Dallas-Fort Worth residents split on global warming
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North Texans aren't terribly worried about climate change.
The big picture: Climate anxiety is concentrated in many large U.S. metros and some coastal regions.
- About 63.3% of U.S. adults overall are "somewhat" or "very" worried about global warming as of 2024, per Yale Program on Climate Change Communication estimates based on survey data.
Zoom in: Dallas County residents are slightly more concerned about climate change than the national average, with nearly 68% of Dallasites saying they are "somewhat" or "very" worried.
- Collin County residents are about on par with the national average, while the other North Texas counties are significantly less worried.
- Residents in Austin's Travis County and San Antonio's Bexar County are much more concerned about climate change than the national average, with more than 70% of adults expressing worry.
Context: Green in the map above represents counties with a larger share of adults worried about global warming than the national average.
- Purple represents counties with fewer adults with climate anxiety.
Zoom out: Some of the counties with especially high shares of adults worried about global warming — like Queens, New York (79.8%) — are coastal areas vulnerable to climate-driven threats like flooding.
- They also tend to be relatively populous, with 4 of the 10 most-worried counties having at least 1 million residents.
- The findings are based on statistical modeling using data from nationally representative Ipsos surveys.