ID 1108395). January average 4.1 C, July 18.2 C, annual precipitation 1,159.5 mm with 174 mm in January and 34 mm in July, snowfall 36.6 cm a year. The 1991-2020 normals do not publish bright sunshine hours for this station, so the table shows no sunshine figure for Vancouver.

Hazards: Wildfire smoke from the BC Interior in late summer, heat events (the June 2021 heat dome), atmospheric river flooding in the Fraser Valley (November 2021), and Cascadia earthquake risk; no hurricanes or hail of note.

Dallas

NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals for Dallas Love Field (station USW00013960), the city's own climate station about 6 miles northwest of downtown: January mean 47.8F, July mean 87.3F, annual mean 68.0F, 38.32 in of precipitation, 1.7 in of snow. July and August tie as the warmest months at 87.3F, with mean highs of 96.9F and 97.1F, and January's mean low is 37.9F. October (4.79 in) and May (4.57 in) are the wettest months and July (1.71 in) the driest, and most of the snow falls in February (0.9 in). The normals count 107.5 days a year at 90F or above, 22.4 at 100F or above and 23.1 nights at or below freezing. Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (USW00003927), where the National Weather Service keeps the metro's official record, averages 46.3F in January and 85.7F in July with 37.01 in of rain and 1.6 in of snow, 20.3 days at 100F or above and 29.2 nights at or below freezing. Converted here to 8.8 C, 30.7 C, 973 mm and 4.3 cm. That July mean is the warmest of any city this site compares, 1.5F (0.8 C) above Austin's at Camp Mabry. Sunshine hours are the older 1961-1990 NCDC means (2,850 hours, 61% of possible), since the 1991-2020 normals do not include sunshine.

Hazards: Heat is the constant. The normals give Love Field 22.4 days a year at or above 100F (37.8 C); its record since 1939 is 73 such days in 2011, including 40 in a row from 2 July to 10 August, and its highest reading is 112F (44.4 C), on 26 and 27 June 1980 and again on 22 July 2018. At DFW Airport the record is 71 days in 2011 and the longest run 42, from 23 June to 3 August 1980, when the airport reached 113F (45.0 C). The summer of 2026 is among the hottest on record: by 22 September Love Field had 54 days at 100F or above, fourth in its record, and DFW 52, tied for fifth, 27 of them in August. Hail is the costly routine hazard. NOAA's billion-dollar disaster list counts a North Texas hailstorm on 23 and 24 March 2016 at $2.06 billion in 2016 dollars, and on 11 April 2016 a supercell dropped hailstones up to 5.25 in (13.3 cm), the record for the NWS Fort Worth area, and hit 80% of the homes in Wylie, northeast of the city; Cotality counted more than 235,000 Texas homes hit by damaging hail in 2025, far more than in any other state. Tornadoes reach the city itself. On 20 October 2019 an EF3 with winds near 140 mph (225 km/h) tracked 15.76 miles (25.4 km) from near I-35E and Walnut Hill Lane through Preston Hollow to US 75 and on into Richardson, damaging a high school, a middle school and an elementary school, destroying about 118 structures and doing $1.55 billion of damage without a death; on 26 December 2015 an EF4 killed 10 people in Sunnyvale, Garland and Rowlett in eastern Dallas County. The Trinity River passes downtown between 23 miles (37 km) of levees 29 to 32 ft (8.8 to 9.8 m) high, completed in 1932 and upgraded by the Army Corps of Engineers in the 1950s. The river's record crest at Dallas, 52.6 ft (16.0 m), came in the flood of May 1908, before them; the highest since was 47.1 ft (14.4 m) in May 1990, and by November 2023 the Corps had raised the West levee to carry 277,000 cubic feet (7,844 cubic meters) a second, with the East levee still to do. Flash floods on the creeks are the more frequent danger: on 21 and 22 August 2022, 9.19 in (233 mm) fell at DFW Airport in 24 hours, second only to 9.57 in (243 mm) in September 1932, 9.14 in (232 mm) fell at Love Field and 15.16 in (385 mm) at a gauge on White Rock Creek at Scyene Road, and at least one person died. Cold is rare and badly handled when it comes. Winter Storm Uri left 5.3 in (13.5 cm) of snow at Love Field from 14 to 17 February 2021 and a low of 2F (-16.7 C) on the 16th, matched there only in January 1949 and beaten only in January 1940 (0F, -17.8 C) and December 1989 (1F, -17.2 C); DFW Airport fell to -2F (-18.9 C), the lowest in its record since 1953. ERCOT cut power across the state grid from 15 to 18 February and about 4.5 million customers lost it at the worst; Texas counted 246 deaths from the storm, 22 of them in Dallas County. In January 2026 Winter Storm Fern brought 2.4 in (6.1 cm) of snow and sleet to DFW Airport and lows of 13F (-10.6 C), and the grid held. Drought is the slow hazard. The seven water supply lakes the Texas Water Development Board counts for the Dallas area stood at 86.5% of conservation capacity on 27 September 2026, down from 98.7% at the end of June; in the 2011 to 2015 drought they fell to 62.7% before the rains of 2015 filled them. Dallas has capped lawn watering at twice a week since April 2012.

04: Income, jobs and taxes

What people earn and what the government takes

Income and taxes
MeasureVancouverDallasAdvantage
Median household income$90,000 CAD (2020)$74,323 USD (2024)Not directly comparable
Unemployment rate
Statistics Canada and the Bureau of Labor Statistics define unemployment slightly differently; the Canadian measure runs about a point higher on the same labour market.
6.0% (July 2026)4.2% (July 2026)Not directly comparable
Sales tax12%8.25%Dallas
Top marginal income tax
Federal plus provincial or state. The American figure leaves out payroll taxes and the cost of health insurance, both of which a Canadian household covers through the tax it pays here.
53.5%37%Dallas
Income tax on $100,000, single filer
Computed from each jurisdiction's brackets at a single filer's $100,000 and rounded to the dollar, so a gap of a dollar is rounding rather than tax. Two cities in one province or state are shown as Even, because there the two cells describe the same tax and whatever separates them is method.
$20,500 CAD$13,449 USDNot directly comparable
Vancouver

The Vancouver CMA unemployment rate was 6.0% in July 2026 after 6.6% in June, slightly under the national 6.4%. The regional labour market is service-heavy: the Port of Vancouver is Canada's largest, Metro Vancouver is North America's third-largest film and TV production centre, and YVR set a passenger record in 2025.

