Tyler, Texas
# Employer # of Employees
1 Trinity Mother Frances Health System 3,775
2 UT Health - Tyler 3,153
3 Brookshire Grocery Company 2,599
4 Tyler Independent School District 2,468
5 Trane 1,500
6 SuddenLink 1,500
7 Walmart 1,311
8 The University of Texas at Tyler 1,121
9 UT Health - Tyler ( north campus ) 925
10 Tyler Junior College 862
Economy
People 's Petroleum building in downtown Tyler Chamber of Commerce office in downtown Tyler In addition to its role in the rose-growing industry , Tyler is the headquarters for Brookshire Grocery Company , which operates Brookshire 's , Fresh , Super 1 Foods , and Spring Market supermarkets in the Ark-La-Tex and parts of Dallas-Fort Worth . The company 's main distribution center is located in south Tyler , while SouthWest Foods , a subsidiary that processes dairy products , is located just northeast of the city . The manufacturing sector includes : Tyler Pipe , a subsidiary of McWane Inc. that produces soil and utility pipe products Trane , a business of Ingersoll-Rand , formerly a unit of American Standard Companies , which manufactures air conditioners and heat pumps ( this plant was originally built in 1955 by General Electric ) Delek Refining , an Israeli-owned oil refinery formerly La Gloria Oil and Gas Co ( a Crown Central Petroleum subsidiary ) PCSFerguson , an operating company of Dover Corporation that specializes in equipment for the measurement and production of natural gas using the plunger lift method DYNAenergetics Tyler Distribution Center , part of DYNAenergetics USA , which manufactures perforating equipment and explosives for the oil and gas industry Vesuvius USA , manufacturer of refractory ceramics used in the steel industry Cavender 's , a large regional western wear retailer and manufacturer According to the City 's 2012-2013 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report , [ 48 ] the top ten employers in the city are :
Tyler is the county seat of Smith County, located in east-central Texas, United States. The city of Tyler has long been Smith County's major economic, educational, financial, medical, and cultural hub. The city is named for John Tyler, the tenth President of the United States. Tyler had a population of 96,900 in 2010, according to the United States Census Bureau, and Tyler's 2018 estimated population was 105,729. It is 100 miles (160 km) east-southeast of Dallas. Tyler is the principal city of the Tyler metropolitan statistical area, which had a population of 209,714 in 2010, and is the regional center of the Tyler-Jacksonville combined statistical area, which had a population of 260,559 in 2010. Tyler is known as the Rose Capital of America (also the Rose City and the Rose Capital of the World), a nickname it earned from a long history of rose production, cultivation, and processing. It is home to the largest rose garden in the United States, a 14-acre public garden complex that has over 38,000 rose bushes of at least 500 different varieties. The Tyler Rose Garden is also home to the annual Texas Rose Festival, attracting tourists by the thousands each year in mid-October. Tyler is also home to the Caldwell Zoo and Broadway Square Mall. As a regional educational and technology center, Tyler is the host for more than 20,000 higher-education students, a college of engineering, a university health science center, and two regional hospital systems. In 1985, the international Adopt-a-Highway movement originated in Tyler.