The nation’s fourth-largest metropolitan area, Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex (DFW) is a fashionable, trendy, distinctive entrepreneurial culture with more than 7.4 million area residents. By 2030, the total population is anticipated to reach almost 9.1 million. Dallas is the third largest city in Texas and the ninth largest in the United States making it the main economic powerhouse of the 13-county, Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolitan Area. The DFW Metroplex is a headquarters for twenty-three Fortune 500 Companies and sixty-nine companies with headquarters here posted revenue of $1 billion or more a year. Dallas is also home to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, which serves Texas, Louisiana, and southern New Mexico in the Eleventh Federal District. Naturally, this positions Dallas as the central banking hub of the Southwest, giving the city a position of international importance.