The City of Midland, Texas, is a booming mid-sized city located about half-way between Fort Worth and El Paso. Midland is the capital of the West Texas oil and gas industry, and is home to the headquarters of a number of petroleum exploration and service industry firms, and has a large, highly-educated professional workforce.
With a population of around 130,000, Midland is consistently ranked high on state and national lists of population growth, economic expansion, per capita income, and low unemployment rates. Despite recent declines in the oil and gas industry in 2015 and 2016, the City continued to grow and expand through those years. Now, with the industry booming again with no sign of slowing ahead, the explosive growth in housing and commercial development has brought with it increased traffic and emphasis on the resulting quality of life issues.
