Several Dallas-Fort Worth neighbors have been deemed the best Texas cities to move to, with one booming Tarrant County city – Mansfield – coming in at No. 6.

Advisors at ConsumerAffairs, a customer review and news platform, ranked the 50 most populated Texas cities across five main categories – affordability, safety, economy, health care and education, and quality of life – to determine which were the best places to move to. Each city was given a score out of 100 possible points.

Four of the top five best places to move to in Texas are located in the Metroplex: Allen (No .1), Frisco (No. 2), Plano (No. 3), and McKinney (No. 4). Two more local suburbs, Mansfield (No. 6) and Richardson (No. 10), rounded out the top 10.

Of all five categories considered, Mansfield ranked highest – No. 3 – in the category of “health care and education.” The city came in No. 6 for economy, No. 11 for safety, and No. 14 for affordability. Its lowest ranking was No. 46, for quality of life.

Mansfield has been booming in recent years, attracting new retail and restaurants including a long-awaited H-E-B grocery store, prized pizza, toasty subs, Nashville fried chicken, and more.

U.S. News & World Report also named Mansfield a top place to live this year. The city ranked No. 27 nationwide, and it landed in the coveted No. 9 spot in U.S. News’ separate rankings of the best places to live in Texas for 2025-2026.

Aspects of Mansfield that put it among U.S. News’ top 30 include its high median household income ($117,680), median home values ($364,136), and its bustling population of nearly 80,000 residents.

The city’s population is a healthy mix of young individuals and families, with 31 percent of residents being under 20 years old and 32 percent of the population being between the ages of 20-44. A quarter of Mansfield’s population is between 45-64 years old, while only 12 percent of residents are over 65, the report said.

Elsewhere in DFW
Allen topped the list as the second-safest city in Texas, and it has the 6th best quality of life in the state. ConsumerAffairs referenced Allen’s low crime rates and its easy accessibility to green spaces as additional popular factors.

“With an award-winning Parks and Recreation department and a jam-packed community calendar, Allen is a bustling suburb that holds its own in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area,” the report’s author said. “Among the 50 largest cities in Texas, Allen has the highest percentage of people living within a 10-minute walk of a green space, at 87 percent.”

In ConsumerAffairs separate ranking of the best places to live in the South, Allen ranked third on the list.

Frisco was ranked as the second best Texas city to move to partly for its “thriving sports culture,” its “seventh strongest” economy statewide, and its high-ranking healthcare and education systems. Frisco has the highest high school completion rate in Texas, at 97.7 percent.

Meanwhile, Plano landed in third place as “an ideal suburb for movers looking for green space, safe streets and fun activities.”

Elsewhere across the metro, Fort Worth appeared as the 39th best Texas city to move to, while Dallas ranked farther down the list as the 46th best place to move to in Texas.

Eight more Dallas-Fort Worth cities were included on ConsumerAffairs’ list:

No. 12 – CarrolltonNo. 13 – LewisvilleNo. 21 – IrvingNo. 24 – Grand PrairieNo. 29 – DentonNo. 35 – GarlandNo. 37 – ArlingtonNo. 45 – Mesquite