This list is going to look weirder in the coming decade. Most major cities are now losing population. New suburbs are growing rapidly. Frisco's population has increased more than 500% since 2000.
I tried Arlington, don't know if I've ever heard of Frisco. I remembered that Arlington is on the 50 and 100 biggest US cities quiz that I took somewhere.
The fact that Frisco is considered a suburb of Dallas now really shocked my Dad when he was helping me look for an apartment in the area. He grew up in a (no longer) small town a ways west of there but moved away 30 years ago. From his perspective the area suddenly went from spread out teeny towns to HOUSES EVERYWHERE!
As FreeStateBear said, San Jose is here. However, a poll came out today suggesting that nearly 50% of San Francisco residents hope to move away within a few years. Though there are alot of opportunities there, the housing bubble is pushing people away.
San Jose no longer appears on the list and actually lost residents from 2018-19. I suppose there's a limited supply of people who can afford $2 million houses.
They are all moving to Sacramento which I was surprised isn't on here. Although I suppose most of the growth isn't in Sacramento proper but in the suburbs.
Raleigh and Charlotte were no brainers for me (since I live in NC). Both have grown like crazy and continue to do so. They aren't attracting retirees so much as well-educated high earners looking for jobs in high-tech (Raleigh) and banking/industry (Charlotte).
I'm currently living in NC. Raleigh has established itself as a tech center. Tech as of now is where the economy is leaning towards. In North Carolina its called the Researches Triangle (Raleigh, Durham and Greensborro) This is the largest tech center outside of Silicon Valley and NYC.
Austin though is rising, definitely competing with Raleigh but more importantly NC and Texas are competing with Silicon Valley. Though it seems Texas is getting more people nowadays given the dramatic growth of Austin.
The official name of New York CIty is City of New York. And when sending mail you just put New York, NY. I don't think you could send mail by putting Oklahoma, OK.
Close. City of New York, like New York City, is simply a way of referring to it so as not to confuse it with the state. The official name of the city is simply New York.
It would be interesting to see a quiz of cities with the most growth percentage wise. There are probably a lot of smaller suburban cities that have added huge numbers recently.
Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Chicago et al might give it a run for its money. All the old cities that boomed from the Great Migration and/or automobile industry are now shrinking.
much easier to do business in Texas, so where all the jobs are moving, and therefore people, especially since housing is cheap, because they have lots of construction jobs. Kind of a rolling ball.
Not really. People move here because of opportunity. Texas is where It's Happening in so many industries, and it has crazy affordable housing. So very pragmatic reasons, no one's moving here because they dream of living in Texas. The weather is abysmal, and there isn't much going for it culture and tourist-wise.
Columbus is definitely pretty modern and has a lot of recent growth. It's also nicer than other cities in Ohio. I wouldn't be surprised intrastate migration accounted for a lot of it--people leaving Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Toledo to settle in Columbus.
it seems that republican policies attract democrats from other states, who then procceed to vote for democrats in texas which had destroyed their states in the first place.
i mean they also could just be looking for some cheap housing, idk why this argument is used, as the biggest cities on here are like LA and NYC, which are super large so they have a plethora problems, but are no means "destroyed"
Atlanta's at +82,241 since 2000. Problem is that Atlanta city limits are a pretty small portion of the metro area, compared to similar sized metros. 498k out of a metro population of 6.09 million. Metro Atlanta is +1,977,617 since 2000.
If this was urban area rather than city proper then I'm pretty sure Washington DC would make the list, and Virginia Beach, and probably a couple more cities in Texas and Florida, as well. and maybe Ohio.
Doing it that way, I'm also pretty sure Jacksonville would not make the cut (it's municipal limits are relatively gigantic), and of course all of these blue-colored cities (Ft Worth, etc) would just be absorbed into their larger urban areas and not individually represented.
Yeah @ JeromesNiece, that's probably it. And @kalbahamut, you're probably right. It looks like Miami and Dallas, two other exclusions from the list I was pretty surprised by, follow the same pattern--little city proper growth but large metro growth.
i imagine Port St. Lucie and Cape Coral are both close calls, i wonder if they would appear on the list if it was updated to the 2023 census estimates (which releases in a few months!)
Austin though is rising, definitely competing with Raleigh but more importantly NC and Texas are competing with Silicon Valley. Though it seems Texas is getting more people nowadays given the dramatic growth of Austin.
https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/42995/the-fastest-shrinking-us-cities
or
https://www.jetpunk.com/quizzes/fastest-shrinking-us-cities
if you want to know where Detroit stands
it seems that republican policies attract democrats from other states, who then procceed to vote for democrats in texas which had destroyed their states in the first place.
Doing it that way, I'm also pretty sure Jacksonville would not make the cut (it's municipal limits are relatively gigantic), and of course all of these blue-colored cities (Ft Worth, etc) would just be absorbed into their larger urban areas and not individually represented.