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Killeen Ranked #1 Best City for Jobs

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Posted: 05/02/2011
Author: Jonathan Packer

NewGeography.com has promoted the Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood MSA to #1 in its 2011 rankings for best city for jobs.  Killeenr ranked #1 among two categories - "All Cities" and "Small Cities".

"Once again the best places for jobs tended to be smaller communities where incremental improvements can have a relatively large impact. Eighteen of the top 20 cities on our list were either small (under 150,000 nonfarm jobs) or mid-sized areas (less than 450,000 jobs).

But no place displayed more vibrancy than Texas. The Lone Star State dominated the three size categories, with the No. 1 mid-sized city, El Paso (No. 3 overall, up 22 places from last year) and No.1 large metropolitan area Austin (No. 6 overall), joining Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood (the No. 1 small city) atop their respective lists."


2011 Overall Ranking
Area
2011 Weighted INDEX
  


2010 Nonfarm Empl (1000s) 
Overall Rank 2010
Overal Movement
1
 Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood, TX
93.8
129.0
4
3
2
 Bismarck, ND
92.8
63.0
2
0
3
 El Paso, TX
92.5
281.2
25
22
4
 College Station-Bryan, TX
92.3
98.5
3
-1
5
 Midland, TX
90.8
69.2
62
57
6
 Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX
89.1
769.3
9
3
7
 New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner, LA
88.9
522.6
294
287
8
 Dubuque, IA
88.6
56.6
93
85
9
 Manhattan, KS
88.3
57.0
    
10
 Pascagoula, MS
85.4
58.7
30
20
11
 Odessa, TX
84.1
61.8
87
76
12
 Corpus Christi, TX
82.5
179.1
38
26
13
 Logan, UT-ID
82.2
54.4
110
97
14
 Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX
82.1
2552.3
21
7
15
 Fairbanks, AK
81.0
37.7
42
27
16
 Elizabethtown, KY
81.0
47.6
103
87
17
 San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX
80.7
841.3
12
-5
18
 Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX Metropolitan Division
80.6
2043.4
44
26
19
 Jacksonville, NC
80.5
47.2
1
-18
20
 Lawton, OK
80.5
44.0
7
-13
21
 Lebanon, PA
80.5
50.1
106
85
22
 Anchorage, AK
79.8
170.7
18
-4
23
 Longview, TX
79.4
97.0
140
117
24
 Joplin, MO
79.1
79.8
105
81
25
 Kennewick-Pasco-Richland, WA
79.0
99.2
16
-9

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