Best Cities 2013

The Cities That Are Stealing Finance Jobs From Wall Street

Joel Kotkin and Michael Shires — Fri, 31 May 2013 10:51:35 -0400

Over the past 60 years, financial services’ share of the economy has exploded from 2.5% to 8.5% of GDP. Even if you believe, as we do, that financialization is not a healthy trend, the sector boasts a high number of relatively well-paid jobs that most cities would welcome.

Yet our list of the fastest-growing finance economies is a surprising one that includes many “second-tier” cities that most would not associate with banking. To identify the cities making the biggest gains, we ranked metropolitan statistical areas’ employment growth in the sector over the long-term (2001-12), mid-term (2007-12) and the last two years, as well as momentum.

Best Cities for Jobs in Finance Industries

New High-Fliers

Tops on our list among the 66 largest metro areas is Richmond, Va., where financial sector employment has grown an impressive 12% since 2009. This reflects the presence of large banks such as Capital One Financial , the area’s largest private employer with 10,900 jobs, and SunTrust Banks , which employs 4,400. The insurer Genworth Financial is based in Richmond, and Wells Fargo and Bank of America also have sizable operations there. Along with the Northern Virginia metropolitan statistical area (an area encompassing the state’s suburbs of Washington, D.C., including Fairfax, Arlington, Loudoun and Prince William counties), which is No. 7 on our list, the Old Dominion is quietly becoming a major financial power.

In once-gritty Pittsburgh, which places second on our list, financial services is now the largest contributor to the regional GDP, according to the Allegheny Conference. Long seen as a backwater, the area has begun to lure the kind of highly trained workers used by financial firms, leading Rust Belt analyst Jim Russell to joke, “Pittsburgh is becoming the new Portland.” Financial employment there has grown nearly 7% since 2009. The strongly reviving local economy spans everything from energy to medical technology.

Like Pittsburgh, some of the areas doing well in financial services are also thriving generally. These include such Texas high-fliers as No. 3 Ft. Worth-Arlington, where financial services employment has expanded over 12% since 2007, as well as No. 4 San Antonio-New Braunfels. And it is not real estate that is driving this boom—in Fort Worth, for example, the “real estate and rental and leasing” sub-sector of financial services shed jobs over the last five years while the “finance and insurance” subsector expanded almost 20%.

Some metro areas that aren’t exactly setting the world on fire are scoring in the financial job sweepstakes. Jacksonville, Fla., ranks fifth on our list and St. Louis, MO-IL ranks eighth. In St. Louis, financial sector employment is up 6.4% since 2007 by our count, and the number of securities industry jobs has increased 85% to 12,000 over that span, according to the Wall Street Journal.

What’s Driving Dispersion of Financial Services?

The largest traditional financial centers appear to be losing their edge. New York, home to by far the largest banking sector with 436,000 jobs, places a meager 52nd on our list of the cities winning the most new jobs in the sector. Big money may still be minted in Gotham, but jobs are not. Since 2007 financial employment in the Big Apple is down 7.4%.

The next four biggest financial centers are also doing poorly. San Francisco-San Mateo ranks 37th – remarkably poor given that San Francisco placed first overall on our 2013 list of The Best Cities For Jobs. Meanwhile Boston-Cambridge-Quincy ranks 44th (despite notching a strong 17th place ranking on our overall list), Los Angeles-Long Beach is 47th, and Chicago-Joliet-Naperville is 57th.

So what gives here? A key factor is cost-cutting. As firms look to move back office and some sales functions to less expensive locales, the traditional financial centers are losing out. Between 2007 and 2012, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco lost a combined 40,000 finance jobs.

In addition to lower rents in the cities that rank highly on our list, workers come cheaper, too: the average annual salary for securities industry jobs in St. Louis is $102,000, according to the Wall Street Journal, compared with $343,000 in New York.

This trend is not just limited to the high-profile investment banks and brokerages. Insurance, the quieter and tamer part of the financial services sector (it has roughly the same number of jobs today as it did in 2001 and 2007), has seen an exodus of jobs into these lower-cost regional markets as well. Illinois-based insurance giant State Farm, for example, recently signed mega-leases in Dallas, Phoenix and Atlanta.

Manufacturing And Energy Drive Changes

The manufacturing revival in the Rust Belt and the Midwest is creating financial sector jobs in midsized cities (those with overall employment totaling 150,000 to 450,000). Tops on that list is Ann Arbor, Mich., followed by Green Bay, Wisc., No. 16 Grand-Rapids-Wyoming, Mich., and No. 19 Madison, Wisc. Among small cities, Owensboro, Ky., ranks first, followed by No. 3 Kankakee-Bradley, Ill., No. 5 Clarksville, Tenn.-Ky., No. 11 Bloomington-Normal, Ill., and No. 13 Michigan City-La Porte, Ind. With low commercial and industrial market costs and available workforces, these regions could prove attractive to manufacturers re-shoring U.S. operations.

The top of the financial services rankings for midsized and small cities is also liberally sprinkled with places where hot energy economies are driving employment in all sectors. The midsized list features Bakersfield-Delano, Calif., in third place, the Texas towns of El Paso and McAllen-Edinburg-Mission in fifth and ninth place, respectively, and No. 10 Lafayette, La. Our small cities ranking includes the Texas towns of Odessa (2nd), Midland (fourth) and Sherman-Denison (10th), and Cheyenne, Wyo. (14th). More economic activity will continue to flow to these regions both as they grow and as their suppliers move closer to reduce costs.

What The Future Holds

Historically financial services clustered in big cities, but increasingly cost is leading financial institutions to focus on smaller metropolitan areas. With the connectivity of the Internet and growth of educated workforces in many smaller metros, it has become increasingly possible for financial firms to locate many key functions outside of the traditional money centers.

Some places can boast advantages beyond just lower costs. Jacksonville, and Miami-Kendall (No. 13 on our big cities list) benefit from the huge demand for financial advisers in Florida. The Sunshine State ranks fourth in the number of financial advisors, and this seems likely to grow as at least some of the expanding ranks of down-shifting boomers — some with decent nest eggs– head down south to retire or start second careers. This demographic trend could also benefit Phoenix, which already hosts substantial operations of Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo.

Perhaps no low-cost metro area has greater long-term advantages than Salt Lake City, 12th on our list. The unique linguistics skills of the largely Mormon workforce have attracted big financial firms such as Goldman Sachs, who need people capable of conversing in Lithuanian, Chinese or Tagalog. Salt Lake City, with 1,400 employees, is the investment bank’s sixth largest location in the world.

“We consider Salt Lake a high leverage location,” notes Goldman managing director David W. Lang. “There’s a huge cost differential and you have a huge talent-rich environment.”

As we saw in manufacturing and information sectors, the financial services industry appears to be undergoing a profound geographic shift. Once identified largely with such storied locales as Wall Street, Chicago’s LaSalle Street or San Francisco’s Montgomery, the financial sector — like much of the economy — is dispersing, perhaps even more rapidly. Over time, this could accelerate the process of economic decentralization that has been occurring, fairly steadily, for the better part of a half century.

Best Cities for Jobs in Finance Industries

Joel Kotkin is executive editor of NewGeography.com and a distinguished presidential fellow in urban futures at Chapman University, and a member of the editorial board of the Orange County Register. He is author of The City: A Global History and The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050. His most recent study, The Rise of Postfamilialism, has been widely discussed and distributed internationally. He lives in Los Angeles, CA.

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

This piece originally appeared at Forbes.com.

Downtown Richmond photo by CoredesatChikai.

Small Cities Finance Jobs - 2013 Best Cities Rankings

Mark Schill — Fri, 31 May 2013 10:13:24 -0400

Best Cities for Jobs in Finance Industries

The methodology for the 2013 rankings for best cities for financial activities jobs parallels that used for our 2013 Best Cities for Job Growth rankings. Instead of using Total Nonfarm Employment, the financial activities rankings use employment in the financial activities sector (supersector 55) in the BLS MSA employment data. The Financial Activities rankings include the 323 MSAs for which there are sectoral employment data for all 12 years used in our analysis.

