Texas Job Markets: Missouri City Increases Employment Listings

Missouri City is located approximate 20 minutes to the southwest of Houston by highway near I-10, Sam Houston Tollway, and State Highway 59; and on US Highway 90.

Around 1890, a Houston real estate developer bought land in what is now Missouri City with a partner and named it after the State of Missouri to promote business up in St. Louis. The railroads had come through in the 1850s, but a depot did not appear until after 1900. Sugarcane was grown near the city and was shipped by rail to Sugar Land nearby to the west. Other local agriculture included cotton, corn, and cattle. In the 1920s, Oil, natural gas, and salt were discovered and opened up extraction and manufacturing as an industry.

It appears on the 2010 list of 100 Best Cities to Live in America, as constructed by CNNMoney.com.With a suburban population of 75,000, the city is continue to grow by virtue of a new business park that was planned to increased commercial and with it, residential numbers. Because of all this added to other features such as a high quality school system and high ratings for safety and affordability in housing, the areas has access to nearly 67,000 jobs during pre-holiday autumn 2010.

The Houston Business Journal presented Missouri City with the magazine's 2010 Landmark Award for "Community Impact" to recognize its development of the Quail Valley Parks Project. Quail Valley is a master-planned community, along with Riverstone, that is designed, maintained, and improved for community benefit that incudes a high standard of living and sustainability. In 2009, the Congressional Quarterly gave Missouri City a ranking of Number 8 Safest City in the USA.

Missouri City has no mass transit services inside its borders. Houston METRO operates a Park and Ride on the Sam Houston Tollway (Highway 90A) that carries people into Houston and to large medical centers in the area.

Missouri City could benefit from additional funding to boost mass transit capabilities. A regional airport is located in Sugar Land (www.flysgr.com).

In the graph below, we see that a major rise in job vacancies occurred in July 2010 and dispapeared.

This city was named for the fact that it began as an 1800s sugar plantation in Texas. This suburban neighbor of Missouri City is a fast growing city today and Sugar Land is approximately 9 miles west of Missouri City. It offers a large number of job vacancies and a regional airport in the Southwest Houston Metro Area. Larger than Missouri City, its population is over 84,500 residents nd in 2008, 2009, and 2010, it was named a Community of Respect® by the Anti-Defamation League for its stance advocating diversity.

The city embraces sustainability and contains five large upscale master-planned communities with residential, commercial, and business properties, green spaces, parks, trails, and lakes. Dozens of festivals and special events are held in Sugar Land and a new ball park is under consideration. It has come a long way from its sugar plantation history.

Over 117,000 job listings were available for the Greater Missouri City Area in January 2014. This is a large increase over the 80,000 jobs listed for Missouri City for most of 2012 and into 1st Quarter 2013.

1. Project Managers in IT
2. Registered Nurses (RNs), Nurse Technicians and other Healthcare Technicians
3. Mechanical and Electrical Engineers
4. Project and Process Engineers
5. Business Analysts
6. Automotive Technicians
7. Physical Therapists
8. Occupational Therapists
9. Salespeople
10. Speech Language Pathologists
11. Administrative Assistants
12. Assistant Managers

1. HCA Healthcare, Soliant Health, Tenet Healthcare - Rose from bottom to top of the list of job listers in two years.
2. Memorial Hermann Healthcare
3. IBM
4. Baker Hughes
5. Hewlett Packard
6. Houston Northwest Medical Center
7. Deloitte
8. Robert Half Finance & Accounting
9. Ajilon
10. Methodist Hospital System
11. University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
12. Saudi Aramco
13. St. Luke's Episcopal Health System
14. KBR
15. JPMorgan Chase