06/23/2023
Saw this on someone’s page and thought these stats were awesome! GO TEXAS!! 🎉❤️👏🏻
🇺🇸We all know the State of Texas is huge. Most don’t know about the TEX-A-PLEX. Do you?
🐄🐄🐄 The triangular region framed in by the cities of Austin, Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio is experiencing a wave of growth of historic proportions more than anywhere in the world.
⚡️ In 2022, the population of the Texas Triangle reached 30 million.
💥 the Texas Triangle contains five of the 20 largest cities in the U.S., and was home to more than 70% of all Texans: City of Dallas, City of Fort Worth, City of Austin, City of Houston and City of San Antonio
🛫The Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) is bigger than all of Mannahattan.
🏞️The The University of Texas at Austin is the third largest land owner in the United States.
🌮San Antonio is bigger than New York City and Detroit combined.
👨👩👧👦👩👩👧👦Houston has a bigger population than Colorado and 34 other states.
🏢Four of the top ten metro statistical areas are in Texas.
🔥 The Texas economy is on fire. The state added 660,000 new jobs last year – more jobs than any other, and twice the number of new jobs compared to its historical average. With Dallas by far leading the growth.
📆 50,000 jobs a month, I mean, that’s almost 2,000 jobs a day every day of the week for an entire year.
❌No state income tax.. In fact, legislature is trying to figure out what to do with their EXCESS money..
✅The Tex-a-plex is home to over 50 Fortune 500 companies. And has more Fortune 1000 companies than any other state.
💰 At 2.4 TRILLION, Texas is ranked as the 9th largest economy among nations of the world by GDP, ahead of Canada, South Korea, Russia, and Australia.
🚢Texas is the largest exporter of goods in the United States
💵Dallas is home to the fourth most BILLIONAIRES in the world.
💡Houston has more than 5,000 energy related firms and is the energy capital of the world.
🩻The Texas Medical Center is the largest in the world located in Houston.
🎁25% of ALL retail space in the United States is in Texas.
🎼🎹Austin is the live music capital of the world. South By Southwest Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theater (ACL Live)
🤽♀️⛹️♀️🏌🏻The are 12 professional sports teams in the Tex-A-Plex.
📘📗📕 You can further your education in the great state of Texas at any one of the 159 universities and colleges in order to prepare yourself for a successful and prosperous career. Including 6 medical schools.
Texas A&M University has an enrollment of 74,829 the largest student body in the United States
-Reposted this due to the fact that it’s very interesting!
