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The Houston-area suburb of Conroe is listed as the leading boomtown in the Lone Star State, according to a ranking by SmartAsset.
CulturemapHouston.com noted that on the New York-based financial technology company’s list, Conroe is ranked No. 3 nationally, tied with Meridian, Idaho. The Nashville suburb of Murfreesboro, Tennessee was listed as the top boomtown in the country, according to the report. This was music to the ears of U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady (R-The Woodlands).
“Wow! #Conroe is No. 1 ‘boomtown’ in Texas,” the legislator said in a post on Twitter.
Brady noted in the post that SmartAsset evaluated growth of the 500 largest cities in the country during the past five years, with Conroe gabbing the third spot.
“Population growth, economy, businesses, housing and employment (are) all factors,” he said in the social media post.
Conroe jumped to the top portion of the list after failing to make the nation’s top 50 boomtowns in SmartAsset’s 2019 survey, according to CulturemapHouston.com.
“Population growth in Conroe is not slowing,” Danielle Scheiner, executive director of the Conroe Economic Development Council, told the website earlier this year. “The increase continues to be steady.”
Conroe stood up well to other cities in the survey. The website noted that SmartAsset reviewed a number of factors for its ranking, including five-year population change (26.03% for 5th); five-year housing growth rate (39.69% for 4th); August 2021 unemployment rate; and the five-year change in number of businesses.
The website, citing U.S. Census Bureau data, noted that as of April 2020, Conroe’s population stood at nearly 90,000 people.
Five other Texas cities cracked the SmartAsset Top 50, according to the website. They included New Braunfels (San Antonio metro area), Austin, Roundrock (Austin metro area), Denton (Dallas metro area) and McKinney (Dallas metro area). Four cities fell out of the ranking, according to the site, including Frisco, College Station, Flower Mound and Allen.