Welcome to Tyler, Texas, through the Internet!
We are pleased you have chosen to visit us on the City of Tyler web page. 
Here you'll discover everything you need to know concerning Tyler municipal government, including general information about City services, City Council meetings, City employment opportunities, recreational opportunities and more. Our goal is to provide you with the latest and most accurate City news and information.
We have also placed many services online to better serve our residents and businesses. You can pay traffic tickets, search the library card catalog, download city forms, or submit a service request from this web site 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We hope that if it is something you need to do, you can find it under our "I Want To" menu at the top of this page.
For out-of-town guests, we invite you to personally visit Tyler and discover why more than 108,000 people call Tyler their home.
Our city is located just 95 miles east of Dallas/Forth Worth, Texas, and 95 miles west of Shreveport, Louisiana. You can easily get here from Interstate 20, U.S. Highway 271 and U.S. Highway 69, or one of the four state highways that pass through our community. We also have a fine municipal airport, Tyler Pounds Regional Airport, which was named 2007 Airport of the Year by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Our community enjoys a low cost of living, warm climate, abundant recreational, educational and cultural opportunities, excellent medical services, fine dining and convenient shopping.
Tyler's many family-oriented attractions include: the Tyler Municipal Rose Garden; Caldwell Zoo; Tyler Museum of Art; Discovery Science Place Children's Museum; Hudnall Planetarium; Carnegie History Center; Brookshire's World of Wildlife Museum; Tyler State Park; Noble E. Young Skate Park; and the Whistlestop Ranch Railroad Museum. The annual Texas Rose Festival is a spectacular production held in October of each year and the Azalea Trails attract thousands of visitors each spring.
Tyler is home to Tyler Junior College, The University of Texas at Tyler and Texas College. The Tyler Independent School District is the major public school district in Smith County with an enrollment of over 16,800 in grades K-12.
Our City has outstanding modern medical facilities with two large private hospitals and the University of Texas Health Center at Tyler. These facilities consistently receive top ratings for quality care, emergency services and research and are expanding to keep pace with the region's growing population.
Tyler has a diverse economic base, a positive attitude, and very progressive, growth-oriented City Council members ready to help new business ventures in the community. Forbes Magazine highlighted this pro-business environment on its 2002 list of Best Places For Business and Careers naming Tyler as the No. 1 small city in Texas and the No. 3 small city in America. Also in 2003, Tyler was rated the No. 2 smaller metro area in the nation on the Best Performing Cities list compiled by the Milken Institute. The rankings are based on job growth and wages and salaries.
Tyler is also a certified retirement city. This means our community meets high standards for retiree living, such as low crime rate, low tax rate, affordable housing and quality health care.
Thanks in part to our "Blueprint" model of municipal govrnment management, Tyler boasts the lowest property tax rate among Texas cities with populations over 15,000. In 2008, the City paid off all general obligation debt and pays cash for capital improvement projects. To top it all off, in October 2009, Tyler became one of the few cities in the country to receive a AAA bond rating from Standard & Poor's.
I hope this Internet Web site will pique your curiosity about Tyler and prompt you to schedule a visit soon!
Mayor Barbara Bass