2013 MSA Fin Activs Ranking - Small MSAs	Area	Weighted INDEX	2012 Emplymnt - Fin Activ (1000s)	2012 MSA Fin Activ Ranking - Small MSAs	Fin Activ 2013 Change from 2012 - Small MSAs
1	Owensboro, KY	99.3	3.4	7	6
2	Odessa, TX	91.8	3.0	1	(1)
3	Kankakee-Bradley, IL	91.5	2.1	6	3
4	Midland, TX	88.8	4.2	18	14
5	Clarksville, TN-KY	88.7	3.1	32	27
6	Macon, GA	88.4	9.3	not rated	not rated
7	Kennewick-Pasco-Richland, WA	85.2	4.0	not rated	not rated
8	Hanford-Corcoran, CA	84.5	1.1	51	43
9	Victoria, TX	82.7	2.3	20	11
10	Sherman-Denison, TX	82.1	2.9	8	(2)
11	Bloomington-Normal, IL	81.6	13.0	54	43
12	Madera-Chowchilla, CA	81.6	0.8	71	59
13	Michigan City-La Porte, IN	80.8	1.3	not rated	not rated
14	Cheyenne, WY	80.0	2.3	9	(5)
15	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA	79.3	4.3	102	87
16	Bellingham, WA	79.0	3.2	not rated	not rated
17	Rochester-Dover, NH-ME NECTA	78.7	4.5	3	(14)
18	Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV	77.7	8.4	13	(5)
19	Greenville, NC	76.7	2.8	2	(17)
20	Bismarck, ND	76.6	3.5	21	1
21	Holland-Grand Haven, MI	76.6	3.3	5	(16)
22	Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood, TX	75.6	6.0	126	104
23	Oshkosh-Neenah, WI	74.9	4.0	15	(8)
24	Longview, TX	74.2	4.0	33	9
25	St. Cloud, MN	74.1	4.4	90	65
26	Gainesville, FL	72.8	6.4	119	93
27	Danville, IL	72.3	1.4	89	62
28	Portsmouth, NH-ME NECTA	72.3	4.1	68	40
29	Brownsville-Harlingen, TX	72.0	5.4	19	(10)
30	Leominster-Fitchburg-Gardner, MA NECTA	71.3	1.7	30	0
31	Springfield, IL	70.7	7.6	64	33
32	Columbus, GA-AL	70.6	12.9	41	9
33	Sioux Falls, SD	70.2	16.2	109	76
34	Las Cruces, NM	70.1	2.5	58	24
35	Elmira, NY	69.8	1.5	93	58
36	Tyler, TX	69.2	4.2	17	(19)
37	Kalamazoo-Portage, MI	68.3	8.1	23	(14)
38	Nashua, NH-MA NECTA Division	68.1	8.1	74	36
39	Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA	68.0	3.3	123	84
40	Muncie, IN	67.9	2.6	53	13
41	Lafayette, IN	67.3	3.7	43	2
42	Terre Haute, IN	66.7	2.6	127	85
43	Fond du Lac, WI	66.5	2.0	22	(21)
44	Fargo, ND-MN	66.1	9.2	11	(33)
45	San Angelo, TX	66.0	2.1	55	10
46	Lewiston-Auburn, ME NECTA	65.6	3.2	46	0
47	College Station-Bryan, TX	65.5	3.6	27	(20)
48	Erie, PA	65.0	6.2	37	(11)
49	Morristown, TN	64.3	1.2	92	43
50	Wichita Falls, TX	63.6	2.8	99	49
51	Casper, WY	62.6	2.0	63	12
52	Napa, CA	62.3	2.3	105	53
53	Pocatello, ID	61.9	1.9	125	72
54	Barnstable Town, MA NECTA	61.8	3.7	133	79
55	Abilene, TX	61.6	3.8	40	(15)
56	Elkhart-Goshen, IN	61.6	3.1	57	1
57	Jackson, TN	61.5	1.7	113	56
58	Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL	59.2	4.9	42	(16)
59	Texarkana, TX-Texarkana, AR	59.0	2.6	26	(33)
60	Fort Smith, AR-OK	59.0	4.3	139	79
61	Sheboygan, WI	58.7	2.5	39	(22)
62	Rapid City, SD	57.5	3.8	47	(15)
63	Grand Forks, ND-MN	56.3	1.7	85	22
64	La Crosse, WI-MN	56.0	3.7	24	(40)
65	Fort Collins-Loveland, CO	54.6	5.6	52	(13)
66	Palm Coast, FL	54.3	0.8	144	78
67	Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ	53.7	1.8	121	54
68	Lubbock, TX	53.5	6.9	82	14
69	El Centro, CA	53.3	1.3	49	(20)
70	Norwich-New London, CT-RI NECTA	53.2	3.1	108	38
71	Merced, CA	52.4	1.6	110	39
72	Idaho Falls, ID	52.2	2.1	76	4
73	Battle Creek, MI	51.5	1.4	not rated	not rated
74	Cedar Rapids, IA	51.4	10.1	95	21
75	Tuscaloosa, AL	51.1	3.7	45	(30)
76	Bangor, ME NECTA	50.3	2.1	28	(48)
77	St. George, UT	50.2	1.9	69	(8)
78	Santa Fe, NM	50.2	2.7	77	(1)
79	Niles-Benton Harbor, MI	50.1	2.3	4	(75)
80	Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL	49.5	2.1	31	(49)
81	Auburn-Opelika, AL	49.3	1.7	35	(46)
82	Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol, TN-VA	48.9	3.9	147	65
83	Appleton, WI	48.9	7.3	65	(18)
84	Ithaca, NY	48.9	1.6	34	(50)
85	Waterbury, CT NECTA	47.7	2.0	153	68
86	Burlington, NC	47.7	1.8	14	(72)
87	Coeur d'Alene, ID	46.7	3.1	60	(27)
88	Anniston-Oxford, AL	46.2	1.3	79	(9)
89	Charleston, WV	45.8	8.0	128	39
90	Duluth, MN-WI	45.1	5.4	73	(17)
91	Waco, TX	44.6	6.2	70	(21)
92	Topeka, KS	44.4	7.0	86	(6)
93	Laredo, TX	44.3	3.8	44	(49)
94	Modesto, CA	43.9	5.4	66	(28)
95	Muskegon-Norton Shores, MI	43.9	1.8	29	(66)
96	Greeley, CO	43.8	4.1	143	47
97	Naples-Marco Island, FL	43.4	6.7	87	(10)
98	Vallejo-Fairfield, CA	43.4	5.0	50	(48)
99	Johnstown, PA	43.4	2.8	not rated	not rated
100	Champaign-Urbana, IL	43.3	4.3	75	(25)
101	Yuba City, CA	42.4	1.3	48	(53)
102	Kokomo, IN	42.0	1.3	91	(11)
103	Wausau, WI	42.0	5.5	111	8
104	Saginaw-Saginaw Township North, MI	41.5	3.9	80	(24)
105	Brockton-Bridgewater-Easton, MA NECTA Division	41.4	3.0	59	(46)
106	Lewiston, ID-WA	39.9	1.7	134	28
107	Redding, CA	39.5	2.4	145	38
108	Wilmington, NC	39.1	6.2	88	(20)
109	Eugene-Springfield, OR	39.0	7.2	122	13
110	Glens Falls, NY	38.8	1.9	12	(98)
111	Janesville, WI	38.2	1.8	56	(55)
112	Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford, MA-NH NECTA Div	38.0	3.6	138	26
113	Haverhill-North Andover-Amesbury, MA-NH NECTA Div	37.9	2.6	72	(41)
114	Salem, OR	37.3	7.0	16	(98)
115	Yuma, AZ	37.3	1.4	146	31
116	Flint, MI	37.3	6.3	61	(55)
117	Jackson, MI	37.1	1.8	not rated	not rated
118	Bay City, MI	36.5	1.5	10	(108)
119	Grand Junction, CO	35.5	3.0	124	5
120	Fayetteville, NC	34.5	4.1	25	(95)
121	South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI	34.0	6.0	154	33
122	Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC	33.9	3.3	36	(86)
123	Pueblo, CO	33.4	1.9	132	9
124	Chico, CA	33.0	2.8	not rated	not rated
125	Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ	32.4	4.0	78	(47)
126	Anderson, IN	32.2	1.5	116	(10)
127	Logan, UT-ID	31.7	1.6	100	(27)
128	Ocala, FL	31.5	4.2	98	(30)
129	Bloomington, IN	31.2	2.7	148	19
130	Fairbanks, AK	31.1	1.3	81	(49)
131	Burlington-South Burlington, VT NECTA	31.0	4.6	117	(14)
132	Utica-Rome, NY	31.0	7.1	104	(28)
133	Dothan, AL	30.6	2.0	115	(18)
134	Mansfield, OH	28.3	1.6	not rated	not rated
135	Gadsden, AL	28.0	1.4	130	(5)
136	Salinas, CA	27.6	4.2	151	15
137	Amarillo, TX	27.3	6.1	112	(25)
138	Cleveland, TN	27.0	1.4	136	(2)
139	Decatur, IL	26.8	1.9	96	(43)
140	Lawton, OK	26.6	2.4	106	(34)
141	Vineland-Millville-Bridgeton, NJ	26.5	1.5	38	(103)
142	Corvallis, OR	24.6	1.3	83	(59)
143	New Bedford, MA NECTA	24.3	1.8	84	(59)
144	Rochester, MN	23.8	2.4	103	(41)
145	Manchester, NH NECTA	23.3	6.8	131	(14)
146	Sebastian-Vero Beach, FL	22.6	2.3	62	(84)
147	Panama City-Lynn Haven-Panama City Beach, FL	22.3	3.6	150	3
148	Decatur, AL	21.6	2.0	129	(19)
149	Pittsfield, MA NECTA	21.3	1.5	135	(14)
150	Rockford, IL	19.9	5.4	107	(43)
151	Medford, OR	19.7	3.5	118	(33)
152	Visalia-Porterville, CA	18.9	3.8	120	(32)
153	Kingston, NY	18.5	2.2	97	(56)
154	Dover, DE	18.1	1.6	152	(2)
155	Columbus, IN	16.8	1.3	101	(54)
156	Punta Gorda, FL	15.2	1.7	137	(19)
157	Bend, OR	14.7	3.9	149	(8)
158	Port St. Lucie, FL	14.3	5.2	94	(64)
159	Johnson City, TN	12.2	3.6	155	(4)
160	Flagstaff, AZ	11.8	1.2	156	(4)
161	Binghamton, NY	11.8	3.8	67	(94)
162	Monroe, MI	11.6	1.1	not rated	not rated
163	Prescott, AZ	10.9	1.7	141	(22)
164	Racine, WI	8.7	2.6	142	(22)
165	Peabody, MA NECTA Division	8.5	4.4	114	(51)
166	Altoona, PA	3.6	1.5	not rated	not rated

Midsized Cities Finance Jobs - 2013 Best Cities Rankings

Mark Schill — Fri, 31 May 2013 09:56:13 -0400

Best Cities for Jobs in Finance Industries

2013 MSA Fin Activ Ranking - Midsized MSAs	Area	Weighted INDEX	2012 Emplymnt - Fin Activ (1000s)	2012 MSA Fin Activ Ranking - Midsized MSAs	Fin Activ 2013 Change from 2012 - Midsized MSAs
1	Ann Arbor, MI	98.0	7.5	1	0
2	Green Bay, WI	81.4	13.7	54	52
3	Bakersfield-Delano, CA	77.6	8.8	22	19
4	Provo-Orem, UT	77.3	6.6	44	40
5	El Paso, TX	76.3	12.6	3	(2)
6	Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL	74.5	9.1	52	46
7	Columbia, SC	73.0	29.1	36	29
8	Charleston-North Charleston-Summerville, SC	72.6	14.2	38	30
9	McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX	72.3	8.9	6	(3)
10	Lafayette, LA	71.4	9.0	10	0
11	Boise City-Nampa, ID	71.2	14.6	45	34
12	Mobile, AL	71.1	9.5	2	(10)
13	Tacoma, WA Mtr Div	70.1	13.1	77	64
14	Lincoln, NE	68.9	14.2	12	(2)
15	Kansas City, KS	67.6	33.5	19	4
16	Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI	67.4	21.0	18	2
17	Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL	66.9	7.7	23	6
18	Springfield, MO	66.1	12.5	40	22
19	Madison, WI	63.8	28.7	48	29
20	Tucson, AZ	63.4	19.2	41	21
21	Roanoke, VA	62.3	8.3	85	64
22	Trenton-Ewing, NJ	61.0	16.9	4	(18)
23	Dayton, OH	61.0	17.6	50	27
24	Framingham, MA NECTA Division	60.9	5.3	8	(16)
25	Corpus Christi, TX	60.8	7.6	60	35
26	Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA	60.3	52.0	15	(11)
27	Knoxville, TN	59.7	17.2	35	8
28	Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR	59.5	19.8	43	15
29	Lake County-Kenosha County, IL-WI Mtr Div	58.7	21.3	67	38
30	Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	58.1	25.1	16	(14)
31	Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX	57.7	5.7	31	0
32	Worcester, MA-CT NECTA	56.2	13.6	33	1
33	Gary, IN Mtr Div	55.4	9.0	72	39
34	Akron, OH	55.2	13.6	39	5
35	Spokane, WA	54.5	12.4	34	(1)
36	Savannah, GA	54.3	6.0	86	50
37	Canton-Massillon, OH	53.2	7.9	24	(13)
38	Anchorage, AK	52.5	8.6	7	(31)
39	Durham-Chapel Hill, NC	52.0	12.6	13	(26)
40	Shreveport-Bossier City, LA	50.7	7.1	11	(29)
41	Fort Wayne, IN	49.7	11.5	5	(36)
42	Wichita, KS	49.4	10.7	55	13
43	Huntsville, AL	47.6	6.0	29	(14)
44	Portland-South Portland-Biddeford, ME NECTA	47.5	15.0	20	(24)
45	Wilmington, DE-MD-NJ Mtr Div	47.3	38.8	14	(31)
46	Baton Rouge, LA	47.3	17.2	56	10
47	Greenville-Mauldin-Easley, SC	47.0	14.6	37	(10)
48	Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC	45.8	7.7	65	17
49	Lansing-East Lansing, MI	45.5	13.6	26	(23)
50	Ogden-Clearfield, UT	45.2	8.0	63	13
51	Jackson, MS	44.7	15.4	66	15
52	Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ	44.0	15.0	75	23
53	Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL	43.7	8.0	47	(6)
54	Lancaster, PA	42.6	8.5	70	16
55	Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL	41.9	7.6	71	16
56	Boulder, CO	41.2	7.2	28	(28)
57	Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL	40.5	11.4	61	4
58	Albuquerque, NM	40.2	17.6	87	29
59	Asheville, NC	39.3	5.6	17	(42)
60	Baltimore City, MD	39.1	18.3	59	(1)
61	Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL	38.6	10.7	81	20
62	Chattanooga, TN-GA	37.6	17.1	51	(11)
63	Lexington-Fayette, KY	37.2	9.8	49	(14)
64	Colorado Springs, CO	36.5	15.4	21	(43)
65	Montgomery, AL	36.0	7.2	91	26
66	Fresno, CA	35.6	12.9	58	(8)
67	Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT NECTA	35.2	40.6	57	(10)
68	Reno-Sparks, NV	35.1	9.0	76	8
69	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	35.1	7.5	89	20
70	Calvert-Charles-Prince George's, MD	34.7	14.0	84	14
71	Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta, CA	34.6	6.6	74	3
72	York-Hanover, PA	34.5	5.1	62	(10)
73	Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA	34.0	22.2	69	(4)
74	North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL	33.4	14.0	42	(32)
75	Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA	33.3	11.7	32	(43)
76	New Haven, CT NECTA	32.2	12.1	78	2
77	Syracuse, NY	31.0	16.6	30	(47)
78	Evansville, IN-KY	24.0	5.1	68	(10)
79	Tallahassee, FL	23.2	7.1	25	(54)
80	Toledo, OH	22.1	10.8	73	(7)
81	Winston-Salem, NC	21.8	11.5	53	(28)
82	Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR-MO	21.8	6.5	82	0
83	Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY	20.9	8.6	64	(19)
84	Peoria, IL	20.5	7.4	90	6
85	Tulsa, OK	20.0	22.2	86	1
86	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	17.5	18.7	9	(77)
87	Stockton, CA	17.5	7.4	79	(8)
88	Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA	14.2	8.0	46	(42)
89	Greensboro-High Point, NC	12.7	18.2	83	(6)
90	Springfield, MA-CT NECTA	11.8	14.8	80	(10)
91	Reading, PA	3.5	6.0	88	(3)

