These Cities Are Big Spenders.

• Position: SEASONAL BUDGETS - Consumer holiday spending - Brief article

With the average holiday spending in 2018 expected to reach more than $1,000, an increase of 4.1% over 2017, the personal-finance website WalletHub has released its Holiday Budgets by City report, utilizing several key metrics--such as income, age, and savings-to-monthly expenses ratio--to estimate the maximum spending amounts for consumers in each of 570 U.S. cities.

Cities with the biggest holiday budgets are Flower Mound, Texas ($2,-761); Sunnyvale, Calif. ($2,575); Naperville, III. ($2,528); Mountain View, Calif. ($2,524); The Woodlands, Texas ($2,444); Bellevue, Wash. ($2,411); Sugar Land, Texas ($2,321); Allen, Texas ($2,244); Pear-land, Texas ($2,238); Maple Grove, Minn. ($2,156); San Ramon, Calif. ($2,036); Cary, N.C. ($2,010); Piano, Texas ($2,006); Troy, Mich. ($1,965)...