Best Cities 2015

The Cities Leading A U.S. Manufacturing Revival

Joel Kotkin and Michael Shires — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 01:38:39 -0400

Manufacturing may no longer drive the U.S. economy, but industrial growth remains a powerful force in many regions of the country. Industrial employment has surged over the past five years, with the sector adding some 855,000 new jobs, a 7.5% expansion.

Several factors are driving this trend, including rising wages in China, the energy boom and a growing need to respond more quickly to local customer demand and the changing marketplace.

To generate our rankings of the best places for manufacturing jobs, we evaluated the 373 metropolitan statistical areas for which the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has complete data over the past decade. Our rankings factor in manufacturing employment growth over the long term (2003-14), medium term (2009-14) and the last two years, as well as momentum.

The Rust Belt Is Back

No part of America suffered more from the de-industrialization of the past 40 years than the Great Lakes states. Yet as manufacturing has come back, particularly the auto industry, many of the region’s economies have begun to resurge. Despite all the fashionable chatter over the question of whether we’ve reached “peak car,” the auto industry has enjoyed six straight years of increased sales, driven by low interest rates, the need to replace older cars and rising consumer confidence.

The epicenter of this trend is exactly where the industrial decline hit hardest: Michigan, which sweeps the top three places on our list of the big cities generating the most new manufacturing jobs. The state has now recovered about 40% of the manufacturing jobs it lost during the recession. The Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia metropolitan area ranks No. 1 among the country’s 70 largest metropolitan areas for manufacturing employment growth over the time period for our study. Since 2009 the Detroit area has seen a remarkable 31.3% rebound to 89,300 industrial jobs, including a 9.8% expansion last year. This growth has helped begin to reverse a long-standing decline in employment overall—still down 12.3% since 2003—with overall employment up 5.9% since 2009.

Detroit’s recovery is not just a matter of inertia, but reflects a unique combination of circumstances. The area is home not only to many skilled workers, but boasts the second largest concentration of engineers among the country’s 85 largest metro areas, behind only Silicon Valley.

In second place is Warren-Troy-Farmington, in the Detroit suburbs, where manufacturing employment is up 38.8% since 2009. In third place is Grand Rapids-Wyoming, a longtime furniture-making hub where an uncommonly high share of jobs is in manufacturing, one in five; the metro area has seen industrial employment rebound 27.9% since 2009.

Another Midwest hotspot has been Toledo, Ohio, only 60 miles from Detroit, which ranks first among the mid-sized cities we evaluated, with a 17.4% jump in industrial employment since 2009.

Southern Cooking

The other big cluster of industrial hotspots is in the Southeast. Manufacturing has been heading to the region for several decades, recently primed by major investments from German and Japanese companies, among others. A prime example is Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro, Tenn., No. 4 on our list, where manufacturing employment has jumped 23.9% since 2009. Japan’s Nissan and Bridgestone have establishing manufacturing plants in Central Tennessee, which has also created opportunities for small domestic parts companies in the region. Nissan also relocated its U.S. headquarters to the area in 2006 from Southern California. And domestic auto makers are have become major players in the Southeast—Ford employs some 14,000 in the Louisville, Ky., area, which checks in at No. 7 among our largest MSAs. The South, notes a recent Brookings study, now has the highest number of workers in the country employed in “advanced industries,” which tend to be the higher paying, more technically oriented parts of the factory economy.

Other areas that have become primary places for new industrial investment include such Deep South locations as Savannah, Ga., No. 2 on our mid-sized list, as well as No. 8 Columbia, S.C., a major center for German car companies, and No. 10 Charleston, S.C., which has benefited from the expansion of Boeing and aerospace suppliers there. These areas missed much of the industrial revolution a century ago but are playing an impressive game of catch-up. Each has seen their industrial workforces grow over 20% since 2009. Other southern stars include Cape Coral-Ft Meyers, Fla., No. 4 on our mid-sized city list. Our small cities list also turns up Southern outperformers: No. 2 Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island and No. 3 Sebastian-Vero-Beach, Fla.

The Energy Belt

Falling oil prices may be causing the oil and gas industry to rein in exploration and drilling budgets, but it provides an enormous boon for downstream industries such as refining and petrochemicals. This could keep industrial job growth going in two of our top MSAs that are in the oil patch. Oklahoma City, where manufacturing job growth has soared 23.1% since 2009, ranks sixth, and Houston, where the industrial workforce has expanded 19.8% over the same time span, ranks ninth. Houston now is home to 257,300 manufacturing jobs, the third largest concentration in the country.

As in Detroit, Houston’s industrial rise is powered by more than by brawn. The area ranks sixth among the nation’s major metros in number of engineers per capita. If the Bay Area is master of the digital economy, Houston ranks as the technological leader of the material one; it is the capital for the energy-driven revival of U.S. industry.

Smaller energy-rich areas that have also experienced rapid industrial growth. These include two Louisiana metro areas, No. 3 Baton Rouge and No. 7 Lafayette, third and seventh, respectively on our mid-sized metro area list, as well as Midland, Texas, fifth on our small areas list. Perhaps most surprising, given its location in anti-carbon California, has been the steady growth in Bakersfield, which stands fifth on the mid-sized list and is home to some of the nation’s largest oil fields. With 20.3% industrial growth since 2009, the area, sometimes known as “little Texas,” is the only metro area in the Golden State to make it to the top 10 in either the large or mid-sized list.

A Shift To Smaller Cities

Once American industry was identified predominately with big cities: New York in 1950, according to economic historian Fernand Braudel, had the largest industrial economy in the world, employing a million workers, mostly at small manufacturers. In the 1970s and 1980s, the industrial zeitgeist moved increasingly to Los Angeles, which vied with Chicago as the largest center for factory jobs.

Today this pattern is changing dramatically. Besides the move toward the south and energy hotbeds, industry has been expanding in smaller cities as well as suburban areas beyond the core cities, says University of Washington geographer Richard Morrill. This is not unique to the United States; Germany, which has perhaps the most admired industrial sector in the world, also has dispersed its industrial base, largely to smaller cities.

The reasons for this shift vary, from strict environmental laws in Northern cities, as well as stronger unions, and cheaper land elsewhere.

For example, although the New York state capital Albany ranks fifth on our big metro area list, driven in large part by semiconductor manufacturing, New York City stands at a weak 62nd out of 70. Since 2009, New York has lost 3.3% of its manufacturing jobs; the city’s industrial workforce now stands at a paltry 74,700, a dramatic decline from some 400,000 as recently as the early 1980s.

Yet with its powerful array of media, business service and hospitality businesses, New York appears to be able to withstand deindustrialization more than the two largest industrial MSAs, Chicago and Los Angeles. The one-time “city of big shoulders“ and its environs has also lost industrial jobs since 2009, down to 278,000 from 286,500 in 2011, and a far cry from the 461,600 it had in 2000.

The decline has been, if anything, more rapid in 59th place Los Angeles. This process began with the loss of more than 90,000 aerospace jobs since the end of the Cold War. Los Angeles’ industrial job count stands at 363,900 — still the largest in the nations but down sharply from 900,000 just a decade ago.

Does Industrial Growth Still Matter?

Clearly deindustrialization has a bigger impact in some areas than others. Cities like San Francisco and New York appear better positioned for the post-industrial transition than Chicago or Los Angeles, where manufacturing lingered longer and the elite service or tech industries are not nearly as predominant. Yet the impact of industrial decline — or resurgence — may be more important in the future than many suppose.

This is particularly critical for blue-collar workers, for whom industrial jobs tend to pay more. Welders and other skilled workers are increasingly in short supply, particularly as baby boomers begin to leave the workforce. Many of the cities which did well in our rankings are among the best in building new training partnerships with their industrial employers—these are skills that are decreasingly taught in the modern secondary and college curricula. In some places, vocational skills have recently been commanding higher post-graduation salaries than traditional college degrees.

Industrial growth also provides an opportunity for emerging cities, particularly in the South and the energy belt, to add to their employment base and, in some cases, their connections with international markets. Over-dependence on manufacturing, as the Rust Belt experience showed, can be dangerous, and the need to diversify employmentremains critical. Threats to future growth include the strong dollar, the decline in the energy sector and economic weakness abroad reducing exports.

But factory jobs remain an important asset for many regions. They may not be the central force they once were, but these jobs seem likely to continue making a big difference in the fates of many economies, both big and small.

This piece originally appeared at Forbes.

Joel Kotkin is executive editor of NewGeography.com and Roger Hobbs Distinguished Fellow in Urban Studies at Chapman University, and a member of the editorial board of the Orange County Register. He is also executive director of the Houston-based Center for Opportunity Urbanism. His newest book, The New Class Conflict is now available at Amazon and Telos Press. He is also author of The City: A Global History and The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050. He lives in Orange County, CA.

Michael Shires, Ph.D. is a professor at Pepperdine University School of Public Policy.

Auto manufacturing photo by BigStockPhoto.com.

Small Cities Manufacturing Jobs - 2015 Best Cities Rankings

Mark Schill — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 15:19:50 -0400

Read about how we selected the 2015 Best Cities for Job Growth

We used five measures of growth to rank MSAs over the past 10 years. “Large” areas include those with a current nonfarm employment base of at least 450,000 jobs. “Midsize” areas range from 150,000 to 450,000 jobs. “Small” areas have as many as 150,000 jobs. This year’s rankings reflect the new Office of Management and Budget definitions of MSAs for all series released after March 2015. As a result, the MSA listed in this year’s rankings do not necessary correspond directly to those listed in prior years. In some instances, MSAs were consolidated with others — for example Pascagoula, MS, was combined with the Gulfport-Biloxi, MS, MSA to form the new Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula, MS, MSA. Others were separated from previously consolidated MSAs and in still other instances individual counties were shifted from one MSA to another. The bottom line is that this year’s rankings are based on good time series for the newly defined MSAs but may not be precisely comparable to those listed in prior years. The total number of MSAs included in this year’s rankings has risen from 398 to 421. This year’s rankings reflect the current size of each MSA’s employment.

2015 Mfg Rank - Small MSAs	Area	Weighted INDEX	2014 Mfg Emplmt (1000s)	Total Mfg Emplmt Growth Rate 2013-2014	Total Mfg Emplmt Cum Growth 2009-2014	2015 Overall Mfg Rank
1	Madera, CA	74.4	4.6	10.3%	59.8%	1
2	Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island, FL	74.0	3.5	10.5%	40.0%	2
3	Sebastian-Vero Beach, FL	71.3	2.1	4.9%	39.1%	3
4	San Rafael, CA Metro Div	70.5	3.8	17.7%	76.6%	4
5	Midland, TX	68.9	4.1	8.8%	72.2%	5
6	Grants Pass, OR	68.6	2.9	19.2%	26.1%	6
7	Pueblo, CO	68.4	4.8	7.5%	22.2%	7
8	Merced, CA	68.3	10.7	26.8%	35.3%	8
9	Lewiston, ID-WA	67.7	4.1	2.5%	40.9%	9
10	College Station-Bryan, TX	67.2	6.2	10.7%	19.2%	10
11	Elizabethtown-Fort Knox, KY	66.4	7.3	10.7%	42.5%	11
12	Columbus, IN	65.5	19.2	7.4%	43.2%	12
13	Auburn-Opelika, AL	65.1	6.6	5.9%	19.3%	13
14	Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA	65.0	6.1	7.6%	26.9%	14
15	Idaho Falls, ID	64.1	3.9	4.5%	34.9%	15
16	Kokomo, IN	63.3	11.6	4.8%	42.6%	17
17	Odessa, TX	63.0	5.8	7.4%	46.2%	18
18	Bend-Redmond, OR	60.9	4.5	5.4%	24.8%	21
19	Elkhart-Goshen, IN	60.8	57.8	3.9%	41.9%	22
20	Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA	60.5	6.4	6.0%	23.7%	23
21	Monroe, MI	60.3	5.6	8.4%	28.5%	24
22	Napa, CA	59.9	12.3	8.5%	17.9%	25
23	Medford, OR	59.6	7.6	6.1%	24.0%	27
24	Jackson, MI	59.5	9.6	4.0%	33.8%	28
25	Vallejo-Fairfield, CA	58.9	11.1	7.4%	16.0%	29
26	Prescott, AZ	58.7	3.3	1.0%	31.6%	30
27	Fort Collins, CO	58.5	12.6	7.1%	20.4%	31
28	Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN	58.5	17.3	4.4%	26.7%	32
29	Chambersburg-Waynesboro, PA	57.5	10.0	3.1%	31.4%	34
30	St. George, UT	57.2	2.8	3.7%	25.4%	36
31	Kennewick-Richland, WA	57.2	7.7	7.5%	15.6%	37
32	Portsmouth, NH-ME NECTA	57.1	7.6	3.2%	21.2%	38
33	Tuscaloosa, AL	57.1	15.2	8.9%	12.9%	39
34	Flint, MI	56.4	12.5	4.5%	31.2%	42
35	Grand Forks, ND-MN	56.3	4.0	8.1%	11.1%	43
36	Muskegon, MI	56.2	13.2	3.9%	33.8%	44
37	Port St. Lucie, FL	55.9	6.0	2.3%	24.3%	45
38	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles-Arroyo Grande, CA	55.2	6.9	6.2%	19.7%	47
39	Niles-Benton Harbor, MI	54.1	13.1	4.3%	17.0%	51
40	Ocala, FL	53.7	7.4	6.7%	13.8%	53
41	Morgantown, WV	53.5	4.5	3.1%	21.6%	54
42	Spartanburg, SC	52.5	28.4	5.3%	16.6%	59
43	Lima, OH	52.3	8.8	5.6%	11.9%	61
44	Fond du Lac, WI	52.2	11.1	0.9%	28.2%	62
45	Kankakee, IL	52.1	5.8	-0.6%	27.7%	63
46	Appleton, WI	52.1	24.1	4.8%	17.2%	64
47	Greeley, CO	52.1	12.0	4.6%	17.2%	65
48	Panama City, FL	51.8	3.7	0.9%	16.7%	67
49	Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL	51.3	9.3	-3.1%	31.8%	70
50	Bowling Green, KY	51.1	10.5	3.3%	20.7%	71
51	Kalamazoo-Portage, MI	50.6	20.4	4.3%	11.9%	74
52	Gettysburg, PA	50.5	6.9	4.0%	12.4%	75
53	Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina, HI	50.4	1.2	0.0%	20.0%	76
54	Yakima, WA	49.9	8.4	4.1%	16.7%	79
55	Bellingham, WA	49.6	9.3	2.2%	22.5%	82
56	Janesville-Beloit, WI	49.0	9.4	2.9%	17.1%	86
57	Danville, IL	48.6	5.3	12.9%	9.0%	88
58	Sioux Falls, SD	48.5	13.9	3.0%	17.2%	90
59	Sheboygan, WI	48.5	20.5	2.7%	11.2%	92
60	Santa Fe, NM	47.8	0.9	4.0%	8.3%	94
61	Wenatchee, WA	47.5	2.5	1.4%	17.5%	97
62	Battle Creek, MI	47.5	11.5	3.0%	12.1%	98
63	Coeur d'Alene, ID	47.2	4.9	-3.3%	21.7%	99
64	Ithaca, NY	47.0	3.5	2.0%	16.9%	100
65	Visalia-Porterville, CA	47.0	12.2	5.2%	8.0%	101
66	Chico, CA	47.0	3.8	4.5%	15.0%	102
67	Yuma, AZ	46.8	2.2	1.5%	31.4%	104
68	Sumter, SC	46.6	6.6	3.1%	8.2%	105
69	Fargo, ND-MN	45.6	10.3	1.0%	19.8%	109
70	Longview, WA	45.4	6.5	2.1%	12.0%	110
71	Olympia-Tumwater, WA	45.4	3.3	4.2%	7.6%	111
72	Bismarck, ND	45.4	2.0	5.2%	-1.6%	112
73	Dalton, GA	44.8	23.2	7.2%	-1.7%	115
74	Wausau, WI	44.8	15.6	3.1%	7.3%	116
75	Saginaw, MI	44.8	11.9	-0.8%	27.1%	117
76	Punta Gorda, FL	44.6	0.7	0.0%	40.0%	119
77	Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC	44.5	4.6	3.7%	8.6%	122
78	Springfield, OH	44.3	6.7	2.0%	10.5%	124
79	Gadsden, AL	44.0	5.2	4.7%	8.3%	126
80	Eugene, OR	43.6	13.0	1.8%	8.9%	129
81	Grand Junction, CO	43.2	2.8	1.2%	12.0%	134
82	Barnstable Town, MA NECTA	42.6	3.0	1.1%	9.6%	138
83	Lake Charles, LA	42.1	9.4	2.9%	5.2%	140
84	Greenville, NC	41.6	6.8	3.0%	13.4%	142
85	Pittsfield, MA NECTA	41.6	3.9	6.4%	0.0%	143
86	Redding, CA	41.3	2.3	1.5%	1.5%	148
87	Racine, WI	41.2	18.8	0.7%	16.0%	149
88	Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH	40.7	11.5	3.6%	4.9%	152
89	Bremerton-Silverdale, WA	40.6	2.1	0.0%	10.5%	153
90	Clarksville, TN-KY	40.4	10.1	3.1%	9.4%	154
91	South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI	40.2	17.1	3.6%	7.6%	157
92	Watertown-Fort Drum, NY	40.2	2.4	6.0%	0.0%	158
93	Columbus, GA-AL	40.2	10.8	-0.9%	16.9%	159
94	Lewiston-Auburn, ME NECTA	40.1	5.2	4.0%	1.3%	161
95	Charlottesville, VA	40.0	3.8	4.6%	0.0%	162
96	Haverhill-Newburyport-Amesbury Town, MA-NH NECTA Div	39.9	9.1	0.4%	9.7%	163
97	Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC	39.8	39.0	2.4%	5.2%	164
98	Burlington, NC	39.7	8.7	5.2%	4.0%	165
99	Dover-Durham, NH-ME NECTA	39.4	5.2	1.3%	7.6%	168
100	Hanford-Corcoran, CA	39.0	4.2	0.8%	5.0%	170
101	St. Cloud, MN	38.9	15.3	2.0%	7.5%	171
102	Abilene, TX	38.8	2.9	3.6%	-1.1%	173
103	Walla Walla, WA	38.6	3.6	0.9%	9.2%	174
104	Albany, OR	38.4	7.0	1.4%	5.0%	176
105	Rapid City, SD	38.3	2.8	-1.2%	13.5%	177
106	Logan, UT-ID	38.2	11.3	1.8%	6.9%	178
107	Longview, TX	38.1	10.5	6.8%	-0.6%	180
108	San Angelo, TX	38.0	3.5	9.4%	2.9%	181
109	Cleveland, TN	38.0	8.9	-2.9%	18.7%	182
110	Mansfield, OH	37.9	9.6	1.4%	9.1%	184
111	Erie, PA	37.8	22.2	1.1%	14.7%	185
112	Morristown, TN	37.6	10.3	1.0%	0.0%	187
113	Flagstaff, AZ	37.4	4.2	0.8%	15.5%	189
114	Owensboro, KY	36.5	8.5	1.2%	7.2%	194
115	Dover, DE	36.4	4.8	1.4%	3.6%	195
116	Kingston, NY	36.3	3.5	4.0%	-1.9%	197
117	Casper, WY	36.0	1.8	0.0%	17.0%	201
118	Taunton-Middleborough-Norton, MA NECTA Div	35.6	6.2	1.1%	1.6%	205
119	Sioux City, IA-NE-SD	35.5	15.2	1.3%	1.3%	206
120	Muncie, IN	34.4	4.2	0.8%	9.6%	212
121	Killeen-Temple, TX	34.0	7.4	0.9%	1.8%	216
122	Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ	33.8	2.8	2.4%	0.0%	219
123	Sherman-Denison, TX	33.5	5.4	1.9%	5.9%	221
124	Monroe, LA	33.4	6.8	1.0%	3.0%	222
125	Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA	32.9	17.3	-1.7%	12.1%	224
126	Brownsville-Harlingen, TX	32.9	5.8	3.0%	0.0%	225
127	Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol, TN-VA	32.9	21.6	1.4%	4.7%	226
128	Michigan City-La Porte, IN	32.8	7.6	1.8%	5.6%	227
129	Brockton-Bridgewater-Easton, MA NECTA Div	32.8	5.5	0.0%	-0.6%	228
130	Eau Claire, WI	32.7	10.4	0.0%	6.8%	229
131	Fort Smith, AR-OK	32.1	18.2	2.4%	-8.5%	235
132	Yuba City, CA	32.0	2.1	0.0%	8.6%	236
133	Lawton, OK	31.8	3.6	0.0%	0.9%	238
134	Jackson, TN	31.8	9.7	1.4%	-1.0%	239
135	Anniston-Oxford-Jacksonville, AL	31.6	5.9	1.1%	-0.6%	240
136	Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford, MA-NH NECTA Div	31.5	22.2	0.3%	1.5%	241
137	Lubbock, TX	31.0	4.9	2.8%	0.7%	243
138	La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN	30.8	8.5	-1.2%	5.8%	245
139	Salisbury, MD-DE	30.6	14.2	1.2%	-2.1%	248
140	Johnson City, TN	30.6	7.6	3.2%	-3.8%	249
141	New Bedford, MA NECTA	30.5	7.9	3.5%	0.9%	251
142	Bloomington, IL	29.8	4.8	-2.0%	7.5%	254
143	Champaign-Urbana, IL	29.8	8.1	1.3%	2.1%	256
144	Vineland-Bridgeton, NJ	29.4	8.3	0.4%	-0.4%	259
145	Charleston, WV	29.1	3.4	-1.0%	-1.9%	261
146	Topeka, KS	28.9	7.1	0.9%	2.9%	264
147	Rome, GA	28.8	5.7	1.8%	-7.6%	265
148	Lawrence-Methuen Town-Salem, MA-NH NECTA Div	27.5	9.4	-0.7%	1.4%	273
149	Cheyenne, WY	27.3	1.4	-2.4%	-6.8%	275
150	Cedar Rapids, IA	27.3	20.1	0.5%	-0.2%	276
151	Lynchburg, VA	27.2	14.6	0.0%	-0.9%	277
152	Texarkana, TX-AR	27.2	5.3	1.3%	-1.3%	278
153	Norwich-New London-Westerly, CT-RI NECTA	27.1	14.8	-0.2%	-2.8%	279
154	Peabody-Salem-Beverly, MA NECTA Div	26.7	7.7	-0.9%	-0.9%	281
155	Utica-Rome, NY	26.5	11.1	-0.9%	-2.1%	282
156	Tyler, TX	26.5	5.6	1.8%	-17.2%	283
157	Altoona, PA	26.3	7.5	-1.7%	2.3%	284
158	Joplin, MO	26.3	12.8	1.1%	-5.4%	285
159	Duluth, MN-WI	26.0	7.1	-1.8%	6.5%	286
160	Decatur, AL	26.0	11.9	-2.2%	0.0%	287
161	Carson City, NV	25.8	2.6	-3.7%	2.7%	289
162	Amarillo, TX	25.0	13.1	-1.8%	1.0%	294
163	State College, PA	24.9	3.9	-1.7%	3.5%	295
164	Bloomington, IN	24.8	8.6	0.4%	1.6%	296
165	Victoria, TX	24.8	2.6	0.0%	1.3%	297
166	Albany, GA	24.3	4.3	0.0%	-4.4%	298
167	Manchester, NH NECTA	23.8	7.7	-0.9%	-3.3%	301
168	Bloomsburg-Berwick, PA	23.8	5.6	-2.9%	0.6%	302
169	Waco, TX	23.3	14.4	-2.7%	0.9%	304
170	Terre Haute, IN	23.2	10.9	-4.1%	6.2%	306
171	Springfield, IL	22.9	3.0	0.0%	-8.2%	307
172	East Stroudsburg, PA	22.8	4.6	0.7%	-9.2%	309
173	Lebanon, PA	22.6	8.7	-3.7%	2.3%	311
174	Nashua, NH-MA NECTA Div	22.4	19.7	0.3%	-6.6%	314
175	Decatur, IL	22.3	10.1	0.0%	0.3%	315
176	Leominster-Gardner, MA NECTA	21.8	6.1	-0.5%	-10.7%	318
177	Rochester, MN	21.4	10.7	0.0%	-2.7%	321
178	Rocky Mount, NC	20.0	10.2	-1.6%	-7.0%	323
179	Salinas, CA	19.8	5.0	-3.2%	-5.6%	325
180	Glens Falls, NY	19.1	6.0	-1.1%	-4.8%	329
181	Gainesville, FL	19.0	4.2	-0.8%	-3.8%	330
182	Williamsport, PA	18.6	8.0	-1.2%	-9.1%	331
183	Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV	18.5	7.5	-3.0%	-6.7%	332
184	Corvallis, OR	18.4	3.0	0.0%	-12.7%	333
185	Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ	16.9	2.0	0.0%	-10.3%	338
186	Wichita Falls, TX	16.7	5.1	-3.7%	-3.7%	339
187	Waterbury, CT NECTA	16.3	7.3	-6.0%	-3.1%	340
188	Bay City, MI	16.2	3.8	-3.4%	-5.0%	342
189	Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ	16.1	0.5	-6.3%	-11.8%	343
190	Hattiesburg, MS	15.8	4.0	-2.4%	-4.8%	345
191	Burlington-South Burlington, VT NECTA	15.5	13.4	-3.1%	-5.0%	346
192	Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH	15.2	5.5	-3.5%	-12.8%	348
193	Johnstown, PA	14.6	3.8	-1.7%	-14.3%	350
194	Oshkosh-Neenah, WI	14.2	22.0	-2.4%	-7.4%	352
195	Elmira, NY	13.8	5.1	0.0%	-11.0%	354
196	Lynn-Saugus-Marblehead, MA NECTA Div	13.4	4.5	-3.6%	-7.5%	356
197	Fairbanks, AK	10.6	0.5	-21.1%	-11.8%	358
198	Wilmington, NC	10.6	5.7	-3.9%	-14.9%	359
199	Parkersburg-Vienna, WV	9.9	3.0	-4.3%	-16.0%	360
200	Wheeling, WV-OH	9.7	3.0	-5.3%	-16.7%	363
201	Laredo, TX	9.2	0.7	-12.5%	-12.5%	364
202	Dutchess County-Putnam County, NY Metro Div	7.8	10.4	-4.3%	-19.1%	365
203	Bangor, ME NECTA	7.1	2.4	-4.1%	-25.3%	366
204	Fayetteville, NC	6.9	7.9	-5.6%	-18.5%	367
205	Dothan, AL	6.9	4.3	-7.9%	-23.7%	368
206	Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL	6.7	3.5	-8.7%	-22.8%	369
207	Las Cruces, NM	6.4	2.5	-7.5%	-17.8%	370
208	Binghamton, NY	5.3	11.6	-2.8%	-21.3%	371
209	Pocatello, ID	0.2	1.5	-16.4%	-28.1%	372
210	El Centro, CA	0.0	1.0	-56.5%	-61.5%	373