Large Cities Finance Jobs - 2013 Best Cities Rankings

Mark Schill — Fri, 31 May 2013 09:55:41 -0400

Best Cities for Jobs in Finance Industries

2013 MSA Fin Activities Ranking - Large MSAs	Area	Weighted INDEX	2012 Emplymnt - Fin Activ (1000s)	2012 MSA Fin Activ Ranking - Large MSAs	Fin Activ 2013 Change from 2012 - Large MSAs
1	Richmond, VA	84.6	47.5	5	4
2	Pittsburgh, PA	84.2	72.5	2	0
3	Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Mtr Div	81.6	55.4	1	(2)
4	San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX	76.3	72.3	6	2
5	Jacksonville, FL	76.3	61.3	11	6
6	Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX Mtr Div	75.6	191.5	8	2
7	Northern Virginia, VA	72.6	67.9	7	0
8	St. Louis, MO-IL	72.0	85.0	17	9
9	Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale, AZ	71.6	150.1	23	14
10	Denver-Aurora-Broomfield, CO	70.6	95.7	39	29
11	Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX	70.6	45.6	3	(8)
12	Salt Lake City, UT	69.7	50.3	14	2
13	Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL Mtr Div	68.5	72.0	58	45
14	Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine, CA Mtr Div	68.2	111.3	54	40
15	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Mtr Div	68.1	110.7	18	3
16	Columbus, OH	67.5	72.2	15	(1)
17	Kansas City, MO	66.5	40.7	45	28
18	Camden, NJ Mtr Div	65.6	31.0	48	30
19	Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC	65.0	38.1	22	3
20	Oklahoma City, OK	64.3	33.7	32	12
21	Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn, MI Mtr Div	63.5	32.0	24	3
22	Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL	62.8	95.6	27	5
23	Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA	61.0	41.6	20	(3)
24	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	60.8	140.3	21	(3)
25	New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner, LA	60.6	26.9	40	15
26	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA	60.1	156.2	59	33
27	Providence-Fall River-Warwick, RI-MA NECTA	59.9	34.6	47	20
28	Newark-Union, NJ-PA Mtr Div	59.3	69.4	36	8
29	Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN	59.3	47.7	9	(20)
30	Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX	58.4	140.1	12	(18)
31	Birmingham-Hoover, AL	58.1	40.7	44	13
32	Nassau-Suffolk, NY Mtr Div	57.9	73.1	38	6
33	Louisville-Jefferson County, KY-IN	57.7	41.6	30	(3)
34	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	57.5	33.6	29	(5)
35	Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY	57.1	32.0	16	(19)
36	Rochester, NY	57.1	20.9	4	(32)
37	San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City, CA Mtr Div	55.4	79.4	33	(4)
38	Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL	54.3	66.9	19	(19)
39	Las Vegas-Paradise, NV	52.9	42.0	62	23
40	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	51.5	41.6	64	24
41	San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA	48.8	69.4	51	10
42	Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor, OH	46.9	64.0	56	14
43	Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills, MI Mtr Div	46.9	67.8	31	(12)
44	Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA NECTA Division	46.7	143.2	53	9
45	Cincinnati-Middletown, OH-KY-IN	46.5	63.1	42	(3)
46	Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC	45.5	71.9	26	(20)
47	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, CA Mtr Div	45.0	212.8	37	(10)
48	West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Boynton Beach, FL Mtr Div	44.9	36.4	25	(23)
49	Raleigh-Cary, NC	43.0	26.0	28	(21)
50	Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach, FL Mtr Div	42.1	54.4	46	(4)
51	Sacramento--Arden-Arcade--Roseville, CA	41.9	48.0	57	6
52	New York City, NY	41.8	436.1	10	(42)
53	Edison-New Brunswick, NJ Mtr Div	40.7	56.3	49	(4)
54	Honolulu, HI	40.1	20.6	25	(29)
55	Indianapolis-Carmel, IN	39.5	58.2	50	(5)
56	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	38.2	61.8	41	(15)
57	Chicago-Joliet-Naperville, IL Mtr Div	38.1	259.1	63	6
58	Philadelphia City, PA	36.8	41.1	61	3
59	Oakland-Fremont-Hayward, CA Mtr Div	35.7	48.0	52	(7)
60	Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI	33.0	54.3	35	(25)
61	Putnam-Rockland-Westchester, NY	32.7	32.7	13	(48)
62	Bethesda-Rockville-Frederick, MD Mtr Div	32.5	39.4	55	(7)
63	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT NECTA	31.8	59.8	43	(20)
64	Bergen-Hudson-Passaic, NJ	30.7	69.1	34	(30)
65	Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA Mtr Div	24.2	79.3	60	(5)
66	Memphis, TN-MS-AR	9.5	26.9	65	(1)

