La Marque, Texas isn’t a name that springs to mind when you think of bustling Texan cities. What might surprise you and most other people is that with area in Galveston County is one of the fastest growing economic areas in Texas and this can only be a good thing for the community that live and work in this area of the Country.

So you might ask yourself why is La Marque, Texas such a growing and up and coming place? The answer really won’t surprise most familiar with Texas: Oil. Black gold is helping to build a future for this city of around 14,000 people (at last count; you try and get everyone to sit still long enough to count them all up and see how hard it is!).

With heavy investment from global petrochemical companies like BP, Marathon-Ashland Petroleum, Valero Refining, Sterling Chemical, Dow Chemicals, International Specialty Products and Praxair the area of La Marque, Texas is rapidly becoming a key area of the U.S for oil related products include gasoline, diesel fuel, home heating oil, jet fuel, and the chemicals that are used in making everything from plastics to clothing to medicine to computers!

The employment opportunities are getting better and better in La Marque, Texas and as a result the quality of life is moving ever upwards as the city expands to cater for the new workers, their families and their friends. It’s a great time to be in La Marque, Texas and if all goes to plan its going to get better and better.