{"id":313201,"date":"2014-09-09T15:11:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T20:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=313201"},"modified":"2014-09-10T15:15:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T20:15:04","slug":"longview-named-among-top-booming-small-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=313201","title":{"rendered":"Longview Named among Top Booming Small Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/09\/thumb_longview-cityof.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/09\/thumb_longview-cityof.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_longview-cityof\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-313202\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW \u2014 Forbes recently released a list of America&#8217;s Booming Small Cities 2014, and Longview is included in the top 10.  KETK reports the city was named number six overall. The area&#8217;s metro population checks in at 216,000 &#8212; an 11.5 percent increase since 2000.  The population isn&#8217;t the only thing seeing a steady rise. The area had a per capita income growth of 25 percent, along with an 18 percent increase in job growth. <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Forbes top 10 rankings:<\/p>\n<p>     1. The Villages, Florida<br \/>\n     2. Midland, Texas<br \/>\n     3. Odessa, Texas<br \/>\n     4. Fargo, North Dakota<br \/>\n     5. Jacksonville, North Carolina<br \/>\n     6. Longview, Texas<br \/>\n     7. Bismarck, North Dakota<br \/>\n     8. Houma\/Thibodaux, Louisiana<br \/>\n     9. Watertown-Fort Drum, New York<br \/>\n    10. Madera, California<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u2014 Forbes recently released a list of America&#8217;s Booming Small Cities 2014, and Longview is included in the top 10. KETK reports the city was named number six overall. The area&#8217;s metro population checks in at 216,000 &#8212; an 11.5 percent increase since 2000. The population isn&#8217;t the only thing seeing a steady rise. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=313201\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Longview Named among Top Booming Small Cities<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-12 05:09:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313204,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313201\/revisions\/313204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}