Mid-sized Cities Manufacturing Jobs - 2015 Best Cities Rankings

Mark Schill — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 15:19:24 -0400

Read about how we selected the 2015 Best Cities for Job Growth

2015 Mfg Rank - Midsized MSAs	Area	Weighted INDEX	2014 Mfg Emplmt (1000s)	Total Mfg Emplmt Growth Rate 2013-2014	Total Mfg Emplmt Cum Growth 2009-2014	2015 Overall Mfg Rank
1	Toledo, OH	62.7	44.0	6.7%	27.4%	19
2	Savannah, GA	59.8	16.5	6.2%	20.5%	26
3	Baton Rouge, LA	57.6	29.5	4.5%	20.2%	33
4	Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL	57.5	5.1	4.8%	20.3%	35
5	Bakersfield, CA	56.5	15.0	4.9%	17.8%	41
6	Springfield, MO	55.2	15.1	5.9%	19.9%	48
7	Lafayette, LA	55.1	20.2	0.0%	34.3%	49
8	Columbia, SC	55.0	30.6	7.0%	13.7%	50
9	Reno, NV	54.0	12.9	2.4%	15.5%	52
10	Charleston-North Charleston, SC	53.3	25.1	3.7%	21.4%	55
11	Lansing-East Lansing, MI	53.2	19.7	1.5%	20.1%	56
12	Madison, WI	52.9	34.1	6.8%	12.0%	57
13	Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL	52.5	10.3	0.7%	22.1%	58
14	Ogden-Clearfield, UT	52.4	29.8	3.8%	13.6%	60
15	Stockton-Lodi, CA	51.7	18.8	7.0%	7.2%	69
16	Provo-Orem, UT	50.8	18.7	2.4%	16.4%	72
17	North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, FL	50.6	15.6	3.1%	19.1%	73
18	Anchorage, AK	50.1	2.3	6.2%	16.9%	77
19	Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL	49.7	6.1	3.4%	14.5%	80
20	Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX	49.6	22.4	3.7%	16.5%	81
21	Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL	49.1	16.5	0.8%	15.4%	83
22	Tulsa, OK	49.1	52.1	3.7%	20.6%	84
23	Mobile, AL	48.6	18.9	0.7%	32.4%	89
24	Boulder, CO	48.5	17.7	2.5%	18.8%	91
25	Trenton, NJ	48.3	9.4	8.5%	1.4%	93
26	Canton-Massillon, OH	47.7	28.4	2.8%	18.0%	95
27	Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin, SC	47.6	54.7	2.8%	13.6%	96
28	Jackson, MS	45.9	18.2	4.8%	9.6%	106
29	Lincoln, NE	45.8	14.1	3.2%	12.8%	107
30	Winston-Salem, NC	45.6	31.0	4.6%	4.1%	108
31	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	45.3	12.5	4.7%	9.6%	113
32	Salem, OR	45.1	11.7	3.5%	5.7%	114
33	Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA	44.7	20.0	1.5%	13.0%	118
34	Fort Wayne, IN	44.6	34.9	1.4%	14.7%	120
35	Evansville, IN-KY	44.6	23.0	5.3%	4.7%	121
36	Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA	44.5	21.0	4.1%	5.5%	123
37	Rockford, IL	44.3	32.1	2.0%	24.1%	125
38	Gary, IN Metro Div	43.8	37.2	2.7%	10.1%	127
39	Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA	43.3	30.7	1.7%	17.5%	133
40	Dayton, OH	43.2	39.6	3.3%	12.4%	136
41	Montgomery, AL	42.7	18.9	2.9%	11.2%	137
42	Lake County-Kenosha County, IL-WI Metro Div	42.0	59.1	1.5%	9.1%	141
43	Boise City, ID	41.4	24.8	1.8%	11.5%	146
44	Reading, PA	41.1	30.5	2.2%	10.6%	151
45	Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA	40.1	16.9	1.8%	7.9%	160
46	Lexington-Fayette, KY	38.9	30.7	2.7%	3.0%	172
47	Chattanooga, TN-GA	37.8	30.8	1.1%	11.3%	186
48	Roanoke, VA	37.4	16.7	2.4%	5.7%	188
49	Green Bay, WI	37.2	29.2	0.8%	8.0%	190
50	Knoxville, TN	36.2	35.5	1.5%	8.8%	198
51	Tacoma-Lakewood, WA Metro Div	36.1	17.3	-0.2%	6.6%	199
52	Asheville, NC	35.8	19.0	1.1%	6.7%	203
53	Elgin, IL Metro Div	35.8	34.9	1.2%	8.8%	204
54	Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL	34.8	24.3	-0.4%	11.3%	208
55	Greensboro-High Point, NC	34.7	53.8	0.9%	6.1%	209
56	Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ	34.3	35.7	2.2%	1.4%	213
57	Santa Rosa, CA	34.0	20.2	0.5%	2.9%	214
58	Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR	33.9	20.3	3.2%	-2.2%	217
59	Corpus Christi, TX	33.5	9.9	1.7%	5.3%	220
60	Fresno, CA	33.1	23.2	2.7%	-2.2%	223
61	Akron, OH	32.6	39.9	0.3%	7.3%	231
62	Colorado Springs, CO	32.1	11.8	-1.4%	5.7%	233
63	Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR-MO	31.9	27.5	2.1%	-4.5%	237
64	Ann Arbor, MI	30.0	14.1	0.5%	2.4%	253
65	Lancaster, PA	29.8	35.9	0.7%	-0.5%	255
66	Durham-Chapel Hill, NC	29.5	30.4	1.4%	-3.5%	258
67	Shreveport-Bossier City, LA	29.0	10.9	1.9%	-5.2%	262
68	Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC	27.7	20.3	0.0%	0.5%	270
69	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	27.7	30.2	0.1%	-3.3%	271
70	Scranton--Wilkes-Barre--Hazleton, PA	27.6	27.5	0.0%	-2.2%	272
71	Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula, MS	26.8	19.2	0.5%	-10.8%	280
72	Worcester, MA-CT NECTA	25.7	27.1	0.2%	-4.7%	290
73	Syracuse, NY	25.6	24.5	1.2%	-8.8%	291
74	Huntsville, AL	25.6	23.2	0.7%	-7.6%	292
75	Peoria, IL	25.6	26.6	-1.4%	7.8%	293
76	Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL	23.7	20.1	1.3%	-4.6%	303
77	Wichita, KS	22.9	52.3	-1.3%	-1.1%	308
78	El Paso, TX	22.8	17.1	-2.3%	3.2%	310
79	McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX	22.4	6.3	-1.6%	-0.5%	313
80	Framingham, MA NECTA Div	22.1	25.5	-1.2%	-2.3%	316
81	Portland-South Portland, ME NECTA	21.5	12.1	-0.3%	-4.0%	319
82	York-Hanover, PA	19.7	30.6	-1.1%	-6.8%	326
83	Wilmington, DE-MD-NJ Metro Div	19.2	17.8	-2.0%	-4.6%	328
84	Baltimore City, MD	18.2	11.8	-0.6%	-13.0%	335
85	Tucson, AZ	16.9	22.4	-1.9%	-8.3%	337
86	Modesto, CA	16.2	18.4	-6.6%	-4.2%	341
87	New Haven, CT NECTA	16.0	24.3	-3.1%	-8.5%	344
88	Albuquerque, NM	15.2	16.4	-3.3%	-5.6%	347
89	Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT NECTA	15.0	32.0	-3.0%	-9.7%	349
90	Springfield, MA-CT NECTA	14.3	29.1	-3.7%	-7.2%	351
91	Delaware County, PA	14.1	14.6	-3.1%	-8.5%	353
92	Calvert-Charles-Prince George's, MD	11.7	7.8	-2.1%	-27.2%	357
93	Tallahassee, FL	9.7	2.9	-1.1%	-22.1%	362

Large Cities Manufacturing Jobs - 2015 Best Cities Rankings

Mark Schill — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 15:19:15 -0400

Read about how we selected the 2015 Best Cities for Job Growth

2015 Mfg Rank - Large MSAs	Area	Weighted INDEX	2014 Mfg Emplmt (1000s)	Total Mfg Emplmt Growth Rate 2013-2014	Total Mfg Emplmt Cum Growth 2009-2014	2015 Overall Mfg Rank
1	Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia, MI Metro Div	63.6	89.3	9.8%	31.3%	16
2	Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills, MI Metro Div	61.2	157.9	5.1%	38.8%	20
3	Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI	57.0	104.3	3.7%	27.9%	40
4	Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN	55.5	79.7	3.4%	23.9%	46
5	Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	52.0	24.5	2.8%	19.9%	66
6	Oklahoma City, OK	51.7	37.9	2.4%	23.1%	68
7	Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN	50.1	74.9	3.2%	23.1%	78
8	Kansas City, MO	49.0	41.8	5.1%	8.6%	85
9	Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX	48.8	257.3	2.4%	19.8%	87
10	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	46.8	119.1	2.8%	12.7%	103
11	West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Delray Beach, FL Metro Div	43.8	16.8	3.7%	5.5%	128
12	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	43.4	192.6	2.9%	10.5%	130
13	Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO	43.4	66.4	3.8%	8.4%	131
14	Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach, FL Metro Div	43.3	27.2	2.5%	7.1%	132
15	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	43.2	161.5	3.4%	8.0%	135
16	Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL	42.2	39.8	2.9%	5.8%	139
17	Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metro Div	41.5	96.9	2.0%	11.6%	144
18	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	41.5	90.8	2.5%	6.9%	145
19	Sacramento--Roseville--Arden-Arcade, CA	41.3	35.0	3.0%	6.4%	147
20	Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN	41.1	90.6	3.3%	5.6%	150
21	Raleigh, NC	40.4	31.9	2.9%	6.0%	155
22	Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL Metro Div	40.4	37.7	2.0%	5.0%	156
23	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	39.6	153.7	2.2%	8.5%	166
24	Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC	39.5	100.5	2.4%	9.5%	167
25	Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN	39.1	109.4	1.8%	5.9%	169
26	Oakland-Hayward-Berkeley, CA Metro Div	38.5	82.8	2.6%	3.3%	175
27	St. Louis, MO-IL	38.1	113.1	2.7%	5.2%	179
28	San Francisco-Redwood City-South San Francisco, CA Metro Div	38.0	36.0	2.1%	2.0%	183
29	Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV	37.1	21.2	0.5%	5.8%	191
30	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA NECTA	37.0	52.2	2.4%	2.8%	192
31	Austin-Round Rock, TX	36.9	57.7	-0.3%	10.7%	193
32	Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL	36.4	61.2	0.9%	5.0%	196
33	Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI	36.1	120.9	1.3%	8.1%	200
34	Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA Metro Div	35.9	169.9	0.0%	12.9%	202
35	Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine, CA Metro Div	35.1	160.1	1.1%	7.2%	207
36	San Diego-Carlsbad, CA	34.7	97.0	1.0%	5.2%	210
37	Birmingham-Hoover, AL	34.7	38.4	-0.5%	7.3%	211
38	Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls, NY	34.0	52.2	0.4%	5.1%	215
39	Columbus, OH	33.8	69.7	0.0%	6.8%	218
40	Cleveland-Elyria, OH	32.6	124.0	-0.2%	7.6%	230
41	Urban Honolulu, HI	32.2	11.0	0.6%	2.8%	232
42	Pittsburgh, PA	32.1	90.2	1.3%	3.5%	234
43	Montgomery County-Bucks County-Chester County, PA Metro Div	31.5	91.2	1.3%	-0.5%	242
44	Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ	30.9	117.1	-0.2%	5.0%	244
45	Middlesex-Monmouth-Ocean, NJ	30.8	43.7	1.4%	-1.2%	246
46	Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC	30.7	54.7	0.1%	3.4%	247
47	Jacksonville, FL	30.5	28.0	1.6%	-0.1%	250
48	Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA	30.1	32.0	-1.4%	2.6%	252
49	Salt Lake City, UT	29.7	54.0	-0.2%	5.1%	257
50	Kansas City, KS	29.2	30.1	1.9%	-3.3%	260
51	Northern Virginia, VA	28.9	23.9	0.4%	-0.8%	263
52	San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX	28.6	45.7	-0.9%	5.6%	266
53	Richmond, VA	28.5	31.0	0.3%	-2.8%	267
54	Silver Spring-Frederick-Rockville, MD Metro Div	28.3	16.4	1.9%	-6.5%	268
55	Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX Metro Div	28.0	166.3	1.1%	-0.9%	269
56	Memphis, TN-MS-AR	27.4	44.4	0.8%	-1.1%	274
57	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA NECTA Div	26.0	82.2	-0.3%	-0.8%	288
58	Camden, NJ Metro Div	24.1	35.2	0.3%	-7.5%	299
59	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, CA Metro Div	24.0	363.9	-1.0%	-2.9%	300
60	Chicago-Naperville-Arlington Heights, IL Metro Div	23.2	278.2	-0.8%	-1.5%	305
61	Rochester, NY	22.6	58.8	-0.6%	-4.1%	312
62	New York City, NY	22.1	74.7	-2.4%	-3.3%	317
63	Newark, NJ-PA Metro Div	21.5	79.8	-1.8%	-5.4%	320
64	Nassau County-Suffolk County, NY Metro Div	20.7	71.5	-2.1%	-2.4%	322
65	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT NECTA	19.9	54.9	-1.4%	-3.1%	324
66	Bergen-Hudson-Passaic, NJ	19.2	57.2	-2.6%	-5.7%	327
67	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metro Div	18.4	33.3	-1.3%	-10.7%	334
68	Philadelphia City, PA	17.0	21.4	-1.2%	-14.2%	336
69	Orange-Rockland-Westchester, NY	13.5	29.3	-3.4%	-9.7%	355
70	New Orleans-Metairie, LA	9.8	30.1	-5.0%	-15.3%	361

All Cities Manufacturing Jobs - 2015 Best Cities Rankings

Mark Schill — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 15:19:00 -0400

