The Denton County portion of Far North Dallas is served by the Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District, and students are zoned to R.L.

Dallas hosts the state's largest Jewish community with population estimates ranging from 50,000 to 75,000 people of the state's estimated Jewish population of around 110,000 to 130,000 people, some large Orthodox Shuls are Ohev Shalom, Shaare Tefila, Ohr HaTorah, and Toras Chaim.

[9] Far North Dallas is very politically aligned with adjacent Richardson and Addison, all three of which voted for the Republican Party throughout the early 2000s.

The section has shifted dramatically towards the Democratic Party in recent years, however, voting for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020.

Plans to build a commuter or light rail line through the Far North Dallas area along the "Cotton Belt" (the St. Louis Southwestern Railway) met opposition from residents and local organizations in the early 2000s.