A recent study by the leading personal finance outlet WalletHub.com ranked Killeen 5th best in midsize city growth. In order to identify the cities that have expanded most rapidly in socioeconomic terms between 2008 and 2014, WalletHub compared 515 U.S. cities of varying sizes across 10 key metrics, ranging from population growth to unemployment rate decrease.
Killeen also ranked 4th in highest poverty rate decrease, 6th in working-age population growth, and 10th in population growth. The full study can be found here.
Source: WalletHub