Metro area |
2006 rank |
2004 rank |
Rank change |
Anaheim, CA |
1 |
2 |
1 |
Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA |
2 |
14 |
12 |
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC |
3 |
4 |
1 |
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI |
4 |
1 |
-3 |
Chicago, IL |
5 |
7 |
2 |
Pittsburgh, PA |
6 |
16 |
10 |
San Diego, CA |
7 |
3 |
-4 |
Miami, FL |
8 |
43 |
35 |
Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point, NC |
9 |
22 |
13 |
Bergen-Passaic, NJ |
10 |
6 |
-4 |
Sacramento, CA |
11 |
20 |
9 |
Boston, MA-NH-ME |
12 |
8 |
-4 |
Denver, CO |
13 |
13 |
0 |
Austin-San Marcos, TX |
14 |
9 |
-5 |
Middlesex-Somerset-Hunterdon, NJ |
15 |
12 |
-3 |
Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC |
16 |
23 |
7 |
New Orleans, LA |
17 |
46 |
29 |
Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV |
18 |
5 |
-13 |
Riverside-San Bernardino, CA |
19 |
18 |
-1 |
Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI |
20 |
25 |
5 |
Dallas, TX |
21 |
28 |
7 |
Las Vegas, NV-AZ |
22 |
44 |
22 |
Kansas City, MO-KS |
23 |
10 |
-13 |
Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News, VA-NC |
24 |
32 |
8 |
Phoenix-Mesa, AZ |
25 |
38 |
13 |
Oakland, CA |
26 |
11 |
-15 |
Portland-Vancouver, OR-WA |
27 |
40 |
13 |
San Francisco, CA |
28 |
42 |
14 |
Newark, NJ |
29 |
21 |
-8 |
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL |
30 |
39 |
9 |
Salt Lake City-Ogden, UT |
31 |
27 |
-4 |
Philadelphia, PA-NJ |
32 |
19 |
-13 |
Indianapolis, IN |
33 |
29 |
-4 |
Nassau-Suffolk, NY |
34 |
30 |
-4 |
San Antonio, TX |
35 |
17 |
-18 |
San Jose, CA |
36 |
36 |
0 |
Orlando, FL |
37 |
33 |
-4 |
Fort Lauderdale, FL |
38 |
37 |
-1 |
Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN |
39 |
47 |
8 |
Fort Worth-Arlington, TX |
40 |
31 |
-9 |
Cleveland-Lorain-Elyria, OH |
41 |
49 |
8 |
Baltimore, MD |
42 |
34 |
-8 |
Columbus, OH |
43 |
15 |
-28 |
Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA |
44 |
26 |
-18 |
Detroit, MI |
45 |
50 |
5 |
St. Louis, MO-IL |
46 |
41 |
-5 |
New York, NY |
47 |
45 |
-2 |
Houston, TX |
48 |
24 |
-24 |
Nashville, TN |
49 |
48 |
-1 |
Atlanta, GA |
50 |
35 |
-15 |