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The city of Grand Prairie is primarily located in Dallas County. A portion of Grand Prairie extends into Ellis County and Tarrant County.
Typical abbreviation for Grand Prairie: Grand Pr.
Grand Prairie is 160 feet [48.77 m] above sea level.<1>
Time Zone: Grand Prairie lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time.
Both Illinois and Louisiana (historic<2>) have communities that are also named Grand Prairie.
At the time of the 2000 Census, Grand Prairie had a population of 127,427 people<3> (or 5.72% of the total population of Dallas County). The population of Grand Prairie represented 0.61% of the total of Texas, making it the state's 17th most populous community.
From the Census Estimates for 2008, Grand Prairie had a population of 160,641 people. This is an increase of 26.07% since the 2000 Census.
The following table shows the recent changes in population. For the years after 2000, the population counts are estimated. More information can be found on the Census Page for Grand Prairie.
| Year | Population | Change
Since 2000 | Year-to-Year Change |
| 2008 | 160,641 | +26.07% | +2.07% since 2007 |
| 2007 | 157,386 | +23.51% | +3.24% since 2006 |
| 2006 | 152,440 | +19.63% | +7.15% since 2005 |
| 2005 | 142,262 | +11.64% | |
| --- | | | | 2000 | 127,427 | The Last Census |
The following is a sample of nearby communities:
| | Community | Direction | Distance<4> | 2008
Population | Change
Since 2000 |
| | Arlington |  W | 6 mi [9.66 km] | 374,417 | 12.45% increase |
| | Bedford |  NW | 12 mi [19.31 km] | 49,155 | 4.25% increase |
| | Dallas |  NE | 16 mi [25.75 km] | 1,279,910 | 7.68% increase |
| | DeSoto |  SE | 10 mi [16.09 km] | 47,568 | 26.36% increase |
| | Euless |  N | 11 mi [17.7 km] | 52,579 | 14.29% increase |
| | Fort Worth | W | 19 mi [30.58 km] | 703,073 | 31.49% increase |
To learn more about neighboring communities and counties, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Grand Prairie.
Website for Grand Prairie
| Official Website: | www.ci.grand-prairie.tx.us/ |
If you know of a local history or genealogy society for either Grand Prairie or Dallas County, would you please send us the URL for their website? We would like to add their link to our Gazetteer. To contact us, please visit our Feedback Page.
Search for Local BusinessesPeople have found Google's 'Search-by-Location' to be a useful tool when planning visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) Grand Prairie. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.
For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.
If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).
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The following websites contain collections of photos taken around Grand Prairie: Looking for more websites and/or information centered on Grand Prairie? Please visit the Map Page for Grand Prairie. |
Footnotes
| <1> | The elevation is an estimate for the area around Grand Prairie - it wil be higher in some places and lower in others. - Return to Citation |
| <2> | We use the term 'historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable and we would like to be accurate. If you can provide us with more specific information about Grand Prairie, please let us know so that we can make corrections. - Return to Citation |
| <3> | Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for Grand Prairie. - Return to Citation |
| <4> | Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between Grand Prairie and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance. - Return to Citation |
| <5> | All Quarter-dollar coin images from the United States Mint. - Return to Citation |
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| Last Modified: 05 Nov 2009 |
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