Read about how we selected the 2015 Best Cities for Job Growth

2015 Overall Mfg Rank	Area	Weighted INDEX	2014 Mfg Emplmt (1000s)	Total Mfg Emplmt Growth Rate 2013-2014	Total Mfg Emplmt Cum Growth 2009-2014
1	Madera, CA	74.4	4.6	10.3%	59.8%
2	Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island, FL	74.0	3.5	10.5%	40.0%
3	Sebastian-Vero Beach, FL	71.3	2.1	4.9%	39.1%
4	San Rafael, CA Metro Div	70.5	3.8	17.7%	76.6%
5	Midland, TX	68.9	4.1	8.8%	72.2%
6	Grants Pass, OR	68.6	2.9	19.2%	26.1%
7	Pueblo, CO	68.4	4.8	7.5%	22.2%
8	Merced, CA	68.3	10.7	26.8%	35.3%
9	Lewiston, ID-WA	67.7	4.1	2.5%	40.9%
10	College Station-Bryan, TX	67.2	6.2	10.7%	19.2%
11	Elizabethtown-Fort Knox, KY	66.4	7.3	10.7%	42.5%
12	Columbus, IN	65.5	19.2	7.4%	43.2%
13	Auburn-Opelika, AL	65.1	6.6	5.9%	19.3%
14	Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA	65.0	6.1	7.6%	26.9%
15	Idaho Falls, ID	64.1	3.9	4.5%	34.9%
16	Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia, MI Metro Div	63.6	89.3	9.8%	31.3%
17	Kokomo, IN	63.3	11.6	4.8%	42.6%
18	Odessa, TX	63.0	5.8	7.4%	46.2%
19	Toledo, OH	62.7	44.0	6.7%	27.4%
20	Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills, MI Metro Div	61.2	157.9	5.1%	38.8%
21	Bend-Redmond, OR	60.9	4.5	5.4%	24.8%
22	Elkhart-Goshen, IN	60.8	57.8	3.9%	41.9%
23	Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA	60.5	6.4	6.0%	23.7%
24	Monroe, MI	60.3	5.6	8.4%	28.5%
25	Napa, CA	59.9	12.3	8.5%	17.9%
26	Savannah, GA	59.8	16.5	6.2%	20.5%
27	Medford, OR	59.6	7.6	6.1%	24.0%
28	Jackson, MI	59.5	9.6	4.0%	33.8%
29	Vallejo-Fairfield, CA	58.9	11.1	7.4%	16.0%
30	Prescott, AZ	58.7	3.3	1.0%	31.6%
31	Fort Collins, CO	58.5	12.6	7.1%	20.4%
32	Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN	58.5	17.3	4.4%	26.7%
33	Baton Rouge, LA	57.6	29.5	4.5%	20.2%
34	Chambersburg-Waynesboro, PA	57.5	10.0	3.1%	31.4%
35	Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL	57.5	5.1	4.8%	20.3%
36	St. George, UT	57.2	2.8	3.7%	25.4%
37	Kennewick-Richland, WA	57.2	7.7	7.5%	15.6%
38	Portsmouth, NH-ME NECTA	57.1	7.6	3.2%	21.2%
39	Tuscaloosa, AL	57.1	15.2	8.9%	12.9%
40	Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI	57.0	104.3	3.7%	27.9%
41	Bakersfield, CA	56.5	15.0	4.9%	17.8%
42	Flint, MI	56.4	12.5	4.5%	31.2%
43	Grand Forks, ND-MN	56.3	4.0	8.1%	11.1%
44	Muskegon, MI	56.2	13.2	3.9%	33.8%
45	Port St. Lucie, FL	55.9	6.0	2.3%	24.3%
46	Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN	55.5	79.7	3.4%	23.9%
47	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles-Arroyo Grande, CA	55.2	6.9	6.2%	19.7%
48	Springfield, MO	55.2	15.1	5.9%	19.9%
49	Lafayette, LA	55.1	20.2	0.0%	34.3%
50	Columbia, SC	55.0	30.6	7.0%	13.7%
51	Niles-Benton Harbor, MI	54.1	13.1	4.3%	17.0%
52	Reno, NV	54.0	12.9	2.4%	15.5%
53	Ocala, FL	53.7	7.4	6.7%	13.8%
54	Morgantown, WV	53.5	4.5	3.1%	21.6%
55	Charleston-North Charleston, SC	53.3	25.1	3.7%	21.4%
56	Lansing-East Lansing, MI	53.2	19.7	1.5%	20.1%
57	Madison, WI	52.9	34.1	6.8%	12.0%
58	Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL	52.5	10.3	0.7%	22.1%
59	Spartanburg, SC	52.5	28.4	5.3%	16.6%
60	Ogden-Clearfield, UT	52.4	29.8	3.8%	13.6%
61	Lima, OH	52.3	8.8	5.6%	11.9%
62	Fond du Lac, WI	52.2	11.1	0.9%	28.2%
63	Kankakee, IL	52.1	5.8	-0.6%	27.7%
64	Appleton, WI	52.1	24.1	4.8%	17.2%
65	Greeley, CO	52.1	12.0	4.6%	17.2%
66	Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	52.0	24.5	2.8%	19.9%
67	Panama City, FL	51.8	3.7	0.9%	16.7%
68	Oklahoma City, OK	51.7	37.9	2.4%	23.1%
69	Stockton-Lodi, CA	51.7	18.8	7.0%	7.2%
70	Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL	51.3	9.3	-3.1%	31.8%
71	Bowling Green, KY	51.1	10.5	3.3%	20.7%
72	Provo-Orem, UT	50.8	18.7	2.4%	16.4%
73	North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, FL	50.6	15.6	3.1%	19.1%
74	Kalamazoo-Portage, MI	50.6	20.4	4.3%	11.9%
75	Gettysburg, PA	50.5	6.9	4.0%	12.4%
76	Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina, HI	50.4	1.2	0.0%	20.0%
77	Anchorage, AK	50.1	2.3	6.2%	16.9%
78	Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN	50.1	74.9	3.2%	23.1%
79	Yakima, WA	49.9	8.4	4.1%	16.7%
80	Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL	49.7	6.1	3.4%	14.5%
81	Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX	49.6	22.4	3.7%	16.5%
82	Bellingham, WA	49.6	9.3	2.2%	22.5%
83	Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL	49.1	16.5	0.8%	15.4%
84	Tulsa, OK	49.1	52.1	3.7%	20.6%
85	Kansas City, MO	49.0	41.8	5.1%	8.6%
86	Janesville-Beloit, WI	49.0	9.4	2.9%	17.1%
87	Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX	48.8	257.3	2.4%	19.8%
88	Danville, IL	48.6	5.3	12.9%	9.0%
89	Mobile, AL	48.6	18.9	0.7%	32.4%
90	Sioux Falls, SD	48.5	13.9	3.0%	17.2%
91	Boulder, CO	48.5	17.7	2.5%	18.8%
92	Sheboygan, WI	48.5	20.5	2.7%	11.2%
93	Trenton, NJ	48.3	9.4	8.5%	1.4%
94	Santa Fe, NM	47.8	0.9	4.0%	8.3%
95	Canton-Massillon, OH	47.7	28.4	2.8%	18.0%
96	Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin, SC	47.6	54.7	2.8%	13.6%
97	Wenatchee, WA	47.5	2.5	1.4%	17.5%
98	Battle Creek, MI	47.5	11.5	3.0%	12.1%
99	Coeur d'Alene, ID	47.2	4.9	-3.3%	21.7%
100	Ithaca, NY	47.0	3.5	2.0%	16.9%
101	Visalia-Porterville, CA	47.0	12.2	5.2%	8.0%
102	Chico, CA	47.0	3.8	4.5%	15.0%
103	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	46.8	119.1	2.8%	12.7%
104	Yuma, AZ	46.8	2.2	1.5%	31.4%
105	Sumter, SC	46.6	6.6	3.1%	8.2%
106	Jackson, MS	45.9	18.2	4.8%	9.6%
107	Lincoln, NE	45.8	14.1	3.2%	12.8%
108	Winston-Salem, NC	45.6	31.0	4.6%	4.1%
109	Fargo, ND-MN	45.6	10.3	1.0%	19.8%
110	Longview, WA	45.4	6.5	2.1%	12.0%
111	Olympia-Tumwater, WA	45.4	3.3	4.2%	7.6%
112	Bismarck, ND	45.4	2.0	5.2%	-1.6%
113	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	45.3	12.5	4.7%	9.6%
114	Salem, OR	45.1	11.7	3.5%	5.7%
115	Dalton, GA	44.8	23.2	7.2%	-1.7%
116	Wausau, WI	44.8	15.6	3.1%	7.3%
117	Saginaw, MI	44.8	11.9	-0.8%	27.1%
118	Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA	44.7	20.0	1.5%	13.0%
119	Punta Gorda, FL	44.6	0.7	0.0%	40.0%
120	Fort Wayne, IN	44.6	34.9	1.4%	14.7%
121	Evansville, IN-KY	44.6	23.0	5.3%	4.7%
122	Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC	44.5	4.6	3.7%	8.6%
123	Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA	44.5	21.0	4.1%	5.5%
124	Springfield, OH	44.3	6.7	2.0%	10.5%
125	Rockford, IL	44.3	32.1	2.0%	24.1%
126	Gadsden, AL	44.0	5.2	4.7%	8.3%
127	Gary, IN Metro Div	43.8	37.2	2.7%	10.1%
128	West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Delray Beach, FL Metro Div	43.8	16.8	3.7%	5.5%
129	Eugene, OR	43.6	13.0	1.8%	8.9%
130	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	43.4	192.6	2.9%	10.5%
131	Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO	43.4	66.4	3.8%	8.4%
132	Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach, FL Metro Div	43.3	27.2	2.5%	7.1%
133	Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA	43.3	30.7	1.7%	17.5%
134	Grand Junction, CO	43.2	2.8	1.2%	12.0%
135	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	43.2	161.5	3.4%	8.0%
136	Dayton, OH	43.2	39.6	3.3%	12.4%
137	Montgomery, AL	42.7	18.9	2.9%	11.2%
138	Barnstable Town, MA NECTA	42.6	3.0	1.1%	9.6%
139	Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL	42.2	39.8	2.9%	5.8%
140	Lake Charles, LA	42.1	9.4	2.9%	5.2%
141	Lake County-Kenosha County, IL-WI Metro Div	42.0	59.1	1.5%	9.1%
142	Greenville, NC	41.6	6.8	3.0%	13.4%
143	Pittsfield, MA NECTA	41.6	3.9	6.4%	0.0%
144	Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metro Div	41.5	96.9	2.0%	11.6%
145	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	41.5	90.8	2.5%	6.9%
146	Boise City, ID	41.4	24.8	1.8%	11.5%
147	Sacramento--Roseville--Arden-Arcade, CA	41.3	35.0	3.0%	6.4%
148	Redding, CA	41.3	2.3	1.5%	1.5%
149	Racine, WI	41.2	18.8	0.7%	16.0%
150	Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN	41.1	90.6	3.3%	5.6%
151	Reading, PA	41.1	30.5	2.2%	10.6%
152	Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH	40.7	11.5	3.6%	4.9%
153	Bremerton-Silverdale, WA	40.6	2.1	0.0%	10.5%
154	Clarksville, TN-KY	40.4	10.1	3.1%	9.4%
155	Raleigh, NC	40.4	31.9	2.9%	6.0%
156	Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL Metro Div	40.4	37.7	2.0%	5.0%
157	South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI	40.2	17.1	3.6%	7.6%
158	Watertown-Fort Drum, NY	40.2	2.4	6.0%	0.0%
159	Columbus, GA-AL	40.2	10.8	-0.9%	16.9%
160	Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA	40.1	16.9	1.8%	7.9%
161	Lewiston-Auburn, ME NECTA	40.1	5.2	4.0%	1.3%
162	Charlottesville, VA	40.0	3.8	4.6%	0.0%
163	Haverhill-Newburyport-Amesbury Town, MA-NH NECTA Div	39.9	9.1	0.4%	9.7%
164	Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC	39.8	39.0	2.4%	5.2%
165	Burlington, NC	39.7	8.7	5.2%	4.0%
166	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	39.6	153.7	2.2%	8.5%
167	Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC	39.5	100.5	2.4%	9.5%
168	Dover-Durham, NH-ME NECTA	39.4	5.2	1.3%	7.6%
169	Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN	39.1	109.4	1.8%	5.9%
170	Hanford-Corcoran, CA	39.0	4.2	0.8%	5.0%
171	St. Cloud, MN	38.9	15.3	2.0%	7.5%
172	Lexington-Fayette, KY	38.9	30.7	2.7%	3.0%
173	Abilene, TX	38.8	2.9	3.6%	-1.1%
174	Walla Walla, WA	38.6	3.6	0.9%	9.2%
175	Oakland-Hayward-Berkeley, CA Metro Div	38.5	82.8	2.6%	3.3%
176	Albany, OR	38.4	7.0	1.4%	5.0%
177	Rapid City, SD	38.3	2.8	-1.2%	13.5%
178	Logan, UT-ID	38.2	11.3	1.8%	6.9%
179	St. Louis, MO-IL	38.1	113.1	2.7%	5.2%
180	Longview, TX	38.1	10.5	6.8%	-0.6%
181	San Angelo, TX	38.0	3.5	9.4%	2.9%
182	Cleveland, TN	38.0	8.9	-2.9%	18.7%
183	San Francisco-Redwood City-South San Francisco, CA Metro Div	38.0	36.0	2.1%	2.0%
184	Mansfield, OH	37.9	9.6	1.4%	9.1%
185	Erie, PA	37.8	22.2	1.1%	14.7%
186	Chattanooga, TN-GA	37.8	30.8	1.1%	11.3%
187	Morristown, TN	37.6	10.3	1.0%	0.0%
188	Roanoke, VA	37.4	16.7	2.4%	5.7%
189	Flagstaff, AZ	37.4	4.2	0.8%	15.5%
190	Green Bay, WI	37.2	29.2	0.8%	8.0%
191	Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV	37.1	21.2	0.5%	5.8%
192	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA NECTA	37.0	52.2	2.4%	2.8%
193	Austin-Round Rock, TX	36.9	57.7	-0.3%	10.7%
194	Owensboro, KY	36.5	8.5	1.2%	7.2%
195	Dover, DE	36.4	4.8	1.4%	3.6%
196	Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL	36.4	61.2	0.9%	5.0%
197	Kingston, NY	36.3	3.5	4.0%	-1.9%
198	Knoxville, TN	36.2	35.5	1.5%	8.8%
199	Tacoma-Lakewood, WA Metro Div	36.1	17.3	-0.2%	6.6%
200	Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI	36.1	120.9	1.3%	8.1%
201	Casper, WY	36.0	1.8	0.0%	17.0%
202	Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA Metro Div	35.9	169.9	0.0%	12.9%
203	Asheville, NC	35.8	19.0	1.1%	6.7%
204	Elgin, IL Metro Div	35.8	34.9	1.2%	8.8%
205	Taunton-Middleborough-Norton, MA NECTA Div	35.6	6.2	1.1%	1.6%
206	Sioux City, IA-NE-SD	35.5	15.2	1.3%	1.3%
207	Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine, CA Metro Div	35.1	160.1	1.1%	7.2%
208	Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL	34.8	24.3	-0.4%	11.3%
209	Greensboro-High Point, NC	34.7	53.8	0.9%	6.1%
210	San Diego-Carlsbad, CA	34.7	97.0	1.0%	5.2%
211	Birmingham-Hoover, AL	34.7	38.4	-0.5%	7.3%
212	Muncie, IN	34.4	4.2	0.8%	9.6%
213	Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ	34.3	35.7	2.2%	1.4%
214	Santa Rosa, CA	34.0	20.2	0.5%	2.9%
215	Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls, NY	34.0	52.2	0.4%	5.1%
216	Killeen-Temple, TX	34.0	7.4	0.9%	1.8%
217	Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR	33.9	20.3	3.2%	-2.2%
218	Columbus, OH	33.8	69.7	0.0%	6.8%
219	Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ	33.8	2.8	2.4%	0.0%
220	Corpus Christi, TX	33.5	9.9	1.7%	5.3%
221	Sherman-Denison, TX	33.5	5.4	1.9%	5.9%
222	Monroe, LA	33.4	6.8	1.0%	3.0%
223	Fresno, CA	33.1	23.2	2.7%	-2.2%
224	Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA	32.9	17.3	-1.7%	12.1%
225	Brownsville-Harlingen, TX	32.9	5.8	3.0%	0.0%
226	Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol, TN-VA	32.9	21.6	1.4%	4.7%
227	Michigan City-La Porte, IN	32.8	7.6	1.8%	5.6%
228	Brockton-Bridgewater-Easton, MA NECTA Div	32.8	5.5	0.0%	-0.6%
229	Eau Claire, WI	32.7	10.4	0.0%	6.8%
230	Cleveland-Elyria, OH	32.6	124.0	-0.2%	7.6%
231	Akron, OH	32.6	39.9	0.3%	7.3%
232	Urban Honolulu, HI	32.2	11.0	0.6%	2.8%
233	Colorado Springs, CO	32.1	11.8	-1.4%	5.7%
234	Pittsburgh, PA	32.1	90.2	1.3%	3.5%
235	Fort Smith, AR-OK	32.1	18.2	2.4%	-8.5%
236	Yuba City, CA	32.0	2.1	0.0%	8.6%
237	Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR-MO	31.9	27.5	2.1%	-4.5%
238	Lawton, OK	31.8	3.6	0.0%	0.9%
239	Jackson, TN	31.8	9.7	1.4%	-1.0%
240	Anniston-Oxford-Jacksonville, AL	31.6	5.9	1.1%	-0.6%
241	Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford, MA-NH NECTA Div	31.5	22.2	0.3%	1.5%
242	Montgomery County-Bucks County-Chester County, PA Metro Div	31.5	91.2	1.3%	-0.5%
243	Lubbock, TX	31.0	4.9	2.8%	0.7%
244	Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ	30.9	117.1	-0.2%	5.0%
245	La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN	30.8	8.5	-1.2%	5.8%
246	Middlesex-Monmouth-Ocean, NJ	30.8	43.7	1.4%	-1.2%
247	Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC	30.7	54.7	0.1%	3.4%
248	Salisbury, MD-DE	30.6	14.2	1.2%	-2.1%
249	Johnson City, TN	30.6	7.6	3.2%	-3.8%
250	Jacksonville, FL	30.5	28.0	1.6%	-0.1%
251	New Bedford, MA NECTA	30.5	7.9	3.5%	0.9%
252	Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA	30.1	32.0	-1.4%	2.6%
253	Ann Arbor, MI	30.0	14.1	0.5%	2.4%
254	Bloomington, IL	29.8	4.8	-2.0%	7.5%
255	Lancaster, PA	29.8	35.9	0.7%	-0.5%
256	Champaign-Urbana, IL	29.8	8.1	1.3%	2.1%
257	Salt Lake City, UT	29.7	54.0	-0.2%	5.1%
258	Durham-Chapel Hill, NC	29.5	30.4	1.4%	-3.5%
259	Vineland-Bridgeton, NJ	29.4	8.3	0.4%	-0.4%
260	Kansas City, KS	29.2	30.1	1.9%	-3.3%
261	Charleston, WV	29.1	3.4	-1.0%	-1.9%
262	Shreveport-Bossier City, LA	29.0	10.9	1.9%	-5.2%
263	Northern Virginia, VA	28.9	23.9	0.4%	-0.8%
264	Topeka, KS	28.9	7.1	0.9%	2.9%
265	Rome, GA	28.8	5.7	1.8%	-7.6%
266	San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX	28.6	45.7	-0.9%	5.6%
267	Richmond, VA	28.5	31.0	0.3%	-2.8%
268	Silver Spring-Frederick-Rockville, MD Metro Div	28.3	16.4	1.9%	-6.5%
269	Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX Metro Div	28.0	166.3	1.1%	-0.9%
270	Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC	27.7	20.3	0.0%	0.5%
271	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	27.7	30.2	0.1%	-3.3%
272	Scranton--Wilkes-Barre--Hazleton, PA	27.6	27.5	0.0%	-2.2%
273	Lawrence-Methuen Town-Salem, MA-NH NECTA Div	27.5	9.4	-0.7%	1.4%
274	Memphis, TN-MS-AR	27.4	44.4	0.8%	-1.1%
275	Cheyenne, WY	27.3	1.4	-2.4%	-6.8%
276	Cedar Rapids, IA	27.3	20.1	0.5%	-0.2%
277	Lynchburg, VA	27.2	14.6	0.0%	-0.9%
278	Texarkana, TX-AR	27.2	5.3	1.3%	-1.3%
279	Norwich-New London-Westerly, CT-RI NECTA	27.1	14.8	-0.2%	-2.8%
280	Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula, MS	26.8	19.2	0.5%	-10.8%
281	Peabody-Salem-Beverly, MA NECTA Div	26.7	7.7	-0.9%	-0.9%
282	Utica-Rome, NY	26.5	11.1	-0.9%	-2.1%
283	Tyler, TX	26.5	5.6	1.8%	-17.2%
284	Altoona, PA	26.3	7.5	-1.7%	2.3%
285	Joplin, MO	26.3	12.8	1.1%	-5.4%
286	Duluth, MN-WI	26.0	7.1	-1.8%	6.5%
287	Decatur, AL	26.0	11.9	-2.2%	0.0%
288	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA NECTA Div	26.0	82.2	-0.3%	-0.8%
289	Carson City, NV	25.8	2.6	-3.7%	2.7%
290	Worcester, MA-CT NECTA	25.7	27.1	0.2%	-4.7%
291	Syracuse, NY	25.6	24.5	1.2%	-8.8%
292	Huntsville, AL	25.6	23.2	0.7%	-7.6%
293	Peoria, IL	25.6	26.6	-1.4%	7.8%
294	Amarillo, TX	25.0	13.1	-1.8%	1.0%
295	State College, PA	24.9	3.9	-1.7%	3.5%
296	Bloomington, IN	24.8	8.6	0.4%	1.6%
297	Victoria, TX	24.8	2.6	0.0%	1.3%
298	Albany, GA	24.3	4.3	0.0%	-4.4%
299	Camden, NJ Metro Div	24.1	35.2	0.3%	-7.5%
300	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, CA Metro Div	24.0	363.9	-1.0%	-2.9%
301	Manchester, NH NECTA	23.8	7.7	-0.9%	-3.3%
302	Bloomsburg-Berwick, PA	23.8	5.6	-2.9%	0.6%
303	Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL	23.7	20.1	1.3%	-4.6%
304	Waco, TX	23.3	14.4	-2.7%	0.9%
305	Chicago-Naperville-Arlington Heights, IL Metro Div	23.2	278.2	-0.8%	-1.5%
306	Terre Haute, IN	23.2	10.9	-4.1%	6.2%
307	Springfield, IL	22.9	3.0	0.0%	-8.2%
308	Wichita, KS	22.9	52.3	-1.3%	-1.1%
309	East Stroudsburg, PA	22.8	4.6	0.7%	-9.2%
310	El Paso, TX	22.8	17.1	-2.3%	3.2%
311	Lebanon, PA	22.6	8.7	-3.7%	2.3%
312	Rochester, NY	22.6	58.8	-0.6%	-4.1%
313	McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX	22.4	6.3	-1.6%	-0.5%
314	Nashua, NH-MA NECTA Div	22.4	19.7	0.3%	-6.6%
315	Decatur, IL	22.3	10.1	0.0%	0.3%
316	Framingham, MA NECTA Div	22.1	25.5	-1.2%	-2.3%
317	New York City, NY	22.1	74.7	-2.4%	-3.3%
318	Leominster-Gardner, MA NECTA	21.8	6.1	-0.5%	-10.7%
319	Portland-South Portland, ME NECTA	21.5	12.1	-0.3%	-4.0%
320	Newark, NJ-PA Metro Div	21.5	79.8	-1.8%	-5.4%
321	Rochester, MN	21.4	10.7	0.0%	-2.7%
322	Nassau County-Suffolk County, NY Metro Div	20.7	71.5	-2.1%	-2.4%
323	Rocky Mount, NC	20.0	10.2	-1.6%	-7.0%
324	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT NECTA	19.9	54.9	-1.4%	-3.1%
325	Salinas, CA	19.8	5.0	-3.2%	-5.6%
326	York-Hanover, PA	19.7	30.6	-1.1%	-6.8%
327	Bergen-Hudson-Passaic, NJ	19.2	57.2	-2.6%	-5.7%
328	Wilmington, DE-MD-NJ Metro Div	19.2	17.8	-2.0%	-4.6%
329	Glens Falls, NY	19.1	6.0	-1.1%	-4.8%
330	Gainesville, FL	19.0	4.2	-0.8%	-3.8%
331	Williamsport, PA	18.6	8.0	-1.2%	-9.1%
332	Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV	18.5	7.5	-3.0%	-6.7%
333	Corvallis, OR	18.4	3.0	0.0%	-12.7%
334	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metro Div	18.4	33.3	-1.3%	-10.7%
335	Baltimore City, MD	18.2	11.8	-0.6%	-13.0%
336	Philadelphia City, PA	17.0	21.4	-1.2%	-14.2%
337	Tucson, AZ	16.9	22.4	-1.9%	-8.3%
338	Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ	16.9	2.0	0.0%	-10.3%
339	Wichita Falls, TX	16.7	5.1	-3.7%	-3.7%
340	Waterbury, CT NECTA	16.3	7.3	-6.0%	-3.1%
341	Modesto, CA	16.2	18.4	-6.6%	-4.2%
342	Bay City, MI	16.2	3.8	-3.4%	-5.0%
343	Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ	16.1	0.5	-6.3%	-11.8%
344	New Haven, CT NECTA	16.0	24.3	-3.1%	-8.5%
345	Hattiesburg, MS	15.8	4.0	-2.4%	-4.8%
346	Burlington-South Burlington, VT NECTA	15.5	13.4	-3.1%	-5.0%
347	Albuquerque, NM	15.2	16.4	-3.3%	-5.6%
348	Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH	15.2	5.5	-3.5%	-12.8%
349	Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT NECTA	15.0	32.0	-3.0%	-9.7%
350	Johnstown, PA	14.6	3.8	-1.7%	-14.3%
351	Springfield, MA-CT NECTA	14.3	29.1	-3.7%	-7.2%
352	Oshkosh-Neenah, WI	14.2	22.0	-2.4%	-7.4%
353	Delaware County, PA	14.1	14.6	-3.1%	-8.5%
354	Elmira, NY	13.8	5.1	0.0%	-11.0%
355	Orange-Rockland-Westchester, NY	13.5	29.3	-3.4%	-9.7%
356	Lynn-Saugus-Marblehead, MA NECTA Div	13.4	4.5	-3.6%	-7.5%
357	Calvert-Charles-Prince George's, MD	11.7	7.8	-2.1%	-27.2%
358	Fairbanks, AK	10.6	0.5	-21.1%	-11.8%
359	Wilmington, NC	10.6	5.7	-3.9%	-14.9%
360	Parkersburg-Vienna, WV	9.9	3.0	-4.3%	-16.0%
361	New Orleans-Metairie, LA	9.8	30.1	-5.0%	-15.3%
362	Tallahassee, FL	9.7	2.9	-1.1%	-22.1%
363	Wheeling, WV-OH	9.7	3.0	-5.3%	-16.7%
364	Laredo, TX	9.2	0.7	-12.5%	-12.5%
365	Dutchess County-Putnam County, NY Metro Div	7.8	10.4	-4.3%	-19.1%
366	Bangor, ME NECTA	7.1	2.4	-4.1%	-25.3%
367	Fayetteville, NC	6.9	7.9	-5.6%	-18.5%
368	Dothan, AL	6.9	4.3	-7.9%	-23.7%
369	Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL	6.7	3.5	-8.7%	-22.8%
370	Las Cruces, NM	6.4	2.5	-7.5%	-17.8%
371	Binghamton, NY	5.3	11.6	-2.8%	-21.3%
372	Pocatello, ID	0.2	1.5	-16.4%	-28.1%
373	El Centro, CA	0.0	1.0	-56.5%	-61.5%

