{"id":846681,"date":"2026-06-05T18:10:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/846681\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T18:10:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:10:31","slug":"texas-cashes-in-among-top-10-best-u-s-state-economies-in-2026-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/846681\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas cashes in among top-10 best U.S. state economies in 2026 report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study gauging the success or decline in economic performance in every state has revealed Texas&#8217; economy remains stable in 2026 after it dropped out of the top five to No. 8 <a data-ylk=\"slk:last year;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/dallas.culturemap.com\/news\/innovation\/best-state-economies-texas-8th\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>WalletHub declared Texas boasts the No. 8 best state economy in the U.S. this year, according to its annual &#8220;<a data-ylk=\"slk:Best &amp; Worst State Economies;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/states-with-the-best-economies\/21697\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Best &amp; Worst State Economies<\/a>&#8221; report. The personal finance website&#8217;s analysts ranked all 50 states and the District of Columbia across 28 relevant metrics to measure each state&#8217;s economic activity and health status, and its &#8220;innovation potential.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Texas leads the nation for the most exports per capita in the U.S. in a five-way tie with Louisiana, Kentucky, North Dakota, and Indiana. Across the study&#8217;s three main categories, Texas ranked highly for its economic activity (No. 7) and economic health (No. 11), and the state&#8217;s &#8220;innovation potential&#8221; rank is the 24th best in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>This is how WalletHub ranked Texas&#8217; economic performance, where No. 1 is considered the best and No. 25 is considered average:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li class=\"list-disc\">\n<p>No. 6 \u2013 Change in non-farm payrolls<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"list-disc\"\/>\n<li class=\"list-disc\">\n<p>No. 8 \u2013 Startup activity<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"list-disc\">\n<p>No. 11 \u2013 Annual median household income<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"list-disc\">\n<p>No. 18 \u2013 Government surplus\/deficit per capita<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"list-disc\">\n<p>No. 21 \u2013 Percentage of jobs in high-tech industries<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"list-disc\">\n<p>No. 30 \u2013 Unemployment rate<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>WalletHub previously ranked Texas the third-best state to <a data-ylk=\"slk:start a business;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/texas-ranks-3rd-best-state-163217206.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">start a business<\/a> in 2026, with Dallas-Fort Worth leading the nation on a separate ranking of the best big cities for <a data-ylk=\"slk:new businesses;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/dallas-leads-2026-list-best-140501039.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new businesses<\/a> and for <a data-ylk=\"slk:starting a career;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/dallas-excels-one-americas-best-165006431.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">starting a career<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;U.S. economic growth depends heavily on the performance of individual states, and some contribute more than others,&#8221; the report&#8217;s author wrote. &#8220;For example, California, Texas, New York and Florida have economies so large that if they were countries, they would rank in the <a data-ylk=\"slk:top 20;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2026\/04\/09\/californias-economy-leads-again-grows-another-5-in-2025-to-record-4-25-trillion-gdp\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">top 20<\/a> in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The five states with the worst state economies in 2026 are Rhode Island (No. 47), Maine (No. 48), Louisana (No. 49), Kentucky (No. 50), and West Virginia (No. 51).<\/p>\n<p>The top 10 best state economies for 2026 are:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li class=\"list-disc\"\/>\n<li class=\"list-disc\"\/>\n<li class=\"list-disc\"\/>\n<li class=\"list-disc\"\/>\n<li class=\"list-disc\"\/>\n<li class=\"list-disc\"\/>\n<li class=\"list-disc\"\/>\n<li class=\"list-disc\"\/>\n<li class=\"list-disc\"\/>\n<li class=\"list-disc\"\/><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new study gauging the success or decline in economic performance in every state has revealed Texas&#8217; economy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":846682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,65295,156579,79,346137,358,67,132,68,14847],"class_list":["post-846681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economic-activity","tag-economic-performance","tag-economy","tag-state-economy","tag-texas","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wallethub"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116698849454130530","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}