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I think they give media time to put their news stories( graphs, charts, analyses etc)together so the release is accompanied with as much coverage as possible.
Also, this is the data used to determine federal spending by gwographic area so maybe they give the OMB time to apply these numbers toward budgets.
Just a few thoughts.
I think you will see some websites report the data minutes before 12 like always.
I'm predicting that Portland, Oregon's metro population comes in at 2,435,000. Don't know if it will be enough to keep it from dropping below Orlando and San Antonio.
Which cities do y'all see overtaking another city in the same state? Like SF over LA or Houston over Dallas, etc.
The release today/tomorrow/this week isn't for "cities" and by cities I mean city propers. It is for counties, MSAs, and CSAs.
In that sense, there will be either no movement or very little movement between major cities in the same state, especially for California, Texas, or Florida. Los Angeles as an MSA and CSA is multiple times larger than the San Francisco/Oakland MSA or the San Francisco Bay Area CSA. Houston MSA and CSA are growing fast but not nearly fast enough to surpass the Dallas/Fort Worth MSA and CSA, given the 400,000 (MSA) to 800,000 (CSA) population gap between the two.
New York state might see some shifts though. Albany CSA, Buffalo CSA, and Rochester CSA are all extremely close to one another with regard to overall population. Any slight change in population trends with regard to growth or decline could shift their ordering, even as early as the 2016 census estimates. The Buffalo MSA and Rochester MSA as well.
Beyond that, all movement or the grand majority of movements will be between MSAs and CSAs from different states and parts of the country (i.e. the Miami MSA surpassing the Philadelphia MSA, so on and so forth).
The release today/tomorrow/this week isn't for "cities" and by cities I mean city propers. It is for counties, MSAs, and CSAs.
In that sense, there will be either no movement or very little movement between major cities in the same state, especially for California, Texas, or Florida. Los Angeles as an MSA and CSA is multiple times larger than the San Francisco/Oakland MSA or the San Francisco Bay Area CSA. Houston MSA and CSA are growing fast but not nearly fast enough to surpass the Dallas/Fort Worth MSA and CSA, given the 400,000 (MSA) to 800,000 (CSA) population gap between the two.
New York state might see some shifts though. Albany CSA, Buffalo CSA, and Rochester CSA are all extremely close to one another with regard to overall population. Any slight change in population trends with regard to growth or decline could shift their ordering, even as early as the 2016 census estimates. The Buffalo MSA and Rochester MSA as well.
Beyond that, all movement or the grand majority of movements will be between MSAs and CSAs from different states and parts of the country (i.e. the Miami MSA surpassing the Philadelphia MSA, so on and so forth).
Surprisingly, Houston has been growing faster than DFW as of now, in-both percentage and raw figures. It's closing the gap. I'm not sure how 2016 is going to be.
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You'll have to wait a little longer for the actual city populations. 