The Cities Creating The Most White-Collar Jobs

Joel Kotkin and Michael Shires — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 17:17:22 -0400

In our modern economy, the biggest wellspring of new jobs isn’t the information sector, as hype might lead some to think, but the somewhat nebulous category of business services. Over the past decade, business services has emerged as easily the largest high-wage sector in the United States, employing 19.1 million people. These are the white-collar jobs that most people believe offer a ladder into the middle class. Dominated by administrative services and management jobs, the sector also includes critical skilled workers in legal services, design services, scientific research , and even a piece of the tech sector with computer systems and design. Since 2004, while the number of manufacturing and information jobs in the U.S. has fallen, the business services sector has grown 21%, adding 3.4 million positions.

Given these facts, mapping the geography of business services employment growth is crucial to getting a grip on the emerging shape of regional economies. And because business services cover such a wide spectrum of activities, there is no one kind of area that does best. Business services thrive in a host of often different environments, far more so than the more narrow patterns we see in manufacturing or information. To generate our rankings of the best places for business services jobs, we looked at employment growth in the 366 metropolitan statistical areas for which BLS has complete data going back to 2003, weighting growth over the short-, medium- and long-term in that span, and factoring in momentum — whether growth is slowing or accelerating. (For a detailed description of our methodology, click here.)

Tech-Service Hubs

Increasingly much of what we call tech is really about business services. Companies that primarily use technology to sell a product generally require many ancillary services, from accounting and public relations to market research. Apple, Google, and Facebook clearly demand many services, and that’s one reason why San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara ranks first on our big metro areas list (those with at least 450,000 jobs). Since 2009, business service employment has expanded 34.7% in the area; just last year the sector expanded 7.9%. The Bay Area’s other tech rich region, San Francisco-Redwood City-South San Francisco, ranks second.

This linkage of tech with business services can be seen in other information-oriented parts of the country. Both third-ranked Raleigh, N.C., and No. 5 Austin, Texas, are also tech hubs, and boast rapidly expanding business service sectors. They are also much less expensive places to do business, which may suggest these areas will be well positioned to capture more service jobs if bubble-licious stock and real estate prices undermine some of the economic logic that has driven business in the Bay Area.

The key here may also be cultural. Workers in business services tend to be well educated, and younger employees may well share the lifestyle preferences that have led workers to the Bay Area, as well as such moderately hip places as Austin. Their higher wages help defray the spiraling costs of living in these desired locations and millennials’ and, at least until their 30s, keep them closer to the urban core.

Sun Belt Service Boom Towns

The balance of our top 10 business service locations are all in the Sun Belt. For the most part, these are lower cost places that have enough amenities and transportation links to attract and nurture business service firms. The strongest example is Nashville, ranked fourth on our list, where business service employment has soared 41.4% over the past five years. Much of this growth is tied to health services, entertainment and staffing services.

The re-emergence of No. 10 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell is particularly marked, as we saw in our overall rankings. Business service growth has led economist Marci Rossell to predict a net gain of 140,000 jobs for the metro area this year, which would be the first time it has netted more than 100,000 since 1999.

The Traditional Big Players

Business services have long clustered in the largest American cities. But with the exception of the Bay Area, greater Dallas and Atlanta, few of our biggest metro areas did particularly well on our list. Indeed of those areas with over 2 million business service jobs, the next highest ranking belongs to No. 21 Houston, which has seen a healthy 27.8% growth in this sector since 2009.

Other mega-regions have not done nearly as well. The largest business service economy, that of New York City, with over 4.1 million jobs in this sector, ranks 29th, with good but not spectacular 20.5% growth over the past five years. But New York, as we have seen on our overall list of The Best Cities For Jobs, consistently outpaces its major rivals. Chicago lags on our business services list in 42nd place, with 18.1% growth over the past five years, and Los Angeles, which once saw itself as a serious challenger to New York, ranks 44th, with 17.4% job growth over that span.

Perhaps the biggest surprise has been the relatively weak record of the capital area. A major beneficiary of the stimulus, it appears now to be slipping in ways no one could have anticipated. The Washington- Arlington- Alexandria MSA, with over 2.5 million business service jobs, ranked 65th out of the 70 largest metro areas; neighboring Silver Spring-Frederick- Rockville won the dubious distinction of coming in dead last, the only large metro area to actually lose business service jobs. Washington’s “beltway bandits” have long thrived during periods of government growth. But after a boom during the early stimulus, Republican controls on spending have filtered into the business service economy. “D.C.,” noted the Washington City Paper, “went from the star of the recession to the runt of the recovery.”

Potential Rising Stars

Some might type-cast business service jobs as the domain of large metropolitan regions, clustered particularly in well-developed downtowns. Yet growth also is occurring in small and mid-sized cities, which often enjoy lower costs than their big city cousins. These are clearly some advantages to being in a big urban center in terms of amenities and face-to-face connections, but smaller cities are generally more attractive to middle class families, particularly to middle managers who might not be able to live decently in the hyper-expensive areas.

One prime example is our fastest growing mid-sized region, Provo-Orem, Utah, where business service employment has surged 46.5% since 2009 to 29,600 jobs. Located south of Salt Lake City, and home to Brigham Young University, the area has long attracted manufacturers and tech firms, who provide a base for business service providers. Indeed small and mid-sized college towns have seen some of the most rapid growth. This includes our No. 1 small and overall metro area, Auburn-Opelika Ala., which has posted 66.7% growth in business services employment since 2009 (albeit off a small base – total employment in the metro area is just 60,700). Just behind is Tuscaloosa, Ala., another small town built around a big university (“Roll Tide”) and some smaller colleges. (For our overall top 10 list, click here.)

But, as we have seen elsewhere, business service growth also tends to be strongest in areas with expanding other industries. For example, Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, Ark., ranked fourth on our mid-sized metro area list, is also home to Walmart, a company that provides opportunities for local business service firms. Overall 11 of the top 12 areas for business service job growth are small and one, Provo-Orem, is midsized.

These rapidly growing service regions could prove big winners in the years ahead. As telecommunication technology consistently destroys the tyranny of distance, more service firms may find it less expensive, and convenient, to locate their activities elsewhere. Just as manufacturing shifted out of the bigger cities, we could soon see a movement of business service providers as well, which would be a great boom to hundreds of small and medium-size regions.

Michael Shires, Ph.D. is a professor at Pepperdine University School of Public Policy.

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Large Business Services Jobs - 2015 Best Cities Rankings

Mark Schill — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 16:30:18 -0400

Small Sized Cities

Medium Sized Cities

Large Sized Cities

All Cities

Read about how we selected the 2015 Best Cities for Job Growth

We used five measures of growth to rank MSAs over the past 10 years. “Large” areas include those with a current nonfarm employment base of at least 450,000 jobs. “Midsize” areas range from 150,000 to 450,000 jobs. “Small” areas have as many as 150,000 jobs. This year’s rankings reflect the new Office of Management and Budget definitions of MSAs for all series released after March 2015. As a result, the MSA listed in this year’s rankings do not necessary correspond directly to those listed in prior years. In some instances, MSAs were consolidated with others — for example Pascagoula, MS, was combined with the Gulfport-Biloxi, MS, MSA to form the new Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula, MS, MSA. Others were separated from previously consolidated MSAs and in still other instances individual counties were shifted from one MSA to another. The bottom line is that this year’s rankings are based on good time series for the newly defined MSAs but may not be precisely comparable to those listed in prior years. The total number of MSAs included in this year’s rankings has risen from 398 to 421. This year’s rankings reflect the current size of each MSA’s employment.

2015 MSA Prof & Bus Svcs Large MSA Ranking Area 2015 Prof & Bus Svcs Weighted INDEX 2014 Prof & Bus Svcs Emplmt (1000s) Total Prof & Bus Svcs Emplmt Growth Rate 2013-2014 Total Prof & Bus Svcs Emplmt Cum Growth

2009-2014 2015 MSA Prof & Bus Svcs Overall Ranking

1 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA 65.9 212.7 7.9% 34.7% 13

2 San Francisco-Redwood City-South San Francisco, CA Metro Div 65.4 256.9 9.0% 42.3% 15

3 Raleigh, NC 62.6 113.1 8.6% 36.5% 22

4 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN 59.1 136.8 4.3% 41.4% 38

5 Austin-Round Rock, TX 57.3 150.3 4.3% 37.2% 44

6 Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX Metro Div 57.2 437.4 6.8% 29.7% 45

7 West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Delray Beach, FL Metro Div 54.9 103.9 5.9% 25.0% 51

8 Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA 53.8 144.8 8.3% 19.5% 54

9 Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC 52.5 177.2 4.4% 26.8% 62

10 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA 51.6 469.1 5.2% 24.0% 67

11 Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI 51.1     79.5 2.7% 31.5% 68

12 Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL Metro Div 50.3 156.8 5.0% 25.8% 77

13 Kansas City, KS 50.3     87.9 4.5% 28.0% 78

14 Memphis, TN-MS-AR 50.1     97.2 3.8% 26.9% 80

15 Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA 49.9 164.8 3.8% 25.4% 81

16 Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN 49.2     84.8 6.1% 20.9% 86

17 Columbus, OH 48.9 179.0 4.0% 24.8% 89

18 Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT NECTA 48.8     70.4 4.8% 21.3% 92

19 Jacksonville, FL 48.7     99.7 3.2% 23.3% 93

20 Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV 48.3 119.7 5.4% 20.6% 97

21 Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX 48.0 469.1 3.8% 27.8% 100

22 Salt Lake City, UT 47.5 115.5 2.3% 26.1% 102

23 Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN 47.4 156.5 1.1% 26.2% 103

24 Oakland-Hayward-Berkeley, CA Metro Div 47.2 184.1 5.1% 23.1% 105

25 Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach, FL Metro Div 46.8 139.2 4.3% 19.9% 109

26 Providence-Warwick, RI-MA NECTA 45.9     66.7 2.9% 17.2% 112

27 Sacramento--Roseville--Arden-Arcade, CA 45.0 120.9 4.2% 21.1% 116

28 San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX 44.9 123.3 5.7% 17.6% 117

29 New York City, NY 44.5 682.2 4.1% 20.5% 120

30 Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine, CA Metro Div 44.4 281.6 4.3% 17.2% 121

31 Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA Metro Div 43.8 235.2 3.5% 21.9% 125

32 Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metro Div 42.9 114.0 3.1% 21.6% 131

33 Camden, NJ Metro Div 41.6     81.1 2.8% 16.1% 140

34 Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills, MI Metro Div 41.5 246.5 1.4% 26.6% 141

35 Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL 41.4 187.8 4.4% 14.8% 143

36 Oklahoma City, OK 41.4     81.9 4.7% 16.3% 144

37 Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO 41.4 242.0 2.7% 20.4% 145

38 Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN 41.0 171.4 3.7% 17.3% 147

39 Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ 40.1 318.4 2.5% 17.6% 151

40 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL 39.8 203.9 1.9% 21.1% 154

41 San Diego-Carlsbad, CA 39.4 236.1 3.3% 14.8% 160

42 Chicago-Naperville-Arlington Heights, IL Metro Div 39.1 669.9 1.7% 18.1% 162

43 Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI 37.9 304.0 3.0% 17.1% 174

44 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, CA Metro Div 37.4 613.8 0.5% 17.4% 181

45 Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA NECTA Div 36.4 331.8 1.8% 16.5% 190

46 Urban Honolulu, HI 36.2     66.9 1.4% 16.3% 191

47 Birmingham-Hoover, AL 36.2     65.5 5.3% 10.6% 192

48 Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia, MI Metro Div 35.9 123.0 2.2% 19.4% 196

49 St. Louis, MO-IL 35.6 204.0 2.0% 13.2% 200

50 Kansas City, MO 35.1     83.3 3.4% 14.4% 204

51 Cleveland-Elyria, OH 32.8 148.5 1.2% 14.9% 220

52 Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI 31.7 123.2 -0.4% 17.5% 229

53 Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA 31.2     71.1 -1.1% 14.9% 232

54 Orange-Rockland-Westchester, NY 31.0     86.6 2.0% 12.1% 234

55 Philadelphia City, PA 30.5     89.1 1.9% 10.3% 237

56 New Orleans-Metairie, LA 29.2     74.0 0.4% 9.6% 242

57 Middlesex-Monmouth-Ocean, NJ 29.1 141.2 1.0% 12.4% 244

58 Nassau County-Suffolk County, NY Metro Div 27.2 167.6 -0.4% 11.8% 256

59 Richmond, VA 26.8 100.3 2.4% 10.1% 260

60 Montgomery County-Bucks County-Chester County, PA Metro Div 26.5 192.8 1.6% 8.8% 262

61 Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC 26.1 104.3 2.0% 5.8% 264

62 Pittsburgh, PA 25.8 173.6 0.2% 13.5% 267

63 Bergen-Hudson-Passaic, NJ 25.1 140.7 -0.5% 11.1% 275

64 Rochester, NY 23.5     66.3 -0.5% 10.1% 286

65 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metro Div 21.3 584.9 1.3% 5.8% 300

66 Newark, NJ-PA Metro Div 19.9 212.7 0.0% 4.6% 306

67 Northern Virginia, VA 17.4 374.6 -0.2% 4.6% 325

68 Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls, NY 17.0     71.8 -0.2% 2.2% 330

69 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY 16.5     51.4 -0.6% 2.6% 332

70 Silver Spring-Frederick-Rockville, MD Metro Div 15.9 121.7 -0.1% -0.2% 336

Mid-Sized Cities Business Services Jobs - 2015 Best Cities Rankings

Mark Schill — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 16:29:21 -0400

Small Sized Cities

Medium Sized Cities

Large Sized Cities

All Cities

Read about how we selected the 2015 Best Cities for Job Growth

We used five measures of growth to rank MSAs over the past 10 years. “Large” areas include those with a current nonfarm employment base of at least 450,000 jobs. “Midsize” areas range from 150,000 to 450,000 jobs. “Small” areas have as many as 150,000 jobs. This year’s rankings reflect the new Office of Management and Budget definitions of MSAs for all series released after March 2015. As a result, the MSA listed in this year’s rankings do not necessary correspond directly to those listed in prior years. In some instances, MSAs were consolidated with others — for example Pascagoula, MS, was combined with the Gulfport-Biloxi, MS, MSA to form the new Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula, MS, MSA. Others were separated from previously consolidated MSAs and in still other instances individual counties were shifted from one MSA to another. The bottom line is that this year’s rankings are based on good time series for the newly defined MSAs but may not be precisely comparable to those listed in prior years. The total number of MSAs included in this year’s rankings has risen from 398 to 421. This year’s rankings reflect the current size of each MSA’s employment.

