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Fort Worth, Texas
| Fort Worth, Texas | |
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| General information | |
Mayor of Fort Worth
Mattie Parker | |
| Last mayoral election: | 2025 |
| Next mayoral election: | 2027 |
| Last city council election: | 2025 |
| Next city council election: | 2027 |
| City council seats: | 11[1] |
| City website | |
| Composition data | |
| Population: | 918,915 |
| Race: | White 44.9% African American 19.6% Asian 5.2% Native American 0.9% Pacific Islander 0.1% Multiple 15.1% |
| Ethnicity: | Hispanic or Latino origin 34.8% |
| Median household income: | $76,602 |
| High school graduation rate: | 84.3% |
| College graduation rate: | 31.7% |
| Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census and 2023 ACS data. Percentages are rounded to the nearest 0.1%. | |
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Fort Worth is a city in Texas that extends into Tarrant County and Denton County. The city's population was 918,915 as of 2020, according to the United States Census Bureau.
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- Other elected officials
- Elections
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- Budget
- Contact information
- Ballot measures
- Tarrant County government
- Denton County government
City government
- See also: Council-manager government
The city of Fort Worth utilizes a council-manager system. In this form of municipal government, an elected city council, which includes the mayor and serves as the city's primary legislative body, appoints a chief executive called a city manager to oversee day-to-day municipal operations and implement the city council's policy and legislative initiatives.[2]
Mayor
The mayor is a member of the city council. He or she presides over the city council meetings and votes on issues before the city council. The mayor holds no veto powers. The mayor will also represent the city at all official city ceremonies, and at the state, national, and international levels.[2][3] The current Mayor of Fort Worth is Mattie Parker (nonpartisan). Parker assumed office in 2021.
City manager
The city manager is the city's chief executive officer. The responsibilities of the city manager include overseeing the city's day-to-day operations, planning and implementing the city's operating budget, and appointing departmental directors and other senior-level positions.[4][5]
City council
The Fort Worth City Council is the city's primary legislative body. It is responsible for levying taxes, adopting an annual operating budget, approving city ordinances, appointing committee members, and overseeing all major real estate transactions and city contracts.[2]
The city council is made up of 11 members, including the mayor. While the mayor is elected at large, the other 10 members are elected by the city's 10 districts.[2]
The widget below automatically displays information about city council meetings. The topic list contains a sampling of keywords that Voterheads, a local government monitoring service, found in each meeting agenda. Click the meeting link to see more info and the full agenda:
Other elected officials
Ballotpedia does not cover any additional city officials in Fort Worth, Texas.
Mayoral partisanship
Fort Worth has a Republican mayor. As of September 2025, 66 mayors in the largest 100 cities by population are affiliated with the Democratic Party, 23 are affiliated with the Republican Party, one is affiliated with the Libertarian Party, three are independents, five identify as nonpartisan or unaffiliated, and two mayors' affiliations are unknown. Click here for a list of the 100 largest cities' mayors and their partisan affiliations.
Mayoral elections are officially nonpartisan in most of the nation's largest cities. However, many officeholders are affiliated with political parties. Ballotpedia uses one or more of the following sources to identify each officeholder's partisan affiliation: (1) direct communication from the officeholder, (2) current or previous candidacy for partisan office, or (3) identification of partisan affiliation by multiple media outlets.
Elections
2025
The city of Fort Worth, Texas, held general elections for mayor and city council on May 3, 2025. The filing deadline for this election was February 14, 2025. A runoff election was scheduled for June 7, 2025.
2023
The city of Fort Worth, Texas, held general elections for mayor and city council on May 6, 2023. A general runoff election was scheduled for June 10, 2023. The filing deadline for this election was February 17, 2023.
2022
The city of Fort Worth, Texas, held general elections for city council on May 7, 2022. A runoff election was scheduled for June 18, 2022. The filing deadline for this election was March 7, 2022.
2021
The city of Fort Worth, Texas, held general elections for mayor and city council on May 1, 2021. The filing deadline for this election was February 12, 2021.
2020
- See also: July 14, 2020 ballot measures in Texas
On July 14, 2020, Fort Worth voters voted on Proposition A, a special 0.5% sales tax to fund the Fort Worth Crime Control and Prevention District for 10 years. Click here to read more about this local measure.
2019
The city of Fort Worth, Texas, held general elections for mayor and all eight seats on the city council on May 4, 2019. A runoff election was scheduled for June 8, 2019, but canceled after all seats were won outright in the general election. The filing deadline for this election was February 15, 2019.
2017
The city of Fort Worth, Texas, held an election for mayor and city council on May 6, 2017. The filing deadline for candidates who wished to run in this election was February 17, 2017.
