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11 Texas cities make Forbes list of best places to find a job
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It's not exactly news that Forbes loves Texas. It's named Houston one of America's most affordable cities, one of the best places to buy a home, and Texas one of the best states for business.
So it's no surprise that Texas cities dominate Forbes' new rankings of the best cities in America for jobs. The study's overall No. 1 pick for an improving jobs market is Central Texas's Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood, listed at the top of the small cities list. The Killeen-area job market has expanded 2.5 percent, in large part from military spending.
Other Texas small cities on the list include College Station-Bryan (No. 4 overall, No. 3 for small cities) with 1.7 percent employment growth; Midland, which skyrocketed from No. 45 in 2010 to No. 5 on the back of oil money (and 5.4 percent employment change; and Odessa (No. 11 overall, No. 8 for small cities).
Austin, grouped with Round Rock and San Marcos, was the top large city on the list and sixth overall with 1.9 percent growth. Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown came in third among large cities (No. 14 overall), San Antonio-New Braunfels was No. 4, and Dallas-Plano-Irving came in at No. 5.
Among middle-sized cities, Texas virtually scored a trifecta with El Paso in first (and third overall) with 2.1 percent nonfarm employment change, Corpus Christi right on its heels at No. 2 (No. 12 overall) and McAllen-Edinburg-Mission in fourth place (27th overall).
With over a third of the the 30 top cities on the three Forbes lists, almost every city in Texas was singled out as a center with a growing economy and improving jobs market. Or as Forbes put it, "No place displayed more vibrancy than Texas.... Whatever they are drinking in Texas, other states may want to imbibe."
Hey, we'll say cheers to that.