Overall Finance Jobs - 2013 Best Cities Rankings

Mark Schill — Fri, 31 May 2013 09:55:03 -0400

Best Cities for Jobs in Finance Industries

2013 MSA Fin Activities Ranking - All MSAs	Area	Weighted INDEX	2012 Emplymt - Fin Activities (1000s)	2012 MSA Fin Activities Ranking - All MSAs	Fin Activities 2013 Change from 2012 - All MSAs
1	Owensboro, KY	99.3	3.4	11	10
2	Ann Arbor, MI	98.0	7.5	5	3
3	Odessa, TX	91.8	3.0	1	(2)
4	Kankakee-Bradley, IL	91.5	2.1	10	6
5	Midland, TX	88.8	4.2	30	25
6	Clarksville, TN-KY	88.7	3.1	57	51
7	Macon, GA	88.4	9.3	not rated	not rated
8	Kennewick-Pasco-Richland, WA	85.2	4.0	not rated	not rated
9	Richmond, VA	84.6	47.5	27	18
10	Hanford-Corcoran, CA	84.5	1.1	100	90
11	Pittsburgh, PA	84.2	72.5	14	3
12	Victoria, TX	82.7	2.3	36	24
13	Sherman-Denison, TX	82.1	2.9	12	(1)
14	Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Mtr Div	81.6	55.4	3	(11)
15	Bloomington-Normal, IL	81.6	13.0	110	95
16	Madera-Chowchilla, CA	81.6	0.8	146	130
17	Green Bay, WI	81.4	13.7	180	163
18	Michigan City-La Porte, IN	80.8	1.3	not rated	not rated
19	Cheyenne, WY	80.0	2.3	13	(6)
20	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA	79.3	4.3	215	195
21	Bellingham, WA	79.0	3.2	not rated	not rated
22	Rochester-Dover, NH-ME NECTA	78.7	4.5	4	(18)
23	Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV	77.7	8.4	20	(3)
24	Bakersfield-Delano, CA	77.6	8.8	87	63
25	Provo-Orem, UT	77.3	6.6	152	127
26	Greenville, NC	76.7	2.8	2	(24)
27	Bismarck, ND	76.6	3.5	38	11
28	Holland-Grand Haven, MI	76.6	3.3	9	(19)
29	El Paso, TX	76.3	12.6	7	(22)
30	San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX	76.3	72.3	28	(2)
31	Jacksonville, FL	76.3	61.3	48	17
32	Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX Mtr Div	75.6	191.5	34	2
33	Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood, TX	75.6	6.0	264	231
34	Oshkosh-Neenah, WI	74.9	4.0	25	(9)
35	Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL	74.5	9.1	175	140
36	Longview, TX	74.2	4.0	63	27
37	St. Cloud, MN	74.1	4.4	186	149
38	Columbia, SC	73.0	29.1	123	85
39	Gainesville, FL	72.8	6.4	252	213
40	Northern Virginia, VA	72.6	67.9	32	(8)
41	Charleston-North Charleston-Summerville, SC	72.6	14.2	129	88
42	Danville, IL	72.3	1.4	185	143
43	McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX	72.3	8.9	24	(19)
44	Portsmouth, NH-ME NECTA	72.3	4.1	143	99
45	Brownsville-Harlingen, TX	72.0	5.4	31	(14)
46	St. Louis, MO-IL	72.0	85.0	70	24
47	Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale, AZ	71.6	150.1	95	48
48	Lafayette, LA	71.4	9.0	39	(9)
49	Leominster-Fitchburg-Gardner, MA NECTA	71.3	1.7	54	5
50	Boise City-Nampa, ID	71.2	14.6	157	107
51	Mobile, AL	71.1	9.5	6	(45)
52	Springfield, IL	70.7	7.6	133	81
53	Columbus, GA-AL	70.6	12.9	81	28
54	Denver-Aurora-Broomfield, CO	70.6	95.7	172	118
55	Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX	70.6	45.6	21	(34)
56	Sioux Falls, SD	70.2	16.2	227	171
57	Las Cruces, NM	70.1	2.5	119	62
58	Tacoma, WA Mtr Div	70.1	13.1	261	203
59	Elmira, NY	69.8	1.5	190	131
60	Salt Lake City, UT	69.7	50.3	59	(1)
61	Tyler, TX	69.2	4.2	29	(32)
62	Lincoln, NE	68.9	14.2	47	(15)
63	Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL Mtr Div	68.5	72.0	245	182
64	Kalamazoo-Portage, MI	68.3	8.1	43	(21)
65	Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine, CA Mtr Div	68.2	111.3	226	161
66	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Mtr Div	68.1	110.7	71	5
67	Nashua, NH-MA NECTA Division	68.1	8.1	149	82
68	Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA	68.0	3.3	259	191
69	Muncie, IN	67.9	2.6	108	39
70	Kansas City, KS	67.6	33.5	80	10
71	Columbus, OH	67.5	72.2	60	(11)
72	Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI	67.4	21.0	76	4
73	Lafayette, IN	67.3	3.7	83	10
74	Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL	66.9	7.7	88	14
75	Terre Haute, IN	66.7	2.6	268	193
76	Kansas City, MO	66.5	40.7	197	121
77	Fond du Lac, WI	66.5	2.0	40	(37)
78	Fargo, ND-MN	66.1	9.2	17	(61)
79	Springfield, MO	66.1	12.5	137	58
80	San Angelo, TX	66.0	2.1	111	31
81	Lewiston-Auburn, ME NECTA	65.6	3.2	93	12
82	Camden, NJ Mtr Div	65.6	31.0	202	120
83	College Station-Bryan, TX	65.5	3.6	51	(32)
84	Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC	65.0	38.1	86	2
85	Erie, PA	65.0	6.2	74	(11)
86	Oklahoma City, OK	64.3	33.7	136	50
87	Morristown, TN	64.3	1.2	188	101
88	Madison, WI	63.8	28.7	162	74
89	Wichita Falls, TX	63.6	2.8	205	116
90	Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn, MI Mtr Div	63.5	32.0	99	9
91	Tucson, AZ	63.4	19.2	138	47
92	Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL	62.8	95.6	109	17
93	Casper, WY	62.6	2.0	132	39
94	Napa, CA	62.3	2.3	221	127
95	Roanoke, VA	62.3	8.3	287	192
96	Pocatello, ID	61.9	1.9	262	166
97	Barnstable Town, MA NECTA	61.8	3.7	280	183
98	Abilene, TX	61.6	3.8	79	(19)
99	Elkhart-Goshen, IN	61.6	3.1	115	16
100	Jackson, TN	61.5	1.7	237	137
101	Trenton-Ewing, NJ	61.0	16.9	16	(85)
102	Dayton, OH	61.0	17.6	165	63
103	Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA	61.0	41.6	73	(30)
104	Framingham, MA NECTA Division	60.9	5.3	35	(69)
105	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	60.8	140.3	78	(27)
106	Corpus Christi, TX	60.8	7.6	207	101
107	New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner, LA	60.6	26.9	181	74
108	Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA	60.3	52.0	64	(44)
109	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA	60.1	156.2	248	139
110	Providence-Fall River-Warwick, RI-MA NECTA	59.9	34.6	201	91
111	Knoxville, TN	59.7	17.2	120	9
112	Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR	59.5	19.8	150	38
113	Newark-Union, NJ-PA Mtr Div	59.3	69.4	168	55
114	Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN	59.3	47.7	42	(72)
115	Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL	59.2	4.9	82	(33)
116	Texarkana, TX-Texarkana, AR	59.0	2.6	50	(66)
117	Fort Smith, AR-OK	59.0	4.3	286	169
118	Sheboygan, WI	58.7	2.5	77	(41)
119	Lake County-Kenosha County, IL-WI Mtr Div	58.7	21.3	235	116
120	Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX	58.4	140.1	49	(71)
121	Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	58.1	25.1	67	(54)
122	Birmingham-Hoover, AL	58.1	40.7	194	72
123	Nassau-Suffolk, NY Mtr Div	57.9	73.1	171	48
124	Louisville-Jefferson County, KY-IN	57.7	41.6	126	2
125	Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX	57.7	5.7	113	(12)
126	Rapid City, SD	57.5	3.8	94	(32)
127	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	57.5	33.6	125	(2)
128	Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY	57.1	32.0	62	(66)
129	Rochester, NY	57.1	20.9	23	(106)
130	Grand Forks, ND-MN	56.3	1.7	176	46
131	Worcester, MA-CT NECTA	56.2	13.6	117	(14)
132	La Crosse, WI-MN	56.0	3.7	44	(88)
133	Gary, IN Mtr Div	55.4	9.0	247	114
134	San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City, CA Mtr Div	55.4	79.4	142	8
135	Akron, OH	55.2	13.6	130	(5)
136	Fort Collins-Loveland, CO	54.6	5.6	105	(31)
137	Spokane, WA	54.5	12.4	118	(19)
138	Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL	54.3	66.9	72	(66)
139	Palm Coast, FL	54.3	0.8	292	153
140	Savannah, GA	54.3	6.0	288	148
141	Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ	53.7	1.8	256	115
142	Lubbock, TX	53.5	6.9	166	24
143	El Centro, CA	53.3	1.3	97	(46)
144	Canton-Massillon, OH	53.2	7.9	89	(55)
145	Norwich-New London, CT-RI NECTA	53.2	3.1	225	80
146	Las Vegas-Paradise, NV	52.9	42.0	269	123
147	Anchorage, AK	52.5	8.6	33	(114)
148	Merced, CA	52.4	1.6	230	82
149	Idaho Falls, ID	52.2	2.1	153	4
150	Durham-Chapel Hill, NC	52.0	12.6	58	(92)
151	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	51.5	41.6	294	143
152	Battle Creek, MI	51.5	1.4	not rated	not rated
153	Cedar Rapids, IA	51.4	10.1	195	42
154	Tuscaloosa, AL	51.1	3.7	92	(62)
155	Shreveport-Bossier City, LA	50.7	7.1	41	(114)
156	Bangor, ME NECTA	50.3	2.1	52	(104)
157	St. George, UT	50.2	1.9	144	(13)
158	Santa Fe, NM	50.2	2.7	155	(3)
159	Niles-Benton Harbor, MI	50.1	2.3	8	(151)
160	Fort Wayne, IN	49.7	11.5	19	(141)
161	Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL	49.5	2.1	56	(105)
162	Wichita, KS	49.4	10.7	182	20
163	Auburn-Opelika, AL	49.3	1.7	66	(97)
164	Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol, TN-VA	48.9	3.9	299	135
165	Appleton, WI	48.9	7.3	135	(30)
166	Ithaca, NY	48.9	1.6	65	(101)
167	San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA	48.8	69.4	212	45
