Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio in Top 5 for new jobs (Austin: employment, college)

[Scarface713]

(found this at another forum)

A list of the top 5 job growth metros from the past year (2007-2008)

Rank - Metro - Number of Jobs

1. Houston +52,300
2. Dallas +50,000
3. Washington DC +35,700
4. San Antonio +17,900
5. Boston +14,900

You can find the stats here: Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment Summary

The BizJournals of the listed cities have stories as well.

[awecelot]

I'd like to see what the growth percentages are.

[Scarface713]

The bottom five:

1. Detroit -55,700
2. LA -50,600
3. Phoenix -50,000
4. Atlanta -44,800
5. Miami -40,500

[atxcio]

Originally Posted by awecelot

I'd like to see what the growth percentages are.

From that same article, by percentage (over 750K employment metros):

1. San Antonio, Texas (+2.1 percent)
2. Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, Texas (+2.0 percent)
3. Austin-Round Rock, Texas (+1.9 percent)
4. Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, Va.-N.C. (+1.8 percent)
5. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas (+1.7 percent)

If you include under 750K employment metros, the top by percentage are:

1. Grand Junction, Colo. (+3.9 percent)
2. McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas (+3.6 percent)
3. Laredo, Texas (+3.2 percent)
4. College Station-Bryan, Texas (+2.6 percent)

All around very good numbers for Texas.

Look at the table here: Table 3. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by state and metropolitan area and check out all those negative numbers.. then look at the Texas numbers.

[Metro Matt]

Most of the South in general, especially Texas seems to be flourishing while the rest of the country is in a recession.

Now I can see why out of staters wanna move here so bad. Its not because Texas was on their top list of places to move to that is the sad part about it. Of course the ones that do end up moving here immediately stop stereotyping us native Texans & love it here.

[1979]

Sadly, El Paso does not enjoy the same prosperity that some of the other Texas cities do. This city is depressed, and seems to be depending more and more on a Fort Bliss expansion. This city has nothing but $5 dollar an hour jobs, and I have had friends that can't even get into Walmart. The woes of being a border town.

I'm surprised Boston is creating jobs though, the cities is so expensive though; you have to make at least 75K just to live, sort of middle class.