Dallas-Fort Worth Fortune 500 Rank

The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the sixth-ranked metropolitan area in the nation that Fortune 500 companies call home. Seventeen of the Fortune 500 currently have headquarters in D-FW.

Flanking Dallas-Fort Worth in the rankings are No. 5, Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, with18 headquarters, and No. 7, Detroit-Warren-Livonia, with16, an NTC survey found.

Not surprisingly, the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island area was the No. 1 headquarters site, with 71 headquarters. Houston-Baytown-Sugar Land -- the only other Texas metropolitan area in the top 10 -- came in third, with 20 headquarters.

The seventeen companies with D-FW headquarters are Exxon Mobil (No. 2 on the Fortune 500); J.C. Penney (No. 43); Electronic Data Systems (No. 87); AMR (No. 110); Kimberly-Clark (No. 141); Advance PCS -- now known as Caremark -- (No. 143); TXU (No. 177); Texas Instruments (No. 197); Burlington Northern Santa Fe (No. 210); Dean Foods (No. 218); Centex (No. 219); D.R. Horton (No. 241); Southwest Airlines (No. 310); RadioShack (No. 378); Triad Hospitals (No. 436); Affiliated Computer Services (No. 445) and Brinker International (No. 492).

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