GREELEY, Colorado
Population: 96,539
Unemployment: 4.6 percent
Population Growth Since 2010: 3.9 percent
You may not have heard of Greeley, located about 50 miles north of Denver, but the numbers certainly are starting to add up for a lot of people and businesses. The best of those is 8.8 as in 8.8 percent job growth, tops in the nation. Then there’s that 3.5 percent projected annual job growth, a cost of living 7.5 percent below the national average and a local landscape rich in outdoor recreation, i.e. 30 parks, six sports complexes.