AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 17, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- San Antonio tops a new list of America's Baby Boomer Boom Towns compiled by SpareFoot, which operates the country's largest online marketplace for self-storage.
To come up with this list, SpareFoot analyzed not just Baby Boomer population growth for the country's 100 most populated metro areas, but also per-capita growth in gross domestic product (GDP), per-capita personal income growth, housing affordability and number of health care workers per capita.
GDP and personal income data are inflation-adjusted. Housing affordability is determined by the National Association of Realtors' Affordability Index; the higher the number, the more affordable the housing market. Two metro areas didn't have data for this metric, so we estimated housing affordability based on numbers for similar areas nearby.
Here is SpareFoot's list of America's 15 Baby Boomer Boom Towns.
| 1. San Antonio, Texas |
| Baby Boomer population growth 2000 to 2010: 8 percent |
| Average annual per-capita GDP growth: 3.5 percent |
| Average annual per-capita personal income growth: 2.1 percent |
| Housing affordability index: 198 |
| Total health care workers per capita: 0.035 |
| 2. Boise, Idaho |
| Baby Boomer population growth 2000 to 2010: 11.7 percent |
| Average annual per-capita GDP growth: 1 percent |
| Average annual per-capita personal income growth: 1.4 percent |
| Housing affordability index: 224.8 |
| Total health care workers per capita: 0.036 |
| 3. Raleigh, North Carolina |
| Baby Boomer population growth 2000 to 2010: 10.9 percent |
| Average annual per-capita GDP growth: 1.9 percent |
| Average annual per-capita personal income growth: 0.7 percent |
| Housing affordability index: 224.4 |
| Total health care workers per capita: 0.034 |
| 4. Austin, Texas |
| Baby Boomer population growth 2000 to 2010: 6.4 percent |
| Average annual per-capita GDP growth: 3.6 percent |
| Average annual per-capita personal income growth: 1.6 percent |
| Housing affordability index: 202 |
| Total health care workers per capita: 0.028 |
| 5. McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas |
| Baby Boomer population growth 2000 to 2010: 9 percent |
| Average annual per-capita GDP growth: 2.1 percent |
| Average annual per-capita personal income growth: 1.2 percent |
| Housing affordability index (estimated): 250 |
| Total health care workers per capita: 0.030 |
| 6. Nashville, Tennessee |
| Baby Boomer population growth 2000 to 2010: 2 percent |
| Average annual per-capita GDP growth: 3 percent |
| Average annual per-capita personal income growth: 2.4 percent |
| Housing affordability index: 236 |
| Total health care workers per capita: 0.036 |
| 7. Orlando, Florida |
| Baby Boomer population growth 2000 to 2010: 10.5 percent |
| Average annual per-capita GDP growth: 0.07 percent |
| Average annual per-capita personal income growth: 1.6 percent |
| Housing affordability index: 229.3 |
| Total health care workers per capita: 0.033 |
| 8. Phoenix, Arizona |
| Baby Boomer population growth 2000 to 2010: 11.5 percent |
| Average annual per-capita GDP growth: 0.5 percent |
| Average annual per-capita personal income growth: 0.8 percent |
| Housing affordability index: 231.2 |
| Total health care workers per capita: 0.031 |
| 9. Chattanooga, Tennessee |
| Baby Boomer population growth 2000 to 2010: 2.4 percent |
| Average annual per-capita GDP growth: 1.8 percent |
| Average annual per-capita personal income growth: 1.9 percent |
| Housing affordability index: 230 |
| Total health care workers per capita: 0.044 |
| 10. Charlotte, North Carolina |
| Baby Boomer population growth 2000 to 2010: 7.2 percent |
| Average annual per-capita GDP growth: 1.5 percent |
| Average annual per-capita personal income growth: 1.5 percent |
| Housing affordability index: 229.7 |
| Total health care workers per capita: 0.029 |
| 11. Columbia, South Carolina |
| Baby Boomer population growth 2000 to 2010: 2.3 percent |
| Average annual per-capita GDP growth: 2.4 percent |
| Average annual per-capita personal income growth: 1.4 percent |
| Housing affordability index: 228.9 |
| Total healthcare workers per capita: 0.042 |
| 12. Knoxville, Tennessee |
| Baby Boomer population growth 2000 to 2010: 3.4 percent |
| Average annual per-capita GDP growth: 1.4 percent |
| Average annual per-capita personal income growth: 1.6 percent |
| Housing affordability index: 236.4 |
| Total health care workers per capita: 0.041 |
| 13. Houston, Texas |
| Baby Boomer population growth 2000 to 2010: 1.2 percent |
| Average annual per-capita GDP growth: 2.3 percent |
| Average annual per-capita personal income growth: 2.9 percent |
| Housing affordability index: 225.3 |
| Total health care workers per capita: 0.029 |
| 14. Jacksonville, Florida |
| Baby Boomer population growth 2000 to 2010: 6.5 percent |
| Average annual per-capita GDP growth: 0.2 percent |
| Average annual per-capita personal income growth: 1.2 percent |
| Housing affordability index: 276.2 |
| Total health care workers per capita: 0.037 |
| 15. Provo-Orem, Utah |
| Baby Boomer population growth 2000 to 2010: 9.7 percent |
| Average annual per-capita GDP growth: 1.6 percent |
| Average annual per-capita personal income growth: 0.5 percent |
| Housing affordability index (estimated): 200 |
| Total health care workers per capita: 0.025 |
For more information about SpareFoot's list of America's Baby Boomer Boom Towns, visit blog.sparefoot.com/4827-baby-boomer-boom-towns.
Data sources: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Association of Realtors, U.S. Census Bureau
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