Main sectors: Port logistics and trade, Technology and digital media, Film and television production, Tourism and hospitality, Health care and education.

BC has no payroll tax on employees and MSP premiums were eliminated in 2020. Property transfer tax and the speculation and vacancy tax matter for buyers but are not income taxes.

Dallas

BLS counted 4,353,400 nonfarm jobs in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington MSA in July 2026 (not seasonally adjusted), up 54,000 or 1.3% on the year. Professional and business services (+3.0%, to 805,200) and leisure and hospitality (+3.0%) grew fastest, then mining, logging and construction and education and health services (both +2.0%), while information (-2.8%), financial activities (-1.0%) and manufacturing (-0.7%) shrank. Trade, transportation and utilities is the largest sector at 895,000 jobs, and government employs 465,400. The seasonally adjusted series (FRED DALL148NA) was 4,363,400 in August 2026, 1.1% above August 2025. Average weekly wages across the metro were $1,785 in the first quarter of 2026 against $1,654 nationally. The Dallas Regional Chamber counts 21 Fortune 500 headquarters in the region as of 2025 and 44 in the Fortune 1000, among them AT&T, Texas Instruments, American Airlines, Kimberly-Clark, Toyota Motor North America and McKesson.

Main sectors: Trade, transportation and utilities, the metro's largest sector (DFW Airport, American Airlines, Southwest Airlines, BNSF Railway), Corporate headquarters and professional and business services (AT&T, Texas Instruments, McKesson, Kimberly-Clark, Toyota Motor North America), Financial activities (the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Charles Schwab, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America), Health care and education (Baylor Scott & White Health, Texas Health Resources, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Children's Health), Aerospace and advanced manufacturing (Lockheed Martin, Bell Textron, Raytheon, Texas Instruments).

Property tax is the local levy that matters. Tax Foundation puts Texas's effective property tax rate on owner-occupied homes at 1.40%, and school districts must exempt $140,000 of a homestead's value from their tax. The City of Dallas's own rate for the fiscal year that starts on 1 October 2026 is 69.78 cents per $100 of taxable value, down from 69.88 cents, the eleventh cut in a row, in a $5.66 billion budget. Proposition U, a charter amendment Dallas voters approved in November 2024, requires the council to put at least half of each year's revenue growth into the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System, with any remainder of that half going to police pay and to a force of at least 4,000 officers; the budget adopted in September 2026 funds 3,651 officers by the end of September 2027 and 3,800 a year later. The county, school district and other levies on the same bill belong to the housing layer.

05: Getting around

Whether you need a car

Transit
MeasureVancouverDallasAdvantage
SystemTransLink (SkyTrain Expo, Millennium and Canada lines; bus; SeaBus; West Coast Express)DART buses (nearly 700 vehicles), four light rail lines on 93 miles of track, the 26-mile Silver Line commuter rail from Plano to DFW Airport (opened October 2025), the Trinity Railway Express to Fort Worth run with Trinity Metro, the Dallas Streetcar and GoLink on-demand zonesNot directly comparable
Commute by public transit22.9% (2021)2.0% (2024)Vancouver
Walk or cycle to work18.4% (2021)2.5% (2024)Vancouver
AirportVancouver International Airport, YVR, 26.9 million passengers in 2025, an all-time record and 2.7% above 2024 (Vancouver Airport Authority, January 2026)Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW), 85,660,127 passengers in 2025, 2.5% fewer than 2024's 87,817,864, per the airport's December 2025 traffic report; 12.65 million of them were international and American Airlines carried 82.6%. ACI World ranked it the fourth-busiest airport in the world by passengers in 2025 and third by aircraft movements. Dallas Love Field (DAL), about 6 miles northwest of downtown and the birthplace and headquarters of Southwest Airlines, handled 16,899,203 passengers in 2025, 5.5% fewer than in 2024 (FAA figures as cited by Wikipedia; the airport's website refused the fetcher).Not directly comparable
Vancouver

396.3 million boardings and 237.6 million journeys in 2025, down about 1.5% from 2024, the first annual decline since the pandemic recovery (TransLink figures reported by Daily Hive, 2026-03-25).

Dallas

DART carried 52,823,800 unlinked trips in 2025, 28,151,100 of them by bus and 21,611,600 on light rail, and about 157,300 a weekday in the second quarter of 2026, 65,300 of them on light rail (APTA ridership reports, as cited by Wikipedia; APTA's PDFs refused the fetcher). DART's own figure is more than 171,000 passengers a day across a 700-square-mile, 12-city service area. The Trinity Railway Express, which DART runs with Fort Worth's Trinity Metro, carried 1,337,600 trips in 2025 (APTA, same source). The Silver Line opened on 25 October 2025 through Plano, Richardson, Dallas, Addison, Carrollton, Coppell and Grapevine to DFW Airport, every 30 minutes at weekday peaks and hourly otherwise. DART is paid for by a 1% sales tax in its member cities, and the suburbs have pushed back on what they pay: Plano, Irving and Farmers Branch canceled withdrawal elections set for May 2026 after agreements that return part of their sales tax over six years for local transportation projects, Addison and University Park voted to stay, and Highland Park voted by 70% to leave, with service ending on 14 May 2026.

06: Daily life

Health care, schools and what each city is like

Vancouver

Health care

Care is paid for through BC's Medical Services Plan, which covers residents after a waiting period of up to three months with no premiums since January 2020; prescription drugs outside hospital fall under income-tested Fair PharmaCare or employer plans. Finding a family doctor is the practical problem: the province's Health Connect Registry reported about 1.4 million BC residents without a primary care provider in mid-2025, and the main acute hospitals are Vancouver General, St. Paul's (moving to a new False Creek site), and BC Children's.

