[5] San Antonio–New Braunfels is the third-largest metro area in Texas, after Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington and Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land.

Greater San Antonio has a number of communities spread out across several counties and regions.

Bexar County is included in the San Antonio–New Braunfels, TX metropolitan statistical area.

Currently, San Antonio is home to the largest concentrations of military bases in the U.S.

[18] Bandera just 40 miles northwest of San Antonio, hosts a three-day Cowboy Mardi Gras that attracts over 15 thousand people from all over the world to the town of 829 residents.

[19] The San Antonio metro area has leaned right in recent decades.

The city's football team is the UTSA Roadrunners who compete at the NCAA FBS level.

Other public institutions include the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas A&M University–San Antonio, and the five colleges of the Alamo Community College District.

Texas Lutheran University in Seguin and Howard Payne University at New Braunfels, now offering classes at a local high school but will soon have a true campus in the Veramendi Development, are the only higher education institutions in the area outside of San Antonio city limits.