Relocating to the Amarillo Area

The housing market remains strong making it ideal to relocate here and make Amarillo your new home.  Feel free to search on the above tool to find what you are looking for, whether it is a starter home or just room to roam.  Let us help you!

Amarillo's Diverse Economy 

The list shown below of our top employeres for Amarillo are in no way a full respresentation of employers.  The Amarillo area was ranked #17 for Best Performing United States City out of 179 metropolitan areas across the United States for "Small Cities" by the Milken Institute.

• Bell Helicopter has its V-22 Osprey hybrid aircraft assembly plant. 

• The cattle industry provides 1/4 of all the United States meat processing.

• Pantex is the only assembly and disassembly nuclear weapons facility in the United States.

• Baptist St. Anthony's Hospital won the top 100 hospitals in the country and Top 50 Cardiovascular Hospitals in the country as well. 

• Tyson Foods is the largest employer in Amarillo with 3,700. 

• American Quarter Horse Association and Texas Cattle Feeders headquarters has its headquarters in Amarillo.

• Other employers include Owens-Corning, ASARCO, United Supermarkets.

• Petroleum extractions is also a major industry.  

• Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, including School of Pharmacy is located in Amarillo.  TTUHSC does extensive research and training.

• West TX A&M University resides in Canyon, Texas, which is just outside of Amarillo.  WTAMU is a four year college with a masters program as well.

  

Just outside the city of Amarillo is Palo Duro Canyon with over 26,000 Acres.  Making it the second biggest Canyon in the United States.  The Canyon is 120 miles, 20 miles wide, and more than 800 feet deep.  The elevation at the rim is 3,500 above sea level.

Things to Do

• Amarillo Sox Baseball
• Amarillo Dusters Football
• Amarillo Bulls Hockey
• One of the last DRIVE-IN Theaters
• World of Wonderland - Amusement Park
• Splash Amarillo - Water Park
• Palo Duro Canyon
• Several Golf Courses and Country Clubs with Pools, Dining and Golf Courses.

Dining

Dining in the panhandle has fabulous places to dine whether you are looking for a great steakhouses, mexican food, italian or a good old fashion hamburger.  

We have nationwide chain restaurants:

• Logans Roadhouse
• Outback Steakhouse
• Chili's
• Applebee's
• Texas Roadhouse
• Olive Garden
• Abuelo's Mexican Food
• Johnny Carino's
• Buffalo Wild Wings

  We also have local restaruants that are truly unique:

• Kabuki Romanza Japanese Steakhouse
• Leals Mexican Food
• Blue Sky
• Pascaraz Italian Restaurant
• Embers Steakhouse
• Ruby Taquilas Mexican Restaurant 
• 7 Bar & Grill

Education

The school districts in the Amarillo area are Amarillo ISD, Canyon ISD and Bushland ISD.  

The colleges are  Amarillo College and West Texas A&M University.