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Funeral homes in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro area
How the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro area compares with other metro areas and the U.S. for funeral homes: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 68 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #80 of 377 scored metro areas
#3 of 26 scored metro areas based in Texas
- Listings
- 352
- 35 chain locations (10%)
- Official establishments
- 175
- +7.4% since 2019
- Household spending a year
- $325.4M
- On funerals · $113 a household
- Spending per listing
- $924K
- 36% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 1.2
- 43% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 8,477,157
- +10.6% since 2020
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What this means
As of September 2026, map listings count 352 funeral homes in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area. Chain locations make up 10% of them, against 10% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 1.2, 43% below the U.S. rate of 2.1.
Households in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area spend about $325.4M a year on funerals, or $113 per household, 21% below the U.S. average. Spread across 352 funeral homes, that is $924K per home, 36% above the U.S. figure of $679K.
Official counts show 175 businesses with payroll classed as funeral homes and funeral services in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area in 2023, up 7.4% from 2019. That is one for every 16,524 households, against one for every 8,510 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 5 SBA-backed loans worth $6.2M have gone to businesses classed as funeral homes and funeral services in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area grew 10.6%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area scores 68 (upper middle) on the Groundwork market score for funeral homes, ranking #80 of 377 scored metro areas and #3 of 26 scored metro areas based in Texas. That puts it in the top quarter of metro areas.
How the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area compares
The same measures for Texas and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all funerals by the funeral homes counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area | Texas | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 1.2 | 1.7 | 2.1 |
| Spending per listing | $924K | $693K | $679K |
| Households per official establishment | 16,524 | 11,194 | 8,510 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | +7.4% | −1.3% | −1.7% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +10.6% | +8.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on funerals | $113 | $121 | $143 |
| Median household income | $90,275 | $78,476 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 68 | 61 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 175+7.4% over the period
- Employees, 2023
- 1,824
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $82.4M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 35235 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 479The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 5
- Amount
- $6.2M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as funeral homes and funeral services in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 8,477,157+10.6% since 2020
- Households
- 2,891,725
- Median age
- 36.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 60%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 8,676 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 920
- Median household income
- $90,275+28.5% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $124,389
- Median home value
- $359,500
- Jobs located here
- 4,175,571
- Daytime population
- 8,229,586Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Texas market ranked →The highest-scoring metro areas in Texas for funeral homes, numbered among those based in Texas, with the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area marked.
Top metro areas in Texas
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX | 74 | 85 | 0.9 | $1.1M | +14.0% | #51 of 377 |
| 2San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX | 73 | 115 | 1.2 | $1.1M | +9.5% | #59 of 377 |
| 3Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX | 68 | 352 | 1.2 | $924K | +10.6% | #80 of 377 |
| 4Tyler, TX | 68 | 16 | 1.9 | $848K | +7.8% | #81 of 377 |
| 5Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX | 65 | 357 | 1.3 | $842K | +10.3% | #94 of 377 |
| 6Brownsville-Harlingen, TX | 62 | 28 | 2.0 | $719K | +3.0% | #114 of 377 |
| 7El Paso, TX | 61 | 32 | 1.1 | $1.2M | +1.3% | #115 of 377 |
| 8Killeen-Temple, TX | 55 | 32 | 1.8 | $629K | +7.2% | #148 of 377 |
| 9Sherman-Denison, TX | 54 | 18 | 3.3 | $465K | +12.8% | #154 of 377 |
| 10McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX | 52 | 56 | 2.1 | $648K | +5.6% | #163 of 377 |
Other business types in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area
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Questions
How many funeral homes are in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro area?
The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area has 352 funeral homes on map listings as of September 2026. 35 of them (10%) are chain locations. The listings count funeral homes, mortuaries and cremation services. Official counts show 175 businesses with payroll classed as funeral homes and funeral services in 2023, up 7.4% from 2019.
How much do households in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro area spend on funerals?
About $325.4M a year, or $113 per household. That is 21% below the U.S. average (an index of 79, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 352 funeral homes on map listings, it comes to $924K per home. It is estimated from the incomes of the 2,891,725 households in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro area compare with the U.S. for funeral homes?
The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area has 1.2 funeral homes per 10,000 households, 43% below the U.S. rate of 2.1. Spending per home is $924K, 36% above the U.S. figure of $679K. At the national ratio of funeral homes to household spending, the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area would have about 479, against 352 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 16,524 households, against one for every 8,510 across the U.S. The official count rose 7.4% from 2019 to 2023, against −1.7% for the U.S.
How fast is the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro area growing?
Population estimates put the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area at 8,477,157 people in 2025, up 10.6% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 2,891,725 households. Median household income in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area is $90,275, 12% above the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 28.5%, before inflation.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area scores 68 for funeral homes (upper middle), #80 of 377 scored metro areas.
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