The answer lies in a statistical quirk.

The city experienced a major oil boom and.

Webso why is midland booming at a time of layoffs in its biggest industry?

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Webmidland's booming oil and energy sector has brought thousands of millennials to the west texas city.

Webin the past, such soaring crude prices turned midland into a temporary boomtown:

Webfor years, midland, texas, was a quiet corner of the oil patch, in the middle of the desert, hours away from the stateโ€™s population centers.

Overall, more people are getting rich than falling behind.

Webmidland, texas โ€” for a town known for pumping oil, it didn't start out that way.

Weba visit to midlandโ€™s โ€œwoodstock for frackersโ€ makes clear why west texas is home to the hottest oil play in the world.

Webthe middle class has shrunk faster in midland, texas, than nearly anywhere else in the u. s.

Courtesy of jacobe kendrick.

It knew oil booms and oil.

Wildcatters move in to search for oil, snapping up houses and apartments,.

In a sense, it was a railroad stop, jim collett, president of the midland historical.

Around the time i came back to midland in 2012, it began changing.

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