Education

The University of British Columbia (Point Grey campus) and Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, with downtown campuses) are the two research universities, alongside Emily Carr, Langara, and BCIT. K to 12 is run by the Vancouver School Board (District 39), about 50,000 students in 87 elementary and 18 secondary schools, with French immersion and mini-school programs instead of charters; independent schools receive partial provincial funding.

Living there

A dense, mountainous coastal city where most of the region's jobs and housing sit within a few kilometres of water, and where the cost of housing shapes nearly every decision about where to live. Winters are mild, grey and wet from November to March; summers are dry and bright, increasingly interrupted by wildfire smoke. Day to day it is a transit-and-bike city by Canadian standards, with strong East Asian and South Asian communities and a visible drug and homelessness crisis concentrated in the Downtown Eastside.

Dallas

Health care

Care is paid for through employer or marketplace insurance, Medicare and Medicaid, and Texas is one of the ten states that have not expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (KFF, August 2026). It had the highest uninsured rate of any state in 2024: 16.7%, or 5,152,427 of 30,799,312 people, against 8.2% nationally and 12.0% in Georgia, the next highest, on the ACS 2024 1-year estimates. The City of Dallas's rate was 22.7% (297,684 of 1,313,770), Dallas County's 21.9% and the metro's 16.2%. Parkland Memorial Hospital, licensed for 983 beds, is Dallas County's only public hospital and UT Southwestern's primary teaching hospital; it became the first certified Level I trauma center in Texas in 1983 and runs a burn center. UT Southwestern Medical Center, whose faculty have received six Nobel Prizes, runs William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital in the Southwestern Medical District, and more than half the doctors practicing in Dallas trained there at least in part. Baylor University Medical Center, which opened in 1903 and is now the North Texas flagship of Baylor Scott & White Health, has 914 beds and a Level I trauma center that Baylor Scott & White describes as one of only three adult trauma centers in Dallas. Children's Health and UT Southwestern broke ground in October 2024 on a $5 billion pediatric campus with 552 beds to replace Children's Medical Center Dallas, projected to open in 2031. This file did not verify a wait time figure for primary or specialist care.

Education

Dallas ISD, the second-largest school district in Texas, opened the 2026-27 year on 11 August with about 132,000 students, down from about 134,300 a year earlier (KERA). Superintendent Stephanie Elizalde blamed federal immigration policy in part. KERA adds that charter schools and the state's new education savings accounts may account for some of the loss; more than 2,800 students in the district had qualified for the accounts, which help pay private school tuition, on the Comptroller's latest count. The district made pre-kindergarten free for all 3- and 4-year-olds this year and enrolled about 11,000 children in it, and the Texas Education Agency rated the district B for 2025. Southern Methodist University (12,544 students in fall 2025) is in University Park, a separate town north of downtown, the University of Texas at Dallas is in Richardson, and Dallas College runs seven campuses in Dallas County.

Living there

Dallas is the corporate and financial center of the fourth-largest metro in the country, and the metro is growing around the city rather than inside it. The Dallas-Fort Worth area added 123,557 people in 2024-25, more than any metro but Houston, while the city lost 1,808 and Dallas County lost 46,226 more residents to the rest of the country than it gained, so newcomers settle in Collin, Denton and Kaufman counties. The city has 93 miles of DART light rail and, since October 2025, a commuter line to DFW Airport, yet 68.6% of its workers drive alone and 2.0% take transit. Summer is the hard season: the July mean at Love Field is 87.3F, the warmest of any city this site compares, and the station had 54 days at 100F or more by late September 2026. Hail and tornadoes are the costly weather. Texas takes no income tax, and 22.7% of the city's residents have no health insurance. The open question is whether the city can hold up its end as the region spreads outward: three suburbs won back part of the sales tax they pay DART and a fourth voted to leave, voters wrote a minimum of 4,000 police officers into the charter in 2024 and the adopted budget plans for 3,800 by September 2028, and Dallas ISD began 2026-27 with about 2,300 fewer students than the year before.

07: The trade-offs

Where each city wins, and where it loses

Vancouver's figures are in Canadian dollars and Dallas's in US dollars, so each is read against local pay. Vancouver's composite benchmark was $1,088,800 CAD in July 2026, 12.1 times the metro's 2020 median household income of $90,000 CAD. Dallas's price is the NTREIS median sale price of single-family houses, $469,900 USD in August 2026, about 6.3 times the city's 2024 median of $74,323 USD. At 20% down, Vancouver's mortgage at 4.34% is $4,744 CAD a month over 25 years, and Dallas's $375,920 loan at 7.03%, Freddie Mac's rate for 24 September 2026, about $2,509 USD over 30. Property tax runs the other way: 0.336% of value in Vancouver, $3,663 CAD a year, against $7,448 USD from Dallas's five taxing units, an effective 1.58% with a homestead and $10,463 without. Insurance is budgeted at $190 CAD and $400 USD a month, the Dallas figure set by North Texas hail. The owners carry about $5,239 CAD and $3,529 USD, roughly 70% and 57% of local median income. A two-bedroom averaged $2,638 CAD in October 2025 against $1,853 USD in August 2026. British Columbia caps an existing tenancy at 2.3% for 2026, and Texas forbids rent control by statute.

Homicide is the one count that crosses the border intact. Vancouver recorded 26 in 2025, about 3.5 per 100,000 on the city's 753,100 estimate, and 11 of them were victims of one event, the April 2025 Lapu-Lapu Day festival vehicle attack, against 11 in 2024 and 15 in 2023. Dallas recorded 140 in the FBI's file, about 10.5 per 100,000, and 141 on its police department's own count, against 184 in 2024. The other rates are different instruments. The Vancouver Police Department counted 5,343 violent Criminal Code incidents in the city, 709 per 100,000, a count that includes common assault and uttering threats; the Dallas figure of 577 per 100,000 is 7,674 FBI-definition offenses of murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault, divided by the Census estimate, because the Dallas Police Department publishes no total on those definitions. Property crime, 4,067 incidents per 100,000 against 3,081 offenses, is defined differently too. Both are falling on their own counts, Vancouver's violent incidents 15% below 2023 and the Dallas violent offenses 31% below 2021, but the Vancouver metro's Crime Severity Index edged 1.5% higher to 83.51 in 2025. The Dallas counts were read on 27 September 2026 and can still be revised.

