Houston Leads Nation in Job Growth
Houston has many names—Clutch City, Bayou City, Space City. But the Houston Business Journal has anointed us with the title: Job Creation Capital of the U.S.
Houston added 65,600 non-farm jobs in the past year, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s the biggest increase in any major metro area in the country.
Houston’s job gains are ahead of New York, Boston and Dallas.
Houston still leads nation in job growth
Houston Business Journal
Houston may be know as Space City, but this week it has another new title: the job-creation capital of the United States.
Houston added 65,600 nonfarm jobs between August 2010 and the same month this year, the biggest raw gain by any of the country's 100 major metros, according to statistics released Wednesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The Business Journal's On Numbers, a division of American City Business Journals, has pulled together an interactive database of the latest data that shows that 77 of 100 markets posted job gains during that period while 23 saw employment shrinkage.
Ogden, Utah, expanded its job base by 3.73 percent during the same span, the nation's largest increase in percentage terms.
Following behind Houston in raw employment gains are New York City (up 57,400 jobs in the past year), Boston (up 50,600), and Dallas-Fort Worth (up 50,200).
Click here to access the complete On Numbers report and job statistics database.