168	Waterbury, CT NECTA	47.7	2.0	305	137
169	Burlington, NC	47.7	1.8	22	(147)
170	Huntsville, AL	47.6	6.0	106	(64)
171	Portland-South Portland-Biddeford, ME NECTA	47.5	15.0	84	(87)
172	Wilmington, DE-MD-NJ Mtr Div	47.3	38.8	61	(111)
173	Baton Rouge, LA	47.3	17.2	183	10
174	Greenville-Mauldin-Easley, SC	47.0	14.6	128	(46)
175	Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor, OH	46.9	64.0	231	56
176	Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills, MI Mtr Div	46.9	67.8	134	(42)
177	Coeur d'Alene, ID	46.7	3.1	124	(53)
178	Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA NECTA Division	46.7	143.2	223	45
179	Cincinnati-Middletown, OH-KY-IN	46.5	63.1	191	12
180	Anniston-Oxford, AL	46.2	1.3	160	(20)
181	Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC	45.8	7.7	229	48
182	Charleston, WV	45.8	8.0	270	88
183	Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC	45.5	71.9	107	(76)
184	Lansing-East Lansing, MI	45.5	13.6	101	(83)
185	Ogden-Clearfield, UT	45.2	8.0	217	32
186	Duluth, MN-WI	45.1	5.4	148	(38)
187	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, CA Mtr Div	45.0	212.8	169	(18)
188	West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Boynton Beach, FL Mtr Div	44.9	36.4	103	(85)
189	Jackson, MS	44.7	15.4	233	44
190	Waco, TX	44.6	6.2	145	(45)
191	Topeka, KS	44.4	7.0	178	(13)
192	Laredo, TX	44.3	3.8	91	(101)
193	Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ	44.0	15.0	254	61
194	Modesto, CA	43.9	5.4	140	(54)
195	Muskegon-Norton Shores, MI	43.9	1.8	53	(142)
196	Greeley, CO	43.8	4.1	291	95
197	Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL	43.7	8.0	159	(38)
198	Naples-Marco Island, FL	43.4	6.7	179	(19)
199	Vallejo-Fairfield, CA	43.4	5.0	98	(101)
200	Johnstown, PA	43.4	2.8	not rated	not rated
201	Champaign-Urbana, IL	43.3	4.3	151	(50)
202	Raleigh-Cary, NC	43.0	26.0	121	(81)
203	Lancaster, PA	42.6	8.5	242	39
204	Yuba City, CA	42.4	1.3	96	(108)
205	Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach, FL Mtr Div	42.1	54.4	199	(6)
206	Kokomo, IN	42.0	1.3	187	(19)
207	Wausau, WI	42.0	5.5	232	25
208	Sacramento--Arden-Arcade--Roseville, CA	41.9	48.0	244	36
209	Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL	41.9	7.6	243	34
210	New York City, NY	41.8	436.1	45	(165)
211	Saginaw-Saginaw Township North, MI	41.5	3.9	161	(50)
212	Brockton-Bridgewater-Easton, MA NECTA Division	41.4	3.0	122	(90)
213	Boulder, CO	41.2	7.2	104	(109)
214	Edison-New Brunswick, NJ Mtr Div	40.7	56.3	208	(6)
215	Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL	40.5	11.4	213	(2)
216	Albuquerque, NM	40.2	17.6	296	80
217	Honolulu, HI	40.1	20.6	102	(115)
218	Lewiston, ID-WA	39.9	1.7	281	63
219	Indianapolis-Carmel, IN	39.5	58.2	209	(10)
220	Redding, CA	39.5	2.4	293	73
221	Asheville, NC	39.3	5.6	69	(152)
222	Wilmington, NC	39.1	6.2	184	(38)
223	Baltimore City, MD	39.1	18.3	206	(17)
224	Eugene-Springfield, OR	39.0	7.2	257	33
225	Glens Falls, NY	38.8	1.9	18	(207)
226	Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL	38.6	10.7	272	46
227	Janesville, WI	38.2	1.8	114	(113)
228	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	38.2	61.8	189	(39)
229	Chicago-Joliet-Naperville, IL Mtr Div	38.1	259.1	277	48
230	Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford, MA-NH NECTA Div	38.0	3.6	285	55
231	Haverhill-North Andover-Amesbury, MA-NH NECTA Div	37.9	2.6	147	(84)
232	Chattanooga, TN-GA	37.6	17.1	173	(59)
233	Salem, OR	37.3	7.0	26	(207)
234	Yuma, AZ	37.3	1.4	298	64
235	Flint, MI	37.3	6.3	127	(108)
236	Lexington-Fayette, KY	37.2	9.8	163	(73)
237	Jackson, MI	37.1	1.8	not rated	not rated
238	Philadelphia City, PA	36.8	41.1	265	27
239	Bay City, MI	36.5	1.5	15	(224)
240	Colorado Springs, CO	36.5	15.4	85	(155)
241	Montgomery, AL	36.0	7.2	311	70
242	Oakland-Fremont-Hayward, CA Mtr Div	35.7	48.0	216	(26)
243	Fresno, CA	35.6	12.9	204	(39)
244	Grand Junction, CO	35.5	3.0	260	16
245	Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT NECTA	35.2	40.6	198	(47)
246	Reno-Sparks, NV	35.1	9.0	258	12
247	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	35.1	7.5	308	61
248	Calvert-Charles-Prince George's, MD	34.7	14.0	279	31
249	Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta, CA	34.6	6.6	251	2
250	York-Hanover, PA	34.5	5.1	214	(36)
251	Fayetteville, NC	34.5	4.1	46	(205)
252	Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA	34.0	22.2	238	(14)
253	South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI	34.0	6.0	307	54
254	Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC	33.9	3.3	68	(186)
255	North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL	33.4	14.0	139	(116)
256	Pueblo, CO	33.4	1.9	278	22
257	Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA	33.3	11.7	116	(141)
258	Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI	33.0	54.3	167	(91)
259	Chico, CA	33.0	2.8	not rated	not rated
260	Putnam-Rockland-Westchester, NY	32.7	32.7	55	(205)
261	Bethesda-Rockville-Frederick, MD Mtr Div	32.5	39.4	228	(33)
262	Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ	32.4	4.0	156	(106)
263	New Haven, CT NECTA	32.2	12.1	263	0
264	Anderson, IN	32.2	1.5	241	(23)
265	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT NECTA	31.8	59.8	193	(72)
266	Logan, UT-ID	31.7	1.6	210	(56)
267	Ocala, FL	31.5	4.2	203	(64)
268	Bloomington, IN	31.2	2.7	300	32
269	Fairbanks, AK	31.1	1.3	164	(105)
270	Burlington-South Burlington, VT NECTA	31.0	4.6	246	(24)
271	Utica-Rome, NY	31.0	7.1	219	(52)
272	Syracuse, NY	31.0	16.6	112	(160)
273	Bergen-Hudson-Passaic, NJ	30.7	69.1	154	(119)
274	Dothan, AL	30.6	2.0	240	(34)
275	Mansfield, OH	28.3	1.6	not rated	not rated
276	Gadsden, AL	28.0	1.4	274	(2)
277	Salinas, CA	27.6	4.2	303	26
278	Amarillo, TX	27.3	6.1	234	(44)
279	Cleveland, TN	27.0	1.4	283	4
280	Decatur, IL	26.8	1.9	196	(84)
281	Lawton, OK	26.6	2.4	222	(59)
282	Vineland-Millville-Bridgeton, NJ	26.5	1.5	75	(207)
283	Corvallis, OR	24.6	1.3	170	(113)
284	New Bedford, MA NECTA	24.3	1.8	174	(110)
285	Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA Mtr Div	24.2	79.3	253	(32)
286	Evansville, IN-KY	24.0	5.1	236	(50)
287	Rochester, MN	23.8	2.4	218	(69)
288	Manchester, NH NECTA	23.3	6.8	276	(12)
289	Tallahassee, FL	23.2	7.1	90	(199)
290	Sebastian-Vero Beach, FL	22.6	2.3	131	(159)
291	Panama City-Lynn Haven-Panama City Beach, FL	22.3	3.6	302	11
292	Toledo, OH	22.1	10.8	250	(42)
293	Winston-Salem, NC	21.8	11.5	177	(116)
294	Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR-MO	21.8	6.5	273	(21)
295	Decatur, AL	21.6	2.0	271	(24)
296	Pittsfield, MA NECTA	21.3	1.5	282	(14)
297	Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY	20.9	8.6	220	(77)
298	Peoria, IL	20.5	7.4	309	11
299	Tulsa, OK	20.0	22.2	295	(4)
300	Rockford, IL	19.9	5.4	224	(76)
301	Medford, OR	19.7	3.5	249	(52)
302	Visalia-Porterville, CA	18.9	3.8	255	(47)
303	Kingston, NY	18.5	2.2	200	(103)
304	Dover, DE	18.1	1.6	304	0
305	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	17.5	18.7	37	(268)
306	Stockton, CA	17.5	7.4	266	(40)
307	Columbus, IN	16.8	1.3	211	(96)
308	Punta Gorda, FL	15.2	1.7	284	(24)
309	Bend, OR	14.7	3.9	301	(8)
310	Port St. Lucie, FL	14.3	5.2	192	(118)
311	Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA	14.2	8.0	158	(153)
312	Greensboro-High Point, NC	12.7	18.2	275	(37)
313	Johnson City, TN	12.2	3.6	310	(3)
314	Springfield, MA-CT NECTA	11.8	14.8	267	(47)
315	Flagstaff, AZ	11.8	1.2	312	(3)
316	Binghamton, NY	11.8	3.8	141	(175)
317	Monroe, MI	11.6	1.1	not rated	not rated
318	Prescott, AZ	10.9	1.7	289	(29)
319	Memphis, TN-MS-AR	9.5	26.9	306	(13)
320	Racine, WI	8.7	2.6	290	(30)
321	Peabody, MA NECTA Division	8.5	4.4	239	(82)
322	Altoona, PA	3.6	1.5	not rated	not rated
323	Reading, PA	3.5	6.0	297	(26)

The Cities Winning The Battle For Information Jobs

Joel Kotkin and Michael Shires — Thu, 23 May 2013 23:33:38 -0400

The information industry has long been a darling of the media — no surprise since the media constitutes a major part of this economic sector, which includes publishing, software, entertainment and data processing. Yet until the last few years, it has been a sector in overall decline, with almost 850,000 jobs lost since 2001. The biggest losses have been in telecommunications (half a million jobs gone since 2001) and print publishing (books, newspapers, magazines), which lost 290,000 jobs — 40% of its 2001 job base.

