{"id":398821,"date":"2026-09-13T18:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T18:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/398821\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T18:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T18:04:11","slug":"tampa-jacksonville-and-orlando-land-in-top-10-list-of-best-boomtowns-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/398821\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa, Jacksonville and Orlando land in top 10 list of best boomtowns in America"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘A lot of people and businesses have been heading South over the past several years, and that\u2019s created a lot of momentum.’<\/p>\n

Tampa, Jacksonville and Orlando are among the top 10 cities in the U.S. for boomtowns, according to a new study released by the financial loan firm LendingTree<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Analysts with LendingTree looked at the country\u2019s largest metropolitan areas and considered factors such as people moving there, housing, work earnings and the economy to compile the boomtown list<\/a>. Tampa finished fifth in America while Jacksonville came in seventh immediately followed by Orlando in eighth. Miami placed 16th among overall boomtowns.<\/p>\n

Towns in Southern states dominated the top 10 list among rising boomtowns with Austin, Texas topping the list followed by Raleigh, North Carolina in second and Charlotte, North Carolina in fourth. Only two towns in the top 10 were not from the South.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people and businesses have been heading South over the past several years, and that\u2019s created a lot of momentum,\u201d said Matt Schulz, LendingTree Chief Consumer Finance Analyst\u00a0. \u201cIn many places, you can still find a lower cost of living, a growing population and a business climate that\u2019s attractive to employers. Those are all things that make it easier to start and grow a business.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan said she\u2019s not overly surprised the First Coast city was ranked so high. She said there\u2019ll be more people heading to the \u201cBold New City of the South.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cPeople are voting with their feet and moving to Jacksonville in droves because our city is a great place to live, raise a family, and start a business,\u201d Deegan said. \u201cThis recognition is further proof that we are a city on the move with a booming economy, talented workforce, and high quality of life.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was one Southern city that didn\u2019t fare so well. Memphis, Tennessee was ranked the lowest for boomtowns. But that was the only Southern town in the bottom 10 while most of the weakest boomtowns were in the Midwest.<\/p>\n

Tampa also ranked second in the country for best work and earnings city in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘A lot of people and businesses have been heading South over the past several years, and that\u2019s created…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[153969,5890,158783,116,118,117,81757,158784,5844,139,64787,135,10195],"class_list":["post-398821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-boomtowns","tag-donna-deegan","tag-hief-consumer-finance-analy","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-lendingtree","tag-matt-schulz","tag-memphis","tag-orlando","tag-southern-states","tag-tampa","tag-tennessee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}