Austin, Elkhart Top Rankings Of Best U.S. Job Markets

A Texas tech hub and a town that bills itself as the RV capital of the world are America’s hottest job markets, according to The Wall Street Journal’s annual rankings.

The Austin, Texas, metro area—which also features University of Texas, a state capitol and lots of live music—ranked as the best labor market in 2021, among regions with at least one million people. The Elkhart, Ind., area, where Keystone RV Co. , Jayco Inc. and Newmar Corp., are located, ranked as the best job market among smaller regions.

The rankings are based on five attributes: job growth, unemployment rate, share of adults working or looking for work, change in the size of the labor force, and change in average weekly wages. Cities were scored by the highest average ranking among the five categories based on Moody’s Analytics analysis of Labor Department data.

Check out the rankings from the Wall Street Journal here.