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Best-Performing Cities 2018: Where America’s Jobs Are Created and Sustained
The Milken Institute’s Best-Performing Cities U.S. index provides a way to measure which American metropolitan areas offer the greatest opportunities for prosperity and innovation across the nation. The BPC index measures each metro area’s economic performance using outcomes-based metrics such as job creation, wage gains, and technological developments to evaluate their relative growth.
The Rankings:
Provo-Orem, UT, holds steady at the top of our index, thanks to a dynamic high-tech sector, an educated workforce, and a business-friendly tax and regulatory climate.
Growth through tech is the reigning theme across America, with Silicon Valley and several of Northern California’s tech-focused metro areas in the top 20. Outside the Golden State, tech hubs such as Austin-Round Rock, TX, Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX, and Raleigh, NC, have also leveraged their educated workforces and competitive business climates to generate growth.
Top Ten Best-Performing Cities U.S. 2018
Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) /
|
2018 Rank |
2017 Rank |
Change |
| Provo-Orem, UT MSA |
1 |
1 |
Steady |
| San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA MSA |
2 |
11 |
+9 |
| Austin-Round Rock, TX MSA |
3 |
9 |
+6 |
| San Francisco-Redwood City-South San Francisco, CA MD |
4 |
4 |
Steady |
| Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX MD |
5 |
3 |
-2 |
| Raleigh, NC MSA |
6 |
2 |
-4 |
| Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL MSA |
7 |
7 |
Steady |