Frisco, Texas

Frisco is located in central west Collin County and central east Denton County, approximately 28 miles north of downtown Dallas and 47 miles northeast of downtown Fort Worth.

Texas boasts an array of cities, but Frisco consistently ranks highly on lists of the safest cities in the state. With so many places in Texas, that's an impressive feat. USA Today has even ranked Frisco as Texas's second-safest city, and as the 14th overall safest city in the entire United States.

Frisco is convenient to big-city amenities and employment opportunities. Dallas is just 30 miles to the south, while DFW airport is within 25 miles. T-Mobile, Baylor Medical Center, Oracle and other major employers are located right in Frisco, so there's no need to commute to find good jobs

With a nudge from the city of Frisco, which saw the Dallas North Tollroad (the DNT) as instrumental to future growth, the DNT was expanded north through the middle of Frisco in the mid-1990s. With Highway 121 running along Frisco’s southern border, the connection between the two highways gives Frisco a major transportation corridor. One could go south on the DNT and be in downtown Dallas in 20 minutes. Going west on Highway 121 could take you to DFW Airport in the same amount of time.

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Sports fanatics unite! Frisco has attracted top sports organizations:

  • Frisco lured a minor league baseball team, the RoughRiders, to town in 2003
  • The practice facility and headquarters for the National Hockey League’s Dallas Stars moved in in 2003
  • Major League Soccer’s FC Dallas moved to Frisco in 2005
  • The PGA is in the process of moving its headquarters to Frisco, and two new golf courses will host major PGA tour events.

But the crown jewel of Frisco’s professional sports acquisitions is the Star, the headquarters and practice facility for the Dallas Cowboys, which doubles as a mixed-use development complete with high-end retail, commercial office space, and restaurants and bars. Opened in 2016, the Star is part of Frisco’s $5 Billion Mile—which the city now calls the Frisco North Platinum Corridor—and it further spurred commercial development at the key corridor where the DNT and Highway 121 meet. Median income is $116,884 and the average assessed home value is $448,500. Frisco also has a focus on sustainability in building. They are the first city in the U.S. to mandate Energy Star standards for new homes, starting in 2001. Frisco has experienced the thirteenth fastest population growth rate in the Dallas Fort Worth area over the past three years and its prevailing tax rate is in the bottom quartile of property tax rates in the Dallas area.

Frisco Independent School District boasts 10 high schools, 17 middle schools, 42 elementary schools and 3 special program centers. 32 individual campuses rated as Exemplary and 15 campuses rated as Recognized under the Texas Education Agency system. Frisco ISD ranks sixth on Niche’s best school districts in Texas list with an overall grade of A-plus.