Driven by the U.S. shale boom in the Permian basin, personal income in Midland County, Texas, grew by the highest percentage—17.5 percent—of all metropolitan counties in the United States last year, data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) showed . The average personal income in the metropolitan areas of the United States grew by 5.7 percent, the data showed, while personal income in the non-metropolitan part of the U.S. increased by 4.8 percent last year. Last year, personal income increased in 3,019 U.S. counties, decreased in 91 counties, and was unchanged in 3, according to estimates released by the BEA. Personal income in Midland and Odessa—two of the centers of the Permian shale production—increased in percentage terms more than the personal income in large cities, while per capita personal income in Midland and Odessa was higher than the per capita personal income in New York, San Francisco, or […]