Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin made the top 20 list of cities in Policom’s 2010 Economic Strength Rankings report. The report, which is published annually and uses data going back to 1989, focuses on long-term trends inside of 366 different Metropolitan Statistical Areas. Volatility is a main consideration in terms of how the areas behave over time.
- Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown ranked 4th
- Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington ranked 10th
- Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos ranked 12th
The report can be found here
Policom is an independent economic research firm which specializes in analyzing local and state economies.
From its research, it determines if an economy is growing or declining, what is causing this to happen, and offers ideas and solutions to improve the situation.
Below is a table showing how Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin have done in past rankings.
| |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
| Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington |
12 |
13 |
16 |
22 |
7 |
4 |
10 |
| Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown |
24 |
32 |
29 |
26 |
8 |
1 |
4 |
| Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos |
15 |
22 |
45 |
37 |
39 |
19 |
12 |
This entry was posted
on Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 at 12:23 PM and is filed under Austin, Cities, DFW Metroplex, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Real Estate Investing, Real Estate News.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
