Delaware Ohio named top place to get ahead by Forbes.com (photo used with permission)
Forbes.com recently announced (via Yahoo!) that Delaware County is one of the nation’s best place to get ahead.
Well, duh! We already knew that.
According to the article, “Best Places to Get Ahead 2010” by Francesca Levy, Delaware County ranked only behind Fort Bend County, Texas as the nation’s top place to get ahead in 2010. The criteria included:
To find the best places to get ahead, we looked at counties where the number of jobs had grown the most between the second quarter of 2007 and the second quarter of 2009 (the most recent quarter for which county-level statistics are available), using data from the U.S. Department of Labor. We factored in the counties with the highest income growth as well, using median household income growth between 2007 and 2008, the most recent year that the data are available from the U.S. Census Bureau.
We limited our search to counties where the median household income was $75,000 per year or higher, to focus on places where you can earn a solid salary and move up quickly, rather than ones that went from low to average incomes. It’s a sign of the times that in many of these counties, job growth was flat or even down, but they still placed high because the drop was more modest than elsewhere in the country.
In addition to Fort Bend County and Delaware, the rest of the list included Kendall County (Ill), Williams County (Tenn.) and Arlington County (Va.).
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