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Chicago may be growing again according to the link by the OP. It shows Cook county growing By 22k which declined in the 2000's because of Chicago. Also seems Miami is growing faster now than even the 2000s decade
If the definitions don't change that much, DC MSA is poised to pass Philly MSA sometime this decade if the DC growth continues. 120,000 for DC is pretty impressive. DFW and Houston keeps on keepin on.
Think it will be close; to me the DC growth rate is far less sustainable than the others (large % growers) as it has been fueled on govt expansion susbsidy to grow the job base; will see after the election how the impacts are to DC
This report isn't for "within" a year. It's for 15 months after the census was taken in 2010. This is the census report for growth between April 2010 and July 2011. For Atlanta as an example take that 90k and divide by 15, which is the number of months measuring growth (April 1, 2010- July 1, 2011) then multiply by 12 the number of months in a year and that's how much your metro is growing by a year. Atlantas growth is 72k in a year according to the census that's a 28% slowdown from the decade earlier
Good catch. All the better that Atlanta's growth has slowed down that much more. I'd much rather see our job growth kick up a notch than our population growth.
I think people are placing too much weight on these.
This is just an estimate.
As we saw with the 2010 official counts these estimates can be wildly off.
Most Cities were estimated to have hundreds of thousands of people more than they actually had.
The estimates last decade showed that DFW, ATL, Las Vegas and Phoenix were gaining more people than Houston, when in fact Houston gained more than all of these.
The estimates were a good guide but it has major flaws.
After last year's census, I think these overly optimistic estimates are odd.
The Bay Area grew by 95,000 last year? Yeah right.
Heck they underestimated Indiana's population in 2009.
the Census also overestimated Atlantas population by 10%
Really ill believe it when the 10 year census comes out.
Lets see if the Census can follow the trend here.
Indiana has 6.5M people i predict with the patter of growth we have been having to hit 7M by 2020 or more than 7M
Lets see the estimates on that.
lol @ Crook County Illinois growing.
i honestly dont believe the census gets it.
Even Chicagoans call it Crook County. so why in the world would i live in that high tax/messed up county?
Heck the suburban counties are way more desirable than Crook County so i bet Crook County is losing population well the suburbs are gaining population.
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