How many sign shops are in the Dallas area?

Name: Sign shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro area, 2024
Creator: Sign Trade Data
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230 sign shops

in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro area in 2024. The BLS withheld employment and pay for this area to protect individual employers. Sign shops make up a 73% larger share of local private employers than they do nationally. The area holds 32.3% of Texas's sign shops.

Shops vs 2023-0.4%1 fewer shops than 2023

Concentration1.73×the national share of employers

Employees—withheld by BLS

Average pay—withheld by BLS

The Dallas area among U.S. metro areas

#	Metro area	Sign shops	Employees	Avg pay	Concentration
1	New York areaNY-NJ	382	—	—	0.91×
2	Los Angeles areaCA	263	2,548	$64,368	0.58×
3	Dallas areaTX	230	—	—	1.73×
4	Chicago areaIL-IN	216	—	—	1.37×
5	Atlanta areaGA	208	—	—	1.48×
6	Miami areaFL	175	1,001	$61,945	1.01×

All 383 metro areas are ranked on the metro list. For Texas as a whole, with 2025 figures and the trend since 2014, see the Texas page.

Other metro areas in Texas

Metro area	Sign shops	Employees	Avg pay	Concentration
Houston area	161	—	—	1.45×
Austin area	63	—	—	1.31×
San Antonio area	62	—	—	1.68×
El Paso area	14	76	$49,253	1.32×
McAllen area	12	102	$42,397	1.36×
Lubbock area	10	67	$41,104	1.66×
Beaumont area	9	—	—	1.73×
Longview area	8	—	—	1.76×

Questions

How many sign shops are in the Dallas area?

The Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 230 sign manufacturing establishments in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro area in 2024 (annual average, private employers), rank 3 of 383 U.S. metro areas.

What do sign shops pay in the Dallas area?

The BLS withheld employment and pay for sign shops in the Dallas area in 2024, to protect individual employers. Statewide, Texas's sign shops paid an average of $62,930 that year.

Does the Dallas area have more sign shops than average?

Relative to its size, yes: sign shops make up a 73% larger share of the Dallas area's private employers than they do across the U.S. (a location quotient of 1.73, where 1.00 is the national share).

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), annual averages, private ownership, NAICS 339950 Sign Manufacturing, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metropolitan statistical area, 2024 and 2023 annual averages, read September 24, 2026. 2024 is the latest year the BLS has published for metro areas. Concentration is the BLS location quotient for establishments. Ranks computed from the 383 metro areas with a published count; tied areas share a rank.