2015 MSA Prof & Bus Svcs Midsized MSA Ranking Area 2015 Prof & Bus Svcs Weighted INDEX 2014 Prof & Bus Svcs Emplmt (1000s) Total Prof & Bus Svcs Emplmt Growth Rate 2013-2014 Total Prof & Bus Svcs Emplmt Cum Growth

2009-2014 2015 MSA Prof & Bus Svcs Overall Ranking

1 Provo-Orem, UT 67.3     29.6 11.5% 46.5% 9

2 North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, FL 64.7     40.0 8.3% 32.6% 17

3 Reading, PA 62.6     23.5 7.6% 26.6% 21

4 Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR-MO 61.8     45.7 6.8% 36.6% 26

5 Fresno, CA 61.3     33.5 12.1% 24.9% 27

6 Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL 59.9     21.5 9.1% 24.3% 35

7 Ogden-Clearfield, UT 59.8     28.6 5.2% 35.6% 36

8 Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX 58.5     15.7 13.5% 21.8% 40

9 Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL 58.5     30.5 5.7% 26.4% 41

10 Springfield, MO 55.8     25.5 6.0% 37.2% 49

11 Lancaster, PA 55.7     23.9 7.0% 26.1% 50

12 Lexington-Fayette, KY 53.7     39.1 -4.2% 30.2% 55

13 Greensboro-High Point, NC 53.3     51.8 8.3% 22.5% 57

14 Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin, SC 52.0     68.5 3.9% 31.3% 65

15 Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA 51.0     45.7 4.5% 23.5% 69

16 Modesto, CA 51.0     14.8 8.8% 13.0% 70

17 Knoxville, TN 50.2     61.1 6.0% 20.9% 79

18 Rockford, IL 49.8     16.7 8.9% 16.3% 83

19 Savannah, GA 49.7     20.2 6.1% 19.8% 85

20 York-Hanover, PA 48.3     20.8 3.1% 31.6% 98

21 Wichita, KS 45.6     33.6 3.9% 18.4% 113

22 Charleston-North Charleston, SC 45.5     49.2 5.0% 22.4% 114

23 Gary, IN Metro Div 43.7     23.4 2.3% 20.0% 126

24 Madison, WI 42.4     48.5 2.1% 21.7% 136

25 Elgin, IL Metro Div 42.0     35.5 -3.5% 32.0% 138

26 Baton Rouge, LA 41.5     47.7 6.0% 13.8% 142

27 Winston-Salem, NC 41.2     34.8 5.2% 23.1% 146

28 Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL 40.7     22.0 4.3% 16.6% 149

29 Asheville, NC 39.9     17.4 0.4% 21.3% 152

30 Baltimore City, MD 39.8     47.2 0.5% 23.0% 155

31 Springfield, MA-CT NECTA 39.1     25.7 3.6% 16.8% 161

32 Ann Arbor, MI 38.8     27.7 5.7% 9.8% 165

33 Canton-Massillon, OH 38.5     15.0 5.6% 11.7% 168

34 Montgomery, AL 38.3     21.9 6.0% 11.5% 169

35 New Haven, CT NECTA 38.2     30.3 2.4% 19.8% 172

36 Chattanooga, TN-GA 38.0     27.7 3.5% 27.8% 173

37 Salem, OR 37.7     12.6 2.2% 9.3% 177

38 Evansville, IN-KY 37.5     19.0 4.0% 13.6% 179

39 Jackson, MS 37.5     32.8 2.5% 20.1% 180

40 Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL 37.4     28.2 8.3% 5.6% 182

41 Tacoma-Lakewood, WA Metro Div 37.1     25.6 3.9% 8.5% 186

42 Santa Rosa, CA 36.8     20.1 1.2% 11.2% 188

43 Stockton-Lodi, CA 36.0     18.2 2.6% 12.6% 194

44 Tallahassee, FL 36.0     19.7 5.3% 9.4% 195

45 Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA 35.7     24.1 4.8% 15.5% 199

46 Lake County-Kenosha County, IL-WI Metro Div 35.2     68.3 -1.2% 24.8% 202

47 Boulder, CO 35.0     32.5 0.4% 18.3% 205

48 Delaware County, PA 34.8     31.9 2.6% 16.0% 209

49 Dayton, OH 34.3     49.6 3.7% 11.3% 213

50 Framingham, MA NECTA Div 33.9     35.1 3.2% 11.4% 215

51 Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC 33.3     33.0 3.9% 8.7% 218

52 Tulsa, OK 33.2     59.7 3.9% 9.9% 219

53 Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA 32.7     23.3 0.6% 14.8% 222

54 Wilmington, DE-MD-NJ Metro Div 31.7     54.6 1.3% 11.2% 228

55 Columbia, SC 31.4     47.4 -3.3% 23.3% 231

56 Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA 30.5     44.9 0.4% 17.0% 236

57 Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ 28.9     48.2 -2.4% 14.8% 245

58 Reno, NV 28.9     27.6 1.2% 9.1% 246

59 Calvert-Charles-Prince George's, MD 28.9     47.8 5.3% 2.1% 247

60 Worcester, MA-CT NECTA 28.7     26.8 4.4% 4.4% 249

61 Scranton--Wilkes-Barre--Hazleton, PA 27.8     28.3 -1.6% 14.3% 252

62 Fort Wayne, IN 27.4     20.9 3.5% 6.3% 254

63 Shreveport-Bossier City, LA 27.2     17.8 1.9% 5.7% 257

64 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX 26.9     15.6 -1.5% 11.5% 258

65 Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA 26.8     23.3 -0.3% 15.5% 259

66 Toledo, OH 26.2     34.4 -4.5% 12.1% 263

67 Trenton, NJ 25.7     38.4 1.5% 10.1% 269

68 Portland-South Portland, ME NECTA 25.6     26.5 -0.7% 13.4% 270

69 Lansing-East Lansing, MI 25.6     21.5 0.5% 8.8% 273

70 Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL 25.1     23.2 -1.4% 13.2% 274

71 Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL 24.3     29.9 4.7% -6.9% 280

72 Lafayette, LA 23.8     22.9 -2.3% 15.6% 283

73 Akron, OH 23.6     50.2 0.2% 8.4% 285

74 Colorado Springs, CO 23.3     41.7 1.2% 1.1% 289

75 Durham-Chapel Hill, NC 23.0     36.9 0.6% 5.7% 290

76 Tucson, AZ 22.8     50.4 0.3% 7.2% 292

77 Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT NECTA 22.5     65.4 0.6% 7.4% 294

78 Bakersfield, CA 21.4     25.7 0.4% 9.7% 299

79 Roanoke, VA 21.3     21.2 0.8% 4.4% 301

80 Boise City, ID 19.6     40.1 -2.4% 5.4% 308

81 Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA 19.5     36.0 -1.0% 4.7% 309

82 Huntsville, AL 19.2     49.7 0.5% 0.3% 311

83 Albuquerque, NM 19.2     57.7 1.1% -1.7% 312

84 Lincoln, NE 18.8     18.3 -2.8% 7.2% 316

85 Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR 18.2     43.9 -2.2% 4.4% 319

86 Green Bay, WI 18.1     20.1 -2.0% 3.4% 320

87 Syracuse, NY 17.6     33.1 -0.2% 1.2% 322

88 El Paso, TX 17.5     31.2 -1.9% -1.4% 323

89 Corpus Christi, TX 17.4     15.7 0.9% 0.6% 324

90 Mobile, AL 15.9     21.2 -2.0% 3.4% 335

91 Anchorage, AK 13.7     20.6 -4.9% 4.6% 340

92 Peoria, IL 10.6     20.5 -1.6% -2.2% 351

93 Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula, MS 7.4     15.3 -6.9% -5.4% 359

Small Business Services Jobs - 2015 Best Cities Rankings

Mark Schill — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 16:28:58 -0400

Small Sized Cities

Medium Sized Cities

Large Sized Cities

All Cities

Read about how we selected the 2015 Best Cities for Job Growth

We used five measures of growth to rank MSAs over the past 10 years. “Large” areas include those with a current nonfarm employment base of at least 450,000 jobs. “Midsize” areas range from 150,000 to 450,000 jobs. “Small” areas have as many as 150,000 jobs. This year’s rankings reflect the new Office of Management and Budget definitions of MSAs for all series released after March 2015. As a result, the MSA listed in this year’s rankings do not necessary correspond directly to those listed in prior years. In some instances, MSAs were consolidated with others — for example Pascagoula, MS, was combined with the Gulfport-Biloxi, MS, MSA to form the new Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula, MS, MSA. Others were separated from previously consolidated MSAs and in still other instances individual counties were shifted from one MSA to another. The bottom line is that this year’s rankings are based on good time series for the newly defined MSAs but may not be precisely comparable to those listed in prior years. The total number of MSAs included in this year’s rankings has risen from 398 to 421. This year’s rankings reflect the current size of each MSA’s employment.

2015 MSA Prof & Bus Svcs Small MSA Ranking Area 2015 Prof & Bus Svcs Weighted INDEX 2014 Prof & Bus Svcs Emplmt (1000s) Total Prof & Bus Svcs Emplmt Growth Rate 2013-2014 Total Prof & Bus Svcs Emplmt Cum Growth

2009-2014 2015 MSA Prof & Bus Svcs Overall Ranking

1 Auburn-Opelika, AL 74.3         7.7 13.3% 66.7% 1

2 Tuscaloosa, AL 71.8      10.9 19.9% 68.0% 2

3 Grants Pass, OR 71.7         2.2 8.3% 54.8% 3

4 Jackson, TN 70.9         6.6 9.4% 58.4% 4

5 New Bedford, MA NECTA 69.6         5.7 12.5% 43.7% 5

6 Port St. Lucie, FL 69.0      17.0 15.7% 38.3% 6

7 Janesville-Beloit, WI 68.0         6.0 13.9% 46.3% 7

8 Lynn-Saugus-Marblehead, MA NECTA Div 67.6         3.1 9.4% 31.0% 8

9 Waco, TX 67.0      11.3 12.6% 30.4% 10

10 Burlington, NC 66.8         6.0 22.6% 45.5% 11

11 Monroe, MI 66.1         4.5 7.1% 51.7% 12

12 Sherman-Denison, TX 65.8         3.3 6.5% 46.3% 14

13 Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN 65.0         8.4 8.1% 61.1% 16

14 Greeley, CO 64.6         9.7 6.2% 49.7% 18

15 Elkhart-Goshen, IN 63.7      10.1 6.7% 43.4% 19

16 Columbus, IN 63.2         5.5 5.7% 48.2% 20

17 Springfield, OH 62.3         4.8 9.9% 28.6% 23

18 Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island, FL 62.2      15.2 7.8% 44.9% 24

19 Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ 61.9         4.1 10.9% 29.8% 25

20 Gadsden, AL 61.2         4.4 3.9% 50.0% 28

21 Salinas, CA 61.1      13.0 12.4% 19.7% 29

22 Morgantown, WV 60.8         6.5 9.0% 24.4% 30

23 Redding, CA 60.2         6.1 10.2% 19.6% 31

24 Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC 60.1      14.6 7.4% 30.8% 32

25 Cleveland, TN 60.0         6.2 -34.5% 97.9% 33

26 Gainesville, FL 59.9      12.9 10.6% 27.0% 34

27 Yuba City, CA 59.8         3.1 9.4% 24.0% 37

28 Kankakee, IL 58.6         4.1 -1.6% 42.5% 39

29 Flagstaff, AZ 58.5         3.1 13.3% 23.7% 42

30 Odessa, TX 57.6         5.0 11.2% 25.2% 43

31 Manchester, NH NECTA 57.0      16.2 8.3% 23.1% 46

32 Bend-Redmond, OR 56.8         7.9 10.2% 20.9% 47

33 Topeka, KS 56.8      13.0 2.9% 37.0% 48

34 Macon, GA 54.6      12.4 6.9% 22.4% 52

35 College Station-Bryan, TX 54.0         7.7 4.5% 27.6% 53

36 Michigan City-La Porte, IN 53.5         3.1 10.8% 24.3% 56

37 Wausau, WI 53.1         5.2 6.8% 21.9% 58

38 Iowa City, IA 53.1         7.1 4.9% 37.4% 59

39 Bay City, MI 52.7         3.6 6.9% 18.7% 60

40 Saginaw, MI 52.5      11.5 3.9% 21.8% 61

41 Ocala, FL 52.4         9.8 6.9% 21.4% 63

42 Victoria, TX 52.4         2.7 15.7% 14.1% 64

43 Laredo, TX 51.6         8.3 6.0% 40.9% 66

44 Prescott, AZ 51.0         3.7 12.1% 11.0% 71

45 Fond du Lac, WI 50.9         2.6 5.3% 19.7% 72

46 Corvallis, OR 50.8         4.3 10.3% 21.9% 73

47 Lawrence, KS 50.8         5.6 7.1% 12.1% 74

48 Ithaca, NY 50.8         3.4 6.3% 18.8% 75

49 Charlottesville, VA 50.5      14.5 6.4% 21.9% 76

50 Bismarck, ND 49.8         8.1 6.1% 26.4% 82

51 Kalamazoo-Portage, MI 49.7      16.5 6.0% 18.8% 84

52 Bangor, ME NECTA 49.2         6.6 7.1% 14.5% 87

53 Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA 49.2         7.5 3.2% 24.3% 88

54 Muskegon, MI 48.9         3.6 2.9% 22.7% 90

55 Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC 48.8      12.7 5.2% 15.4% 91

56 Napa, CA 48.6         6.6 5.9% 20.7% 94

57 Barnstable Town, MA NECTA 48.4         8.9 10.3% 14.1% 95

58 Panama City, FL 48.4         9.1 -3.5% 21.9% 96

59 Lake Charles, LA 48.2         8.6 3.6% 27.2% 99

60 Midland, TX 47.9         9.8 3.9% 40.2% 101

61 Pueblo, CO 47.3         6.8 5.7% 20.7% 104

62 Battle Creek, MI 47.1         6.6 10.7% 10.7% 106

63 Burlington-South Burlington, VT NECTA 47.1      13.9 3.5% 29.1% 107

64 San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles-Arroyo Grande, CA 46.9      12.2 4.3% 28.3% 108

65 Greenville, NC 46.5         7.4 0.9% 29.1% 110

66 Elizabethtown-Fort Knox, KY 46.4         5.7 4.9% 25.0% 111

67 Waterbury, CT NECTA 45.3         5.5 5.8% 12.2% 115

68 Punta Gorda, FL 44.7         4.5 -1.4% 37.4% 118

69 South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI 44.5      13.3 5.5% 14.3% 119

70 Chico, CA 44.2         6.1 3.4% 30.7% 122

71 Elmira, NY 44.1         2.7 5.3% 14.3% 123

72 Danbury, CT NECTA 44.1         9.2 5.3% 19.4% 124

73 Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol, TN-VA 43.6         9.9 1.7% 21.6% 127

74 Salisbury, MD-DE 43.6      11.7 3.5% 18.1% 128

75 Olympia-Tumwater, WA 43.4      10.0 0.3% 30.0% 129

76 Brockton-Bridgewater-Easton, MA NECTA Div 42.9         7.9 1.3% 19.8% 130

77 Chambersburg-Waynesboro, PA 42.7         5.2 8.3% 3.3% 132

78 Pocatello, ID 42.7         3.9 0.0% 21.9% 133

79 Flint, MI 42.6      15.1 4.6% 24.5% 134

80 Cheyenne, WY 42.5         3.5 6.1% 10.5% 135

81 Wilmington, NC 42.3      14.8 3.5% 15.3% 137

82 Fargo, ND-MN 41.9      16.1 3.6% 25.4% 139

83 Medford, OR 40.9         7.2 10.7% 5.9% 148

84 Clarksville, TN-KY 40.4         9.1 7.5% 10.5% 150

85 Brownsville-Harlingen, TX 39.8      11.7 -3.6% 29.5% 153

86 Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina, HI 39.7         7.1 3.9% 16.9% 156

87 Oshkosh-Neenah, WI 39.7      11.5 2.1% 20.3% 157

88 Appleton, WI 39.7      13.3 5.0% 14.4% 158

89 Bellingham, WA 39.4         7.8 5.0% 7.9% 159

90 Spartanburg, SC 39.1      15.5 3.1% 14.5% 163

91 Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH 39.1      12.2 8.3% 4.6% 164

92 Sebastian-Vero Beach, FL 38.7         5.1 6.9% 10.0% 166

93 State College, PA 38.6         6.1 5.2% 9.6% 167

94 Abilene, TX 38.3         5.6 2.4% 9.1% 170

95 Tyler, TX 38.3         9.0 5.9% 4.7% 171

96 Altoona, PA 37.8         5.7 2.4% 18.1% 175

97 Dothan, AL 37.7         4.7 10.9% 8.4% 176

98 Morristown, TN 37.7         3.4 0.0% 14.8% 178

99 St. George, UT 37.3         4.2 2.4% 23.5% 183

100 Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV 37.3         9.6 4.0% 17.6% 184

101 Dalton, GA 37.1         6.2 9.4% -7.0% 185

102 Mansfield, OH 37.1         5.3 -1.3% 15.3% 187

103 Johnson City, TN 36.6         8.4 5.4% 11.9% 189

104 Dover-Durham, NH-ME NECTA 36.1         3.9 4.5% 11.4% 193

105 Longview, TX 35.8         9.4 4.5% 11.5% 197

106 Bloomsburg-Berwick, PA 35.8         4.5 -3.5% 27.1% 198

107 Erie, PA 35.2      10.1 6.7% -1.0% 201

108 Lewiston-Auburn, ME NECTA 35.1         6.8 0.0% 15.2% 203

109 Coeur d'Alene, ID 35.0         6.4 2.1% 6.7% 206

110 Grand Forks, ND-MN 35.0         3.1 9.4% 4.5% 207

111 Athens-Clarke County, GA 34.8         7.2 -0.9% 13.7% 208

112 Binghamton, NY 34.7         9.9 4.6% 12.1% 210

113 Bowling Green, KY 34.6         8.6 1.6% 16.1% 211

114 Glens Falls, NY 34.3         5.6 -0.6% 16.8% 212

115 Fort Smith, AR-OK 34.2      12.2 4.0% 10.6% 214

116 Leominster-Gardner, MA NECTA 33.6         3.6 1.9% 12.5% 216

117 Carson City, NV 33.3         2.1 6.9% 10.7% 217

118 Monroe, LA 32.7         8.2 2.1% 10.4% 221

119 Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ 32.4         9.6 5.1% 2.9% 223

120 Rochester, MN 32.1         5.8 -0.6% 21.8% 224

121 Kingston, NY 32.0         4.4 -3.0% 11.0% 225

122 Madera, CA 32.0         2.9 0.0% 17.8% 226

123 Casper, WY 31.9         3.0 0.0% 15.4% 227

124 Albany, OR 31.5         3.4 1.0% 11.0% 230

125 Hanford-Corcoran, CA 31.1         1.4 7.5% -12.2% 233

126 Nashua, NH-MA NECTA Div 30.7      14.4 -0.2% 13.9% 235

127 Fort Collins, CO 30.4      19.0 -0.7% 15.2% 238

128 San Angelo, TX 30.2         3.9 -0.9% 12.6% 239

129 Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford, MA-NH NECTA Div 29.3      21.5 6.3% 2.2% 240

130 Lubbock, TX 29.2      11.0 0.3% 16.6% 241

131 Lima, OH 29.2         4.7 -2.8% 21.6% 243

132 Duluth, MN-WI 28.8         8.4 2.9% 7.2% 248

133 Sioux Falls, SD 28.1      13.1 -4.1% 22.7% 250

134 Grand Junction, CO 27.9         5.5 1.9% 5.8% 251

135 Johnstown, PA 27.5         5.7 3.6% 4.9% 253

136 Missoula, MT 27.3         7.0 3.5% 3.5% 255

137 Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH 26.6         1.9 5.6% 1.8% 261

138 Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL 26.0      13.3 0.8% 7.0% 265

139 Champaign-Urbana, IL 26.0         8.2 1.7% 10.3% 266

140 Taunton-Middleborough-Norton, MA NECTA Div 25.8         5.7 1.2% 11.0% 268

141 Niles-Benton Harbor, MI 25.6         5.5 7.8% 3.1% 271

142 Vallejo-Fairfield, CA 25.6         9.7 3.9% -10.7% 272

143 Rapid City, SD 24.9         5.1 1.3% 10.1% 276

144 Sheboygan, WI 24.8         4.5 -2.2% 9.8% 277

145 Haverhill-Newburyport-Amesbury Town, MA-NH NECTA Div 24.5         5.2 -0.6% 10.6% 278

146 Norwich-New London-Westerly, CT-RI NECTA 24.4         9.2 3.4% 0.0% 279

147 Amarillo, TX 24.1         8.9 1.9% 5.5% 281

148 Eau Claire, WI 23.8         9.0 0.0% 5.9% 282

149 Decatur, AL 23.7         5.3 -5.3% 16.8% 284

150 Racine, WI 23.4         6.3 0.0% 12.5% 287

151 Lawton, OK 23.3         3.8 4.6% 9.6% 288

152 Logan, UT-ID 22.9         5.6 -0.6% 5.7% 291

153 Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ 22.6         4.6 7.9% -25.9% 293

154 Lynchburg, VA 22.5      12.4 1.1% -4.4% 295

155 Peabody-Salem-Beverly, MA NECTA Div 22.4         9.9 0.7% 8.4% 296

156 Idaho Falls, ID 22.3      12.1 2.3% -5.2% 297

157 Fairbanks, AK 21.6         2.3 3.0% 4.5% 298

158 Charleston, WV 21.2      14.6 -0.2% 7.6% 302

159 Eugene, OR 20.7      15.3 -1.5% 7.0% 303

160 Owensboro, KY 20.4         3.8 -5.0% 16.5% 304

161 Danville, IL 20.1         1.9 1.8% -10.8% 305

162 Portsmouth, NH-ME NECTA 19.9      10.6 0.3% -0.9% 307

163 Dover, DE 19.4         4.2 -2.3% 1.6% 310

164 Walla Walla, WA 19.2         0.9 -6.7% 3.7% 313

165 La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN 19.0         6.5 -1.5% 7.7% 314

166 Las Cruces, NM 18.8         7.3 -0.9% -4.3% 315

167 Pittsfield, MA NECTA 18.7         3.7 0.9% 0.9% 317

168 Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA 18.3         9.4 0.4% 5.6% 318

