1、BEST PERFORMING CITIES 2024BEST PERFORMING CITIES 20231Maggie Switek,PhD,Lawson Mansell,and Brock Smith,PhDBest-Performing Cities2024FEBRUARY 2024FOCUS ON SUSTAINABLE GROWTH AND RESILIENCEBEST PERFORMING CITIES 2024ABOUT THE MILKEN INSTITUTEThe Milken Institute is a nonprofit,nonpartisan think tank

2、focused on accelerating measurable progress on the path to a meaningful life.With a focus on financial,physical,mental,and environmental health,we bring together the best ideas and innovative resourcing to develop blueprints for tackling some of our most critical global issues through the lens of wh

3、ats pressing now and whats coming next.2024 Milken InstituteThis work is made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International,available at http:/creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.BEST PERFORMING CITIES 2024CONTENTS 1 Executive Summ

4、ary 3 Best-Performing Large City:Austin-Round Rock,TX 4 Best-Performing Small City:Idaho Falls,ID 5 Introduction 5 Components of the Best-Performing Cities Rankings 6 Breaking Down the Rankings 9 National Economic Conditions 9 Economic Resilience amid Continued Inflation 9 Post-Pandemic Employment R

5、ecovery 10 High-Tech Performance across Large and Small Cities 11 Climate Impacts:Where Families Plan to Plant Roots 13 Biggest Gains 14 Biggest Drops 15 Large Cities Rankings 15 Tier 1 Large Cities 27 Complete Results:2024 Best-Performing Large Cities 36 Small Cities Rankings 36 Tier 1 Small Cities

6、 44 Complete Results:2024 Best-Performing Small Cities 53 Endnotes 58 About the AuthorsBEST PERFORMING CITIES 20241EXECUTIVE SUMMARYAs the post-pandemic economy reaches a new status quo,metropolitan areas(i.e.,cities)remain at the heart of the nations growth.1 Almost 6 million new jobs were created