Dmagazine Suburb Details 2012 (rankings, top, worth)

[CREW747]

Haha ! You are right...The majority of the comments for the top 20 literally match 2010. Really D magazine? Not that anyone cares what the people at Dmagazine think but that just takes away any credibility to this issue....

[Mr Grieves]

Originally Posted by TheOverdog

Check out Allen's population density on that list. Eat your heart out NYC!

Population Density: 30585.2 ppl/sq mile

Just kidding. It's a typo. The whole city would be 3 sq miles if it were true. Nice job Dmagazine editors.

Great Catch!

[Walter Benjamin]

Just to stick my neck out a little bit and be a contrarian in defense of the rankings: The exact numerical ranking may be meaningless, but if you look at it more broadly in percentiles (whether top 1/3, top 1/5, etc.), there is a logic to it. It's not completely meaningless that the Park Cities, Colleyville, Southlake, Flower Mound, Coppell, etc. are all in the top 10.

Would have been nice to include Fort Worth and more Tarrant Co. suburbs too, for reference.

Interesting to learn about perhaps less famous places like Oak Point and Hickory Creek, too.

They might have included ethnicity too, but probably decided to avoid that controversy. Still, portrait of a demographic transition: the two oldest suburbs, Heath (age: 49.2) and Ovilla (age: 47.2), are almost all white, and the two youngest, Cockrell Hill (age 27.8) and Balch Springs (age 28.8), are much more Latino. In another 50 years, DFW and the rest of the country are going to look very different.

Having the median (vs. average) home price would have been enlightening too. The average home price in Dallas was $264K, but I'm sure the median is lower.

The most interesting thing is looking for anomalies, in my opinion. The lowest-crime places are all pretty expensive, but there's Little Elm (home $162K) and Sachse (home $182K) near the top. The youngest towns (i.e. families with kids?) are all inexpensive, except for University Park. Home prices and TAKS passing are pretty well correlated, except for anomalies at the low end like Hurst ($185K house, 87% pass, unusually high) and the high end like Parker ($441K house, 87% pass, unusually low).

[MurphyPl1]

FWIW - Parker doesn't have avg $440K homes, they have land that has homes on them. Yes Rich Templeton has a fabulous place well over $440K but there's a large number of Parker properties where the value is the 2 acres of land and not the 3 bedroom ranch sitting on it.

Another interesting note is that Parker wasn't even included in the rankings the first year (2002).

[french paris]

63 North Texas towns ranked. Which came out on top? Which sank to the bottom? And where does your community fall on the list?

D Magazine : The Best Dallas Suburbs 2012

[skids929]

Big Ben....Parliament.

[mSooner]

And once again, how the hell do the Park Cities count as suburbs D Magazine? They are a Dallas, TX address minutes from downtown! D Magazine, your bias is showing!

And some of these descriptions are just awful. Half of the Flower Mound description is a Jewish resident complaining about the lack of religious diversity and the Coppell blurb is clearly pulled straight from a website.

[CREW747]

Originally Posted by french paris

63 North Texas towns ranked. Which came out on top? Which sank to the bottom? And where does your community fall on the list?

D Magazine : The Best Dallas Suburbs 2012

Check out the thread that was started after the issue came out....
Dmagazine Suburb Details 2012

Any rankings in Dmagazine are laughable. I do not think many people take their suggestions or opinions seriously. They re-used some of the excerpts they wrote about the towns and cities from 2010.Horrendous descriptions of each community with little accuracy.Who writes this stuff?

[BigDGeek]

Originally Posted by CREW747

Check out the thread that was started after the issue came out....
Dmagazine Suburb Details 2012

Any rankings in Dmagazine are laughable. I do not think many people take their suggestions or opinions seriously. They re-used some of the excerpts they wrote about the towns and cities from 2010.Horrendous descriptions of each community with little accuracy.Who writes this stuff?

D magazine is a rag. I wouldn't even line my cat's litter box with it.

[Obamney]

I would take my real estate advice from D magazine after I start taking hairstyle advice from Donald Trump.