The top 20 cities scattered across California and Texas have improved the most.
DALLAS—How do US cities fare in terms of population and prosperity? The top 20 cities that have improved the most since 2000 are mainly scattered across California and Texas, with the latter claiming six spots.
The apartment search website RentCafe research team ranked 303 US cities by looking at six indicators of prosperity between 2000 and 2016. Those indicators included a magnitude of proportional changes that affected population, median income, home values, share of inhabitants holding a higher education degree, poverty rate and unemployment rate.
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Lisa Brown
Lisa Brown is an editor for the south and west regions of GlobeSt.com. She has 25-plus years of real estate experience, with a regional PR role at Grubb & Ellis and a national communications position at MMI. Brown also spent 10 years as executive director at NAIOP San Francisco Bay Area chapter, where she led the organization to achieving its first national award honors and recognition on Capitol Hill. She has written extensively on commercial real estate topics and edited numerous pieces on the subject.
