City of Palm Bay Named on the Milkin Institute List of Best-Performing Cities

By  //  January 11, 2018

Palm Bay ranked 10th in country for High-Tech Location Quotient

The City of Palm Bay has been named among the top-performing cities in the nation by the Milkin Institute. (Palm Bay image)

BREVARD COUNTY • PALM BAY, FLORIDA – The City of Palm Bay has been named among the top-performing cities in the nation by the Milkin Institute.

Each year, the Milkin Institute releases a list of the best-performing cities based on economic growth, as well as the creation and retention of jobs.

Using factors such as job, wage, salary and technology growth, the report presents a comparative look at cities across the country.

To see the full list of cities and for a detailed look at Palm Bay’s rankings, CLICK HERE

According to the newly-released 2017 report, the City of Palm Bay ranked 63rd among the nation’s best-performing cities.

Palm Bay, along with Brevard neighbors Melbourne and Titusville, showed significant growth in the last year, moving up 90 spots from the 2016 ranking of 153rd.

Notably, the City Palm Bay ranked 10th in the country for the High-Tech Location Quotient, which factors the density of high-tech job concentration in metropolitan areas.

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