Dallas is warmer in winter and much warmer in summer. January averages 4.1 C at Vancouver International and 8.8 C at Love Field; July averages 18.2 C and dry in Vancouver against 30.7 C in Dallas, the warmest July mean of the fourteen cities this site compares. Vancouver gets more precipitation, 1,159.5 mm against 973 mm, 174 mm of it in January and 34 mm in July, while the wettest months in Dallas are October and May. Snow is light in both, a 36.6 cm normal against 4.3 cm. Sunshine cannot be compared, because Canada's 1991-2020 normals publish none for Vancouver. Dallas's hazards are heat, with 22.4 days a year at or above 100F (37.8 C) in the Love Field normals and 54 in 2026 by 22 September; hail, with stones up to 5.25 in (13.3 cm) in April 2016; tornadoes, among them the October 2019 EF3 that did $1.55 billion of damage; and the rare hard freeze, as in February 2021, when ERCOT cut power across the state grid. Vancouver's are late-summer wildfire smoke, heat events like the June 2021 dome, atmospheric river flooding in the Fraser Valley and Cascadia earthquake risk, with no hail of note.

The labor markets are in different condition. The Dallas-Fort Worth metro's unemployment rate was 4.2% in July 2026, seasonally adjusted, on 4,353,400 nonfarm jobs, 1.3% more than a year earlier, and average weekly wages were $1,785 in the first quarter against $1,654 nationally. The Vancouver metro's was 6.0% the same month, after 6.6% in June and under Canada's 6.4%. Vancouver runs on the Port of Vancouver, Canada's largest, on film and television production, technology and tourism; Dallas on corporate headquarters, 21 of them in the Fortune 500, and on finance, logistics around DFW and aerospace. Median household income was $90,000 CAD across the Vancouver metro and $82,000 in the city in 2020, against $74,323 USD in Dallas in 2024. The tax systems are near opposites. British Columbia funds itself through income and sales tax: about $20,500 CAD on $100,000, 20.5% before CPP and EI, a top combined rate of 53.5%, and 12% on purchases, 5% GST plus 7% PST. Texas has no state income tax, so the same salary pays $13,449 USD in federal tax for 2025, the top rate is the federal 37% and sales tax is 8.25%. Property tax carries the load instead.

Transit is the widest gap in the pair. In the 2021 census 22.9% of City of Vancouver commuters took transit and 18.4% walked or cycled, counted in May 2021 with much of the city working from home, and the metro's transit share was 14.9%. In Dallas 2.0% of workers commuted by transit in 2024, 2.5% walked or cycled and 68.6% drove alone, even though DART runs four light rail lines on 93 miles of track and, since October 2025, the 26-mile Silver Line from Plano to DFW Airport. TransLink's Expo, Millennium and Canada SkyTrain lines, buses, SeaBus and West Coast Express logged 396.3 million boardings in 2025; DART carried 52,823,800 trips, 21,611,600 of them on light rail. DART is paid for by a 1% sales tax in its member cities, and the suburbs have pushed back: Plano, Irving and Farmers Branch won back part of what they pay, and Highland Park voted to leave, with service ending on 14 May 2026. Flying favors Dallas. DFW handled 85,660,127 passengers in 2025, 12.65 million of them international, and Love Field 16,899,203, against a record 26.9 million at YVR.

Health care is where the border shows most. British Columbia's Medical Services Plan pays for physician and hospital care with nothing due at the point of use and has charged no premiums since January 2020, but a new arrival waits up to three months for coverage and about 1.4 million British Columbians had no primary care provider in mid-2025. In Dallas care is bought through an employer or marketplace plan, Medicare or Medicaid, and Texas is one of ten states that have not expanded Medicaid. It had the highest uninsured rate of any state in 2024, 16.7%, and the City of Dallas's was 22.7%. Parkland Memorial Hospital, the county's public hospital and UT Southwestern's primary teaching hospital, was the first certified Level I trauma center in Texas; Vancouver's major hospitals are Vancouver General, St. Paul's and BC Children's. This site verified no wait time figure for either city. The Vancouver School Board teaches about 50,000 students with French immersion and mini-school programs and no charters. Dallas ISD, the second-largest district in Texas, opened 2026-27 with about 132,000 students against about 134,300 a year earlier, and more than 2,800 of its students had qualified for the state's new education savings accounts.

What people underestimate is that both markets are falling at almost the same pace, in regions that are growing differently. Vancouver's benchmark was 6.2% lower in July 2026 than a year earlier, in a metro of 3,088,036 that grew 0.2% in the year to July 2025 after a net loss of non-permanent residents. The Dallas median sale price was 6.0% lower in August 2026 than a year earlier, in a metro that grew 11.0% from 2020 to 2025, to 8,477,157. That growth is outside the city: Dallas lost 1,808 residents in 2024-25, and Dallas County lost 46,226 more to the rest of the country than it gained while Collin, Denton and Kaufman counties took the newcomers. The costs at the door differ too. A Vancouver buyer hands over $19,776 in BC property transfer tax at closing. Texas has no transfer tax, but the Dallas figures assume the buyer files a homestead, without which the house owes $10,463 a year. Vancouver's 4.34% renews after a five-year term, while the Dallas 7.03%, about a third of a point above the August rate this site's other American cities were written at, holds for thirty years; at 6.67% the carry would be about $3,439.

Vancouver

Better here

  • 22.9% of city commuters took transit in the 2021 census and 18.4% walked or cycled, against 2.0% and 2.5% in Dallas in 2024.
  • The Medical Services Plan covers physician and hospital care with nothing due at the point of use and has charged no premiums since January 2020, where 22.7% of Dallas residents had no health insurance in 2024.
  • July averages 18.2 C on the 1991-2020 normals against 30.7 C at Love Field, where the same normals count 22.4 days a year at or above 100F (37.8 C).
  • There were 26 homicides in 2025, about 3.5 per 100,000, 11 of them from a single attack, against 140 in Dallas at about 10.5.
  • An existing tenancy is capped at 2.3% for 2026 under BC rules, while Texas forbids rent control by statute.
  • Property tax is 0.336% of value for 2026, $3,663 CAD a year on the July 2026 benchmark, against an effective 1.58% on the Dallas median house for the 2025 tax year.