169 Bremerton-Silverdale, WA 17.8         7.1 0.0% -2.3% 321

170 Wichita Falls, TX 17.3         3.5 -2.8% 9.5% 326

171 Billings, MT 17.2         8.6 1.2% -6.5% 327

172 Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL 17.2         4.0 4.4% -12.5% 328

173 East Stroudsburg, PA 17.1         3.3 4.3% -12.5% 329

174 Lawrence-Methuen Town-Salem, MA-NH NECTA Div 16.6      10.1 0.0% 5.9% 331

175 Kennewick-Richland, WA 16.3      20.8 2.6% -9.3% 333

176 Rocky Mount, NC 16.2         5.5 1.2% -1.2% 334

177 Yuma, AZ 14.9         6.1 -2.7% 4.6% 337

178 Visalia-Porterville, CA 13.9         9.1 -6.8% 6.6% 338

179 Yakima, WA 13.7         3.7 0.0% -2.7% 339

180 San Rafael, CA Metropolitan Div 13.5      18.3 -1.8% -0.4% 341

181 Columbus, GA-AL 13.2      12.6 -3.1% -3.3% 342

182 Terre Haute, IN 13.0         5.4 -2.4% -4.7% 343

183 St. Cloud, MN 12.6         8.3 -9.5% 2.9% 344

184 Jackson, MI 12.5         3.8 -6.6% 4.6% 345

185 Killeen-Temple, TX 12.2         9.0 -0.7% -7.5% 346

186 Great Falls, MT 11.7         3.1 -1.1% -3.2% 347

187 Santa Fe, NM 11.3         4.3 -2.3% -2.3% 348

188 Fayetteville, NC 10.7      12.4 -0.8% -4.8% 349

189 Dutchess County-Putnam County, NY Metropolitan Div 10.7      11.5 -2.3% -4.4% 350

190 Springfield, IL 9.9      10.3 -0.6% -7.5% 352

191 Cedar Rapids, IA 9.5      12.9 -6.3% -1.5% 353

192 Merced, CA 9.4         3.9 -2.5% -3.3% 354

193 Sioux City, IA-NE-SD 9.1         8.6 -7.2% -1.5% 355

194 El Centro, CA 9.1         2.5 -18.5% 1.4% 356

195 Bloomington, IL 8.8      17.1 -4.3% -4.5% 357

196 Watertown-Fort Drum, NY 8.3         2.1 -9.9% -12.3% 358

197 Lewiston, ID-WA 7.1         1.2 -2.7% -16.3% 360

198 Decatur, IL 7.1         3.0 -4.2% -9.9% 361

199 Texarkana, TX-AR 6.9         3.7 -7.6% -6.0% 362

200 Utica-Rome, NY 6.5         7.9 -4.8% -9.5% 363

201 Vineland-Bridgeton, NJ 5.6         3.3 -20.6% -7.4% 364

202 Anniston-Oxford-Jacksonville, AL 5.3         4.3 -7.9% -14.6% 365

203 Bloomington, IN 5.2         4.1 -8.1% -34.4% 366

All Cities Business Services Jobs - 2015 Best Cities Rankings

Mark Schill — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 16:28:41 -0400

Small Sized Cities

Medium Sized Cities

Large Sized Cities

All Cities

Read about how we selected the 2015 Best Cities for Job Growth

We used five measures of growth to rank MSAs over the past 10 years. “Large” areas include those with a current nonfarm employment base of at least 450,000 jobs. “Midsize” areas range from 150,000 to 450,000 jobs. “Small” areas have as many as 150,000 jobs. This year’s rankings reflect the new Office of Management and Budget definitions of MSAs for all series released after March 2015. As a result, the MSA listed in this year’s rankings do not necessary correspond directly to those listed in prior years. In some instances, MSAs were consolidated with others — for example Pascagoula, MS, was combined with the Gulfport-Biloxi, MS, MSA to form the new Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula, MS, MSA. Others were separated from previously consolidated MSAs and in still other instances individual counties were shifted from one MSA to another. The bottom line is that this year’s rankings are based on good time series for the newly defined MSAs but may not be precisely comparable to those listed in prior years. The total number of MSAs included in this year’s rankings has risen from 398 to 421. This year’s rankings reflect the current size of each MSA’s employment.

2015 MSA Prof & Bus Svcs Overall Ranking Area 2015 Prof & Bus Svcs Weighted INDEX 2014 Prof & Bus Svcs Emplmt (1000s) Total Prof & Bus Svcs Emplmt Growth Rate 2013-2014 Total Prof & Bus Svcs Emplmt Cum Growth

2009-2014 2015 MSA Size Group

1 Auburn-Opelika, AL 74.3          7.7 13.3% 66.7% S

2 Tuscaloosa, AL 71.8        10.9 19.9% 68.0% S

3 Grants Pass, OR 71.7          2.2 8.3% 54.8% S

4 Jackson, TN 70.9          6.6 9.4% 58.4% S

5 New Bedford, MA NECTA 69.6          5.7 12.5% 43.7% S

6 Port St. Lucie, FL 69.0        17.0 15.7% 38.3% S

7 Janesville-Beloit, WI 68.0          6.0 13.9% 46.3% S

8 Lynn-Saugus-Marblehead, MA NECTA Division 67.6          3.1 9.4% 31.0% S

9 Provo-Orem, UT 67.3        29.6 11.5% 46.5% M

10 Waco, TX 67.0        11.3 12.6% 30.4% S

11 Burlington, NC 66.8          6.0 22.6% 45.5% S

12 Monroe, MI 66.1          4.5 7.1% 51.7% S

13 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA 65.9     212.7 7.9% 34.7% L

14 Sherman-Denison, TX 65.8          3.3 6.5% 46.3% S

15 San Francisco-Redwood City-South San Francisco, CA Metro Div 65.4     256.9 9.0% 42.3% L

16 Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN 65.0          8.4 8.1% 61.1% S

17 North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, FL 64.7        40.0 8.3% 32.6% M

18 Greeley, CO 64.6          9.7 6.2% 49.7% S

19 Elkhart-Goshen, IN 63.7        10.1 6.7% 43.4% S

20 Columbus, IN 63.2          5.5 5.7% 48.2% S

21 Reading, PA 62.6        23.5 7.6% 26.6% M

22 Raleigh, NC 62.6     113.1 8.6% 36.5% L

23 Springfield, OH 62.3          4.8 9.9% 28.6% S

24 Naples-Immokalee-Marco Isl&, FL 62.2        15.2 7.8% 44.9% S

25 Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ 61.9          4.1 10.9% 29.8% S

26 Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR-MO 61.8        45.7 6.8% 36.6% M

27 Fresno, CA 61.3        33.5 12.1% 24.9% M

28 Gadsden, AL 61.2          4.4 3.9% 50.0% S

29 Salinas, CA 61.1        13.0 12.4% 19.7% S

30 Morgantown, WV 60.8          6.5 9.0% 24.4% S

31 Redding, CA 60.2          6.1 10.2% 19.6% S

32 Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC 60.1        14.6 7.4% 30.8% S

33 Clevel&, TN 60.0          6.2 -34.5% 97.9% S

34 Gainesville, FL 59.9        12.9 10.6% 27.0% S

35 Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL 59.9        21.5 9.1% 24.3% M

36 Ogden-Clearfield, UT 59.8        28.6 5.2% 35.6% M

37 Yuba City, CA 59.8          3.1 9.4% 24.0% S

38 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN 59.1     136.8 4.3% 41.4% L

39 Kankakee, IL 58.6          4.1 -1.6% 42.5% S

40 Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX 58.5        15.7 13.5% 21.8% M

41 Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL 58.5        30.5 5.7% 26.4% M

42 Flagstaff, AZ 58.5          3.1 13.3% 23.7% S

43 Odessa, TX 57.6          5.0 11.2% 25.2% S

44 Austin-Round Rock, TX 57.3     150.3 4.3% 37.2% L

45 Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX Metro Div 57.2     437.4 6.8% 29.7% L

46 Manchester, NH NECTA 57.0        16.2 8.3% 23.1% S

47 Bend-Redmond, OR 56.8          7.9 10.2% 20.9% S

48 Topeka, KS 56.8        13.0 2.9% 37.0% S

49 Springfield, MO 55.8        25.5 6.0% 37.2% M

50 Lancaster, PA 55.7        23.9 7.0% 26.1% M

51 West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Delray Beach, FL Metro Div 54.9     103.9 5.9% 25.0% L

52 Macon, GA 54.6        12.4 6.9% 22.4% S

53 College Station-Bryan, TX 54.0          7.7 4.5% 27.6% S

54 Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA 53.8     144.8 8.3% 19.5% L

55 Lexington-Fayette, KY 53.7        39.1 -4.2% 30.2% M

56 Michigan City-La Porte, IN 53.5          3.1 10.8% 24.3% S

57 Greensboro-High Point, NC 53.3        51.8 8.3% 22.5% M

58 Wausau, WI 53.1          5.2 6.8% 21.9% S

59 Iowa City, IA 53.1          7.1 4.9% 37.4% S

60 Bay City, MI 52.7          3.6 6.9% 18.7% S

61 Saginaw, MI 52.5        11.5 3.9% 21.8% S

62 Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC 52.5     177.2 4.4% 26.8% L

63 Ocala, FL 52.4          9.8 6.9% 21.4% S

64 Victoria, TX 52.4          2.7 15.7% 14.1% S

65 Greenville-&erson-Mauldin, SC 52.0        68.5 3.9% 31.3% M

66 Laredo, TX 51.6          8.3 6.0% 40.9% S

67 Atlanta-S&y Springs-Roswell, GA 51.6     469.1 5.2% 24.0% L

68 Gr& Rapids-Wyoming, MI 51.1        79.5 2.7% 31.5% L

69 Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA 51.0        45.7 4.5% 23.5% M

70 Modesto, CA 51.0        14.8 8.8% 13.0% M

71 Prescott, AZ 51.0          3.7 12.1% 11.0% S

72 Fond du Lac, WI 50.9          2.6 5.3% 19.7% S

73 Corvallis, OR 50.8          4.3 10.3% 21.9% S

74 Lawrence, KS 50.8          5.6 7.1% 12.1% S

75 Ithaca, NY 50.8          3.4 6.3% 18.8% S

76 Charlottesville, VA 50.5        14.5 6.4% 21.9% S

77 Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL Metro Div 50.3     156.8 5.0% 25.8% L

78 Kansas City, KS 50.3        87.9 4.5% 28.0% L

79 Knoxville, TN 50.2        61.1 6.0% 20.9% M

80 Memphis, TN-MS-AR 50.1        97.2 3.8% 26.9% L

81 Portl&-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA 49.9     164.8 3.8% 25.4% L

82 Bismarck, ND 49.8          8.1 6.1% 26.4% S

83 Rockford, IL 49.8        16.7 8.9% 16.3% M

84 Kalamazoo-Portage, MI 49.7        16.5 6.0% 18.8% S

85 Savannah, GA 49.7        20.2 6.1% 19.8% M

86 Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN 49.2        84.8 6.1% 20.9% L

87 Bangor, ME NECTA 49.2          6.6 7.1% 14.5% S

88 Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA 49.2          7.5 3.2% 24.3% S

89 Columbus, OH 48.9     179.0 4.0% 24.8% L

90 Muskegon, MI 48.9          3.6 2.9% 22.7% S

91 Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC 48.8        12.7 5.2% 15.4% S

92 Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT NECTA 48.8        70.4 4.8% 21.3% L

93 Jacksonville, FL 48.7        99.7 3.2% 23.3% L

94 Napa, CA 48.6          6.6 5.9% 20.7% S

95 Barnstable Town, MA NECTA 48.4          8.9 10.3% 14.1% S

96 Panama City, FL 48.4          9.1 -3.5% 21.9% S

97 Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV 48.3     119.7 5.4% 20.6% L

98 York-Hanover, PA 48.3        20.8 3.1% 31.6% M

99 Lake Charles, LA 48.2          8.6 3.6% 27.2% S

100 Houston-The Woodl&s-Sugar L&, TX 48.0     469.1 3.8% 27.8% L

101 Midl&, TX 47.9          9.8 3.9% 40.2% S

102 Salt Lake City, UT 47.5     115.5 2.3% 26.1% L

103 Indianapolis-Carmel-&erson, IN 47.4     156.5 1.1% 26.2% L

104 Pueblo, CO 47.3          6.8 5.7% 20.7% S

105 Oakl&-Hayward-Berkeley, CA Metro Div 47.2     184.1 5.1% 23.1% L

106 Battle Creek, MI 47.1          6.6 10.7% 10.7% S

107 Burlington-South Burlington, VT NECTA 47.1        13.9 3.5% 29.1% S

108 San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles-Arroyo Gr&e, CA 46.9        12.2 4.3% 28.3% S

109 Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach, FL Metro Div 46.8     139.2 4.3% 19.9% L

110 Greenville, NC 46.5          7.4 0.9% 29.1% S

111 Elizabethtown-Fort Knox, KY 46.4          5.7 4.9% 25.0% S

112 Providence-Warwick, RI-MA NECTA 45.9        66.7 2.9% 17.2% L

113 Wichita, KS 45.6        33.6 3.9% 18.4% M

114 Charleston-North Charleston, SC 45.5        49.2 5.0% 22.4% M

115 Waterbury, CT NECTA 45.3          5.5 5.8% 12.2% S

116 Sacramento--Roseville--Arden-Arcade, CA 45.0     120.9 4.2% 21.1% L

117 San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX 44.9     123.3 5.7% 17.6% L

118 Punta Gorda, FL 44.7          4.5 -1.4% 37.4% S

119 South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI 44.5        13.3 5.5% 14.3% S

120 New York City, NY 44.5     682.2 4.1% 20.5% L

121 Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine, CA Metro Div 44.4     281.6 4.3% 17.2% L

122 Chico, CA 44.2          6.1 3.4% 30.7% S

123 Elmira, NY 44.1          2.7 5.3% 14.3% S

124 Danbury, CT NECTA 44.1          9.2 5.3% 19.4% S

125 Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA Metro Div 43.8     235.2 3.5% 21.9% L

126 Gary, IN Metro Div 43.7        23.4 2.3% 20.0% M

127 Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol, TN-VA 43.6          9.9 1.7% 21.6% S

128 Salisbury, MD-DE 43.6        11.7 3.5% 18.1% S

129 Olympia-Tumwater, WA 43.4        10.0 0.3% 30.0% S

130 Brockton-Bridgewater-Easton, MA NECTA Division 42.9          7.9 1.3% 19.8% S

131 Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metro Div 42.9     114.0 3.1% 21.6% L

132 Chambersburg-Waynesboro, PA 42.7          5.2 8.3% 3.3% S

133 Pocatello, ID 42.7          3.9 0.0% 21.9% S

134 Flint, MI 42.6        15.1 4.6% 24.5% S

135 Cheyenne, WY 42.5          3.5 6.1% 10.5% S

136 Madison, WI 42.4        48.5 2.1% 21.7% M

137 Wilmington, NC 42.3        14.8 3.5% 15.3% S

138 Elgin, IL Metro Div 42.0        35.5 -3.5% 32.0% M

139 Fargo, ND-MN 41.9        16.1 3.6% 25.4% S

140 Camden, NJ Metro Div 41.6        81.1 2.8% 16.1% L

141 Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills, MI Metro Div 41.5     246.5 1.4% 26.6% L

142 Baton Rouge, LA 41.5        47.7 6.0% 13.8% M

143 Orl&o-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL 41.4     187.8 4.4% 14.8% L

144 Oklahoma City, OK 41.4        81.9 4.7% 16.3% L

145 Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO 41.4     242.0 2.7% 20.4% L

146 Winston-Salem, NC 41.2        34.8 5.2% 23.1% M

147 Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN 41.0     171.4 3.7% 17.3% L

148 Medford, OR 40.9          7.2 10.7% 5.9% S

149 Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL 40.7        22.0 4.3% 16.6% M

150 Clarksville, TN-KY 40.4          9.1 7.5% 10.5% S

151 Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ 40.1     318.4 2.5% 17.6% L

152 Asheville, NC 39.9        17.4 0.4% 21.3% M

153 Brownsville-Harlingen, TX 39.8        11.7 -3.6% 29.5% S

154 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL 39.8     203.9 1.9% 21.1% L

155 Baltimore City, MD 39.8        47.2 0.5% 23.0% M

156 Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina, HI 39.7          7.1 3.9% 16.9% S

157 Oshkosh-Neenah, WI 39.7        11.5 2.1% 20.3% S

158 Appleton, WI 39.7        13.3 5.0% 14.4% S

159 Bellingham, WA 39.4          7.8 5.0% 7.9% S

160 San Diego-Carlsbad, CA 39.4     236.1 3.3% 14.8% L

161 Springfield, MA-CT NECTA 39.1        25.7 3.6% 16.8% M

162 Chicago-Naperville-Arlington Heights, IL Metro Div 39.1     669.9 1.7% 18.1% L

163 Spartanburg, SC 39.1        15.5 3.1% 14.5% S

164 Huntington-Ashl&, WV-KY-OH 39.1        12.2 8.3% 4.6% S

165 Ann Arbor, MI 38.8        27.7 5.7% 9.8% M

166 Sebastian-Vero Beach, FL 38.7          5.1 6.9% 10.0% S

167 State College, PA 38.6          6.1 5.2% 9.6% S

168 Canton-Massillon, OH 38.5        15.0 5.6% 11.7% M

169 Montgomery, AL 38.3        21.9 6.0% 11.5% M

170 Abilene, TX 38.3          5.6 2.4% 9.1% S

171 Tyler, TX 38.3          9.0 5.9% 4.7% S

172 New Haven, CT NECTA 38.2        30.3 2.4% 19.8% M

173 Chattanooga, TN-GA 38.0        27.7 3.5% 27.8% M

174 Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI 37.9     304.0 3.0% 17.1% L

175 Altoona, PA 37.8          5.7 2.4% 18.1% S

176 Dothan, AL 37.7          4.7 10.9% 8.4% S

177 Salem, OR 37.7        12.6 2.2% 9.3% M

178 Morristown, TN 37.7          3.4 0.0% 14.8% S

179 Evansville, IN-KY 37.5        19.0 4.0% 13.6% M

180 Jackson, MS 37.5        32.8 2.5% 20.1% M

181 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, CA Metro Div 37.4     613.8 0.5% 17.4% L

182 Lakel&-Winter Haven, FL 37.4        28.2 8.3% 5.6% M

183 St. George, UT 37.3          4.2 2.4% 23.5% S

184 Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV 37.3          9.6 4.0% 17.6% S

185 Dalton, GA 37.1          6.2 9.4% -7.0% S

186 Tacoma-Lakewood, WA Metro Div 37.1        25.6 3.9% 8.5% M

187 Mansfield, OH 37.1          5.3 -1.3% 15.3% S

188 Santa Rosa, CA 36.8        20.1 1.2% 11.2% M

189 Johnson City, TN 36.6          8.4 5.4% 11.9% S

190 Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA NECTA Division 36.4     331.8 1.8% 16.5% L

191 Urban Honolulu, HI 36.2        66.9 1.4% 16.3% L

192 Birmingham-Hoover, AL 36.2        65.5 5.3% 10.6% L

193 Dover-Durham, NH-ME NECTA 36.1          3.9 4.5% 11.4% S

194 Stockton-Lodi, CA 36.0        18.2 2.6% 12.6% M

195 Tallahassee, FL 36.0        19.7 5.3% 9.4% M

196 Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia, MI Metro Div 35.9     123.0 2.2% 19.4% L

197 Longview, TX 35.8          9.4 4.5% 11.5% S

198 Bloomsburg-Berwick, PA 35.8          4.5 -3.5% 27.1% S

199 Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA 35.7        24.1 4.8% 15.5% M

200 St. Louis, MO-IL 35.6     204.0 2.0% 13.2% L

201 Erie, PA 35.2        10.1 6.7% -1.0% S

202 Lake County-Kenosha County, IL-WI Metro Div 35.2        68.3 -1.2% 24.8% M

203 Lewiston-Auburn, ME NECTA 35.1          6.8 0.0% 15.2% S

204 Kansas City, MO 35.1        83.3 3.4% 14.4% L

205 Boulder, CO 35.0        32.5 0.4% 18.3% M

206 Coeur d'Alene, ID 35.0          6.4 2.1% 6.7% S

207 Gr& Forks, ND-MN 35.0          3.1 9.4% 4.5% S

208 Athens-Clarke County, GA 34.8          7.2 -0.9% 13.7% S

209 Delaware County, PA 34.8        31.9 2.6% 16.0% M

210 Binghamton, NY 34.7          9.9 4.6% 12.1% S

211 Bowling Green, KY 34.6          8.6 1.6% 16.1% S

212 Glens Falls, NY 34.3          5.6 -0.6% 16.8% S

213 Dayton, OH 34.3        49.6 3.7% 11.3% M

214 Fort Smith, AR-OK 34.2        12.2 4.0% 10.6% S

215 Framingham, MA NECTA Division 33.9        35.1 3.2% 11.4% M

216 Leominster-Gardner, MA NECTA 33.6          3.6 1.9% 12.5% S

217 Carson City, NV 33.3          2.1 6.9% 10.7% S

218 Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC 33.3        33.0 3.9% 8.7% M