Yet over the past two years, spurred largely by social media and the growing use of data in business, there has been something of a resurgence in the information sector, with strong hiring in software publishing, data processing and other information services. To identify the cities making the biggest gains, we ranked metropolitan statistical areas’ employment growth in the sector over the long-term (2001-12), mid-term (2007-12) and the last two years, as well as momentum.

Best Cities for Information Sector Jobs

The Usual Suspects

On our large cities list (the 66 metropolitan statistical areas with more than 450,000 jobs), the top two, perhaps not surprisingly, are San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, Calif., aka Silicon Valley, followed by San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City. Since 2007, the number of information jobs in the Valley has grown by 25%, although this has not offset the large job losses in manufacturing, construction and government. Overall, San Francisco comes off a bit better: information employment is up less over the same period, 18%, but it has suffered less grievous losses in its smaller industrial and construction sectors. The San Francisco metro area ranks No. 1 on our 2013 list of The Best Cities For Jobs.

Several other of our top performers come from what we might consider the usual suspects of high-tech hype, including Boston (No. 4), where information employment is up over 8% since 2007, and Seattle (15th), which has posted solid if not overwhelming growth of 4% in the sector since 2007, but has a much stronger manufacturing scene than the Bay Area. (See: America’s New Manufacturing Boomtowns)

The Rising Stars

But the big story in the information sector may be the emergence of a whole series of smaller metro areas that are usually less expensive. Some of the names here would also not surprise, such as Austin, Texas (fifth), and Raleigh-Cary, N.C. (eighth). They have been pulling information jobs from places like Boston, New York and the Bay Area for almost a generation. For example, Apple decided last year to center its Americas operations division in Austin, which is likely to bring upward of 3,000 information jobs to the Texas capital.

Less well-known has been the growth in other upstart locations. Perhaps the most dramatic player is third-place New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner, where information employment is up 28% since 2009. The information sector in the area, where I am currently working as a consultant to the regional development agency, GNO, Inc., is very broad-based, including companies in digital effects, videogames, software development as well as a burgeoning film and television industry. The recent decision by General Electric to place its new technology center and its 300 new technology jobs in New Orleans is another sign of the Crescent City’s emergence as a viable information hub.

GE is representative of a growing trend to place high-tech jobs in a new cadre of low-cost locations. In addition to New Orleans, the conglomerate has announced, over the past year, new technology centers in Detroit; Richmond, Va.; and San Ramon, Calif. While these expansions were not enough to reverse the overall poor showing on our large cities list of Richmond (second to last out of 66) and Detroit (60th), they reflect a growing tendency of businesses to tap relatively low-cost pools of talent.

In many ways, New Orleans’ success story in information — the migration of jobs to lower cost, but still attractive, regions — is mirrored in other metro areas in our rankings. This includes No. 6 Atlanta, whose 85,000-strong information sector is now the nation’s fourth largest, if you combine Silicon Valley and San Francisco into one region. As in New Orleans, mega-companies also see Atlanta as a major and affordable talent center. General Motors, for example, recently announced plans to set up its new software center in the Atlanta suburbs, bringing more tech jobs.

Several other large but affordable metro areas are also gaining momentum, most of which are in the Sun Belt. These include seventh-place San Antonio, which has experienced strong growth in such fields as cyber-security, and Phoenix (ninth),which traditionally draws talent and companies from California, and has also won a 1,000-person strong GM tech center in suburban Chandler.

Finally, tech and media watchers should look out for 10th-place Nashville-Murfreesboro-Franklin, Tenn. Like New Orleans, the country music capital has a very strong media base and provides newcomers with everything from a hip urban ambiance to bucolic country suburbs. Its information sector is also helped by growth in health and manufacturing in the area.

What About The Big Boys?

New York, with some 174,000 information jobs, and Los Angeles, with over 190,000, retain the largest clusters of information industry jobs, but they are not growing as quickly as our top 10 metros. New York, at No. 13, has enjoyed only modest 3.2% growth in employment in the sector since 2007, and, despite all the renewed hype about “Silicon Alley,” growth ground to a halt over the past year. Overall since 2001 New York has lost some 16,000 information jobs, many of them directly tied to a big drop in publishing employment.

But the Big Apple is an information boom town compared to Los Angeles (28th), with information employment there dropping 7.3% since 2007. L.A. today has 25,000 fewer information jobs than in 2001. Things appear to be more stable recently, but the big issue for L.A. lies in the decline of the entertainment industry, which dominates much of the area’s information sector. Since 2007, the Big Orange has lost roughly 9,000 jobs connected to the motion picture, television and recording industry, something the region has not found a way to redress.

The only information hub that arguably has done consistently worse is Chicago, which has lost 30,000 information jobs since 2001. Many of those losses came from publishing and telecom, which suffered huge losses early in the last decade. Since then, the information sector decline has slowed and last year the area eked out growth of 0.4%.

Best Cities for Information Sector Jobs

Little Wonders

Information businesses historically cluster in big cities, but there are now several smaller regions whose sectors are now growing rapidly. On our medium-size metro area list (between 150,000 and 450,000 jobs), the top spot goes to Trenton-Ewing, N.J., which enjoyed 9.2% growth in the sector since 2007 and appears to be attracting software development jobs. There’s also been considerable growth in Utah, which boasts Provo-Orem (fourth) and Ogden-Clearfield (sixth). Combined with Salt Lake City, a respectable 17th on the large metro area list, the Wasatch Front appears to be a real comer in the information economy.

The mid-sized list, like the rising stars, appears very much to be driven by lifestyle preferences and the proximity of universities to provide raw talent. If there’s a more physically attractive metro area than No. 2 Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta, Calif., we’d like someone to find it for us. Lansing-East Lansing, Mich. (third), and Madison, Wisc. (fifth), may be a lot colder and less spectacularly beautiful than Santa Barbara, but as college towns and state capitals, they boast considerable amenities and a constant flow of recent graduates. Much the same can be said of No. 7 Baton Rouge, La., which also enjoys the benefits of an expanding energy industry. Albuquerque, N.M. (eighth), and Huntsville, Ala. (ninth), while not state capitals, are home to major national science laboratories that also attract a deep pool of local technology talent.

The impact of the modern energy industry on information grows from the need of oil and gas firms to use technology to discover, maintain and expand their operations. This can be seen in our number one small metro for information jobs, Cheyenne, Wyo., as well as the Texas towns of College Station-Bryan (third) and Tyler (fourth). The link between manufacturing and information is evident in some of the small metros, including No. 2 Flint, Mich., and No. 8 Columbus, Ind.

Who’s Left Behind?

The information industry’s growth has missed many, if not most American metro areas. This includes many large cities in California, including Oakland-Fremont-Hayward (58th on our large cities list), Sacramento-Arden Arcade-Roseville (63rd) and San Bernardino-Riverside (64th). Given its proximity to both Silicon Valley and San Francisco, Oakland’s slow recovery is a bit surprising, but remember it was only when growth in Silicon Valley went hyper-critical during the ’90s dot-com bubble that Oakland finally surged. Other poor performers include last-place Camden, N.J.; Oklahoma City (62nd), Kansas City, Kan. (61st).

Yet to an extent not well appreciated in the media, a slow-growing or even shrinking information sector isn’t necessarily an economic kiss of death. Information remains a relatively small, if highly obsessed over, sector of our economy. Additionally, some of these jobs are being subsumed into the indistinguishable category of business services as more and more firms bring them in-house as part of the normal course of doing business. Nonetheless, while you can certainly thrive without it, given the glitz factor, most metro areas would probably prefer to rank among those that are winning these jobs than missing out on them.

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

This piece originally appeared at Forbes.com.

Large Cities Information Jobs - 2013 Best Cities Rankings

Mark Schill — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:57:34 -0400

Best Cities for Information Jobs

The methodology for the 2013 rankings for best cities for information jobs parallels that used for our 2013 Best Cities for Job Growth rankings (link to that page here or “above” if on the same page). Instead of using Total Nonfarm Employment, the information rankings use employment in the information sector (supersector 50) in the BLS MSA employment data. The information rankings include the 317 MSAs for which there are sectoral employment data for all 12 years used in our analysis.

2013 MSA Info Ranking - LARGE MSAs	Area	Weighted INDEX	2012 Info Emplymnt	2012 Info Ranking - Large MSAs	2013 Change from 2012 - Large MSAs
1	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	96.2	51.6	1	0
2	San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City, CA Mtr Div	88.5	47.1	2	0
3	New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner, LA	87.2	8.2	3	0
4	Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA NECTA Division	81.8	59.9	9	5
5	Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX	81.7	22.2	10	5
6	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA	80.2	85.0	14	8
7	San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX	79.4	20.3	37	30
8	Raleigh-Cary, NC	78.4	17.9	4	(4)
9	Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale, AZ	77.1	29.8	13	4
10	Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN	75.0	20.2	20	10
11	Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC	74.5	22.2	8	(3)
12	Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach, FL Mtr Div	74.2	18.1	35	23
13	New York City, NY	73.9	174.2	6	(7)
14	Indianapolis-Carmel, IN	73.5	15.4	46	32
15	Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA Mtr Div	71.3	85.8	7	(8)
16	Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills, MI Mtr Div	71.2	19.4	17	1
17	Salt Lake City, UT	69.7	16.8	30	13
18	Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA	67.4	11.4	39	21
19	Louisville-Jefferson County, KY-IN	67.4	9.5	34	15
20	Chicago-Joliet-Naperville, IL Mtr Div	66.9	74.9	27	7
21	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	66.5	39.0	22	1
22	Las Vegas-Paradise, NV	66.1	9.5	19	(3)
23	Philadelphia City, PA	66.0	11.9	29	6
24	Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX	65.3	31.9	38	14
25	St. Louis, MO-IL	65.1	30.2	42	17
26	Pittsburgh, PA	64.9	18.5	51	25
27	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	64.5	22.6	23	(4)
28	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, CA Mtr Div	64.1	190.5	12	(16)
29	Columbus, OH	63.4	16.5	15	(14)
30	Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX Mtr Div	61.2	64.1	16	(14)
31	Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL Mtr Div	60.7	17.7	24	(7)
32	Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY	60.3	7.5	44	12
33	Denver-Aurora-Broomfield, CO	60.3	42.5	31	(2)
34	Edison-New Brunswick, NJ Mtr Div	60.3	24.6	45	11
35	Cincinnati-Middletown, OH-KY-IN	60.1	13.7	28	(7)
36	San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA	59.8	24.9	58	22
37	Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine, CA Mtr Div	59.1	24.3	47	10
38	Newark-Union, NJ-PA Mtr Div	58.6	19.7	63	25
39	Nassau-Suffolk, NY Mtr Div	58.5	24.0	50	11
40	West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Boynton Beach, FL Mtr Div	57.5	9.0	21	(19)
41	Rochester, NY	57.1	8.9	53	12
42	Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL	56.5	23.3	18	(24)
43	Bethesda-Rockville-Frederick, MD Mtr Div	56.0	14.4	41	(2)
44	Memphis, TN-MS-AR	55.8	6.0	52	8
45	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT NECTA	55.7	10.9	11	(34)
46	Honolulu, HI	55.4	7.2	66	20
47	Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor, OH	54.9	15.2	48	1
48	Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL	54.6	25.4	26	(22)
49	Northern Virginia, VA	54.4	39.6	43	(6)
50	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Mtr Div	52.2	62.3	25	(25)
51	Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI	52.1	14.7	36	(15)
52	Jacksonville, FL	51.4	9.0	33	(19)
53	Putnam-Rockland-Westchester, NY	50.4	13.1	49	(4)
54	Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Mtr Div	50.2	13.4	40	(14)
55	Bergen-Hudson-Passaic, NJ	49.7	18.3	56	1
56	Providence-Fall River-Warwick, RI-MA NECTA	48.1	10.6	5	(51)
57	Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC	47.8	11.4	64	7
58	Oakland-Fremont-Hayward, CA Mtr Div	45.8	21.6	54	(4)
59	Birmingham-Hoover, AL	45.4	8.7	60	1
60	Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn, MI Mtr Div	42.7	7.1	65	5
61	Kansas City, MO	40.2	14.2	59	(2)
62	Oklahoma City, OK	37.7	8.7	61	(1)
63	Sacramento--Arden-Arcade--Roseville, CA	36.3	14.9	57	(6)
64	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	34.0	11.5	32	(32)
65	Richmond, VA	25.3	7.8	55	(10)
66	Camden, NJ Mtr Div	11.5	6.3	62	(4)

