Kern Among Fastest Growing Finance Economies

Kern Among Fastest Growing Finance Economies
June 4, 2013
excerpted from New Geography

Kern County ranked third among the nation's medium-sized metro areas for financial activities jobs, according to an analysis released last week. In a May 31 article in New Geography, authors Joel Kotkin and Michael Shires identified what they called "The Best Cities for Jobs in Finance Industries." Among medium-sized metros, only Ann Arbor, Michigan and Green Bay, Wisconsin ranked higher than Kern.

According to the authors,
"The top of the financial services rankings for midsized and small cities is also liberally sprinkled with places where hot energy economies are driving employment in all sectors. The midsized list features Bakersfield-Delano, Calif., in third place, the Texas towns of El Paso and McAllen-Edinburg-Mission in fifth and ninth place, respectively, and No. 10 Lafayette, La."

The Bakersfield-Delano metro area includes all of Kern County.

For the complete article: http://www.newgeography.com/content/003753-the-cities-that-are-stealing-finance-jobs-from-wall-street