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Winners

Texas
Top 100 finalists
City	Population
Austin	690,300
Carrollton	124,700
Denton	104,200
League City	61,500
North Richland Hills	61,100
Plano	250,100
Richardson	99,200
Round Rock	86,300
Sugar Land	75,800
The Woodlands	67,600
Other cities
City	Population
Abilene	112,205
Allen	68,288
Amarillo	179,479
Arlington	373,609
Baytown	71,086
Beaumont	110,230
Bedford	50,293
Brownsville	154,498
Bryan	64,209
College Station	73,026
Corpus Christi	279,190
Dallas	1,248,673
Edinburg	59,157
El Paso	591,179
Euless	50,568
Flower Mound	66,112
Fort Worth	586,362
Frisco	52,076
Galveston	62,048
Garland	221,354
Grand Prairie	141,701
Harlingen	64,468
Houston	2,085,082
Irving	199,166
Killeen	99,410
Laredo	203,084
Lewisville	95,411
Longview	74,882
Lubbock	205,271
McAllen	115,539
McKinney	75,845
Mesquite	131,107
Midland	97,640
Mission	53,521
Missouri City	63,914
Odessa	91,981
Pasadena	150,036
Pearland	45,888
Pharr	55,818
Port Arthur	55,492
Rowlett	50,449
San Angelo	87,125
San Antonio	1,227,042
Temple	54,320
Tyler	87,944
Victoria	60,473
Waco	115,740
Wichita Falls	99,300

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Pick a state
State	No. of finalists
Alabama	1
Alaska	0
Arizona	3
Arkansas	1
California	6
Colorado	4
Connecticut	2
Delaware	0
District of Columbia	0
Florida	4
Georgia	0
Hawaii	0
Idaho	1
Illinois	4
Indiana	1
Iowa	3
Kansas	3
Kentucky	0
Louisiana	0
Maine	1
Maryland	2
Massachusetts	1
Michigan	5
Minnesota	4
Mississippi	0
Missouri	3
Montana	0
Nebraska	2
Nevada	1
New Hampshire	1
New Jersey	5
New Mexico	2
New York	2
North Carolina	2
North Dakota	2
Ohio	2
Oklahoma	3
Oregon	3
Pennsylvania	1
Rhode Island	2
South Carolina	1
South Dakota	0
Tennessee	1
Texas	10
Utah	3
Vermont	0
Virginia	3
Washington	1
West Virginia	0
Wisconsin	4
Wyoming	0

Texas companies
FORTUNE: Best to work for
Company	Best Companies 2006 Rank
Valero Energy	3
Container Store	6
Whole Foods Market	15
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FORTUNE 500
Company	F500 rank
Exxon Mobil	1
ConocoPhillips	6
Valero Energy	15
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Biggest employers
Company	Employees
Chase Bank	100,000
Bank Of America	24,651
Usaa	17,069

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	% residents with graduate degrees
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Most singles
	% single residents
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New Brunswick, NJ	54.6%
College Station, TX	54.3%
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	Median age
Jacksonville, NC	22.90
Provo, UT	23.28
New Brunswick, NJ	24.16
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