![]() metro area between 20, increasing by 7.5%. The Villages, Florida, a relatively new retirement community northwest of Orlando, was the fastest-growing U.S. These new residents were lured by a strong economy, mild winters and good schools. Two other cities in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area - Dallas and Frisco - also were among those whose numbers most dramatically spiked, jumping respectively by 8,800 residents and 8,500 residents. With 19,100 new residents, the city of Forth Worth led the nation, followed by the city Phoenix with more than 19,000 additional residents and the city of San Antonio, Texas, with more than 18,800 residents gained. Individually, cities that make up the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area were among those that grew the most in the U.S. Thursday’s data release doesn’t show the reasons behind population changes, but similar data at the county level released in March showed it was mostly driven by international migration. It is also dependent on a community’s number of births and deaths. borders as people move around and internationally as people arrive from abroad. Population change is driven by migration, including within U.S. The central city in a micropolitan statistical area must have at least 10,000 residents but no more than 50,000 residents. Metropolitan statistical areas consist of one or more counties containing a central city with a population of at least 50,000 residents that together have a high degree of economic and social connections. There were other signs that 2021′s pandemic-related migration changed a year later.īoise Idaho and Provo, Utah - two metros that were popular destinations in 2021 for residents fleeing the West Coast’s most populous cities - dropped out of the top 20 in population growth in 2022. Metro Phoenix also surpassed the 5 million-person threshold for the first time last year. Other metropolitan areas which saw the largest growth in number were Houston, adding more than 124,000 residents Atlanta, with almost 79,000 new residents Phoenix, with an additional nearly 73,000 people and Orlando, Florida, adding almost 65,000 new residents. Metro Dallas-Fort Worth’s 7.9 million residents made it the nation’s fourth-largest metropolitan area, behind only New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, all of which lost population last year but with much smaller losses compared to the first year of the pandemic. metros, jumping by six-digit figures for a second consecutive year, as it gained another 170,000 residents last year. The Dallas-Fort Worth area grew the most among U.S. For the majority of cities in North America, the most recent official population census results, estimates or short-term projections date to 2015. ![]() metros that had gains in 2022 after experiencing losses in 2021 were Washington, Miami-Fort Lauderdale, Seattle, Minneapolis and San Diego, according to 2022 population estimates released Thursday by the Census Bureau. metro areas grew by just 0.1%, as fear of the virus sent residents fleeing the most densely-populated urban areas and the popularity of remote work allowed people to live far from their workplaces.īy comparison, only eight of the 20 largest metro areas decreased in 2022, and the growth rate for all U.S. Census Bureau.ĭuring the first full year of the pandemic in 2021, more than half of the 20 largest U.S. (AP) - The flight from urban areas that took place during the first year of the pandemic either reversed or slowed in its second year, as last year metropolitan areas in Texas and Florida boomed and declines in New York and Los Angeles were halved, according to new estimates from the U.S. You can copy and paste this list directly into your favorite spreadsheet program.ORLANDO, Fla. The population data are from the 2021 American Community Survey. Below are the 528 Maryland cities sorted by population from largest to smallest.
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