Midsized Cities Information Jobs - 2013 Best Cities Rankings

Mark Schill — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:57:18 -0400

Best Cities for Information Jobs

2013 MSA Info Ranking - Midsized MSAs	Area	Weighted INDEX	2012 Info Emplymnt	2012 MSA Info Ranking - Midsized MSAs	2013 Ranking Change from 2012 - Midsized MSAs
1	Trenton-Ewing, NJ	88.3	6.7	64	63
2	Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta, CA	86.6	4.2	7	5
3	Lansing-East Lansing, MI	85.9	3.0	4	1
4	Provo-Orem, UT	85.4	9.0	5	1
5	Madison, WI	81.1	11.9	1	(4)
6	Ogden-Clearfield, UT	77.9	2.2	12	6
7	Baton Rouge, LA	77.6	5.3	84	77
8	Albuquerque, NM	76.2	8.7	23	15
9	Huntsville, AL	75.4	2.6	3	(6)
10	Jackson, MS	74.9	4.5	25	15
11	Durham-Chapel Hill, NC	74.4	3.6	47	36
12	Asheville, NC	72.3	2.0	17	5
13	Fort Wayne, IN	72.0	3.4	35	22
14	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	71.9	2.6	45	31
15	Calvert-Charles-Prince George's, MD	71.8	5.7	2	(13)
16	Spokane, WA	70.4	2.9	48	32
17	Greenville-Mauldin-Easley, SC	69.8	6.7	9	(8)
18	Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT NECTA	69.5	11.0	19	1
19	Bakersfield-Delano, CA	67.6	2.7	18	(1)
20	Fresno, CA	66.6	3.5	73	53
21	York-Hanover, PA	65.4	1.9	59	38
22	Reading, PA	65.1	1.4	33	11
23	Worcester, MA-CT NECTA	63.9	3.5	79	56
24	El Paso, TX	63.6	5.0	26	2
25	Toledo, OH	63.5	3.4	22	(3)
26	Tallahassee, FL	63.5	3.2	6	(20)
27	Knoxville, TN	63.3	5.4	14	(13)
28	Springfield, MA-CT NECTA	63.2	3.7	11	(17)
29	Charleston-North Charleston-Summerville, SC	62.9	4.9	38	9
30	Boulder, CO	62.8	8.7	15	(15)
31	Peoria, IL	62.4	2.5	56	25
32	Montgomery, AL	62.3	2.2	39	7
33	Ann Arbor, MI	61.8	4.0	13	(20)
34	Springfield, MO	61.6	4.1	8	(26)
35	Colorado Springs, CO	60.9	7.1	21	(14)
36	Framingham, MA NECTA Division	60.7	5.4	36	0
37	Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL	59.4	3.0	50	13
38	Lake County-Kenosha County, IL-WI Mtr Div	59.3	4.1	40	2
39	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	59.0	4.9	37	(2)
40	Gary, IN Mtr Div	57.2	2.0	52	12
41	Boise City-Nampa, ID	57.1	4.3	27	(14)
42	Greensboro-High Point, NC	56.7	5.3	32	(10)
43	McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX	56.7	1.9	10	(33)
44	Canton-Massillon, OH	56.4	1.8	29	(15)
45	Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ	55.2	5.7	67	22
46	Kansas City, KS	54.5	15.4	89	43
47	Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL	53.4	2.0	31	(16)
48	Akron, OH	53.3	3.7	43	(5)
49	Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	52.7	8.4	57	8
50	Tucson, AZ	52.7	4.2	85	35
51	Green Bay, WI	51.9	1.9	75	24
52	Baltimore City, MD	51.8	4.1	54	2
53	Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI	50.7	4.1	66	13
54	Syracuse, NY	48.6	4.6	44	(10)
55	Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL	47.9	1.6	77	22
56	Corpus Christi, TX	47.7	2.0	83	27
57	Shreveport-Bossier City, LA	47.2	2.5	68	11
58	Lexington-Fayette, KY	46.9	5.7	24	(34)
59	Tulsa, OK	46.8	7.8	51	(8)
60	Anchorage, AK	46.5	4.4	16	(44)
61	Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL	46.3	2.1	28	(33)
62	Roanoke, VA	45.8	1.8	81	19
63	Mobile, AL	45.7	2.0	41	(22)
64	Savannah, GA	45.1	1.4	65	1
65	Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL	44.1	2.4	63	(2)
66	Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA	43.6	7.4	46	(20)
67	Columbia, SC	43.4	5.2	20	(47)
68	Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR-MO	42.7	1.9	82	14
69	North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL	42.5	3.3	65	(4)
70	Lancaster, PA	42.5	3.1	60	(10)
71	Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY	42.4	3.6	61	(10)
72	Lincoln, NE	40.2	2.1	34	(38)
73	Tacoma, WA Mtr Div	39.9	2.7	74	1
74	Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA	39.1	4.4	80	6
75	Wilmington, DE-MD-NJ Mtr Div	39.0	4.7	42	(33)
76	Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA	38.8	4.9	70	(6)
77	Winston-Salem, NC	37.9	1.8	30	(47)
78	Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX	37.2	1.4	91	13
79	Evansville, IN-KY	36.8	2.0	55	(24)
80	Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC	34.9	2.6	76	(4)
81	Reno-Sparks, NV	33.6	2.0	58	(23)
82	Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR	30.7	7.3	78	(4)
83	Stockton, CA	30.0	1.8	71	(12)
84	Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL	28.7	2.3	62	(22)
85	Lafayette, LA	27.7	2.4	49	(36)
86	Dayton, OH	26.2	8.7	69	(17)
87	Chattanooga, TN-GA	24.0	2.7	53	(34)
88	New Haven, CT NECTA	23.9	4.3	88	0
89	Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA	14.6	2.1	72	(17)
90	Wichita, KS	12.0	4.4	86	(4)
91	Portland-South Portland-Biddeford, ME NECTA	7.0	3.0	90	(1)

Small Cities Information Jobs - 2013 Best Cities Rankings

Mark Schill — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:57:05 -0400

Best Cities for Information Jobs

2013 MSA Info Overall Ranking	Area	Weighted INDEX	2012 Information Employment	2012 MSA Info Ranking -Small MSAs	2013 Ranking Change from 2012 - Small MSAs
1	Cheyenne, WY	96.4	1.2	13	12
2	Flint, MI	95.1	3.8	2	0
3	College Station-Bryan, TX	89.3	1.3	9	6
4	Tyler, TX	86.2	2.4	12	8
5	Fort Smith, AR-OK	85.2	1.4	117	112
6	Yuma, AZ	83.7	0.6	77	71
7	Rochester, MN	83.5	1.7	30	23
8	Columbus, IN	81.9	0.5	1	(7)
9	Logan, UT-ID	81.9	0.8	72	63
10	Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC	80.2	1.0	3	(7)
11	Clarksville, TN-KY	78.0	1.0	74	63
12	Rochester-Dover, NH-ME NECTA	77.8	1.2	87	75
13	Kingston, NY	77.7	1.0	115	102
14	Portsmouth, NH-ME NECTA	77.6	1.9	15	1
15	St. George, UT	76.0	0.8	44	29
16	Laredo, TX	74.6	0.6	27	11
17	Las Cruces, NM	73.3	0.9	42	25
18	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA	71.9	1.2	33	15
19	Sebastian-Vero Beach, FL	71.7	0.7	4	(15)
20	Chico, CA	71.4	1.1	not rated	not rated
21	Nashua, NH-MA NECTA Division	69.9	2.0	38	17
22	Casper, WY	69.9	0.5	18	(4)
23	Cleveland, TN	69.9	0.3	19	(4)
24	Leominster-Fitchburg-Gardner, MA NECTA	69.9	0.5	36	12
25	Kokomo, IN	69.9	0.4	21	(4)
26	Lewiston, ID-WA	69.9	0.4	22	(4)
27	El Centro, CA	69.9	0.4	20	(7)
28	Flagstaff, AZ	69.9	0.4	43	15
29	Holland-Grand Haven, MI	67.9	0.7	69	40
30	Lafayette, IN	67.9	1.0	5	(25)
31	Barnstable Town, MA NECTA	67.5	1.6	29	(2)
32	Manchester, NH NECTA	67.4	3.2	11	(21)
33	Oshkosh-Neenah, WI	67.2	1.6	6	(27)
34	Topeka, KS	66.7	1.8	121	87
35	Prescott, AZ	66.2	0.6	24	(11)
36	St. Cloud, MN	65.7	1.7	150	114
37	Glens Falls, NY	65.3	1.0	10	(27)
38	Abilene, TX	65.2	1.1	45	7
39	Bloomington, IN	64.8	1.3	91	52
40	La Crosse, WI-MN	64.6	1.1	80	40
41	Fort Collins-Loveland, CO	64.4	2.5	58	17
42	Naples-Marco Island, FL	63.5	1.5	95	53
43	Greenville, NC	63.5	0.9	85	42
44	Decatur, IL	63.2	0.7	70	26
45	Terre Haute, IN	63.2	0.7	55	10
46	Odessa, TX	62.4	0.6	52	6
47	Medford, OR	61.4	1.6	7	(40)
48	Longview, TX	61.1	1.4	154	106
49	Ithaca, NY	60.6	0.5	129	80
50	Eugene-Springfield, OR	60.4	3.3	59	9
51	Binghamton, NY	60.3	1.8	116	65
52	Janesville, WI	60.2	1.1	35	(17)
53	Rapid City, SD	59.7	0.9	93	40
54	Cedar Rapids, IA	58.9	4.9	47	(7)
55	Racine, WI	58.2	0.4	75	20
56	Bangor, ME NECTA	58.0	1.1	138	82
57	Haverhill-North Andover-Amesbury, MA-NH NECTA Division	58.0	0.8	82	25
58	Peabody, MA NECTA Division	57.8	1.0	32	(26)
59	Madera-Chowchilla, CA	57.5	0.4	108	49
60	Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood, TX	57.5	2.3	57	(3)
61	Dothan, AL	57.4	0.7	104	43
62	Yuba City, CA	56.2	0.4	111	49
63	Elkhart-Goshen, IN	56.1	0.6	89	26
64	Bloomington-Normal, IL	55.7	0.8	110	46
65	Pueblo, CO	54.8	0.7	73	8
66	Decatur, AL	54.2	0.3	61	(5)
67	Lewiston-Auburn, ME NECTA	54.2	0.7	51	(16)
68	Brockton-Bridgewater-Easton, MA NECTA Division	54.2	0.7	67	(1)
69	Johnstown, PA	52.8	0.8	not rated	not rated
70	Texarkana, TX-Texarkana, AR	52.6	0.5	155	85
71	Redding, CA	51.6	0.6	131	60
72	Fairbanks, AK	50.9	0.5	34	(38)
73	Tuscaloosa, AL	49.6	0.8	8	(65)
74	Erie, PA	48.9	1.5	134	60
75	Salem, OR	47.6	1.1	102	27
76	Napa, CA	47.4	0.6	60	(16)
77	Burlington, NC	47.1	0.5	17	(60)
78	Fargo, ND-MN	47.0	3.2	31	(47)
79	Wilmington, NC	46.5	2.8	41	(38)
80	Bay City, MI	46.4	0.4	97	17
81	Appleton, WI	45.5	1.6	50	(31)
82	Altoona, PA	44.9	0.8	not rated	not rated
83	Bend, OR	44.7	1.3	94	11
84	Amarillo, TX	44.3	1.4	76	(8)
85	South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI	44.3	1.6	146	61
86	Sioux Falls, SD	44.0	2.6	37	(49)
87	Fond du Lac, WI	44.0	0.8	53	(34)
88	Muncie, IN	43.9	0.3	140	52
89	Eau Claire, WI	43.8	0.9	128	39
90	Ocala, FL	43.8	1.5	66	(24)
91	Sherman-Denison, TX	43.7	0.5	54	(37)
92	Fayetteville, NC	43.4	1.4	64	(28)
93	Norwich-New London, CT-RI NECTA	42.5	1.4	143	50
94	Hanford-Corcoran, CA	42.3	0.2	118	24
95	Columbus, GA-AL	42.3	1.4	149	54
96	Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV	42.0	2.3	81	(15)
97	Bismarck, ND	41.1	0.9	48	(49)
98	Vallejo-Fairfield, CA	41.0	1.1	137	39
99	New Bedford, MA NECTA	40.7	0.6	40	(59)
100	Elmira, NY	40.1	0.4	136	36
101	Waterbury, CT NECTA	39.9	0.6	145	44
102	Grand Junction, CO	39.8	0.8	26	(76)
103	Grand Forks, ND-MN	39.0	0.6	99	(4)
104	Wichita Falls, TX	38.9	1.1	112	8
105	Salinas, CA	36.9	1.5	98	(7)
106	Saginaw-Saginaw Township North, MI	36.7	1.1	79	(27)
107	Punta Gorda, FL	36.1	0.4	28	(79)
108	Pittsfield, MA NECTA	36.0	0.5	114	6
109	Rockford, IL	36.0	1.6	84	(25)
110	Lawton, OK	35.4	0.5	88	(22)
111	Anderson, IN	35.4	0.5	147	36
112	San Angelo, TX	35.1	1.0	124	12
113	Charleston, WV	35.1	1.9	71	(42)
114	Auburn-Opelika, AL	34.9	0.5	62	(52)
115	Vineland-Millville-Bridgeton, NJ	34.9	0.8	39	(76)
116	Port St. Lucie, FL	33.2	1.3	14	(102)
117	Champaign-Urbana, IL	33.2	2.2	16	(101)
118	Waco, TX	32.6	1.3	109	(9)
119	Gainesville, FL	31.5	1.4	122	3
120	Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ	31.2	0.8	141	21
121	Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA	30.6	0.8	100	(21)
122	Brownsville-Harlingen, TX	30.1	1.2	46	(76)
123	Morristown, TN	29.8	0.4	153	30
124	Palm Coast, FL	29.7	0.9	105	(19)
125	Victoria, TX	28.6	0.4	49	(76)
126	Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ	28.5	0.7	139	13
127	Muskegon-Norton Shores, MI	28.5	0.7	65	(62)
128	Burlington-South Burlington, VT NECTA	26.8	2.1	135	7
129	Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford, MA-NH NECTA Division	26.3	4.0	90	(39)
130	Utica-Rome, NY	26.0	1.7	83	(47)
131	Owensboro, KY	26.0	0.4	23	(108)
132	Midland, TX	25.7	1.0	101	(31)
133	Duluth, MN-WI	23.6	1.3	157	24
134	Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL	22.6	1.0	113	(21)
135	Lubbock, TX	22.3	3.7	107	(28)
136	Idaho Falls, ID	22.2	0.9	106	(30)
137	Pocatello, ID	22.1	0.4	158	21
138	Sheboygan, WI	21.9	0.2	25	(113)
139	Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL	20.3	0.4	86	(53)
140	Springfield, IL	19.5	1.4	130	(10)
141	Jackson, TN	19.0	0.5	144	3
142	Coeur d'Alene, ID	18.5	0.6	123	(19)
143	Niles-Benton Harbor, MI	18.3	0.5	152	9
144	Danville, IL	17.8	0.2	63	(81)
145	Wausau, WI	17.8	0.4	142	(3)
146	Panama City-Lynn Haven-Panama City Beach, FL	17.7	1.1	120	(26)
147	Greeley, CO	17.5	0.7	156	9
148	Jackson, MI	16.3	0.3	56	(92)
149	Kalamazoo-Portage, MI	16.3	0.9	126	(23)
150	Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol, TN-VA	15.2	1.4	119	(31)
151	Visalia-Porterville, CA	14.8	0.8	125	(26)
152	Santa Fe, NM	14.1	0.8	151	(1)
153	Gadsden, AL	13.7	0.3	103	(50)
154	Johnson City, TN	12.1	1.4	78	(76)
155	Corvallis, OR	10.5	0.7	148	(7)
156	Merced, CA	9.6	0.4	68	(88)
157	Modesto, CA	8.1	1.0	132	(25)
158	Anniston-Oxford, AL	4.6	0.6	133	(25)
159	Kankakee-Bradley, IL	4.6	0.4	92	(67)
160	Dover, DE	1.3	0.4	127	(33)

