I have lived in Coppell, Texas longer than any other place in my entire life. I moved here in 1996 so that means last year I celebrated my silver anniversary here! Residents are called Coppellians and we're a pretty proud bunch of our quaint little city. We're located in the far northwest corner of Dallas county and are solidly in the "burbs". We have one of the top-rated school districts in the entire state of Texas, making it a popular choice for the constant influx of new residents to the area. 

Coppell is a city of families. Of our almost 16,000 households in the city, about 45% of them have children under the age of 18 living in them. If you then consider that according to the American Veterinary Medical Association (AMVA) that almost 50% of households have at least one dog, that means there are a lot of dogs and a lot of kids in Coppell. Our pets are members of the family too so that's why they're always welcome in my family portrait sessions and I never charge extra to include them. 

Our close proximity to the Dallas - Fort Worth airport makes the area a popular one for the corporate headquarters of such companies as The Container Store, Zale Corporation and most recently the North American headquarters of the British sports car manufacturer, McLaren. We are also the home of a number of massive Amazon fulfillment centers which means that sometimes I buy something and it literally arrives later that same day.

So even though we are a bedroom community in the suburbs of Dallas, our excellent school system, convenient location in the center of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and local employment opportunities make it a very desirable city to live in which explains our skyrocketing growth from a population of just over 16,000 in 1990 to more than double that at 36,000 in 2000. Now that the city's land mass is pretty much fully developed, our current population has settled in at just over 41,000 people.