| Metro area | 2006 rank | 2004 rank | Rank change |
|---|
| Anaheim, CA | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA | 2 | 14 | 12 |
| Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI | 4 | 1 | -3 |
| Chicago, IL | 5 | 7 | 2 |
| Pittsburgh, PA | 6 | 16 | 10 |
| San Diego, CA | 7 | 3 | -4 |
| Miami, FL | 8 | 43 | 35 |
| Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point, NC | 9 | 22 | 13 |
| Bergen-Passaic, NJ | 10 | 6 | -4 |
| Sacramento, CA | 11 | 20 | 9 |
| Boston, MA-NH-ME | 12 | 8 | -4 |
| Denver, CO | 13 | 13 | 0 |
| Austin-San Marcos, TX | 14 | 9 | -5 |
| Middlesex-Somerset-Hunterdon, NJ | 15 | 12 | -3 |
| Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC | 16 | 23 | 7 |
| New Orleans, LA | 17 | 46 | 29 |
| Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV | 18 | 5 | -13 |
| Riverside-San Bernardino, CA | 19 | 18 | -1 |
| Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI | 20 | 25 | 5 |
| Dallas, TX | 21 | 28 | 7 |
| Las Vegas, NV-AZ | 22 | 44 | 22 |
| Kansas City, MO-KS | 23 | 10 | -13 |
| Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News, VA-NC | 24 | 32 | 8 |
| Phoenix-Mesa, AZ | 25 | 38 | 13 |
| Oakland, CA | 26 | 11 | -15 |
| Portland-Vancouver, OR-WA | 27 | 40 | 13 |
| San Francisco, CA | 28 | 42 | 14 |
| Newark, NJ | 29 | 21 | -8 |
| Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL | 30 | 39 | 9 |
| Salt Lake City-Ogden, UT | 31 | 27 | -4 |
| Philadelphia, PA-NJ | 32 | 19 | -13 |
| Indianapolis, IN | 33 | 29 | -4 |
| Nassau-Suffolk, NY | 34 | 30 | -4 |
| San Antonio, TX | 35 | 17 | -18 |
| San Jose, CA | 36 | 36 | 0 |
| Orlando, FL | 37 | 33 | -4 |
| Fort Lauderdale, FL | 38 | 37 | -1 |
| Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN | 39 | 47 | 8 |
| Fort Worth-Arlington, TX | 40 | 31 | -9 |
| Cleveland-Lorain-Elyria, OH | 41 | 49 | 8 |
| Baltimore, MD | 42 | 34 | -8 |
| Columbus, OH | 43 | 15 | -28 |
| Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA | 44 | 26 | -18 |
| Detroit, MI | 45 | 50 | 5 |
| St. Louis, MO-IL | 46 | 41 | -5 |
| New York, NY | 47 | 45 | -2 |
| Houston, TX | 48 | 24 | -24 |
| Nashville, TN | 49 | 48 | -1 |
| Atlanta, GA | 50 | 35 | -15 |
