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These numbers have to be wrong. They just...don't look right. We need the actual census more than ever. I believe numbers are being underestimated now. The growth rates in every metro has slowed down. Philly metro literally grew by 1k. What....?
Seriously. If immigration doesn't increase, this country will never see 3% GDP growth again. I'm truly shocked. These aren't really numbers you want to see. I said when the state estimates came out, but there are some metros who truly live and die by foreign immigration. NY and LA metro posting losses comes from the fact that outgoing domestic migration is too high.
-66,000 domestic for Cook County is a crazy number as well. Also, most of these are still posting a natural increase (even if a bit less than past years), so if we're transitioning to a European/East Asian population model, we haven't seen anything yet.
I'm going to go ahead and edit my list post a few posts up to include all areas that are MSAs over 1 million people.
Such all across the board depressing numbers. Even the boomtowns, depressing. Seattle is the only winner this year. It actually posted a sleek but slight acceleration compared to last year. It's CSA is likely around + 100,000 now because it's MSA is just barely shy of 70,000.
Miami only increased by 54,000 this year. It still should pass Philadelphia by the 2017 estimate next March. But Austin had a faster growing raw number growth than Miami. Both Orlando and Austin were on fire last year. Posting near 60,000 people in raw growth for metros under 2.5 million.
Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), 2016:
01. New York MSA: 20,153,634
02. Los Angeles MSA: 13,310,447
03. Chicago MSA: 9,512,999
04. Dallas/Fort Worth MSA: 7,233,323
05. Houston MSA: 6,772,470
06. Washington D.C. MSA: 6,131,977
07. Philadelphia MSA: 6,070,500
08. Miami MSA: 6,066,387
09. Atlanta MSA: 5,789,700
10. Boston MSA: 4,794,447
11. San Francisco/Oakland MSA: 4,679,166
12. Phoenix MSA: 4,661,537
13. Riverside/San Bernardino MSA: 4,527,837
14. Detroit MSA: 4,297,617
15. Seattle MSA: 3,798,902
16. Minneapolis/Saint Paul MSA: 3,551,036
17. San Diego MSA: 3,317,749
18. Tampa MSA: 3,032,171
19. Denver MSA: 2,853,077
20. Saint Louis MSA: 2,807,002
21. Baltimore MSA: 2,798,886
22. Charlotte MSA: 2,474,314
23. Orlando MSA: 2,441,257
24. San Antonio MSA: 2,429,609
25. Portland MSA: 2,424,955
26. Pittsburgh MSA: 2,342,299
27. Sacramento MSA: 2,296,418
28. Cincinnati MSA: 2,165,139
29. Las Vegas MSA: 2,155,664
30. Kansas City MSA: 2,104,509
31. Austin MSA: 2,056,405
32. Cleveland MSA: 2,055,612
33. Columbus MSA: 2,041,520
34. Indianapolis MSA: 2,004,230
35. San Jose MSA: 1,978,816
36. Nashville MSA: 1,865,298
37. Virginia Beach MSA: 1,726,907
38. Providence MSA: 1,614,750
39. Milwaukee MSA: 1,572,482
40. Jacksonville MSA: 1,478,212
41. Oklahoma City MSA: 1,373,211 42. Memphis MSA: 1,342,842
43. Raleigh MSA: 1,302,946
44. Louisville MSA: 1,283,430
45. Richmond MSA: 1,281,708
46. New Orleans MSA: 1,268,883
Did the Memphis MSA lose population??? 1,344,127 was the 2015 estimate.
Raleigh did indeed jump Louisville easily and it will probably leap Memphis in the 2018 estimate if that Memphis report is correct.
Philly has one more year at #7 over # Miami. We knew that one would be close but I'm surprised that Miami didn't jump it this year.
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