The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is showing its strong entrepreneurial spirit after Fort Worth and five of its neighbors appeared on WalletHub’s new list of the best large U.S. cities for starting a business in 2026. <\/p>\n
The annual report<\/a> compared 100 U.S. cities based on 19 relevant metrics across three key dimensions: business environment, access to resources, and costs. Factors that were analyzed include five-year business survival rates, job growth comparisons from 2020 and 2024, population growth of working-age individuals aged 16-64, office space affordability, and more.<\/p>\n Florida cities locked out the top five best places in America for starting a new business: Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, Hialeah, and St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n Fort Worth ranked 30th overall on the list, only seven spots behind No. 23-ranking Arlington. Last year<\/a>, Fort Worth ranked 11th and Arlington was 15th.<\/p>\n Fort Worth has the eighth-best “access to resources” in the country, and it has the 47th best “business environment.” The city did fall behind in the “business costs” category, ranking 67th out of all 100 U.S. cities.<\/p>\n Here’s how Arlington compared across the three key dimensions:<\/p>\n No. 24 \u2013 Business environmentNo. 41 \u2013 Access to resourcesNo. 59 \u2013 Business costs<\/p>\n Dallas led the charge in North Texas as the No. 11 best large U.S. city for starting a business. Irving ranked No. 16 nationally, followed by Plano, (No. 35) and Garland (No. 65).<\/p>\n Earlier this year, WalletHub declared<\/a> Texas the third-best state for starting a business in 2026, and several DFW cities have seen robust growth after being recognized among the best career hotspots<\/a> in the U.S. <\/p>\n Only seven other Texas cities earned spots in the report: Austin (No. 24), Houston (No. 26), Lubbock (No. 36), Corpus Christi (No. 39), San Antonio (No. 64), El Paso (No. 67), and Laredo (No. 76).<\/p>\n Austin tied with Boise, Idaho and Fresno, California for the highest average growth in the number of small businesses nationally, while Corpus Christi and Laredo topped a separate list of the U.S. cities with the most accessible financing. Dallas also topped a separate ranking of cities with the longest average workweeks nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is showing its strong entrepreneurial spirit after Fort Worth and five of its neighbors…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[745,116,118,117,427,422,2870],"class_list":{"0":"post-265983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-closings","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","11":"tag-fort-worth-news","12":"tag-hot-headlines","13":"tag-most-popular","14":"tag-taylor-sheridan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}