Despite some concerns about the economy, many of those who closely watch Texas say we’re in a strong position, especially when compared to the rest of the nation.<\/p>\n
Texas added nearly 47,000 jobs in the month of March 2026 alone, the state Workforce Commission said last week. <\/p>\n
And though Austin and Dallas have slowed down from their intense growth of just a few years ago, Fort Worth has been in an era of rapid expansion lately, for the first time surpassing a million in population and now has passed Austin as the fourth largest city in the state.<\/p>\n
But the greater Houston area’s growth is unprecedented, especially it’s wide-open suburbs, even though a new Kinder survey indicates the economy is the biggest concern for residents.<\/p>\n
The economy is the biggest concern across the nation after years of up-and-down inflation that began during President Joe Biden’s administration, but the Houston Metro economy remains strong. <\/p>\n
“We have the fastest-growing metro economy in the region,” the Greater Houston Partnership’s Manager of Economic Research Colin Baker says, and Southeast Texas as a whole continues its longtime growth.<\/p>\n
“We lead the nation in population growth, we also saw the pace of job creation last year that’s about ten times higher than the national pace,” Baker added.<\/p>\n
The Houston area added more than 16,000 jobs during March, according to the Texas Workforce Commission.<\/p>\n
One of the most productive aspects of the Houston-area economy is its industrial base, which doesn’t appear to have suffered nearly as much as other cities.<\/p>\n
“We continue to lead in terms of manufacturing output,” Baker says, “and we’re seeing a lot more of that manufacturing output in advanced manufacturing projects.” <\/p>\n
Texas itself is a leader in advanced manufacturing too, with new partnerships springing up, such as the South Texas Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (STAMP) which recently launched a regional “economic engine” designed to “accelerate advanced manufacturing growth and workforce readiness” for jobs of the future, accenting the state’s penchant for looking at the future<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite some concerns about the economy, many of those who closely watch Texas say we’re in a strong…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,66,223,27],"class_list":["post-279531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}