FAST FACTS
- Houston was ranked as the third most livable city in the country by Places
Rated Almanac in 1996 and 1997.
- Houston is second only to New York's Broadway theater district for number
of theater seats (nearly 10,000) in a concentrated downtown area.
- Six Texas Medical Center institutions were ranked in the 1998 U.S. News
and World Report survey of the top hospitals in the country.
- Houston is an emerging center of television and major movie production-an
industry that pumped more than $100 million into Houston's economy the last
two years.
- Houston is the only large city in the nation to register a decline in
traffic congestion in 10 of the past 11 years.
- Sixty primary languages-other than English-are spoken in the homes of
Houston Independent School District students.
- Harris County represents 1.2 percent of the U.S. population, yet
Houstonians contribute 11.5 percent of the country's volunteer hours.
- Houston is the fourth largest city in the United States with more than 3.8
million resident in the PMSA.