The mayor's seat and all eight city council seats were up for election. District 2 Councilman Sal Espino opted not to run for re-election in 2017.
2015
The city of Fort Worth, Texas, held elections for mayor and city council on May 9, 2015. The filing deadline for candidates who wished to run in this election was February 27, 2015. All eight city council seats were up for election.
Census information
The table below shows demographic information about the city.
| Demographic Data for Fort Worth | |
|---|---|
| Fort Worth | |
| Population | 918,915 |
| Land area (sq mi) | 350 |
| Race and ethnicity** | |
| White | 47.7% |
| Black/African American | 19.5% |
| Asian | 5.2% |
| Native American | 0.6% |
| Pacific Islander | 0.3% |
| Other (single race) | 10.4% |
| Multiple | 16.4% |
| Hispanic/Latino | 34.6% |
| Education | |
| High school graduation rate | 84.3% |
| College graduation rate | 31.7% |
| Income | |
| Median household income | $76,602 |
| Persons below poverty level | 12.9% |
| Source: population provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "Decennial Census" (2020). Other figures provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2018-2023). | |
| **Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here. | |
Budget
The city's budget process operates by fiscal years running from October 1 through September 30 of the next year. The city's departments will annually submit budget requests to the city manager. The city manager will use those requests to develop and submit a budget to the city council for review on or before August 15. The city council will also hold hearings to allow for public input in the budget process. The city council will then adopt the budget and make amendments if they are needed before September 30.[6]
Fiscally standardized cities data
The fiscally standardized cities (FiSC) data below was compiled by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy to make municipal budgets comparable across cities in the United States.[7]
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FiSCs are constructed by adding revenues and expenditures of each central city municipal government to a portion of the revenues and expenditures of overlying governments, including counties, independent school districts, and special districts. The allocations to FiSCs are estimates of the revenues collected from and services provided to central city residents and businesses by these overlying independent governments. Thus FiSCs provides a full picture of revenues raised from city residents and businesses and spending on their behalf, whether done by the city government or a separate overlying government.[8] |
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| —Lincoln Institute of Land Policy[9] | ||
The tables below show estimated finances within city limits. As such, the revenue and expenses listed may differ from the actual city budget.
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Historical total revenue and expenditure
To see the historical total revenue or expenditures as a rounded amount in this city, hover over the bars.[7]
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Contact information
Mayor's office
200 Texas St.
Fort Worth, TX 76102
Phone: 817-392-6118
Click here for city council contact information.
Ballot measures
Fort Worth is located in Tarrant County and Denton County, Texas. A list of ballot measures in Tarrant County is available here; in Denton County, here.
Noteworthy events
2020: Events and activity following the death of George Floyd
During the weekend of May 29-31, 2020, demonstrations and protests took place in cities nationwide, including Fort Worth, following the death of George Floyd. Events in Fort Worth, Texas began on Friday, May 29, 2020, at the old courthouse downtown.[10] No curfews were issued. The national guard was not deployed.
2015: Study on city's nondiscrimination laws
In July 2015, the Movement Advancement Project described Fort Worth, Texas, as a city or county that prohibited discrimination in employment on the basis of gender identity via ordinances that apply to public and private employers. At that time, a total of 71 of America's largest 100 cities prohibited private employers from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation, while 69 of those cities also prohibited discrimination based on gender identity. This did not include those jurisdictions that prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity for government employees.[11]
Nondiscrimination laws can cover a variety of areas, including public employment, private employment, housing, and public accommodations. Such laws may be enacted at the state, county, or city level.
See also
- Cities in Texas
- Tarrant County, Texas
- Denton County, Texas
- Largest cities in the United States by population
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ The mayor is included in this number as one of the city council members.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 City of Fort Worth, "City Council," accessed August 25, 2014
- ↑ City of Fort Worth, "Chapter III: the City Council," accessed October 14, 2021
- ↑ City of Fort Worth, "City Manager's Office," accessed August 29, 2014
- ↑ City of Fort Worth, "City Manager David Cooke," accessed October 14, 2021
- ↑ City of Fort Worth, "FY2023 Adopted Annual Budget & Program Objectives," accessed August 23, 2023
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, "Fiscally Standardized Cities database," accessed August 23, 2023
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, "Fiscally Standardized Cities," accessed August 23, 2023
- ↑ Dallas News, "Protests in Dallas, Fort Worth seek justice for black Americans killed by police," May 29, 2020
- ↑ Movement Advancement Project, "Local Employment Non-Discrimination Ordinances," accessed July 7, 2015
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