The Tampa Bay area ranked fifth among six regions in the Tampa Bay Partnership's summer 2011 economic scorecard.
Raleigh/Durham, Dallas, Atlanta and Charlotte ranked one through four respectively and Jacksonville sixth in comparisons of employment and workforce, income and productivity, housing, innovation, education and transportation.
The updated scorecard from the winter edition is the third consecutive time Tampa Bay finished in fifth or sixth place, but indicators show a smaller gap between the regions.
Tampa Bay ranked sixth in income and productivity; fifth in employment and workforce; fifth in innovation; fourth in housing; third in education and second in transportation.
The latter ranking was bolstered by low transportation consumer expenditures as a percentage of total consumer expenditures. Tampa Bay ranked second best in commute time, fourth in congestion and fifth in transit ridership.
The scorecard provides valuable intelligence and a candid assessment of Tampa Bay's progress toward sustainable growth, said John Schueler, Partnership chair and president and chief executive of Florida Communications Group, which oversees The Tampa Tribune, News Channel 8 and tbo.com.
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