Tacoma fell from 8th to 21st and Olympia advanced from 9th to 7th on the Milken Institute’s new list of the country’s best job creating cities issued Wednesday.

Seattle sustained its 17th ranking on that list.

Even though Tacoma’s ranking fell, the city still ranks in the top 10.5 percent of the 200 major metropolitan areas that Milken ranked.

Texas was the big winner in the Milken study. Austin-Round Rock, Texas was in the number one spot. Three other Texas metro areas were in the top 10, McAllen-Edinburg-Mission (4th), Houston-Sugarland-Baytown (5th) and Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood (2nd).

Detroit and Flint, Michigan were at the bottom of the list.

The other two other major Washington metro areas were in the top 25 percent, Vancouver-Portland (37th) and Spokane (41st).

Among smaller metro areas, Tri-Cities ranked 6th, Bellingham 13th, Bremerton 63rd and Yakima 83rd.