Central Valley’s largest cities
fairly good places to start a business

WASHINGTON, D.C.

May 1, 2017

•  Fresno in top third of cities studied

•  Bakersfield, Stockton close behind

Among the nation’s 150 largest cities, Central Valley cities
are fairly good places to start a business, suggests a new study by the
personal-finance website WalletHub, a unit of Evolution Finance Inc., of
Washington, D.C.

The study ranks Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, as the best
location, followed by Salt Lake City, Utah; Charlotte, North Carolina; Tulsa,
Oklahoma, and Grand Rapids, Michigan.

The bottom five have Seattle at 150th and then Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; Vancouver, Washington; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Providence,
Rhode Island.

The Central Valley, so often at the bottom of such “best
places” lists, actually does middling well, according to WalletHub.

When it comes to starting a business, Fresno ranks 45th
overall, followed by Bakersfield at 52nd and Stockton at 69th. Sacramento comes
in at 114th out of 150.

Fresno, Bakersfield and Stockton are ranked second, third
and fourth in the nation for “highest availability of human capital,” a
positive in the WalletHub calculations.

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