Worse here

  • The benchmark home was 12.1 times the metro's 2020 median household income of $90,000 CAD in July 2026, against about 6.3 times in Dallas in August 2026.
  • Mortgage, property tax and insurance come to about $5,239 CAD a month on the July 2026 benchmark, roughly 70% of that median, and the buyer pays $19,776 in property transfer tax at closing.
  • Metro unemployment was 6.0% in July 2026 against 4.2% in Dallas-Fort Worth the same month.
  • About 1.4 million British Columbians had no primary care provider in mid-2025, and a new arrival waits up to three months for MSP coverage.
  • Income tax on $100,000 is about $20,500 CAD for 2025 against $13,449 USD of federal tax in Dallas, and sales tax is 12% against 8.25%.
  • YVR handled a record 26.9 million passengers in 2025, against 85,660,127 at DFW and 16,899,203 at Dallas Love Field.

Choose Vancouver if

  • you want to live without a car, in a city where 22.9% of commuters took transit even in the pandemic census
  • you already hold housing equity, because 12.1 times median household income is not a salary purchase
  • you want coverage that does not depend on a job, and can wait out the three-month MSP qualifying period
  • you would rather have an 18.2 C July and gray rain from November to March than a 30.7 C July and a season of 100F days

The Vancouver guide · Neighbourhoods · Vancouver rent vs buy · Vancouver mortgage calculator

Dallas

Better here

  • The median sale price of $469,900 USD in August 2026 is about 6.3 times the city's 2024 median household income, against 12.1 times in Vancouver.
  • Mortgage, property tax and insurance come to about $3,529 USD a month on the August 2026 median, roughly 57% of local median income against about 70% in Vancouver, and Texas charges no transfer tax.
  • Metro unemployment was 4.2% in July 2026 against 6.0% in the Vancouver metro, on 4,353,400 nonfarm jobs growing 1.3% on the year.
  • Texas levies no income tax, so $100,000 pays $13,449 USD in federal tax for 2025 and $13,170 for 2026, against about $20,500 CAD in Vancouver.
  • January averages 8.8 C on the 1991-2020 normals against 4.1 C in Vancouver, and Dallas records 2,850 hours of sunshine a year on the 1961-1990 series.
  • DFW handled 85,660,127 passengers in 2025, 12.65 million of them international, and Love Field another 16,899,203, against 26.9 million at YVR.

Worse here

  • There were 140 homicides in 2025, about 10.5 per 100,000, against 26 in Vancouver at about 3.5.
  • Property tax on the median house is $7,448 a year for the 2025 tax year with a homestead, an effective 1.58%, and $10,463 without one, against 0.336% of value in Vancouver.
  • Only 2.0% of workers commuted by transit in 2024 and 68.6% drove alone, despite 93 miles of DART light rail.
  • July averages 30.7 C, the warmest July mean of the fourteen cities this site compares, and Love Field had 54 days at or above 100F (37.8 C) by 22 September 2026.
  • Texas had the highest uninsured rate of any state in 2024, 16.7%, the City of Dallas's was 22.7%, and in August 2026 Texas was one of ten states that have not expanded Medicaid.
  • Home insurance is budgeted at $400 a month against $190 CAD in Vancouver, because North Texas hail is a routine cost and tornadoes reach the city itself, as in October 2019.

Choose Dallas if

  • you want a house at about six times what households around you earn, bought on a salary rather than on equity
  • you want a labor market at 4.2% unemployment in corporate headquarters, finance, logistics or aerospace
  • you have employer health insurance you trust and would rather pay tax on a house than on a salary
  • you will drive to most things and can plan a summer around days at 100F

The Dallas guide · Neighborhoods · Dallas rent vs buy · Dallas mortgage calculator

08: Questions people ask

Vancouver or Dallas, in short

Is Vancouver or Dallas cheaper to live in?

Dallas, once each bill is held against its own city's pay, because the currencies do not convert here. A Vancouver owner pays about $5,239 CAD a month on mortgage, property tax and insurance, roughly 70% of the metro's 2020 median household income of $90,000 CAD, on a benchmark 12.1 times that income. A Dallas owner pays about $3,529 USD, roughly 57% of the city's 2024 median of $74,323 USD, on a single-family median sale price about 6.3 times income, despite a 7.03% mortgage rate against 4.34% and a property tax bill of $7,448 a year. A two-bedroom averaged $2,638 CAD in October 2025 against $1,853 USD in August 2026. Vancouver's buyer also pays $19,776 in property transfer tax at closing, and its income tax is heavier, about $20,500 CAD on $100,000 against $13,449 USD, with 12% sales tax against 8.25%.

Is Vancouver or Dallas safer?

Vancouver on homicide, the one count that crosses the border, and by a wide margin. Vancouver recorded 26 homicides in 2025, about 3.5 per 100,000, and 11 of them were victims of the April 2025 Lapu-Lapu Day festival vehicle attack; Dallas recorded 140 in the FBI's file, about 10.5 per 100,000, against 184 in 2024 on its police department's count. The violent rates, 709 per 100,000 in Vancouver and 577 in Dallas, are different instruments: the Canadian count includes common assault and uttering threats, and the American one is murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault. Property crime, 4,067 incidents per 100,000 against 3,081 offenses, is defined differently as well. Violent offenses in Dallas in 2025 were 31% below 2021, while the Vancouver metro's Crime Severity Index edged 1.5% higher to 83.51, above the national 75.0; American cities have no equivalent index.

Which has the better climate, Vancouver or Dallas?

Dallas in winter and Vancouver in summer. January averages 8.8 C in Dallas against 4.1 C in Vancouver, where most of the year's 1,159.5 mm falls as gray rain from November to March. July averages 18.2 C and dry in Vancouver against 30.7 C at Love Field, the warmest July mean of the fourteen cities this site compares, where the normals count 22.4 days a year at or above 100F (37.8 C). Snow is light in both, a 36.6 cm normal against 4.3 cm. Vancouver's hazards are late-summer wildfire smoke, heat events like the June 2021 dome, atmospheric river flooding and Cascadia earthquake risk, with no hail of note; the Dallas list is hail, tornadoes, flash floods on the creeks and the rare hard freeze, like February 2021, when ERCOT cut power across the state grid.

