Fort Collins ranks ninth with 4.4 percent growth. Its job market grew by 7,300 nonfarm jobs.
Only three cities topped the list ahead of Colorado Springs — Ocean City, N.J.; Midland, Texas; and Kokomo, Ind. BLS termed the gains in Ocean City and Kokomo as not "statistically significant."
Further down the list, Boulder ranked 47th with a 3-percent gain, followed by Greeley at number 79 with a 2.6-percent growth rate.
Metro Denver came in at 119th with a 2.1-percent growth rate. That's up from a 1.6-percent growth rate the year before. Grand Junction landed in the middle, 154th, with 1.9 percent growth.
Pueblo only added 300 jobs with 0.5-percent growth and a ranking of 322nd.
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