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By Job Gal | June 17, 2008
Texas
Texas is a state located in the south central United States, also known as the Lone Star State. The state is the second largest in the nation in both area and population. Austin serves as the state 
capital, while Houston is the largest city and the Dallas/Fort Worth area is the largest metropolitan area.
Texas was claimed by Spain, and it was part of Mexico until 1836. It joined the United States in 1845 as the 28th state. The state has a long history as being the center of the American cattle industry, and the discovery of oil in the early 1900s led to a large economic boom. The state’s annexation helped lead to the Mexican-American War and the U.S. Civil War.
Texas’s Job Market
In 2006, Texas had a gross state product of $1.09 trillion, the second highest in the country. Texas’s 
growth is mostly due to the availability of jobs, low cost of housing, lack of personal state income tax, high quality of education, low taxation and limited regulation of business, a central geographic location, limited government, favorable weather and abundant natural resources.
The fastest growing industries are: agriculture, mining, energy, technology and commerce
Work Trends
Mean travel time to work: 25.4 minutes
Texas unemployment rate: 4.1 percent
National unemployment rate: 5 percent
Texas’s Largest Employers
Exxon Mobil
5959 Las Colinas Blvd.
Irving, TX 75039
ConocoPhillips
600 N. Dairy Ashford Rd.
Houston, TX 77079
AT&T
175 E. Houston St.
San Antonio, TX 78205
Valero Energy
1 Valero Way
San Antonio, TX 78249
Dell
1 Dell Way
Round Rock, TX 78682
Marathon Oil
5555 San Felipe Rd.
Houston, TX 77056
Sysco
1390 Enclave Pkwy.
Houston, TX 77077
Enterprise GP Holdings
1100 Louisiana St.
Houston, TX 77002
AMR
4333 Amon Carter Blvd.
Fort Worth, TX 76155
Electronic Data Systems
5400 Legacy Dr.
Plano, TX 75024
Popular Local Job Search Sites
Cheezhead
Jobing
JobCentral
TexasJobs
Texas Workforce Commission
Job-Hunt
Federal Job Search
Craigslist
Surrounding Area Job Search
Austin, TX
Beaumont, TX
Tyler, TX
San Marcos, TX
College Station, TX
Ft. Worth, TX
Lubbock, TX
Corpus Christi, TX
Houston, TX
Continuing Education
Rice University
University of Texas-Austin
Texas A&M University-College Station
Southern Methodist University
Baylor University
Discovering Texas
The Alamo
Texas State Aquarium
Texas Motor Speedway
Fina-Caf Airsho
Texas State Fair
Texas Statistics
Population
Total population: 23,507,783
Persons under five-years old: 8.2 percent
Persons under 18-years old: 27.6 percent
Persons 65-years and older: 9.9 percent
Female: 50.2 percent
White: 82.7 percent
Black: 11.9
American Indian and Alaska Native: .7 percent
Asian: 3.4 percent
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander: .1 percent
Multi-racial: 1.2 percent
Hispanic or Latino: 35.7 percent
Education
High school graduates: 75.7 percent
Bachelor’s degree or higher: 23.2 percent
Housing
Households: 7,393,354
Persons per household: 2.74
Housing units: 9,224,361
Homeownership rate: 63.8 percent
Housing units in multi-unit structures: 24.2 percent
Median value of owner-occupied housing units: $82,500
Income
Average salary: $37,880
Median household income: $41,645
Per capita income: $19,617
Persons below poverty: 16.2 percent
Transportation
Highways: 79,535 miles
Airports: Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, George Bush Intercontinental Airport (Houston)
Railroads: Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Trinity Railway Express, Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Amtrak (Texas Eagle, Sunset Limited, Heartland Flyer)
Weather (Abilene)
Annual precipitation: 23.78 inches
High temp. in July: 110 degrees
Low temp. in Jan.: -9 degrees
Days above 90 degrees: 100
Days below 32 degrees: 39
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