Thinking of Starting a Business? You’re in the Right Place
Phoenix is among the best cities in the country to start a business, according to a new ranking published by Inc. Magazine.
Inc. ranked Phoenix No. 11, ahead of Seattle, Boston, Los Angeles, Dallas, Las Vegas and a slew of others in the Top 50. Phoenix came in behind Salt Lake City (No. 2), Nashville (No. 4) and San Francisco (No. 5). The top spot went to Austin, Texas.
“The number of tech companies headquartered in downtown Phoenix has grown from 67 in 2012 to more than 300 today,” the magazine stated. Other rapidly growing industries in the Valley, according to Inc: construction, cybersecurity, financial services, and health care.
Phoenix scored well on such metrics as wage growth, job creation, net business creation and population growth. (Phoenix is the second-fastest growing major city in the country, and Maricopa County is the fastest growing county in the nation.) The ranking, called the Surge Cities Index, was developed in cooperation with the policy company Startup Genome.
Separately, the November report on home sales found sales fell 7 percent nationally and 15.4 percent in the West. Yet sales inched up slightly in NoPho, the I-17 corridor from Norterra to New River, according to the latest monthly analysis from North Phoenix News and In&Out Magazine.