219 Tulsa, OK 33.2        59.7 3.9% 9.9% M

220 Clevel&-Elyria, OH 32.8     148.5 1.2% 14.9% L

221 Monroe, LA 32.7          8.2 2.1% 10.4% S

222 Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA 32.7        23.3 0.6% 14.8% M

223 Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ 32.4          9.6 5.1% 2.9% S

224 Rochester, MN 32.1          5.8 -0.6% 21.8% S

225 Kingston, NY 32.0          4.4 -3.0% 11.0% S

226 Madera, CA 32.0          2.9 0.0% 17.8% S

227 Casper, WY 31.9          3.0 0.0% 15.4% S

228 Wilmington, DE-MD-NJ Metro Div 31.7        54.6 1.3% 11.2% M

229 Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI 31.7     123.2 -0.4% 17.5% L

230 Albany, OR 31.5          3.4 1.0% 11.0% S

231 Columbia, SC 31.4        47.4 -3.3% 23.3% M

232 Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA 31.2        71.1 -1.1% 14.9% L

233 Hanford-Corcoran, CA 31.1          1.4 7.5% -12.2% S

234 Orange-Rockl&-Westchester, NY 31.0        86.6 2.0% 12.1% L

235 Nashua, NH-MA NECTA Division 30.7        14.4 -0.2% 13.9% S

236 Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA 30.5        44.9 0.4% 17.0% M

237 Philadelphia City, PA 30.5        89.1 1.9% 10.3% L

238 Fort Collins, CO 30.4        19.0 -0.7% 15.2% S

239 San Angelo, TX 30.2          3.9 -0.9% 12.6% S

240 Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford, MA-NH NECTA Division 29.3        21.5 6.3% 2.2% S

241 Lubbock, TX 29.2        11.0 0.3% 16.6% S

242 New Orleans-Metairie, LA 29.2        74.0 0.4% 9.6% L

243 Lima, OH 29.2          4.7 -2.8% 21.6% S

244 Middlesex-Monmouth-Ocean, NJ 29.1     141.2 1.0% 12.4% L

245 Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ 28.9        48.2 -2.4% 14.8% M

246 Reno, NV 28.9        27.6 1.2% 9.1% M

247 Calvert-Charles-Prince George's, MD 28.9        47.8 5.3% 2.1% M

248 Duluth, MN-WI 28.8          8.4 2.9% 7.2% S

249 Worcester, MA-CT NECTA 28.7        26.8 4.4% 4.4% M

250 Sioux Falls, SD 28.1        13.1 -4.1% 22.7% S

251 Gr& Junction, CO 27.9          5.5 1.9% 5.8% S

252 Scranton--Wilkes-Barre--Hazleton, PA 27.8        28.3 -1.6% 14.3% M

253 Johnstown, PA 27.5          5.7 3.6% 4.9% S

254 Fort Wayne, IN 27.4        20.9 3.5% 6.3% M

255 Missoula, MT 27.3          7.0 3.5% 3.5% S

256 Nassau County-Suffolk County, NY Metro Div 27.2     167.6 -0.4% 11.8% L

257 Shreveport-Bossier City, LA 27.2        17.8 1.9% 5.7% M

258 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX 26.9        15.6 -1.5% 11.5% M

259 Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA 26.8        23.3 -0.3% 15.5% M

260 Richmond, VA 26.8     100.3 2.4% 10.1% L

261 Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH 26.6          1.9 5.6% 1.8% S

262 Montgomery County-Bucks County-Chester County, PA Metro Div 26.5     192.8 1.6% 8.8% L

263 Toledo, OH 26.2        34.4 -4.5% 12.1% M

264 Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC 26.1     104.3 2.0% 5.8% L

265 Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL 26.0        13.3 0.8% 7.0% S

266 Champaign-Urbana, IL 26.0          8.2 1.7% 10.3% S

267 Pittsburgh, PA 25.8     173.6 0.2% 13.5% L

268 Taunton-Middleborough-Norton, MA NECTA Division 25.8          5.7 1.2% 11.0% S

269 Trenton, NJ 25.7        38.4 1.5% 10.1% M

270 Portl&-South Portl&, ME NECTA 25.6        26.5 -0.7% 13.4% M

271 Niles-Benton Harbor, MI 25.6          5.5 7.8% 3.1% S

272 Vallejo-Fairfield, CA 25.6          9.7 3.9% -10.7% S

273 Lansing-East Lansing, MI 25.6        21.5 0.5% 8.8% M

274 Davenport-Moline-Rock Isl&, IA-IL 25.1        23.2 -1.4% 13.2% M

275 Bergen-Hudson-Passaic, NJ 25.1     140.7 -0.5% 11.1% L

276 Rapid City, SD 24.9          5.1 1.3% 10.1% S

277 Sheboygan, WI 24.8          4.5 -2.2% 9.8% S

278 Haverhill-Newburyport-Amesbury Town, MA-NH NECTA Div 24.5          5.2 -0.6% 10.6% S

279 Norwich-New London-Westerly, CT-RI NECTA 24.4          9.2 3.4% 0.0% S

280 Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL 24.3        29.9 4.7% -6.9% M

281 Amarillo, TX 24.1          8.9 1.9% 5.5% S

282 Eau Claire, WI 23.8          9.0 0.0% 5.9% S

283 Lafayette, LA 23.8        22.9 -2.3% 15.6% M

284 Decatur, AL 23.7          5.3 -5.3% 16.8% S

285 Akron, OH 23.6        50.2 0.2% 8.4% M

286 Rochester, NY 23.5        66.3 -0.5% 10.1% L

287 Racine, WI 23.4          6.3 0.0% 12.5% S

288 Lawton, OK 23.3          3.8 4.6% 9.6% S

289 Colorado Springs, CO 23.3        41.7 1.2% 1.1% M

290 Durham-Chapel Hill, NC 23.0        36.9 0.6% 5.7% M

291 Logan, UT-ID 22.9          5.6 -0.6% 5.7% S

292 Tucson, AZ 22.8        50.4 0.3% 7.2% M

293 Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ 22.6          4.6 7.9% -25.9% S

294 Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT NECTA 22.5        65.4 0.6% 7.4% M

295 Lynchburg, VA 22.5        12.4 1.1% -4.4% S

296 Peabody-Salem-Beverly, MA NECTA Division 22.4          9.9 0.7% 8.4% S

297 Idaho Falls, ID 22.3        12.1 2.3% -5.2% S

298 Fairbanks, AK 21.6          2.3 3.0% 4.5% S

299 Bakersfield, CA 21.4        25.7 0.4% 9.7% M

300 Washington-Arlington-Alex&ria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metro Div 21.3     584.9 1.3% 5.8% L

301 Roanoke, VA 21.3        21.2 0.8% 4.4% M

302 Charleston, WV 21.2        14.6 -0.2% 7.6% S

303 Eugene, OR 20.7        15.3 -1.5% 7.0% S

304 Owensboro, KY 20.4          3.8 -5.0% 16.5% S

305 Danville, IL 20.1          1.9 1.8% -10.8% S

306 Newark, NJ-PA Metro Div 19.9     212.7 0.0% 4.6% L

307 Portsmouth, NH-ME NECTA 19.9        10.6 0.3% -0.9% S

308 Boise City, ID 19.6        40.1 -2.4% 5.4% M

309 Oxnard-Thous& Oaks-Ventura, CA 19.5        36.0 -1.0% 4.7% M

310 Dover, DE 19.4          4.2 -2.3% 1.6% S

311 Huntsville, AL 19.2        49.7 0.5% 0.3% M

312 Albuquerque, NM 19.2        57.7 1.1% -1.7% M

313 Walla Walla, WA 19.2          0.9 -6.7% 3.7% S

314 La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN 19.0          6.5 -1.5% 7.7% S

315 Las Cruces, NM 18.8          7.3 -0.9% -4.3% S

316 Lincoln, NE 18.8        18.3 -2.8% 7.2% M

317 Pittsfield, MA NECTA 18.7          3.7 0.9% 0.9% S

318 Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA 18.3          9.4 0.4% 5.6% S

319 Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR 18.2        43.9 -2.2% 4.4% M

320 Green Bay, WI 18.1        20.1 -2.0% 3.4% M

321 Bremerton-Silverdale, WA 17.8          7.1 0.0% -2.3% S

322 Syracuse, NY 17.6        33.1 -0.2% 1.2% M

323 El Paso, TX 17.5        31.2 -1.9% -1.4% M

324 Corpus Christi, TX 17.4        15.7 0.9% 0.6% M

325 Northern Virginia, VA 17.4     374.6 -0.2% 4.6% L

326 Wichita Falls, TX 17.3          3.5 -2.8% 9.5% S

327 Billings, MT 17.2          8.6 1.2% -6.5% S

328 Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL 17.2          4.0 4.4% -12.5% S

329 East Stroudsburg, PA 17.1          3.3 4.3% -12.5% S

330 Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls, NY 17.0        71.8 -0.2% 2.2% L

331 Lawrence-Methuen Town-Salem, MA-NH NECTA Division 16.6        10.1 0.0% 5.9% S

332 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY 16.5        51.4 -0.6% 2.6% L

333 Kennewick-Richl&, WA 16.3        20.8 2.6% -9.3% S

334 Rocky Mount, NC 16.2          5.5 1.2% -1.2% S

335 Mobile, AL 15.9        21.2 -2.0% 3.4% M

336 Silver Spring-Frederick-Rockville, MD Metro Div 15.9     121.7 -0.1% -0.2% L

337 Yuma, AZ 14.9          6.1 -2.7% 4.6% S

338 Visalia-Porterville, CA 13.9          9.1 -6.8% 6.6% S

339 Yakima, WA 13.7          3.7 0.0% -2.7% S

340 Anchorage, AK 13.7        20.6 -4.9% 4.6% M

341 San Rafael, CA Metro Div 13.5        18.3 -1.8% -0.4% S

342 Columbus, GA-AL 13.2        12.6 -3.1% -3.3% S

343 Terre Haute, IN 13.0          5.4 -2.4% -4.7% S

344 St. Cloud, MN 12.6          8.3 -9.5% 2.9% S

345 Jackson, MI 12.5          3.8 -6.6% 4.6% S

346 Killeen-Temple, TX 12.2          9.0 -0.7% -7.5% S

347 Great Falls, MT 11.7          3.1 -1.1% -3.2% S

348 Santa Fe, NM 11.3          4.3 -2.3% -2.3% S

349 Fayetteville, NC 10.7        12.4 -0.8% -4.8% S

350 Dutchess County-Putnam County, NY Metro Div 10.7        11.5 -2.3% -4.4% S

351 Peoria, IL 10.6        20.5 -1.6% -2.2% M

352 Springfield, IL 9.9        10.3 -0.6% -7.5% S

353 Cedar Rapids, IA 9.5        12.9 -6.3% -1.5% S

354 Merced, CA 9.4          3.9 -2.5% -3.3% S

355 Sioux City, IA-NE-SD 9.1          8.6 -7.2% -1.5% S

356 El Centro, CA 9.1          2.5 -18.5% 1.4% S

357 Bloomington, IL 8.8        17.1 -4.3% -4.5% S

358 Watertown-Fort Drum, NY 8.3          2.1 -9.9% -12.3% S

359 Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula, MS 7.4        15.3 -6.9% -5.4% M

360 Lewiston, ID-WA 7.1          1.2 -2.7% -16.3% S

361 Decatur, IL 7.1          3.0 -4.2% -9.9% S

362 Texarkana, TX-AR 6.9          3.7 -7.6% -6.0% S

363 Utica-Rome, NY 6.5          7.9 -4.8% -9.5% S

364 Vinel&-Bridgeton, NJ 5.6          3.3 -20.6% -7.4% S

365 Anniston-Oxford-Jacksonville, AL 5.3          4.3 -7.9% -14.6% S

366 Bloomington, IN 5.2          4.1 -8.1% -34.4% S

2015 MSA Prof & Bus Svcs Large MSA Ranking	Area	2015 Prof & Bus Svcs Weighted INDEX	2014 Prof & Bus Svcs Emplmt (1000s)	Total Prof & Bus Svcs Emplmt Growth Rate 2013-2014	Total Prof & Bus Svcs Emplmt Cum Growth 2009-2014	2015 MSA Prof & Bus Svcs Overall Ranking
1	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	65.9	212.7	7.9%	34.7%	13
2	San Francisco-Redwood City-South San Francisco, CA Metro Div	65.4	256.9	9.0%	42.3%	15
3	Raleigh, NC	62.6	113.1	8.6%	36.5%	22
4	Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN	59.1	136.8	4.3%	41.4%	38
5	Austin-Round Rock, TX	57.3	150.3	4.3%	37.2%	44
6	Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX Metro Div	57.2	437.4	6.8%	29.7%	45
7	West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Delray Beach, FL Metro Div	54.9	103.9	5.9%	25.0%	51
8	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	53.8	144.8	8.3%	19.5%	54
9	Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC	52.5	177.2	4.4%	26.8%	62
10	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	51.6	469.1	5.2%	24.0%	67
11	Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI	51.1	79.5	2.7%	31.5%	68
12	Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL Metro Div	50.3	156.8	5.0%	25.8%	77
13	Kansas City, KS	50.3	87.9	4.5%	28.0%	78
14	Memphis, TN-MS-AR	50.1	97.2	3.8%	26.9%	80
15	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	49.9	164.8	3.8%	25.4%	81
16	Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN	49.2	84.8	6.1%	20.9%	86
17	Columbus, OH	48.9	179.0	4.0%	24.8%	89
18	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT NECTA	48.8	70.4	4.8%	21.3%	92
19	Jacksonville, FL	48.7	99.7	3.2%	23.3%	93
20	Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV	48.3	119.7	5.4%	20.6%	97
21	Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX	48.0	469.1	3.8%	27.8%	100
22	Salt Lake City, UT	47.5	115.5	2.3%	26.1%	102
23	Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN	47.4	156.5	1.1%	26.2%	103
24	Oakland-Hayward-Berkeley, CA Metro Div	47.2	184.1	5.1%	23.1%	105
25	Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach, FL Metro Div	46.8	139.2	4.3%	19.9%	109
26	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA NECTA	45.9	66.7	2.9%	17.2%	112
27	Sacramento--Roseville--Arden-Arcade, CA	45.0	120.9	4.2%	21.1%	116
28	San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX	44.9	123.3	5.7%	17.6%	117
29	New York City, NY	44.5	682.2	4.1%	20.5%	120
30	Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine, CA Metro Div	44.4	281.6	4.3%	17.2%	121
31	Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA Metro Div	43.8	235.2	3.5%	21.9%	125
32	Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metro Div	42.9	114.0	3.1%	21.6%	131
33	Camden, NJ Metro Div	41.6	81.1	2.8%	16.1%	140
34	Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills, MI Metro Div	41.5	246.5	1.4%	26.6%	141
35	Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL	41.4	187.8	4.4%	14.8%	143
36	Oklahoma City, OK	41.4	81.9	4.7%	16.3%	144
37	Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO	41.4	242.0	2.7%	20.4%	145
38	Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN	41.0	171.4	3.7%	17.3%	147
39	Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ	40.1	318.4	2.5%	17.6%	151
40	Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL	39.8	203.9	1.9%	21.1%	154
41	San Diego-Carlsbad, CA	39.4	236.1	3.3%	14.8%	160
42	Chicago-Naperville-Arlington Heights, IL Metro Div	39.1	669.9	1.7%	18.1%	162
43	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	37.9	304.0	3.0%	17.1%	174
44	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, CA Metro Div	37.4	613.8	0.5%	17.4%	181
45	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA NECTA Div	36.4	331.8	1.8%	16.5%	190
46	Urban Honolulu, HI	36.2	66.9	1.4%	16.3%	191
47	Birmingham-Hoover, AL	36.2	65.5	5.3%	10.6%	192
48	Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia, MI Metro Div	35.9	123.0	2.2%	19.4%	196
49	St. Louis, MO-IL	35.6	204.0	2.0%	13.2%	200
50	Kansas City, MO	35.1	83.3	3.4%	14.4%	204
51	Cleveland-Elyria, OH	32.8	148.5	1.2%	14.9%	220
52	Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI	31.7	123.2	-0.4%	17.5%	229
53	Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA	31.2	71.1	-1.1%	14.9%	232
54	Orange-Rockland-Westchester, NY	31.0	86.6	2.0%	12.1%	234
55	Philadelphia City, PA	30.5	89.1	1.9%	10.3%	237
56	New Orleans-Metairie, LA	29.2	74.0	0.4%	9.6%	242
57	Middlesex-Monmouth-Ocean, NJ	29.1	141.2	1.0%	12.4%	244
58	Nassau County-Suffolk County, NY Metro Div	27.2	167.6	-0.4%	11.8%	256
59	Richmond, VA	26.8	100.3	2.4%	10.1%	260
60	Montgomery County-Bucks County-Chester County, PA Metro Div	26.5	192.8	1.6%	8.8%	262
61	Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC	26.1	104.3	2.0%	5.8%	264
62	Pittsburgh, PA	25.8	173.6	0.2%	13.5%	267
63	Bergen-Hudson-Passaic, NJ	25.1	140.7	-0.5%	11.1%	275
64	Rochester, NY	23.5	66.3	-0.5%	10.1%	286
65	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metro Div	21.3	584.9	1.3%	5.8%	300
66	Newark, NJ-PA Metro Div	19.9	212.7	0.0%	4.6%	306
67	Northern Virginia, VA	17.4	374.6	-0.2%	4.6%	325
68	Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls, NY	17.0	71.8	-0.2%	2.2%	330
69	Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	16.5	51.4	-0.6%	2.6%	332
70	Silver Spring-Frederick-Rockville, MD Metro Div	15.9	121.7	-0.1%	-0.2%	336

