The Top Ten Lists Of Sacramento
Sacramento, let's have a little fun. What top ten lists, good or bad, does Sacramento appear on in the print or video media? Please post your documented research in the comment section below. A panel of our corporate sponsors will vote on the best list. The winner will be announced at our spring networking event in April. The prize - dinner for two with the Sacramento Executive publishers at Mason's fabulous Park Complex.
Pierre Cutler
The Sacramento Executive
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Fast Company Magazine (November 2005):
Top 10 Up-and-Coming Hubs for Creative Workers:
1 Sacramento, CA
2 Phoenix, AZ
3 Salt Lake City, UT
4 San Antonio, TX
5 Raleigh-Durham, NC
6 San Diego, CA
7 Portland, OR
8 Madison, WI
9 Tucson, AZ
10 Colorado Springs, CO
I don't know if the following count, as they are all sourcing other reports in their reporting (and a couple are older - but there's nothing referencing it has to be really "current" in the OP), but here's a couple I figured I'd post since they may be of interest:
Top 10 Metropolitan Areas with Women-Owned Businesses as reported in Sept. 2004 by the Sacramento Business Journal:
1 Portland/Vancouver, Ore./Wash., 57.7 percent
2 Seattle/Bellevue/Everett, Wash., 56.8
3 Phoenix/Mesa, Ariz., 54.7
4 Las Vegas (area includes part of Arizona), 53.7
5 St. Louis, Mo. (includes part of Illinois), 52.6
6 Sacramento, 52.5
7 Kansas City (Missouri and Kansas), 51.4
8 Oakland, 51.3
9 Tampa/St. Petersburg/Clearwater, Fla., 50.5
10 San Diego, 50.3
(sourcing a report by the Center for Women's Business Research)
August 2005 USA Today:
Top 10 Hot Spots For Car Theft:
1 Modesto, Calif.
2 Stockton-Lodi, Calif.
3 Las Vegas
4 Phoenix-Mesa
5 Sacramento
6 Oakland
7 Visalia-Tulare-Porterville, Calif.
8 San Diego
9 Fresno, Calif.
10 Seattle-Bellevue-Everett
(sourcing the National Insurance Crime Bureau)
CBS News (April 2004):
Top 10 Metropolitan Areas with the Highest Ozone Pollution:
1. Los Angeles, Calif.
2. Fresno, Calif.
3. Bakersfield, Calif.
4. Visalia, Calif.
5. Houston, Texas
6. Merced, Calif.
7. Sacramento, Calif.
8. Hanford, Calif.
9. Knoxville, Tenn.
10. Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas
(sourcing a report by the American Lung Association)
As reported by the Sacramento Business Journal in Feb. 2005:
Top 10 Real Estate Markets having home prices that may be at risk of suffering future price declines:
1 Chico
2 Stockton
3 Santa Barbara
4 Los Angeles
5 - Sac Biz Journal did not list the fifth, but it was San Francisco
6 Modesto
7 San Diego
8 West Palm, FL
9 Sacramento
10 Las Vegas, NV
(sourcing a study by Richard DeKaser of National City Corp out of Cleveland).
Posted by: Robert McKeown | December 5, 2005 12:10 PM
Hey Robert - great lists
You are well on your way to winning the dinner for two prize.
Anyone want to try to top Robert?
Gillian Parrillo
Sacramento Executive
Posted by: Gillian Parrillo | December 5, 2005 4:51 PM
Hmm, I previously did not see that you had done something on the Fast Company article/list. I *just* noticed it. Probably seems like a bit of a cheat, but I knew about it all on my own and not from the prior blog entry. Really...
Posted by: Robert McKeown | December 6, 2005 1:30 PM