What happens to my health care if I move from Vancouver to Dallas?

Coverage stops coming with residency and starts coming with a job or a purchase. In Vancouver the Medical Services Plan pays for physician and hospital care with nothing due at the point of use and no premium since January 2020, and the problem is access: about 1.4 million British Columbians had no primary care provider in mid-2025. In Dallas you need an employer or marketplace plan, Medicare or Medicaid, and the premium, deductible and copay that come with them. Texas is one of the ten states that have not expanded Medicaid and had the highest uninsured rate of any state in 2024, 16.7%; the City of Dallas's was 22.7%. Parkland Memorial Hospital, UT Southwestern's primary teaching hospital, and Baylor University Medical Center run Level I trauma centers. This site verified no wait time figure for either city.

Sources

Where the figures come from

Housing figures are the ones behind each city's calculators, dated on those pages. The rest are listed here with the date they were retrieved. See the methodology for how facts, estimates and opinion are kept apart.

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    Supports: City population, population.metro (2021 count), Five-year growth, Median household income, Transit commute share, Walk and cycle commute share
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    Supports: Metro population
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    Supports: population.growthPct5y note
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    Supports: Crime Severity Index, Crime trend
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    Supports: crime.index note (crime rate, Canada CSI)
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    Supports: Violent crime rate, Property crime rate, Homicides, Crime trend, population.city note
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    Supports: Crime trend
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    Supports: Unemployment rate, Labour market
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    Supports: Top marginal income tax, Income tax on $100,000
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    Supports: City population, Five-year growth, Violent crime rate, Property crime rate, Homicides, Character
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    Supports: Metro population, Five-year growth, Character
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    Supports: Violent crime rate, Property crime rate, Homicides, Crime trend
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    Supports: Violent crime rate, Crime trend
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    Supports: Violent crime rate
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    Supports: Homicides, Crime trend
  26. US Climate Normals 1991-2020, station USW00013960 Dallas Love Field (Access Data Service) · NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · retrieved
    Supports: January mean, July mean, Annual precipitation, Annual snowfall, Climate normals, Climate hazards, Character, January 47.8F, July and August 87.3F from the monthly series, and annual mean 68.0F, precipitation 38.32 in, snowfall 1.7 in and the counts of days at 90F and 100F and nights at freezing from dataset=normals-annualseasonal-1991-2020 for the same station
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    Supports: Climate normals
  28. Global Historical Climatology Network daily summaries, Dallas Love Field (USW00013960), 1939-2026 · NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · retrieved
    Supports: Climate hazards, Character, 73 days at or above 100F in 2011 and 40 in a row from 2 July to 10 August 2011, 54 in 2026 through 22 September, 112F on 26 and 27 June 1980 and 22 July 2018, 5.3 in of snow from 14 to 17 February 2021, 2F on 16 February 2021, 31 January 1949, 1F on 23 December 1989 and 0F on 23 January 1940, 13F on 25 January 2026
  29. Global Historical Climatology Network daily summaries, Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (USW00003927), 1953-2026 · NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · retrieved
    Supports: Climate hazards, 113F on 26 and 27 June 1980, -2F on 16 February 2021, 2.4 in of snow and sleet on 24 and 25 January 2026
  30. Dallas/Fort Worth: Annual and Consecutive 100 Degree Days (last updated 22 September 2026) · National Weather Service, Fort Worth/Dallas · retrieved
    Supports: Climate hazards
  31. Average Annual Sunshine in US Cities · Current Results (NCDC Comparative Climatic Data, 1961-1990) · retrieved
    Supports: Sunshine hours, Climate normals
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    Supports: Climate hazards
  33. April 11th 2016 Hail Storm · National Weather Service, Fort Worth/Dallas · retrieved
    Supports: Climate hazards
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    Supports: Climate hazards
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    Supports: Climate hazards
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    Supports: Climate hazards
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    Supports: Climate hazards
  38. Dallas Levee System · City of Dallas, Trinity River Corridor Project · retrieved
    Supports: Climate hazards
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    Supports: Climate hazards
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    Supports: Climate hazards
  41. Wettest 24 hours in nearly a century for Dallas-Fort Worth · Yale Climate Connections · retrieved
    Supports: Climate hazards
  42. February 2021 Winter Storm-Related Deaths, Texas (mortality surveillance report) · Texas Department of State Health Services · retrieved
    Supports: Climate hazards
  43. The Timeline and Events of the February 2021 Texas Electric Grid Blackouts · The University of Texas at Austin Energy Institute · retrieved
    Supports: Climate hazards
  44. How the Texas power grid is holding up during the winter storm · CBS Texas · retrieved
    Supports: Climate hazards
  45. Energy Secretary Issues Emergency Order to Secure Texas Grid Amid Winter Storm Fern · US Department of Energy · retrieved
    Supports: Climate hazards
  46. Dallas Area Reservoirs (daily storage, percent full) · Texas Water Development Board, Water Data for Texas · retrieved
    Supports: Climate hazards
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    Supports: Climate hazards
  48. ACS 2024 1-year tables B08301 and B19013 for Dallas city and the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington MSA · Census Reporter API (US Census Bureau ACS) · retrieved
    Supports: Median household income, Transit commute share, Walk and cycle commute share, Character
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    Supports: Health care, Character
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    Supports: Unemployment rate
  51. All Employees: Total Nonfarm in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX (MSA), DALL148NA · FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (BLS CES data) · retrieved
