Mansfield named one of best cities to move to

CultureMap Fort Worth

Several Dallas-Fort Worth neighbors have been deemed the best Texas cities to move to, with one booming Tarrant County city - Mansfield - coming in at No. 6.

Advisors at ConsumerAffairs, a customer review and news platform, ranked the 50 most populated Texas cities across five main categories – affordability, safety, economy, health care and education, and quality of life – to determine which were the best places to move to. Each city was given a score out of 100 possible points.

Four of the top five best places to move to in Texas are located in the Metroplex: Allen (No .1), Frisco (No. 2), Plano (No. 3), and McKinney (No. 4). Two more local suburbs, Mansfield (No. 6) and Richardson (No. 10), rounded out the top 10.

Of all five categories considered, Mansfield ranked highest - No. 3 - in the category of "health care and education." The city came in No. 6 for economy, No. 11 for safety, and No. 14 for affordability. Its lowest ranking was No. 46, for quality of life.

Mansfield has been booming in recent years, attracting new retail and restaurants including a long-awaited H-E-B grocery store, prized pizza, toasty subs, Nashville fried chicken, and more.

U.S. News & World Report also named Mansfield a top place to live this year. The city ranked No. 27 nationwide, and it landed in the coveted No. 9 spot in U.S. News' separate rankings of the best places to live in Texas for 2025-2026.

Aspects of Mansfield that put it among U.S. News' top 30 include its high median household income ($117,680), median home values ($364,136), and its bustling population of nearly 80,000 residents.

The city's population is a healthy mix of young individuals and families, with 31 percent of residents being under 20 years old and 32 percent of the population being between the ages of 20-44. A quarter of Mansfield's population is between 45-64 years old, while only 12 percent of residents are over 65, the report said.