Recent article on bizjournals.com defines Texas as the leader in creating new jobs over the past 10 years.  Texas has added 732,800 jobs in the last ten years and no other U.S. state has exceeded 100,000. 

STATE-BY-STATE PRIVATE-SECTOR EMPLOYMENT 

State	Private-sector jobs (April 2001)	Private-sector jobs (April 2010)	Private-sector jobs (April 2011)	10-year raw change	Rank	1-year raw change	Rank
Texas	7,946,200	8,427,300	8,679,000	732,800	1	251,700	1
California	12,242,400	11,406,900	11,618,700	-623,700	51	211,800	2
New York	7,120,400	7,003,300	7,103,400	-17,000	30	100,100	3
Pennsylvania	4,955,300	4,840,200	4,934,900	-20,400	31	94,700	4
Michigan	3,880,300	3,185,300	3,261,100	-619,200	50	75,800	5
Illinois	5,159,700	4,724,000	4,796,600	-363,100	48	72,600	6
Ohio	4,754,300	4,222,300	4,293,400	-460,900	49	71,100	7
Florida	6,159,500	6,092,300	6,143,000	-16,500	29	50,700	8
North Carolina	3,283,900	3,142,500	3,188,100	-95,800	41	45,600	9
Washington	2,188,300	2,214,700	2,251,300	63,000	4	36,600	10

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Weird as it may be, there’s an undeniable pull toward the secessionist state.

Pick any 2009 economic rankings list and the “Texaplex” cities–Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio and Austin–will have nabbed a spot or three. Austin and Dallas are counted among The Wall Street Journal’s top Youth Magnet cities, and Texas cities were half of the Brookings Institution’s list of top 10 strongest metro areas. Texas dominated 2009’s lists of best relocation destinations, home-building markets and job-creation cities. This very magazine also named Austin one of its own Best Cities for Small Businesses.

“Texas has fared this recession better than most other parts of the country,” says Brad Burke, managing director of Rice University’s Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship. “The state became much more diversified over the last decade. It’s investing [billions] in growth industries.”

For more information on investing in Texas, check out our article links and the Texaplex video.

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This is a silver lining case, as the basis of the article is that the labor market as a whole has been bad and won’t get better soon. What is important to investors looking at Texas is that 4 of the top 5 markets are in the state and have lost fewer jobs than anywhere else in the country.

No section of the country has been immune to the recession’s ravages. But a few areas are still doing reasonably well, notably Texas, which includes four of America’s five hottest labor markets…

Here are the top 5 markets according to the study discussed:

1. Austin
2. San Antonio
3. Baton Rouge
4. Houston
5. Dallas-Fort Worth

As added emphasis, here are the stats that the study found that prove that these rankings are more than just subjective number-crunching:

• 5% of the nation’s private-sector jobs have disappeared since June 2008, but in these Texas markets, the rate is only 2.6 percent. San Antonio has only lost 0.9 percent of jobs.
• The Texas markets, despite their recent losses, still have 589,500 more jobs than they did a half-decade ago which is a growth rate of 10.8 percent, compared to the national decline of 0.7 percent over the same period. The future still looks bright for Texas.
• Dallas-Fort Worth has the highest unemployment rate among the group, but is still nearly a point and a half better than the U.S. jobless rate of 9.5%.

All of this data shows why Texas is and continues to be the best state in the nation for businesses and individuals to invest their time and money. Places like Cinnamon Shore on Mustang Island provide a vehicle that can bring a level of enjoyment that exceeds the monetary value of the investment.

“Austin and San Antonio will lead the way, bouncing back to their pre-recession job levels sometime next year, according to the Lexington, Mass.-based economic forecasting firm, while Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth are among eight other metropolitan areas predicted to recover by 2011.”

This is great news for the rest of the country who are looking for a place to invest, but for those of us already here it is just more confirmation that we’ve made the right decision.