Industries › Fintech & Payments › Dallas
Dallas’s 11 counties hold 189,739 business locations and 3,594,749 jobs. 11,722 of those locations have 50–499 people on staff. Sapper works out which of them fit your fintech and payments offer, calls the right person first and books the meeting for you.
| Sector | Locations | Jobs | 50–499 employees | 500+ employees | Change since 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restaurants & food service | 16,793 | 343,594 | 1,610 | 3 | +648 |
| Retail | 21,680 | 376,684 | 1,448 | 21 | +236 |
| Health care | 23,741 | 449,862 | 1,299 | 81 | +958 |
| Professional services | 27,552 | 305,390 | 877 | 60 | +1,212 |
| Wholesale trade | 9,324 | 190,752 | 641 | 51 | −135 |
| Insurance | 4,572 | 93,188 | 208 | 30 | −76 |
| Banks & credit unions | 2,054 | 66,350 | 111 | 21 | +28 |
Where to start: By mid-size locations, the order is restaurants & food service (1,610), retail (1,448) and health care (1,299). Professional services grew most: +1,212 locations from 2022 to 2023, ahead of health care (+958).
| County | All locations | Finance | Health care | Prof. services |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dallas, TX | 71,182 | 5,020 | 8,377 | 10,890 |
| Tarrant, TX | 47,656 | 3,079 | 6,221 | 5,447 |
| Collin, TX | 31,012 | 2,144 | 4,650 | 6,121 |
| Denton, TX | 20,025 | 1,074 | 2,545 | 3,295 |
| Ellis, TX | 3,808 | 215 | 349 | 311 |
Where the market sits: Dallas County and Tarrant County hold 62.6% of the metro’s business locations across 11 counties. Tarrant County has 3,079 finance and 5,447 professional services locations.
The metro has 766 locations in activities related to credit intermediation, 133 of them in payment and transaction processing. Not all of them sell what you sell, but many are reaching out to the same owners and finance teams.
What wins: local detail. Mention Dallas County or a Dallas sector so the buyer can tell the message is about them.
1. We agree on the accounts firstYou approve the target list. It is exclusive to you.
2. We introduce you, then keep goingPhone first, backed by email, LinkedIn and mail.
3. We qualify before we bookNeed, timing and who else is involved, confirmed.
4. You walk into a warm conversationWith the account history and a confirmed time.
For a fintech or payments company, we build the list around how your buyers take payments today, their size and the sectors your product fits. In Dallas, a first pass could start with the 1,610 mid-size restaurants & food service locations and the 1,448 in retail. How appointment setting works →
The 11-county Dallas metro has 189,739 business locations. 11,722 have 50–499 employees and 697 have 500 or more (Census County Business Patterns, 2023).
The most mid-size locations are in restaurants & food service (1,610), followed by retail (1,448).
Titles to test first include financial managers. The metro has 26,600 of them, plus 37,450 accountants and auditors. Which of them fit depends on your offer. You see and approve the Dallas list before the first call.
Nearby markets: Fintech & Payments in Austin (182 mi), Fintech & Payments in Oklahoma City (190 mi) and Fintech & Payments in Houston (225 mi).
If your buyers are Dallas contractors or home-service companies, Abstrakt’s Dallas page covers that market.
