Frisco by the Numbers

City of Frisco incorporated in 1904.

Visit Frisco, the Frisco Convention & Visitors Bureau, was founded in 2003.
 

POPULATION GROWTH

1910: 332
1940: 670
1970: 1,845
1990: 6,138
2000: 33,714
2010: 116,989
2015: 151,990
2020: 198,986
2021: 215,065
2022: 224,468​
2023: 231,115

SIZE OF FRISCO

• Current area is 69.1 square miles (includes everything currently annexed)
 

HOTELS AND MEETING SPACE

• 26 hotels currently open; two currently under construction

• 4,465 total hotel rooms, 2023

• 417,749 total square feet of meeting space, 2023
 

FRISCO IN THE RANKS

• Best Places to Live for Families (#14), Fortune, 2024

• Best Places to Live in the Southwest (#2), Livability, 2024

• Fastest Rising City (#1), FinanceBuzz, 2023

• World's Best Places to Travel (#38), Travel Lemming, 2023

Top Meeting Destination in North America (#40), Cvent, 2024

• Top Meeting Destination in North America (#46), Cvent, 2023

• Music Friendly Texas Certified Community, Texas Music Office, 2023

• Best Sports Business City, Sports Business Journal, 2023

• Safest Cities in America (#5), MoneyGeek, 2022

• Best Places to Live (#19), Money Magazine, 2021

• Best Real Estate Market in U.S., WalletHub, 2021

• Best Cities for First-Time Homebuyers, WalletHub, 2021

• Safest Cities in the U.S., Smartasset, 2021

• Top 20 Most Livable Mid-Sized Cities, Smartasset, 2021

• Most Recession Proof City (#1), Smartasset, 2020

• Best Place to Live in the Dallas Area (#2), MoneyInc.com, 2019

• Best Place to Live in America (#1), MONEY, 2018

• Best Place to Raise a Family in Texas (#2), Smartasset, 2017

• Best Place to Raise an Athlete (#1), Men’s Journal, 2013