{"id":327767,"date":"2026-06-08T16:58:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/327767\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T16:58:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:58:24","slug":"2-texas-cities-lead-list-of-top-u-s-boomtowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/327767\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Texas cities lead list of top U.S. boomtowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TEXAS \u2014 Two Texas cities lead a ranking of the 75 top boomtowns in the U.S, according to a new <a href=\"https:\/\/smartasset.com\/data-studies\/americas-new-boomtowns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a>\u00a0from SmartAsset.<\/p>\n<p>The study analyzed over 400 U.S. cities with populations of 65,000 or more and ranked them based on economic output, housing units and labor force size.<\/p>\n<p>Georgetown is the No. 1 boomtown in the country, followed by New Braunfels at No. 2, according to the study. Both Central Texas cities saw five-year increases of more than 30% in labor force size and housing units.<\/p>\n<p>Leander (No. 4), a suburb of Austin, and Conroe (No. 9) in the Houston area round out the top 10, and there are a total of nine Texas cities in the top 20.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The majority of Texas cities in the top 20 are within the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. They are: Lewisville (No. 5), McKinney (No. 8), Frisco (No. 10), Denton (No. 11) and Allen (No. 19).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEXAS \u2014 Two Texas cities lead a ranking of the 75 top boomtowns in the U.S, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3564,132,1226,3565,102,138,140,139,223,27],"class_list":["post-327767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-app-community","tag-austin","tag-christine-sanchez","tag-community-news","tag-dallas","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327767","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=327767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}