5 Colorado Cities Named Best Places for Businesses and Careers

Posted by TheHomeCart.com on Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 at 9:12am.

Five Colorado cities made the top 40 of Forbes magazine’s latest list of the best places for business and careers, reported the Denver Business Journal. Fort Collins ranked No. 2, Colorado Springs, 10; Denver, 14; Boulder, 20; and Greeley, 37.

Forbes evaluated the 200 largest U.S. metro areas (population of 241,000 or more) on 11 criteria. The criteria included cost of doing business, cost of living, job-growth trends, crime rates and cultural attributes.

The criteria included two new measurements: projected job growth and fewest sub-prime mortgages as a percentage of total originations over a three-year period.

Fort Collins ranked in the top 15 of U.S. cities in four categories: educational attainment of its population (6th), past income growth (9th), fewest sub-prime mortgages (10th) and projected job growth (13th).  Its lowest rankings were for number of colleges (158th) and for culture and leisure opportunities (135th).

Denver’s highest rankings were for number of colleges (15th), educational attainment (20th) and culture and leisure (21st). Its lowest rankings were for cost of living (133rd) and cost of doing business (130th).

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