Texas
Top 100 finalists
City Population
Austin 690,300
Carrollton 124,700
Denton 104,200
League City 61,500
North Richland Hills 61,100
Plano 250,100
Richardson 99,200
Round Rock 86,300
Sugar Land 75,800
The Woodlands 67,600
Other cities
City Population
Abilene 112,205
Allen 68,288
Amarillo 179,479
Arlington 373,609
Baytown 71,086
Beaumont 110,230
Bedford 50,293
Brownsville 154,498
Bryan 64,209
College Station 73,026
Corpus Christi 279,190
Dallas 1,248,673
Edinburg 59,157
El Paso 591,179
Euless 50,568
Flower Mound 66,112
Fort Worth 586,362
Frisco 52,076
Galveston 62,048
Garland 221,354
Grand Prairie 141,701
Harlingen 64,468
Houston 2,085,082
Irving 199,166
Killeen 99,410
Laredo 203,084
Lewisville 95,411
Longview 74,882
Lubbock 205,271
McAllen 115,539
McKinney 75,845
Mesquite 131,107
Midland 97,640
Mission 53,521
Missouri City 63,914
Odessa 91,981
Pasadena 150,036
Pearland 45,888
Pharr 55,818
Port Arthur 55,492
Rowlett 50,449
San Angelo 87,125
San Antonio 1,227,042
Temple 54,320
Tyler 87,944
Victoria 60,473
Waco 115,740
Wichita Falls 99,300
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Texas companies
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Company Best Companies
2006 Rank
Valero Energy 3
Container Store 6
Whole Foods Market 15
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FORTUNE 500
Company F500 rank
Exxon Mobil 1
ConocoPhillips 6
Valero Energy 15
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Biggest employers
Company Employees
Chase Bank 100,000
Bank Of America 24,651
Usaa 17,069
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in July (°F)
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  % residents with
graduate degrees
Arlington, VA 35.7%
Davis, CA 34.6%
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  % single residents
Bloomington, IN 58.2%
New Brunswick, NJ 54.6%
College Station, TX 54.3%
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  Median age
Jacksonville, NC 22.90
Provo, UT 23.28
New Brunswick, NJ 24.16
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