Companies based in Dallas: the headquarters list and the whole market

This page is for anyone who needs to know which companies are based in Dallas: job seekers, suppliers looking for corporate buyers, analysts, students and B2B sellers building a list of headquarters. It starts with the published list of large headquarters, then shows the whole Dallas-Fort Worth business market from Census data, and ends with how to find and approach the companies that matter to you.

Fortune 500 companies headquartered in Dallas

The Dallas Regional Chamber's 2026 Economic Development Guide maps every Fortune 1000 headquarters in the region. These are the 11 in the city of Dallas that rank in the Fortune 500:

Ten more Dallas headquarters rank between 501 and 1,000: Digital Realty Trust, Brinker International, Atmos Energy, Copart, ATI, Matador Resources, Match Group, Arcosa, AMN Healthcare and Invitation Homes.

Beyond the city limits

The other 28 Fortune 1000 headquarters in the Chamber's map are spread across Fort Worth and nine suburbs. Irving has the most after Dallas, with 8 Fortune 500 headquarters, led by McKesson (No. 8) and Caterpillar (No. 65). Fort Worth has American Airlines Group (No. 86), Westlake has Charles Schwab (No. 165), Arlington has D.R. Horton (No. 134), Frisco has Keurig Dr Pepper (No. 268) and Plano has Yum China Holdings (No. 375). If your search is really "companies based in the Dallas area", include these.

Large private companies

Private companies don't file with the SEC, so they're missing from Fortune's list. The Chamber's guide adds the region's companies on Forbes' 2025 list of America's largest private companies. Three are based in Dallas: Sammons Enterprises, Austin Industries and Hunt Consolidated/Hunt Oil.

What "headquartered in Dallas" means

Lists disagree for three reasons:

• The rule used. Fortune assigns a headquarters by the principal executive office address in a company's SEC filings, which can differ from where the company says it's based. The Chamber notes that Digital Realty Trust's filings list Dallas while its website names Austin.
• City or metro. A "Dallas" list may mean the city, Dallas County or the 11-county metro.
• Moves. Headquarters relocate in both directions, so check the date of any list.

To check a public company yourself, use the SEC's EDGAR full text search, which can filter filings by principal executive office location.

All businesses in Dallas-Fort Worth

The US Census Bureau's County Business Patterns (CBP) counts every establishment with paid employees.

The closest Census measure of headquarters is NAICS 55, management of companies and enterprises, which covers corporate, subsidiary and regional managing offices. Dallas-Fort Worth has 1,750 of these establishments, employing 149,395 people, an average of about 85 each. That's the pool of head offices and regional offices, public and private, where most corporate purchasing decisions are made.

The largest sectors by number of establishments

For deeper cuts, see the reports on Dallas tech companies and Dallas construction companies.

Size and location

In bands: 158,493 establishments with 1 to 19 employees, 25,585 with 20 to 99 and 5,661 with 100 or more.

Kaufman, Hunt and Wise counties make up the remaining 5,958 establishments. Dallas County has 37.5% of the establishments and 45.9% of the jobs.

CBP counts establishments (single locations), not companies, so a bank with 200 branches counts 200 times. It leaves out the self-employed and businesses without employees, and employment is for the week of March 12, 2023.

Finding and checking Dallas companies

Prospecting Dallas headquarters

Head offices buy differently from branches. Decisions on services such as facilities, travel, benefits, legal and technology usually sit there, with a named owner in each function and procurement involved above a threshold.

1. Decide which offices buy what you sell. If it's bought centrally, target the 1,750 managing offices and the large headquarters; if it's bought locally, target branches.
2. Name the function owner at each account, not just the executive team. The guide to finding decision makers covers the methods.
3. Find a current reason: a relocation, a new office lease, an acquisition or a leadership change.

Worked example: an office catering company sizing its market

Illustrative example. The company, people and rates are fictional, to show the method.

Trinity Table (trinitytable.example) caters daily lunches and events for offices of 250 people or more, and wants Dallas County accounts.

• Metro establishments with 250 or more employees: 1,133 + 426 + 271 = 1,830.
• Dallas County holds 37.5% of all establishments, so Trinity Table estimates about 690 there.
• Hospitals, factories, warehouses and schools don't fit, so it assumes a third are office sites: about 230 accounts.
• At 3 new clients per 100 accounts worked a quarter, that's about 7 new clients a quarter.

Narrowing 1,830 large sites to the 230 offices takes research on each one. Bebop can search for "Dallas County corporate offices with more than 250 employees that moved or expanded in the last year" and explain why each match fits.

Subject: Lunch for [Company]'s new floor

Hi [first name],

I saw [Company] [took two more floors at its Dallas office / is bringing teams back four days a week]. Feeding a few hundred people reliably is usually the part nobody planned for.

We run daily lunches for Dallas offices of 250 to 1,500 people, ordered through one invoice. Could I send you a sample week's menu and pricing for your headcount?

[Your name], Trinity Table

Next step: turn your target list into a working pipeline with how to build a prospect list.