![]() ![]() This erased all of the city’s growth since 2011. San Francisco had by far the largest population loss, at 6.30%. Six of the ten were in core cities with the largest central business districts (downtowns), which were generally more disadvantaged by measures employed to control the pandemic. The ten largest population losses included representatives from each of the nation’s four regions (Northeast, Midwest, South and West). Suburban growth was greater in each of these metropolitan areas. ![]() Orlando, Salt Lake City, Jacksonville, Fresno and Raleigh rounded out the 10 fastest growing core cities. The fifth largest percentage increase was in Las Vegas, at 0.54% (3,000). Oklahoma City gained 5,000 new residents for a fourth largest increase of 0.72%. Tampa had the third largest core city population increase, at 0.80%, adding 3,000 residents. Suburban growth, however, was more than eight times as high, at 87,000. This increased the city’s population to 1,625,000, or 0.82%. Yet, the suburbs gained more than twice as many residents (30,000).Īnother largely low-density city, Phoenix, ranked fifth among the core cities, nearly equaled San Antonio’s increase, adding 13,200 new residents. San Antonio is the seventh largest major metropolitan core city and comprises the largest share of the corresponding major metropolitan area population (55.8%). The strongest population growth was in highly suburbanized San Antonio, which added 13,600 residents (0.95%) to reach a population of 1,452,000. All of these cities contain considerable post-War suburbanization within their municipal borders. The other four are in the West, with three in the Mountain West and one in California’s San Joaquin Valley (Fresno). Six of the ten fastest growing core cities are located in South, widely spaced from San Antonio to Raleigh. The table provides information on the 56 core cities.Īmong each of the 10 fastest growing core cities, the suburbs grew more. Outside the major metropolitan areas, there was a gain of 660,000 (Figure 3). The suburbs gained 350,000, nearly 1,000,000 more than the core cities. Overall, the major metropolitan areas lost 267,000 residents between 20, with the core cities losing a total of 617,000. But a larger gain occurred outside the major metropolitan areas, at 0.46% (Figure 2), indicating that the already evident dispersion was intensifying. The population in the core cities declined by an aggregate 1.25%. The suburbs lost population in 21 metropolitan areas (38%). A higher number of core cities - 39 - lost population (70%) of the core cities losing population. About half - 27 - of the major metropolitan areas lost population. In this year of record low population growth, there were unprecedented major metropolitan area, core city and suburban losses. This article focuses on the core cities ( historical urban municipalities) in the 56 major metropolitan areas (over 1,000,000 residents) as well as the suburbs (outside the core cities). The latest Census Bureau release adds municipality (city) populations to the previously released national, state and county estimates for 2021. In 2020, which was only partially influenced by the pandemic, growth was nearly three times as high, at 0.35%. In the last non-pandemic year of 2019, national growth was nearly four times the 2021 rate, at 0.46%. Throughout the most recent decade, the nation’s annual growth rate had already been declining, as indicated in Figure 1 from the Census Bureau. This first full year of the pandemic estimates registered an annual growth rate to Jof 0.12%, a rate even lower than during the Spanish flu and World War I, from 1918 to 1919. According to the Census Bureau, the United States last year experienced its lowest population growth “since the founding of the nation” more than 230 years ago. We are living amidst a sea change in demographic trends. ![]()
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