Rockport was selected as a top town for a book called "America's 100 Best Places to Retire," which features cities in 34 states. Each community is designated as one of 10 best towns in each of 10 categories: art towns, budget towns, lake towns, beach towns, college towns, mountain towns, small towns, undiscovered towns, four-season towns and main street towns. 
Rockport ranked among the budget towns category along with Danville, Ky., Dothan, Ala., Eufaula, Ala., Hattiesburg, Miss., Natchez, Miss. Other Texas towns ranked along with Rockport included Kerrville, San Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley.
"America's 100 Best Places to Retire" covers topics from population figures and climate information to tax rates, housing costs and health-care options. Beyond facts and figures, the community profiles uncover the character of each locale.
Writers conducted candid interviews with relocated retirees from each community and asked them to shed light on retirement living in their new hometowns.
Rockport Texas, nationally renown as a top retirement community, is nestled inside Aransas bay only a few hours away from the Corpus Christi metro area. Bordered by Fulton to the North, rockport is located in a sheltered bay area famous for fine saltwater fishing and hunting.
As of 2005, Rockport's population is 8,694 people. Since 2000, it has had a population growth of 23.62 percent. The median home cost in Rockport is $134,000. Home appreciation the last year has been up 6.28 percent. Compared to the rest of the country, Rockport's cost of living is 20.00 % lower than the U.S. average.
The towns of Rockport and Fulton offer a special charm, the kind of charm that has led many prominent artists to make this area their home. In fact, it´s been said that Rockport-Fulton has the largest per capita percentage of artists of any community in the country. As a result, the area boasts one of the best collections of art galleries anywhere.
The town's statistics as well as its special charm and proximity to metro areas such as Corpus Christi, Austin and San Antonio make this community one of the best places to retire in America.
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