There are upwards to sixty thousand people living in North Richland Hills, Texas. Located in Tarrant County, this suburban community is part of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex which anchors the entire North Texas region in a cultural and economic sense. (This urban environment has grown so large, in fact, that new visitors to the area have trouble recognizing when they are leaving one suburb and entering another.)

With some twenty-one thousand households in North Richland Hills, Texas and a median income approaching sixty thousand dollars, North Richland Hills can only be described as an affluent community. For every one hundred women in North Richland Hills, Texas there are approximately ninety-three men.

In terms of ethnic demographics in North Richland Hills, Texas, the community is comprised of approximately eighty-eight percent Caucasians, approximately two percent African-Americans, and approximately ten percent Hispanics. (Although other ethnicities are represented the populations fall under one percent.)

On an average in North Richland Hills, Texas, men earn approximately forty-five thousand dollars and women approximately thirty thousand dollars. The median income for a household stands at fifty-six thousand dollars. These figures easily reveal that North Richland Hills is peopled by upwardly mobile urban professionals.

It is only a ten-mile drive from Fort Worth to North Richland Hills, Texas. This brief distance makes the community an attractive location for those seeking a slightly smaller environment in which to live but one that places them in easy driving distance of employment in either Fort Worth or Dallas. (Dallas and Fort Worth are approximately thirty-three miles apart.)

It is difficult to differentiate a visit to North Richland Hills, Texas with a visit to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. All of the amenities and opportunities of both major urban centers are easily available to the residents of this suburb, from the Myerson Center in Dallas and the Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth to the Ball Park in Arlington (now Ameriquest Field) and the Dallas Cowboys home stadium in Irving (soon to be relocated to Arlington) this Metroplex region of North Texas is rich with entertainment, sports, cultural, and economic venues.

With major museums in both Dallas and Fort Worth as well as art galleries and theatres of all sizes, life in this North Texas urban environment is culturally rich. All cuisines are represented in the area's many restaurants and there are accommodations available to visitors at all price points.

While North Richland Hills associates itself with Fort Worth, a modern city that prides itself on being a very large "small" town and enjoying a slower pace of life than neighboring Dallas, the bright lights and night life of Dallas are only a few minutes' drive away. North Richland Hills could not enjoy a better geographic location to reap all the benefits made available to its citizens by the sprawling urban environment that surrounds this Tarrant County suburb.