2015 MSA Prof & Bus Svcs Midsized MSA Ranking	Area	2015 Prof & Bus Svcs Weighted INDEX	2014 Prof & Bus Svcs Emplmt (1000s)	Total Prof & Bus Svcs Emplmt Growth Rate 2013-2014	Total Prof & Bus Svcs Emplmt Cum Growth 2009-2014	2015 MSA Prof & Bus Svcs Overall Ranking
1	Provo-Orem, UT	67.3	29.6	11.5%	46.5%	9
2	North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, FL	64.7	40.0	8.3%	32.6%	17
3	Reading, PA	62.6	23.5	7.6%	26.6%	21
4	Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR-MO	61.8	45.7	6.8%	36.6%	26
5	Fresno, CA	61.3	33.5	12.1%	24.9%	27
6	Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL	59.9	21.5	9.1%	24.3%	35
7	Ogden-Clearfield, UT	59.8	28.6	5.2%	35.6%	36
8	Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX	58.5	15.7	13.5%	21.8%	40
9	Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL	58.5	30.5	5.7%	26.4%	41
10	Springfield, MO	55.8	25.5	6.0%	37.2%	49
11	Lancaster, PA	55.7	23.9	7.0%	26.1%	50
12	Lexington-Fayette, KY	53.7	39.1	-4.2%	30.2%	55
13	Greensboro-High Point, NC	53.3	51.8	8.3%	22.5%	57
14	Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin, SC	52.0	68.5	3.9%	31.3%	65
15	Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA	51.0	45.7	4.5%	23.5%	69
16	Modesto, CA	51.0	14.8	8.8%	13.0%	70
17	Knoxville, TN	50.2	61.1	6.0%	20.9%	79
18	Rockford, IL	49.8	16.7	8.9%	16.3%	83
19	Savannah, GA	49.7	20.2	6.1%	19.8%	85
20	York-Hanover, PA	48.3	20.8	3.1%	31.6%	98
21	Wichita, KS	45.6	33.6	3.9%	18.4%	113
22	Charleston-North Charleston, SC	45.5	49.2	5.0%	22.4%	114
23	Gary, IN Metro Div	43.7	23.4	2.3%	20.0%	126
24	Madison, WI	42.4	48.5	2.1%	21.7%	136
25	Elgin, IL Metro Div	42.0	35.5	-3.5%	32.0%	138
26	Baton Rouge, LA	41.5	47.7	6.0%	13.8%	142
27	Winston-Salem, NC	41.2	34.8	5.2%	23.1%	146
28	Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL	40.7	22.0	4.3%	16.6%	149
29	Asheville, NC	39.9	17.4	0.4%	21.3%	152
30	Baltimore City, MD	39.8	47.2	0.5%	23.0%	155
31	Springfield, MA-CT NECTA	39.1	25.7	3.6%	16.8%	161
32	Ann Arbor, MI	38.8	27.7	5.7%	9.8%	165
33	Canton-Massillon, OH	38.5	15.0	5.6%	11.7%	168
34	Montgomery, AL	38.3	21.9	6.0%	11.5%	169
35	New Haven, CT NECTA	38.2	30.3	2.4%	19.8%	172
36	Chattanooga, TN-GA	38.0	27.7	3.5%	27.8%	173
37	Salem, OR	37.7	12.6	2.2%	9.3%	177
38	Evansville, IN-KY	37.5	19.0	4.0%	13.6%	179
39	Jackson, MS	37.5	32.8	2.5%	20.1%	180
40	Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL	37.4	28.2	8.3%	5.6%	182
41	Tacoma-Lakewood, WA Metro Div	37.1	25.6	3.9%	8.5%	186
42	Santa Rosa, CA	36.8	20.1	1.2%	11.2%	188
43	Stockton-Lodi, CA	36.0	18.2	2.6%	12.6%	194
44	Tallahassee, FL	36.0	19.7	5.3%	9.4%	195
45	Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA	35.7	24.1	4.8%	15.5%	199
46	Lake County-Kenosha County, IL-WI Metro Div	35.2	68.3	-1.2%	24.8%	202
47	Boulder, CO	35.0	32.5	0.4%	18.3%	205
48	Delaware County, PA	34.8	31.9	2.6%	16.0%	209
49	Dayton, OH	34.3	49.6	3.7%	11.3%	213
50	Framingham, MA NECTA Div	33.9	35.1	3.2%	11.4%	215
51	Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC	33.3	33.0	3.9%	8.7%	218
52	Tulsa, OK	33.2	59.7	3.9%	9.9%	219
53	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	32.7	23.3	0.6%	14.8%	222
54	Wilmington, DE-MD-NJ Metro Div	31.7	54.6	1.3%	11.2%	228
55	Columbia, SC	31.4	47.4	-3.3%	23.3%	231
56	Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA	30.5	44.9	0.4%	17.0%	236
57	Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ	28.9	48.2	-2.4%	14.8%	245
58	Reno, NV	28.9	27.6	1.2%	9.1%	246
59	Calvert-Charles-Prince George's, MD	28.9	47.8	5.3%	2.1%	247
60	Worcester, MA-CT NECTA	28.7	26.8	4.4%	4.4%	249
61	Scranton--Wilkes-Barre--Hazleton, PA	27.8	28.3	-1.6%	14.3%	252
62	Fort Wayne, IN	27.4	20.9	3.5%	6.3%	254
63	Shreveport-Bossier City, LA	27.2	17.8	1.9%	5.7%	257
64	McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX	26.9	15.6	-1.5%	11.5%	258
65	Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA	26.8	23.3	-0.3%	15.5%	259
66	Toledo, OH	26.2	34.4	-4.5%	12.1%	263
67	Trenton, NJ	25.7	38.4	1.5%	10.1%	269
68	Portland-South Portland, ME NECTA	25.6	26.5	-0.7%	13.4%	270
69	Lansing-East Lansing, MI	25.6	21.5	0.5%	8.8%	273
70	Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL	25.1	23.2	-1.4%	13.2%	274
71	Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL	24.3	29.9	4.7%	-6.9%	280
72	Lafayette, LA	23.8	22.9	-2.3%	15.6%	283
73	Akron, OH	23.6	50.2	0.2%	8.4%	285
74	Colorado Springs, CO	23.3	41.7	1.2%	1.1%	289
75	Durham-Chapel Hill, NC	23.0	36.9	0.6%	5.7%	290
76	Tucson, AZ	22.8	50.4	0.3%	7.2%	292
77	Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT NECTA	22.5	65.4	0.6%	7.4%	294
78	Bakersfield, CA	21.4	25.7	0.4%	9.7%	299
79	Roanoke, VA	21.3	21.2	0.8%	4.4%	301
80	Boise City, ID	19.6	40.1	-2.4%	5.4%	308
81	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	19.5	36.0	-1.0%	4.7%	309
82	Huntsville, AL	19.2	49.7	0.5%	0.3%	311
83	Albuquerque, NM	19.2	57.7	1.1%	-1.7%	312
84	Lincoln, NE	18.8	18.3	-2.8%	7.2%	316
85	Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR	18.2	43.9	-2.2%	4.4%	319
86	Green Bay, WI	18.1	20.1	-2.0%	3.4%	320
87	Syracuse, NY	17.6	33.1	-0.2%	1.2%	322
88	El Paso, TX	17.5	31.2	-1.9%	-1.4%	323
89	Corpus Christi, TX	17.4	15.7	0.9%	0.6%	324
90	Mobile, AL	15.9	21.2	-2.0%	3.4%	335
91	Anchorage, AK	13.7	20.6	-4.9%	4.6%	340
92	Peoria, IL	10.6	20.5	-1.6%	-2.2%	351
93	Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula, MS	7.4	15.3	-6.9%	-5.4%	359

2015 MSA Prof & Bus Svcs Small MSA Ranking	Area	2015 Prof & Bus Svcs Weighted INDEX	2014 Prof & Bus Svcs Emplmt (1000s)	Total Prof & Bus Svcs Emplmt Growth Rate 2013-2014	Total Prof & Bus Svcs Emplmt Cum Growth 2009-2014	2015 MSA Prof & Bus Svcs Overall Ranking
1	Auburn-Opelika, AL	74.3	7.7	13.3%	66.7%	1
2	Tuscaloosa, AL	71.8	10.9	19.9%	68.0%	2
3	Grants Pass, OR	71.7	2.2	8.3%	54.8%	3
4	Jackson, TN	70.9	6.6	9.4%	58.4%	4
5	New Bedford, MA NECTA	69.6	5.7	12.5%	43.7%	5
6	Port St. Lucie, FL	69.0	17.0	15.7%	38.3%	6
7	Janesville-Beloit, WI	68.0	6.0	13.9%	46.3%	7
8	Lynn-Saugus-Marblehead, MA NECTA Div	67.6	3.1	9.4%	31.0%	8
9	Waco, TX	67.0	11.3	12.6%	30.4%	10
10	Burlington, NC	66.8	6.0	22.6%	45.5%	11
11	Monroe, MI	66.1	4.5	7.1%	51.7%	12
12	Sherman-Denison, TX	65.8	3.3	6.5%	46.3%	14
13	Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN	65.0	8.4	8.1%	61.1%	16
14	Greeley, CO	64.6	9.7	6.2%	49.7%	18
15	Elkhart-Goshen, IN	63.7	10.1	6.7%	43.4%	19
16	Columbus, IN	63.2	5.5	5.7%	48.2%	20
17	Springfield, OH	62.3	4.8	9.9%	28.6%	23
18	Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island, FL	62.2	15.2	7.8%	44.9%	24
19	Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ	61.9	4.1	10.9%	29.8%	25
20	Gadsden, AL	61.2	4.4	3.9%	50.0%	28
21	Salinas, CA	61.1	13.0	12.4%	19.7%	29
22	Morgantown, WV	60.8	6.5	9.0%	24.4%	30
23	Redding, CA	60.2	6.1	10.2%	19.6%	31
24	Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC	60.1	14.6	7.4%	30.8%	32
25	Cleveland, TN	60.0	6.2	-34.5%	97.9%	33
26	Gainesville, FL	59.9	12.9	10.6%	27.0%	34
27	Yuba City, CA	59.8	3.1	9.4%	24.0%	37
28	Kankakee, IL	58.6	4.1	-1.6%	42.5%	39
29	Flagstaff, AZ	58.5	3.1	13.3%	23.7%	42
30	Odessa, TX	57.6	5.0	11.2%	25.2%	43
31	Manchester, NH NECTA	57.0	16.2	8.3%	23.1%	46
32	Bend-Redmond, OR	56.8	7.9	10.2%	20.9%	47
33	Topeka, KS	56.8	13.0	2.9%	37.0%	48
34	Macon, GA	54.6	12.4	6.9%	22.4%	52
35	College Station-Bryan, TX	54.0	7.7	4.5%	27.6%	53
36	Michigan City-La Porte, IN	53.5	3.1	10.8%	24.3%	56
37	Wausau, WI	53.1	5.2	6.8%	21.9%	58
38	Iowa City, IA	53.1	7.1	4.9%	37.4%	59
39	Bay City, MI	52.7	3.6	6.9%	18.7%	60
40	Saginaw, MI	52.5	11.5	3.9%	21.8%	61
41	Ocala, FL	52.4	9.8	6.9%	21.4%	63
42	Victoria, TX	52.4	2.7	15.7%	14.1%	64
43	Laredo, TX	51.6	8.3	6.0%	40.9%	66
44	Prescott, AZ	51.0	3.7	12.1%	11.0%	71
45	Fond du Lac, WI	50.9	2.6	5.3%	19.7%	72
46	Corvallis, OR	50.8	4.3	10.3%	21.9%	73
47	Lawrence, KS	50.8	5.6	7.1%	12.1%	74
48	Ithaca, NY	50.8	3.4	6.3%	18.8%	75
49	Charlottesville, VA	50.5	14.5	6.4%	21.9%	76
50	Bismarck, ND	49.8	8.1	6.1%	26.4%	82
51	Kalamazoo-Portage, MI	49.7	16.5	6.0%	18.8%	84
52	Bangor, ME NECTA	49.2	6.6	7.1%	14.5%	87
53	Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA	49.2	7.5	3.2%	24.3%	88
54	Muskegon, MI	48.9	3.6	2.9%	22.7%	90
55	Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC	48.8	12.7	5.2%	15.4%	91
56	Napa, CA	48.6	6.6	5.9%	20.7%	94
57	Barnstable Town, MA NECTA	48.4	8.9	10.3%	14.1%	95
58	Panama City, FL	48.4	9.1	-3.5%	21.9%	96
59	Lake Charles, LA	48.2	8.6	3.6%	27.2%	99
60	Midland, TX	47.9	9.8	3.9%	40.2%	101
61	Pueblo, CO	47.3	6.8	5.7%	20.7%	104
62	Battle Creek, MI	47.1	6.6	10.7%	10.7%	106
63	Burlington-South Burlington, VT NECTA	47.1	13.9	3.5%	29.1%	107
64	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles-Arroyo Grande, CA	46.9	12.2	4.3%	28.3%	108
65	Greenville, NC	46.5	7.4	0.9%	29.1%	110
66	Elizabethtown-Fort Knox, KY	46.4	5.7	4.9%	25.0%	111
67	Waterbury, CT NECTA	45.3	5.5	5.8%	12.2%	115
68	Punta Gorda, FL	44.7	4.5	-1.4%	37.4%	118
69	South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI	44.5	13.3	5.5%	14.3%	119
70	Chico, CA	44.2	6.1	3.4%	30.7%	122
71	Elmira, NY	44.1	2.7	5.3%	14.3%	123
72	Danbury, CT NECTA	44.1	9.2	5.3%	19.4%	124
73	Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol, TN-VA	43.6	9.9	1.7%	21.6%	127
74	Salisbury, MD-DE	43.6	11.7	3.5%	18.1%	128
75	Olympia-Tumwater, WA	43.4	10.0	0.3%	30.0%	129
76	Brockton-Bridgewater-Easton, MA NECTA Div	42.9	7.9	1.3%	19.8%	130
77	Chambersburg-Waynesboro, PA	42.7	5.2	8.3%	3.3%	132
78	Pocatello, ID	42.7	3.9	0.0%	21.9%	133
79	Flint, MI	42.6	15.1	4.6%	24.5%	134
80	Cheyenne, WY	42.5	3.5	6.1%	10.5%	135
81	Wilmington, NC	42.3	14.8	3.5%	15.3%	137
82	Fargo, ND-MN	41.9	16.1	3.6%	25.4%	139
83	Medford, OR	40.9	7.2	10.7%	5.9%	148
84	Clarksville, TN-KY	40.4	9.1	7.5%	10.5%	150
85	Brownsville-Harlingen, TX	39.8	11.7	-3.6%	29.5%	153
86	Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina, HI	39.7	7.1	3.9%	16.9%	156
87	Oshkosh-Neenah, WI	39.7	11.5	2.1%	20.3%	157
88	Appleton, WI	39.7	13.3	5.0%	14.4%	158
89	Bellingham, WA	39.4	7.8	5.0%	7.9%	159
90	Spartanburg, SC	39.1	15.5	3.1%	14.5%	163
91	Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH	39.1	12.2	8.3%	4.6%	164
92	Sebastian-Vero Beach, FL	38.7	5.1	6.9%	10.0%	166
93	State College, PA	38.6	6.1	5.2%	9.6%	167
94	Abilene, TX	38.3	5.6	2.4%	9.1%	170
95	Tyler, TX	38.3	9.0	5.9%	4.7%	171
96	Altoona, PA	37.8	5.7	2.4%	18.1%	175
97	Dothan, AL	37.7	4.7	10.9%	8.4%	176
98	Morristown, TN	37.7	3.4	0.0%	14.8%	178
99	St. George, UT	37.3	4.2	2.4%	23.5%	183
100	Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV	37.3	9.6	4.0%	17.6%	184
101	Dalton, GA	37.1	6.2	9.4%	-7.0%	185
102	Mansfield, OH	37.1	5.3	-1.3%	15.3%	187
103	Johnson City, TN	36.6	8.4	5.4%	11.9%	189
104	Dover-Durham, NH-ME NECTA	36.1	3.9	4.5%	11.4%	193
105	Longview, TX	35.8	9.4	4.5%	11.5%	197
106	Bloomsburg-Berwick, PA	35.8	4.5	-3.5%	27.1%	198
107	Erie, PA	35.2	10.1	6.7%	-1.0%	201
108	Lewiston-Auburn, ME NECTA	35.1	6.8	0.0%	15.2%	203
109	Coeur d'Alene, ID	35.0	6.4	2.1%	6.7%	206
110	Grand Forks, ND-MN	35.0	3.1	9.4%	4.5%	207
111	Athens-Clarke County, GA	34.8	7.2	-0.9%	13.7%	208
112	Binghamton, NY	34.7	9.9	4.6%	12.1%	210
113	Bowling Green, KY	34.6	8.6	1.6%	16.1%	211
114	Glens Falls, NY	34.3	5.6	-0.6%	16.8%	212
115	Fort Smith, AR-OK	34.2	12.2	4.0%	10.6%	214
116	Leominster-Gardner, MA NECTA	33.6	3.6	1.9%	12.5%	216
117	Carson City, NV	33.3	2.1	6.9%	10.7%	217
118	Monroe, LA	32.7	8.2	2.1%	10.4%	221
119	Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ	32.4	9.6	5.1%	2.9%	223
120	Rochester, MN	32.1	5.8	-0.6%	21.8%	224
121	Kingston, NY	32.0	4.4	-3.0%	11.0%	225
122	Madera, CA	32.0	2.9	0.0%	17.8%	226
123	Casper, WY	31.9	3.0	0.0%	15.4%	227
124	Albany, OR	31.5	3.4	1.0%	11.0%	230
125	Hanford-Corcoran, CA	31.1	1.4	7.5%	-12.2%	233
126	Nashua, NH-MA NECTA Div	30.7	14.4	-0.2%	13.9%	235
127	Fort Collins, CO	30.4	19.0	-0.7%	15.2%	238
128	San Angelo, TX	30.2	3.9	-0.9%	12.6%	239
129	Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford, MA-NH NECTA Div	29.3	21.5	6.3%	2.2%	240
130	Lubbock, TX	29.2	11.0	0.3%	16.6%	241
131	Lima, OH	29.2	4.7	-2.8%	21.6%	243
132	Duluth, MN-WI	28.8	8.4	2.9%	7.2%	248
133	Sioux Falls, SD	28.1	13.1	-4.1%	22.7%	250
134	Grand Junction, CO	27.9	5.5	1.9%	5.8%	251
135	Johnstown, PA	27.5	5.7	3.6%	4.9%	253
136	Missoula, MT	27.3	7.0	3.5%	3.5%	255
137	Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH	26.6	1.9	5.6%	1.8%	261
138	Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL	26.0	13.3	0.8%	7.0%	265
139	Champaign-Urbana, IL	26.0	8.2	1.7%	10.3%	266
140	Taunton-Middleborough-Norton, MA NECTA Div	25.8	5.7	1.2%	11.0%	268
141	Niles-Benton Harbor, MI	25.6	5.5	7.8%	3.1%	271
142	Vallejo-Fairfield, CA	25.6	9.7	3.9%	-10.7%	272
143	Rapid City, SD	24.9	5.1	1.3%	10.1%	276
144	Sheboygan, WI	24.8	4.5	-2.2%	9.8%	277
145	Haverhill-Newburyport-Amesbury Town, MA-NH NECTA Div	24.5	5.2	-0.6%	10.6%	278
146	Norwich-New London-Westerly, CT-RI NECTA	24.4	9.2	3.4%	0.0%	279
147	Amarillo, TX	24.1	8.9	1.9%	5.5%	281
148	Eau Claire, WI	23.8	9.0	0.0%	5.9%	282
149	Decatur, AL	23.7	5.3	-5.3%	16.8%	284
150	Racine, WI	23.4	6.3	0.0%	12.5%	287
151	Lawton, OK	23.3	3.8	4.6%	9.6%	288
152	Logan, UT-ID	22.9	5.6	-0.6%	5.7%	291
153	Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ	22.6	4.6	7.9%	-25.9%	293
154	Lynchburg, VA	22.5	12.4	1.1%	-4.4%	295
155	Peabody-Salem-Beverly, MA NECTA Div	22.4	9.9	0.7%	8.4%	296
156	Idaho Falls, ID	22.3	12.1	2.3%	-5.2%	297
157	Fairbanks, AK	21.6	2.3	3.0%	4.5%	298
158	Charleston, WV	21.2	14.6	-0.2%	7.6%	302
159	Eugene, OR	20.7	15.3	-1.5%	7.0%	303
160	Owensboro, KY	20.4	3.8	-5.0%	16.5%	304
161	Danville, IL	20.1	1.9	1.8%	-10.8%	305
162	Portsmouth, NH-ME NECTA	19.9	10.6	0.3%	-0.9%	307
163	Dover, DE	19.4	4.2	-2.3%	1.6%	310
164	Walla Walla, WA	19.2	0.9	-6.7%	3.7%	313
165	La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN	19.0	6.5	-1.5%	7.7%	314
166	Las Cruces, NM	18.8	7.3	-0.9%	-4.3%	315
167	Pittsfield, MA NECTA	18.7	3.7	0.9%	0.9%	317
168	Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA	18.3	9.4	0.4%	5.6%	318
169	Bremerton-Silverdale, WA	17.8	7.1	0.0%	-2.3%	321
170	Wichita Falls, TX	17.3	3.5	-2.8%	9.5%	326
171	Billings, MT	17.2	8.6	1.2%	-6.5%	327
172	Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL	17.2	4.0	4.4%	-12.5%	328
173	East Stroudsburg, PA	17.1	3.3	4.3%	-12.5%	329
174	Lawrence-Methuen Town-Salem, MA-NH NECTA Div	16.6	10.1	0.0%	5.9%	331
175	Kennewick-Richland, WA	16.3	20.8	2.6%	-9.3%	333
176	Rocky Mount, NC	16.2	5.5	1.2%	-1.2%	334
177	Yuma, AZ	14.9	6.1	-2.7%	4.6%	337
178	Visalia-Porterville, CA	13.9	9.1	-6.8%	6.6%	338
179	Yakima, WA	13.7	3.7	0.0%	-2.7%	339
180	San Rafael, CA Metropolitan Div	13.5	18.3	-1.8%	-0.4%	341
181	Columbus, GA-AL	13.2	12.6	-3.1%	-3.3%	342
182	Terre Haute, IN	13.0	5.4	-2.4%	-4.7%	343
183	St. Cloud, MN	12.6	8.3	-9.5%	2.9%	344
184	Jackson, MI	12.5	3.8	-6.6%	4.6%	345
185	Killeen-Temple, TX	12.2	9.0	-0.7%	-7.5%	346
186	Great Falls, MT	11.7	3.1	-1.1%	-3.2%	347
187	Santa Fe, NM	11.3	4.3	-2.3%	-2.3%	348
188	Fayetteville, NC	10.7	12.4	-0.8%	-4.8%	349
189	Dutchess County-Putnam County, NY Metropolitan Div	10.7	11.5	-2.3%	-4.4%	350
190	Springfield, IL	9.9	10.3	-0.6%	-7.5%	352
191	Cedar Rapids, IA	9.5	12.9	-6.3%	-1.5%	353
192	Merced, CA	9.4	3.9	-2.5%	-3.3%	354
193	Sioux City, IA-NE-SD	9.1	8.6	-7.2%	-1.5%	355
194	El Centro, CA	9.1	2.5	-18.5%	1.4%	356
195	Bloomington, IL	8.8	17.1	-4.3%	-4.5%	357
196	Watertown-Fort Drum, NY	8.3	2.1	-9.9%	-12.3%	358
197	Lewiston, ID-WA	7.1	1.2	-2.7%	-16.3%	360
198	Decatur, IL	7.1	3.0	-4.2%	-9.9%	361
199	Texarkana, TX-AR	6.9	3.7	-7.6%	-6.0%	362
200	Utica-Rome, NY	6.5	7.9	-4.8%	-9.5%	363
201	Vineland-Bridgeton, NJ	5.6	3.3	-20.6%	-7.4%	364
202	Anniston-Oxford-Jacksonville, AL	5.3	4.3	-7.9%	-14.6%	365
203	Bloomington, IN	5.2	4.1	-8.1%	-34.4%	366