Best Places to Live 2010 - Top 25: Fastest job growth - from MONEY Magazine
Fastest job growth
Here are the counties with the highest percentage job growth (2000-2009).
Rank County Towns include Job growth % 2000-2009 1 Lincoln County, SD Sioux Falls 67.00% 2 Williamson County, TX Cedar Park, Round Rock 58.90% 3 Hays County, TX San Marcos 56.40% 4 Douglas County, CO Highlands Ranch 56.20% 5 Fort Bend County, TX Houston, Missouri City, Sugar Land 55.70% 6 Webb County, TX Laredo 54.10% 7 Collin County, TX Allen, Carrollton, Dallas, Frisco, Garland, McKinney, Plano 53.00% 8 Broomfield County, CO Broomfield 50.10% 9 Hamilton County, IN Carmel, Fishers 43.20% 10 Cache County, UT Logan 42.60% 11 Utah County, UT Orem, Provo 39.20% 12 Christian County, MO Springfield 39.00% 13 Wake County, NC Cary 35.30% 14 Dona Ana County, NM Las Cruces 34.50% 15 Benton County, AR Rogers 32.10% 16 Maricopa County, AZ Avondale, Chandler, Goodyear, Gilbert, Glendale, Mesa, Peoria, Phoenix 32.00% 17 Prince William County, VA Dale City 32.00% 18 Davis County, UT Layton 31.50% 19 Faulkner County, AR Conway 30.40% 20 Williamson County, TN Franklin 29.80% 21 Houston County, GA Warner Robins 28.70% 22 Washington County, AR Fayetteville, Springdale 27.10% 23 Suffolk, VA Suffolk 25.00% 24 Johnson County, IA Iowa City 22.70% 25 Canadian County, OK Oklahoma City 22.40%
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Pretty impressive. 3 Utah Counties rank in the top 25 areas for Job Growth. Cache County ranks #10, Utah County #11, and Davis County Ranks #18 nationally with 31.5% job growth over the last decade.