Despite the tightly packed buildings you may see in many big cities in the U.S., there’s a lot more vacant land around the country than many people realize — and a lot of that land is right here in Texas.

CommercialCafe analyzed the 20 most populous U.S. cities to determine which one has the most vacant land still available for development. Four of the top five cities were located in the Lone Star State, with Dallas and Fort Worth coming in at Nos. 1 and 2.

In Dallas, there are 90,739 acres of vacant land spread across 30,000 lots averaging 2.72 acres in size. But that’s not to say development hasn’t been occurring in Dallas — over 46,000 residential units have been delivered in the last decade, with the largest land sale in Dallas history occurring in 2023 with the 460-acre Mountain Creek Development.

Available land is slightly pared down in Fort Worth, where there’s 74,835 acres across 28,100 lots averaging 2.66 acres.

San Antonio and Houston came in at No. 4 and No. 5, respectively, each with vacant land amounting to over 46,000 acres. Lot sizes are significantly larger in San Antonio, though, at 1.4 acres on average compared to 0.6 acre in Houston. However, Houston has also added 76,500 housing units in the past decade, the second-largest volume of any city analyzed.

Further down the list at No. 8 was Austin, which has around 25,100 acres of available land ready for development across 15,684 parcels of land (about half the amount available in Houston).