Arlington City Profile

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Centrally located midway between East and West Coasts 15 miles west of Dallas and 15 miles east of Fort Worth third largest city in North Texas and 56th in the United States

Population

City= approximately 332,000
Metroplex= 4+ million

Major Employers

Arlington ISD
University of Texas at Arlington
Six Flags Over Texas
City of Arlington
General Motors Truck Group

Arlington Memorial Hospital
Harris Methodist Health Plan
National Semiconductor
Siemens Electrocom LLC
Hughes Training

City Government

Council/Manager
9 council members
City zoning body: Yes
Master plan: Yes

Education

Elementary: 42
Middle/Jr. High 12
High schools: 6
Private: 15

Universities/colleges

Tarrant County College, Southeast Campus
University of Texas at Arlington

Air Service

Arlington Municipal Airport

Runway length: 5,000 feet concrete, to accompany original 6,000-foot runway

D/FW International Airport

Five miles north of Arlington
Second largest airport in the US in land mass and third in the world, averaging 2,400 operations per day
Nearly 60 million passengers a year pass through D/FW

Traffic and Road Construction Updates