Overall Information Jobs - 2013 Best Cities Rankings

Mark Schill — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:56:53 -0400

Best Cities for Information Jobs

2013 MSA Info Overall Ranking	Area	Weighted INDEX	2012 Info Emplymt	2012 MSA Info Overall Ranking	2013 Change from 2012 - All MSAs
1	Cheyenne, WY	96.4	1.2	34	33
2	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	96.2	51.6	3	1
3	Flint, MI	95.1	3.8	2	(1)
4	College Station-Bryan, TX	89.3	1.3	26	22
5	San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City, CA Mtr Div	88.5	47.1	7	2
6	Trenton-Ewing, NJ	88.3	6.7	212	206
7	New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner, LA	87.2	8.2	8	1
8	Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta, CA	86.6	4.2	19	11
9	Tyler, TX	86.2	2.4	32	23
10	Lansing-East Lansing, MI	85.9	3.0	10	0
11	Provo-Orem, UT	85.4	9.0	13	2
12	Fort Smith, AR-OK	85.2	1.4	253	241
13	Yuma, AZ	83.7	0.6	169	156
14	Rochester, MN	83.5	1.7	65	51
15	Columbus, IN	81.9	0.5	1	(14)
16	Logan, UT-ID	81.9	0.8	159	143
17	Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA NECTA Division	81.8	59.9	36	19
18	Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX	81.7	22.2	38	20
19	Madison, WI	81.1	11.9	4	(15)
20	Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC	80.2	1.0	9	(11)
21	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA	80.2	85.0	62	41
22	San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX	79.4	20.3	137	115
23	Raleigh-Cary, NC	78.4	17.9	14	(9)
24	Clarksville, TN-KY	78.0	1.0	161	137
25	Ogden-Clearfield, UT	77.9	2.2	27	2
26	Rochester-Dover, NH-ME NECTA	77.8	1.2	198	172
27	Kingston, NY	77.7	1.0	248	221
28	Portsmouth, NH-ME NECTA	77.6	1.9	42	14
29	Baton Rouge, LA	77.6	5.3	278	249
30	Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale, AZ	77.1	29.8	55	25
31	Albuquerque, NM	76.2	8.7	69	38
32	St. George, UT	76.0	0.8	90	58
33	Huntsville, AL	75.4	2.6	6	(27)
34	Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN	75.0	20.2	89	55
35	Jackson, MS	74.9	4.5	83	48
36	Laredo, TX	74.6	0.6	57	21
37	Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC	74.5	22.2	33	(4)
38	Durham-Chapel Hill, NC	74.4	3.6	168	130
39	Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach, FL Mtr Div	74.2	18.1	127	88
40	New York City, NY	73.9	174.2	21	(19)
41	Indianapolis-Carmel, IN	73.5	15.4	170	129
42	Las Cruces, NM	73.3	0.9	87	45
43	Asheville, NC	72.3	2.0	53	10
44	Fort Wayne, IN	72.0	3.4	130	86
45	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA	71.9	1.2	73	28
46	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	71.9	2.6	163	117
47	Calvert-Charles-Prince George's, MD	71.8	5.7	5	(42)
48	Sebastian-Vero Beach, FL	71.7	0.7	11	(37)
49	Chico, CA	71.4	1.1	not rated	not rated
50	Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA Mtr Div	71.3	85.8	30	(20)
51	Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills, MI Mtr Div	71.2	19.4	71	20
52	Spokane, WA	70.4	2.9	172	120
53	Nashua, NH-MA NECTA Division	69.9	2.0	79	26
54	Casper, WY	69.9	0.5	45	(9)
55	Cleveland, TN	69.9	0.3	46	(9)
56	El Centro, CA	69.9	0.4	47	(9)
57	Flagstaff, AZ	69.9	0.4	88	31
58	Kokomo, IN	69.9	0.4	48	(10)
59	Leominster-Fitchburg-Gardner, MA NECTA	69.9	0.5	77	18
60	Lewiston, ID-WA	69.9	0.4	49	(11)
61	Greenville-Mauldin-Easley, SC	69.8	6.7	22	(39)
62	Salt Lake City, UT	69.7	16.8	118	56
63	Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT NECTA	69.5	11.0	61	(2)
64	Holland-Grand Haven, MI	67.9	0.7	153	89
65	Lafayette, IN	67.9	1.0	12	(53)
66	Bakersfield-Delano, CA	67.6	2.7	58	(8)
67	Barnstable Town, MA NECTA	67.5	1.6	60	(7)
68	Manchester, NH NECTA	67.4	3.2	29	(39)
69	Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA	67.4	11.4	142	73
70	Louisville-Jefferson County, KY-IN	67.4	9.5	125	55
71	Oshkosh-Neenah, WI	67.2	1.6	15	(56)
72	Chicago-Joliet-Naperville, IL Mtr Div	66.9	74.9	114	42
73	Topeka, KS	66.7	1.8	259	186
74	Fresno, CA	66.6	3.5	237	163
75	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	66.5	39.0	97	22
76	Prescott, AZ	66.2	0.6	51	(25)
77	Las Vegas-Paradise, NV	66.1	9.5	84	7
78	Philadelphia City, PA	66.0	11.9	116	38
79	St. Cloud, MN	65.7	1.7	303	224
80	York-Hanover, PA	65.4	1.9	193	113
81	Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX	65.3	31.9	139	58
82	Glens Falls, NY	65.3	1.0	28	(54)
83	Abilene, TX	65.2	1.1	91	8
84	Reading, PA	65.1	1.4	122	38
85	St. Louis, MO-IL	65.1	30.2	148	63
86	Pittsburgh, PA	64.9	18.5	192	106
87	Bloomington, IN	64.8	1.3	203	116
88	La Crosse, WI-MN	64.6	1.1	176	88
89	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	64.5	22.6	102	13
90	Fort Collins-Loveland, CO	64.4	2.5	124	34
91	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, CA Mtr Div	64.1	190.5	54	(37)
92	Worcester, MA-CT NECTA	63.9	3.5	254	162
93	El Paso, TX	63.6	5.0	86	(7)
94	Naples-Marco Island, FL	63.5	1.5	214	120
95	Greenville, NC	63.5	0.9	195	100
96	Toledo, OH	63.5	3.4	67	(29)
97	Tallahassee, FL	63.5	3.2	17	(80)
98	Columbus, OH	63.4	16.5	64	(34)
99	Knoxville, TN	63.3	5.4	35	(64)
100	Decatur, IL	63.2	0.7	156	56
101	Terre Haute, IN	63.2	0.7	112	11
102	Springfield, MA-CT NECTA	63.2	3.7	24	(78)
103	Charleston-North Charleston-Summerville, SC	62.9	4.9	141	38
104	Boulder, CO	62.8	8.7	37	(67)
105	Odessa, TX	62.4	0.6	108	3
106	Peoria, IL	62.4	2.5	188	82
107	Montgomery, AL	62.3	2.2	146	39
108	Ann Arbor, MI	61.8	4.0	31	(77)
109	Springfield, MO	61.6	4.1	20	(89)
110	Medford, OR	61.4	1.6	18	(92)
111	Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX Mtr Div	61.2	64.1	70	(41)
112	Longview, TX	61.1	1.4	309	197
113	Colorado Springs, CO	60.9	7.1	66	(47)
114	Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL Mtr Div	60.7	17.7	103	(11)
115	Framingham, MA NECTA Division	60.7	5.4	132	17
116	Ithaca, NY	60.6	0.5	273	157
117	Eugene-Springfield, OR	60.4	3.3	126	9
118	Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY	60.3	7.5	154	36
119	Denver-Aurora-Broomfield, CO	60.3	42.5	119	0
120	Binghamton, NY	60.3	1.8	250	130
121	Edison-New Brunswick, NJ Mtr Div	60.3	24.6	166	45
122	Janesville, WI	60.2	1.1	75	(47)
123	Cincinnati-Middletown, OH-KY-IN	60.1	13.7	115	(8)
124	San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA	59.8	24.9	241	117
125	Rapid City, SD	59.7	0.9	208	83
126	Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL	59.4	3.0	177	51
127	Lake County-Kenosha County, IL-WI Mtr Div	59.3	4.1	147	20
128	Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine, CA Mtr Div	59.1	24.3	174	46
129	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	59.0	4.9	135	6
130	Cedar Rapids, IA	58.9	4.9	93	(37)
131	Newark-Union, NJ-PA Mtr Div	58.6	19.7	269	138
132	Nassau-Suffolk, NY Mtr Div	58.5	24.0	185	53
133	Racine, WI	58.2	0.4	165	32
134	Bangor, ME NECTA	58.0	1.1	287	153
135	Haverhill-North Andover-Amesbury, MA-NH NECTA Division	58.0	0.8	186	51
136	Peabody, MA NECTA Division	57.8	1.0	72	(64)
137	Madera-Chowchilla, CA	57.5	0.4	236	99
138	West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Boynton Beach, FL Mtr Div	57.5	9.0	95	(43)
139	Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood, TX	57.5	2.3	121	(18)
140	Dothan, AL	57.4	0.7	229	89
141	Gary, IN Mtr Div	57.2	2.0	180	39
142	Boise City-Nampa, ID	57.1	4.3	96	(46)
143	Rochester, NY	57.1	8.9	204	61
144	Greensboro-High Point, NC	56.7	5.3	113	(31)
145	McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX	56.7	1.9	23	(122)
146	Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL	56.5	23.3	80	(66)
147	Canton-Massillon, OH	56.4	1.8	101	(46)
148	Yuba City, CA	56.2	0.4	243	95
149	Elkhart-Goshen, IN	56.1	0.6	200	51
150	Bethesda-Rockville-Frederick, MD Mtr Div	56.0	14.4	145	(5)
151	Memphis, TN-MS-AR	55.8	6.0	201	50
152	Bloomington-Normal, IL	55.7	0.8	242	90
153	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT NECTA	55.7	10.9	40	(113)
154	Honolulu, HI	55.4	7.2	293	139
155	Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ	55.2	5.7	222	67
156	Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor, OH	54.9	15.2	182	26
157	Pueblo, CO	54.8	0.7	160	3
158	Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL	54.6	25.4	109	(49)
159	Kansas City, KS	54.5	15.4	304	145
160	Northern Virginia, VA	54.4	39.6	150	(10)
161	Decatur, AL	54.2	0.3	133	(28)
162	Lewiston-Auburn, ME NECTA	54.2	0.7	104	(58)
163	Brockton-Bridgewater-Easton, MA NECTA Division	54.2	0.7	149	(14)
164	Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL	53.4	2.0	107	(57)
165	Akron, OH	53.3	3.7	157	(8)
166	Johnstown, PA	52.8	0.8	not rated	not rated
167	Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	52.7	8.4	189	22
168	Tucson, AZ	52.7	4.2	289	121
169	Texarkana, TX-Texarkana, AR	52.6	0.5	310	141
170	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Mtr Div	52.2	62.3	105	(65)
171	Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI	52.1	14.7	129	(42)
172	Green Bay, WI	51.9	1.9	246	74
173	Baltimore City, MD	51.8	4.1	184	11
174	Redding, CA	51.6	0.6	279	105
175	Jacksonville, FL	51.4	9.0	123	(52)
176	Fairbanks, AK	50.9	0.5	74	(102)
177	Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI	50.7	4.1	220	43
178	Putnam-Rockland-Westchester, NY	50.4	13.1	183	5
179	Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Mtr Div	50.2	13.4	143	(36)
180	Bergen-Hudson-Passaic, NJ	49.7	18.3	226	46
181	Tuscaloosa, AL	49.6	0.8	25	(156)
182	Erie, PA	48.9	1.5	283	101
183	Syracuse, NY	48.6	4.6	162	(21)
184	Providence-Fall River-Warwick, RI-MA NECTA	48.1	10.6	16	(168)
185	Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL	47.9	1.6	251	66
186	Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC	47.8	11.4	276	90
187	Corpus Christi, TX	47.7	2.0	275	88
188	Salem, OR	47.6	1.1	227	39
189	Napa, CA	47.4	0.6	131	(58)
190	Shreveport-Bossier City, LA	47.2	2.5	223	33
191	Burlington, NC	47.1	0.5	44	(147)
192	Fargo, ND-MN	47.0	3.2	68	(124)
193	Lexington-Fayette, KY	46.9	5.7	76	(117)
194	Tulsa, OK	46.8	7.8	179	(15)
195	Anchorage, AK	46.5	4.4	41	(154)
196	Wilmington, NC	46.5	2.8	85	(111)
197	Bay City, MI	46.4	0.4	216	19
198	Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL	46.3	2.1	98	(100)
199	Roanoke, VA	45.8	1.8	267	68
200	Oakland-Fremont-Hayward, CA Mtr Div	45.8	21.6	210	10
201	Mobile, AL	45.7	2.0	152	(49)
202	Appleton, WI	45.5	1.6	100	(102)
203	Birmingham-Hoover, AL	45.4	8.7	264	61
204	Savannah, GA	45.1	1.4	215	11
205	Altoona, PA	44.9	0.8	not rated	not rated
206	Bend, OR	44.7	1.3	209	3
207	Amarillo, TX	44.3	1.4	167	(40)
208	South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI	44.3	1.6	298	90
209	Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL	44.1	2.4	211	2
210	Sioux Falls, SD	44.0	2.6	78	(132)
211	Fond du Lac, WI	44.0	0.8	110	(101)
212	Muncie, IN	43.9	0.3	291	79
213	Eau Claire, WI	43.8	0.9	272	59
214	Ocala, FL	43.8	1.5	144	(70)
215	Sherman-Denison, TX	43.7	0.5	111	(104)
216	Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA	43.6	7.4	164	(52)
217	Fayetteville, NC	43.4	1.4	138	(79)
218	Columbia, SC	43.4	5.2	63	(155)
219	Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR-MO	42.7	1.9	274	55
220	Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn, MI Mtr Div	42.7	7.1	280	60
221	North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL	42.5	3.3	219	(2)
222	Lancaster, PA	42.5	3.1	197	(25)
223	Norwich-New London, CT-RI NECTA	42.5	1.4	295	72
224	Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY	42.4	3.6	206	(18)
225	Hanford-Corcoran, CA	42.3	0.2	255	30
226	Columbus, GA-AL	42.3	1.4	301	75
227	Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV	42.0	2.3	178	(49)
228	Bismarck, ND	41.1	0.9	94	(134)
229	Vallejo-Fairfield, CA	41.0	1.1	286	57
230	New Bedford, MA NECTA	40.7	0.6	82	(148)
231	Kansas City, MO	40.2	14.2	256	25
232	Lincoln, NE	40.2	2.1	128	(104)
233	Elmira, NY	40.1	0.4	285	52
234	Tacoma, WA Mtr Div	39.9	2.7	239	5
235	Waterbury, CT NECTA	39.9	0.6	297	62
236	Grand Junction, CO	39.8	0.8	56	(180)
237	Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA	39.1	4.4	262	25
238	Grand Forks, ND-MN	39.0	0.6	218	(20)
239	Wilmington, DE-MD-NJ Mtr Div	39.0	4.7	155	(84)
240	Wichita Falls, TX	38.9	1.1	244	4
241	Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA	38.8	4.9	233	(8)
242	Winston-Salem, NC	37.9	1.8	106	(136)
243	Oklahoma City, OK	37.7	8.7	266	23
244	Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX	37.2	1.4	314	70
245	Salinas, CA	36.9	1.5	217	(28)
246	Evansville, IN-KY	36.8	2.0	187	(59)
247	Saginaw-Saginaw Township North, MI	36.7	1.1	173	(74)
248	Sacramento--Arden-Arcade--Roseville, CA	36.3	14.9	240	(8)
249	Punta Gorda, FL	36.1	0.4	59	(190)
250	Pittsfield, MA NECTA	36.0	0.5	247	(3)
251	Rockford, IL	36.0	1.6	194	(57)
252	Lawton, OK	35.4	0.5	199	(53)
253	Anderson, IN	35.4	0.5	299	46
254	San Angelo, TX	35.1	1.0	263	9
255	Charleston, WV	35.1	1.9	158	(97)
256	Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC	34.9	2.6	249	(7)
257	Auburn-Opelika, AL	34.9	0.5	134	(123)
258	Vineland-Millville-Bridgeton, NJ	34.9	0.8	81	(177)
259	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	34.0	11.5	120	(139)
260	Reno-Sparks, NV	33.6	2.0	191	(69)
261	Port St. Lucie, FL	33.2	1.3	39	(222)
262	Champaign-Urbana, IL	33.2	2.2	43	(219)
263	Waco, TX	32.6	1.3	238	(25)
264	Gainesville, FL	31.5	1.4	260	(4)
265	Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ	31.2	0.8	292	27
266	Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR	30.7	7.3	252	(14)
267	Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA	30.6	0.8	221	(46)
268	Brownsville-Harlingen, TX	30.1	1.2	92	(176)
269	Stockton, CA	30.0	1.8	234	(35)
270	Morristown, TN	29.8	0.4	307	37
271	Palm Coast, FL	29.7	0.9	230	(41)
272	Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL	28.7	2.3	207	(65)
273	Victoria, TX	28.6	0.4	99	(174)
274	Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ	28.5	0.7	288	14
275	Muskegon-Norton Shores, MI	28.5	0.7	140	(135)
276	Lafayette, LA	27.7	2.4	175	(101)
277	Burlington-South Burlington, VT NECTA	26.8	2.1	284	7
278	Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford, MA-NH NECTA Division	26.3	4.0	202	(76)
279	Dayton, OH	26.2	8.7	225	(54)
280	Utica-Rome, NY	26.0	1.7	190	(90)
281	Owensboro, KY	26.0	0.4	50	(231)
282	Midland, TX	25.7	1.0	224	(58)
283	Richmond, VA	25.3	7.8	213	(70)
284	Chattanooga, TN-GA	24.0	2.7	181	(103)
285	New Haven, CT NECTA	23.9	4.3	302	17
286	Duluth, MN-WI	23.6	1.3	312	26
287	Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL	22.6	1.0	245	(42)
288	Lubbock, TX	22.3	3.7	232	(56)
289	Idaho Falls, ID	22.2	0.9	231	(58)
290	Pocatello, ID	22.1	0.4	313	23
291	Sheboygan, WI	21.9	0.2	52	(239)
292	Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL	20.3	0.4	196	(96)
293	Springfield, IL	19.5	1.4	277	(16)
294	Jackson, TN	19.0	0.5	296	2
295	Coeur d'Alene, ID	18.5	0.6	261	(34)
296	Niles-Benton Harbor, MI	18.3	0.5	306	10
297	Danville, IL	17.8	0.2	136	(161)
298	Wausau, WI	17.8	0.4	294	(4)
299	Panama City-Lynn Haven-Panama City Beach, FL	17.7	1.1	258	(41)
300	Greeley, CO	17.5	0.7	311	11
301	Jackson, MI	16.3	0.3	117	(184)
302	Kalamazoo-Portage, MI	16.3	0.9	270	(32)
303	Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol, TN-VA	15.2	1.4	257	(46)
304	Visalia-Porterville, CA	14.8	0.8	265	(39)
305	Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA	14.6	2.1	235	(70)
306	Santa Fe, NM	14.1	0.8	305	(1)
307	Gadsden, AL	13.7	0.3	228	(79)
308	Johnson City, TN	12.1	1.4	171	(137)
309	Wichita, KS	12.0	4.4	290	(19)
310	Camden, NJ Mtr Div	11.5	6.3	268	(42)
311	Corvallis, OR	10.5	0.7	300	(11)
312	Merced, CA	9.6	0.4	151	(161)
313	Modesto, CA	8.1	1.0	281	(32)
314	Portland-South Portland-Biddeford, ME NECTA	7.0	3.0	308	(6)
315	Anniston-Oxford, AL	4.6	0.6	282	(33)
316	Kankakee-Bradley, IL	4.6	0.4	205	(111)
317	Dover, DE	1.3	0.4	271	(46)