    Supports: Labour market
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    Supports: Unemployment rate, Main sectors, Labour market
  53. Dallas Regional Economic Development Guide 2026: Major Companies and Headquarters · Dallas Regional Chamber · retrieved
    Supports: Main sectors, Labour market
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    Supports: Sales tax
  55. Transit Sales and Use Tax (Dallas MTA, effective January 1, 1984) · Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts · retrieved
    Supports: Sales tax, Transit ridership
  56. Sales and Use Tax · Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts · retrieved
    Supports: Sales tax
  57. Texas Tax Rates & Rankings · Tax Foundation · retrieved
    Supports: Top marginal income tax, Income tax on $100,000, Tax notes, Character
  58. 2025 Tax Brackets and Federal Income Tax Rates · Tax Foundation · retrieved
    Supports: Top marginal income tax, Income tax on $100,000
  59. 2026 Tax Brackets and Federal Income Tax Rates · Tax Foundation · retrieved
    Supports: Top marginal income tax, Income tax on $100,000
  60. Property Tax Exemptions · Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts · retrieved
    Supports: Tax notes
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    Supports: Tax notes, Character
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    Supports: Tax notes, Character
  63. About DART (DART facts) · Dallas Area Rapid Transit · retrieved
    Supports: Transit system, Transit ridership, Character
  64. Silver Line Launches Oct. 25, Connecting Seven Cities and DFW Airport with Modern, Reliable Transit · Dallas Area Rapid Transit · retrieved
    Supports: Transit system, Transit ridership, Character
  65. Dallas Area Rapid Transit (citing the APTA Transit Ridership Reports, Q4 2025 and Q2 2026, through Template:American transit ridership) · Wikipedia · retrieved
    Supports: Transit system, Transit ridership
  66. DART services in Richardson, Plano to remain unchanged as Highland Park withdraws · Community Impact · retrieved
    Supports: Transit ridership, Character
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    Supports: Airport passengers
  68. World's Busiest Airports: Atlanta Holds, Asia Climbs (2025 passenger and movement rankings) · ACI World · retrieved
    Supports: Airport passengers
  69. Dallas Love Field (2025 passenger totals from the FAA, location, Southwest Airlines) · Wikipedia · retrieved
    Supports: Airport passengers, Climate normals
  70. Status of State Medicaid Expansion Decisions · KFF · retrieved
    Supports: Health care
  71. Parkland Memorial Hospital · UT Southwestern Medical Center · retrieved
    Supports: Health care
  72. About the Trauma Center · Parkland Health · retrieved
    Supports: Health care
  73. Baylor University Medical Center, part of Baylor Scott & White Health · Baylor Scott & White Health · retrieved
    Supports: Health care
  74. Children's Health and UT Southwestern break ground on new Dallas pediatric campus, announce $100 million donation from The Rees-Jones Foundation · UT Southwestern Medical Center · retrieved
    Supports: Health care
  75. UT Southwestern and Children's Health receive $25 million from the Harry W. Bass, Jr. Foundation for new pediatric campus · UT Southwestern Medical Center · retrieved
    Supports: Health care
  76. New Dallas Pediatric Campus Puts Children First · Southwestern Medical District · retrieved
    Supports: Health care
  77. On Dallas ISD's first day of school, enrollment's down, but letter grade may be up · KERA News · retrieved
    Supports: Education, Character
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    Supports: Education
  79. University of Texas at Dallas (Richardson) · Wikipedia · retrieved
    Supports: Education
  80. Dallas College (seven campuses in Dallas County) · Wikipedia · retrieved
    Supports: Education
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    Supports: One-bedroom average rent of $1,860, Two-bedroom average rent of $2,638, Metro vacancy rate of 3.7%
  83. Property tax rates · City of Vancouver · retrieved
    Supports: 2026 total residential levy of $3.36394 per $1,000 of taxable value
  84. Home owner grant · Province of British Columbia · retrieved
    Supports: The grant of up to $570 on an eligible principal residence
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    Supports: Mortgage default insurance premium rates by loan-to-value
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    Supports: The $1.5 million insured price cap, 30-year amortization for first-time buyers and new builds
  87. Minimum qualifying rate for uninsured mortgages · Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions · retrieved
    Supports: The qualifying rate of the contract rate plus two points, or 5.25%
  88. Interest rates charged for new and existing lending by chartered banks · Bank of Canada · retrieved
    Supports: The default mortgage rate of 4.34%, uninsured five-year-plus fixed, funds advanced May 2026
  89. Property transfer tax · Province of British Columbia · retrieved
    Supports: Transfer tax brackets, First-time buyer and new build exemptions
  90. Rent increases · Province of British Columbia · retrieved
    Supports: 2026 rent increase guideline of 2.3%
  91. NTREIS monthly MLS summary report, August 2026 · North Texas Real Estate Information System and the Texas Real Estate Research Center at Texas A&M University, via the MetroTex Association of REALTORS · retrieved
    Supports: A median single-family sale price of $469,900 in the City of Dallas in August 2026 on 640 sales, against $499,900 on 667 sales in August 2025, A median townhouse sale price of $543,000 on 30 sales, against $475,000 on 42, and a median condominium sale price of $310,000 on 121 sales, against $237,000 on 136, 2,725 active single-family listings and 4.2 months of inventory in the City of Dallas, A median single-family lease of $2,850 a month on 276 leases, City figures by property type only, with no all-types median
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    Supports: Monthly reports featuring data from the Texas A&M Real Estate Research Center, based on listings of properties physically located within the specified geographic areas
  93. Zillow Home Value Index, all homes, middle tier, smoothed and seasonally adjusted, by city · Zillow Research · retrieved
    Supports: A typical home value of $305,765 for the city of Dallas (region 38128) in August 2026, $310,919 in August 2025, so a fall of 1.7% over the year
  94. Zillow Home Value Index, single-family and condominium series, by city · Zillow Research · retrieved
    Supports: A typical single-family value of $319,987 in the city of Dallas in August 2026, against $324,674 a year earlier, down 1.4%, A typical condominium value of $208,501 in the same month, against $222,477, down 6.3%, from the condominium file at https://files.zillowstatic.com/research/public_csvs/zhvi/City_zhvi_uc_condo_tier_0.33_0.67_sm_sa_month.csv
