Worth, it's up roughly 16% Dallas 11% Austin, a remarkable 26.5% and San Antonio, 18.4%. Since 2001, employment in Houston has expanded 20% in Ft. 12.Īll these metro areas have more jobs than they did a decade ago - often a lot more. The state’s other big city, San Antonio, comes in at a very healthy No. 6 ) and Austin-Round Rock, which slips from first place last year to 10th. Texas boasts a remarkable four major metros in our top 10, led by Ft. Growth there has not only been steady, it’s been widely spread across the state. In contrast, the Texas juggernaut rolls on. Los Angeles, the state’s dominant urban region, has lost some 120,000 jobs since 2001. Most of the state's big metros are in the poor to middling range over the long term only Riverside-San Bernardino (45th place on our big cities list) has 10% more jobs than a decade ago. Besides the tech-rich Bay Area, home to two of our top 10 large metro areas, there are no other major California cities near the top. Some East Coast boosters of the Golden State are making this claim, but we don’t see it in this year’s numbers. In fact, the Valley is still down almost 40,000 jobs from 2001. Yet looking at the longer term, the Valley, like San Francisco, is still rebounding from a deep downturn connected to the dot-com disaster of a decade ago. 7 on our large metro area list due to 3.4% job growth last year, and 2.3% growth since 2008 it is also propelled by 25% growth in information jobs since 2007. Much the same can be said about San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, better known as Silicon Valley, which is No.
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