I had a small suspicion that would be the case. Dallas *the city* is quite small, and actually has very little housing. It’s when you take the Metroplex around it (even excluding the Mid-cities and Fort Worth) that you get a “big” city. In that sense, yes, San Antonio *city* is the second-biggest, but DFW as an overall news market dwarfs the others.
| Texas rank |
U.S. rank |
Metropolitan Area | Metropolitan Division | Population |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington | 6,526,548 | |
| Dallas–Plano–Irving | 4,235,751 | |||
| Fort Worth–Arlington | 2,136,022 | |||
| 2 | 5 | Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown | 6,086,538 | |
| 3 | 25 | San Antonio–New Braunfels | 2,142,508 | |
| 4 | 35 | Austin–Round Rock–San Marcos | 1,716,289 | |
| 5 | 58 | El Paso–Las Cruces | 1,045,180 |