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Surprising Dallas neighborhood is the No. 1 most intriguing in the U.S.

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The Dallas Arboretum is a big Northeast Dallas draw.

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A Dallas neighborhood is the No. 1 place in the U.S. being checked out by homebuyers online.

According to a study called "The U.S. Neighborhoods Homebuyers Are Most Interested In," a neighborhood designated as Northeast Dallas got the most views per day on Zillow — beating out Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas, and New York.

Commissioned by a website called HouseFresh, the study looked at daily views on home listings in 100 of the most populous American cities on Zillow, as well as the number of days a home was listed on the market.

Northeast Dallas had the highest number of views, with more than 36,100 views per day on Zillow — well above the second-place Hollywood Hills, which had 32,216 views.

The top 10 most popular neighborhoods in the U.S. are:

No. 1 – Northeast Dallas
No. 2 – Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles
No. 3 – Camelback East in Phoenix
No. 4 – La Jolla in San Diego
No. 5 – Upper East Side in New York
No. 6 – North Mountain in Phoenix
No. 7 – Summerlin North in Las Vegas
No. 8 – Elkhorn in Omaha, Nebraska
No. 9 – Lake View in Chicago
No. 10 – Deer Valley in Phoenix

They're using Zillow's definition of Northeast Dallas, which comprises a wide-ranging triangle that starts at Deep Ellum and extends to the boundary of Garland to the east and Richardson to the north, encompassing Lakewood with White Rock Lake at the center. It's a pretty big "neighborhood."

The top five most popular neighborhoods in Dallas include some of the wealthiest areas in the city:

No. 1 – Northeast Dallas
No. 2 – Preston Hollow
No. 3 – Far North
No. 4 – North Dallas
No. 5 – M Streets

House sales overall have recently declined, which the study says is an indicator that these searches may be about "feeding our longing to improve our own lot and satisfy our curiosity to see inside the homes of others."

Least popular
The least popular neighborhood in Dallas are homes in the Northwood Estates community, which attracts only 47 views per day on Zillow. Not a surprise since the neighborhood, located near Royal Lane and Greenville Avenue, has an unusually high number of rentals — about 40 percent of homes in the area. Nextdoor estimates the total population at 3,540, mostly people in their mid-50s.

Northwood Estates also ranked No. 6 in the overall list of least popular U.S. neighborhoods in HouseFresh's study.

The five least popular Dallas neighborhoods For Zillow searchers are:

No. 1 – Northwood Estates
No. 2 – Kleberg
No. 3 – Near East
No. 4 – Buckner Terrace
No. 5 – Eagle Ford

Houses in Kleberg, the No. 2 least popular Dallas neighborhood, saw 242 more daily views on Zillow than homes in Northwood Estates. The formerly-unincorporated community has a population of 5,200-plus residents who are an average age of 45 years old, according to Nextdoor.

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Dallas was a top-10 destination for Gen Zers on the move for 2023

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Who wouldn't want to live in a Gen Z paradise like Dallas?

As Gen Z enters adulthood, many are flocking to the nation's biggest cultural hubs like New York City, Los Angeles — and now Dallas, which had the ninth-highest inflow of Gen Zers in 2023.

Dallas' new reputation as a Gen Z hotspot was unveiled in a recent report by American home improvement brand This Old House, which analyzed migration trends across multiple generations using 2023 U.S. Census Bureau data.

Dallas saw an influx of 13,770 Gen Z residents last year to become the generation's No. 9 most popular city. That's 4,223 more Gen Zers than the net migration rate from 2022, the report found.

Real estate marketplace Zillow seems to agree on a statewide scale, declaring Texas as the No. 1 destination for Gen Zers on the move in 2024.

However, as Gen Z Dallasites may have learned, it's going to take a big bite out of their paychecks to live in such a highly sought after city. A March RentCafe housing cost analysis predicted Gen Z adults living in Dallas are likely to spend over $149,000 on rent by the time they are 30 years old.

While Dallas saw big gains in its Gen Z population last year, many other big cities saw a mass exodus. Plano, for example — which gained 1,295 Gen Z residents in 2022 — lost 4,028 Gen Zers in 2023, the report discovered.

The biggest Gen-Z exodus was in El Paso, with a drop of 5,607 — "a sharp turn from 2022 when the city saw an increase," the report said. "Other cities, including Plano, Texas; Memphis, Tennessee; McKinney, Texas; and Wichita, Kansas, are seeing similar declines."

"Gen X, baby boomers, and the Silent Generation are also moving away from major cities, particularly New York City and Washington, D.C.," the report said. "They’re heading to some of the same cities as Gen Z, including Houston and Jacksonville, Florida."

The top 10 cities that gained the most Gen Z residents in 2023 are:

No. 1 – New York City, New York
No. 2 – Los Angeles, California
No. 3 – Houston, Texas
No. 4 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
No. 5 – Chicago, Illinois
No. 6 – San Diego, California
No. 7 – Seattle, Washington
No. 8 – Charlotte, North Carolina
No. 9 – Dallas, Texas
No. 10 – Minneapolis, Minnesota

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