  95. Dallas, TX average rent and rent trends · RentCafe / Yardi Matrix · retrieved
    Supports: An average Dallas apartment rent of $1,592, down 0.92% from $1,607 a year earlier, updated 31 August 2026, Average rents of $1,245 studio, $1,416 one-bedroom, $1,853 two-bedroom and $2,221 three-bedroom
  96. Zillow Observed Rent Index, all homes plus multifamily, smoothed, by city · Zillow Research · retrieved
    Supports: An observed rent index of $1,591 for the city of Dallas in August 2026, up 0.63% from $1,581 a year earlier
  97. 2025 ad valorem tax rates for Dallas County, revised 5 November 2025 · Dallas Central Appraisal District · retrieved
    Supports: 2025 rates per $100: Dallas County 0.215500, Parkland Hospital 0.212000, Dallas College 0.106575, Dallas 0.698800, Dallas ISD 0.993835, Optional homestead exemptions of 20% for Dallas County, Parkland Hospital, Dallas College and the City of Dallas, and 10% for Dallas ISD, A general homestead exemption of $140,000 for every school district, contingent on the November 2025 constitutional amendment, A calculated local optional homestead value of not less than $5,000, Separate rates and exemptions for Highland Park, University Park, Cockrell Hill and Highland Park ISD
  98. 2026 estimated ad valorem tax rates for Dallas County, revised 4 March 2026 · Dallas Central Appraisal District · retrieved
    Supports: The 2026 table was an estimate, repeating the 2025 rates for the five units, when these figures were retrieved
  99. 2025 and 2026 residence homestead average and median values · Dallas Central Appraisal District · retrieved
    Supports: A certified median residence homestead market value of $364,530 in the City of Dallas for 2025, on 177,599 homesteads, A certified median of $364,000 for 2026, on 172,862 homesteads, in the table dated 22 July 2026
  100. Annual report, 2025 appraisal year · Dallas Central Appraisal District · retrieved
    Supports: 230,276 protests received for the 2025 appraisal year, 180,733 of them residential, and 788,553 appraisal notices mailed, A protest process that begins around 15 April and concludes by 20 July each year
  101. Valuing property: the homestead cap and the circuit breaker limitation · Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts · retrieved
    Supports: A residence homestead's appraised value may not rise more than 10% a year, from the year after the owner first qualifies, A 20% annual limit on the appraised value of non-homestead property valued at $5 million or less, the circuit breaker, which expires on 31 December 2026
  102. Tax Code, Section 41.44: notice of protest · Texas Legislature · retrieved
    Supports: A protest must be filed by 15 May or the 30th day after the appraisal notice is delivered, whichever is later
  103. Midtown Improvement District · City of Dallas Office of Economic Development · retrieved
    Supports: The Midtown Improvement District, formerly the Vickery Meadow Public Improvement District, established in 1993 and renewed to 31 December 2032, An annual budget and assessment rate subject to a public hearing and Dallas City Council approval
  104. Public Improvement Districts (PIDs) layer · City of Dallas · retrieved
    Supports: Public improvement districts mapped by the City including Dallas DID, Uptown, Deep Ellum, Klyde Warren/DAD, Knox Street, Oak Lawn-Hi Line, Prestonwood, Lake Highlands, North Lake Highlands, Midtown, University Crossing, South Side, Far East Dallas and RedBird
  105. Primary Mortgage Market Survey, 24 September 2026 · Freddie Mac · retrieved
    Supports: A 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaging 7.03%, up from 6.95% the week before and 6.30% a year earlier
  106. Texas homeowners insurance market overview · Texas Department of Insurance · retrieved
    Supports: A statewide average homeowners premium of $3,489 a year for 2025, from the Texas Statistical Plan for Residential Risks, Hail as the largest cause of paid homeowners losses, $4.93 billion in 2024 against $2.21 billion for wind
  107. Insurance and your roof: what to know when buying a policy or filing a claim · Texas Department of Insurance · retrieved
    Supports: Replacement cost coverage pays for a new roof at current prices, and actual cash value coverage pays replacement cost minus depreciation, As roofs age, some companies will switch to actual cash value, A deductible for wind and hail damage can differ from the deductible for other damage
  108. Texas homeowners insurance · NerdWallet · retrieved
    Supports: An average Dallas premium of $6,915 a year and a Texas average of $5,910, for $500,000 of dwelling cover, updated 20 February 2026
  109. How much is homeowners insurance in Dallas, TX? · Insure.com · retrieved
    Supports: An average Dallas premium of $4,212 a year for $300,000 of dwelling cover, $100,000 of liability and a $1,000 deductible, updated 27 May 2026
  110. Renters insurance in Texas · NerdWallet · retrieved
    Supports: An average Dallas renters premium of $167 a year for $30,000 of personal property, updated 23 September 2026
  111. Monthly homeowners' or condominium association fee, table B25143, 2024 American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Dallas city · United States Census Bureau · retrieved
    Supports: A median monthly association fee of $280 among Dallas owner-occupied units that pay one, 50,335 of 226,859 owner-occupied units, or 22.2%, paying such a fee, from table B25142
  112. City of Dallas utility fees effective 1 October 2025 · City of Dallas · retrieved
    Supports: A residential sanitation fee of $40.09 a month, $43.40 with tax, A residential stormwater fee of $5.39 to $21.01 a month by impervious area, An environmental cleanup fee of $3.00 a month on every City of Dallas utility account
  113. Dallas Homebuyer Assistance Program (DHAP) · City of Dallas Housing and Homelessness Solutions · retrieved
    Supports: Assistance of up to $60,000 in High Opportunity Areas and $50,000 elsewhere in Dallas, for households at or below 80% of area median income, A maximum sales price of $342,000 for existing and newly built homes, for contracts from 1 September 2024, A second lien as an interest-free forgivable deferred loan with no monthly payments, prorated annually, with partial repayment due on a sale, lease or transfer, Administered by Business and Community Lenders of Texas from 1 May 2026
  114. Annual estimates of the resident population for incorporated places, 2020 to 2025 · United States Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program · retrieved
    Supports: A population of 1,329,491 for Dallas on 1 July 2025, 1,245,355 of them in Dallas County, 54,266 in Collin, 29,865 in Denton, five in Rockwall and none in Kaufman, 3,638 in Cockrell Hill, 8,764 in Highland Park and 25,323 in University Park
  115. 2025 Gazetteer files: places, Texas · United States Census Bureau · retrieved
    Supports: A land area of 339.685 square miles and a water area of 43.966 square miles for Dallas city