Austin-downtown by river

WalletHub recently ranked Austin as the #1 large city with the fastest growing economy. The study compared 515 cities on 10 key metrics (such as population growth, median household income growth, growth in the number of businesses, and unemployment rate decrease) and identified those with the greatest socioeconomic expansion between 2008 and 2014. Other large cities in Texas that were ranked in the top 20:

#3 – Fort Worth, TX

#5 – Corpus Christi, TX

#10 – Houston, TX

#11 – San Antonio, TX (tied with Seattle, WA)

#14 – El Paso, TX

#20 – Dallas, TX