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Old 03-27-2014, 10:47 AM
 
Location: The canyon (with my pistols and knife)
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The 2013 Census estimates were released today, and the Atlanta metropolitan area now has 5,505,161 people, which is an increase of 68,559 people over 2012. Here's the county-by-county breakdown:


Atlanta MSA population by county (2013)
984,293 - Fulton County
859,304 - Gwinnett County
717,190 - Cobb County
713,340 - DeKalb County
264,220 - Clayton County
225,106 - Cherokee County
211,128 - Henry County
195,405 - Forsyth County
146,950 - Paulding County
136,379 - Douglas County
133,180 - Coweta County
112,355 - Carroll County
108,365 - Fayette County
102,446 - Newton County
101,273 - Bartow County
86,919 - Rockdale County
85,754 - Walton County
71,453 - Barrow County
63,829 - Spalding County
29,584 - Pickens County
28,495 - Haralson County
23,361 - Butts County
22,686 - Dawson County
21,232 - Meriwether County
17,959 - Lamar County
17,796 - Pike County
13,601 - Jasper County
11,558 - Heard County

5,505,161 - TOTAL

Atlanta MSA population growth by county (2013)
+18,729 - Gwinnett County
+9,913 - Cobb County
+7,478 - Forsyth County
+7,164 - Fulton County
+5,939 - DeKalb County
+4,133 - Cherokee County
+2,506 - Henry County
+2,422 - Douglas County
+2,262 - Coweta County
+2,030 - Paulding County
+1,288 - Barrow County
+1,249 - Rockdale County
+1,156 - Walton County
+1,147 - Newton County
+923 - Fayette County
+856 - Carroll County
+793 - Bartow County
+291 - Dawson County
+219 - Pickens County
+107 - Haralson County
-13 - Jasper County
-13 - Pike County
-42 - Spalding County
-86 - Meriwether County
-89 - Lamar County
-94 - Heard County
-119 - Butts County
-1,590 - Clayton County

+68,559 - TOTAL

By the way, the Atlanta metropolitan area accounts for 89.6% of Georgia's growth in the last year. Without it, Georgia would have only grown by 7,962 people.
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Old 03-27-2014, 10:53 AM
 
Location: Columbus, GA and Brookhaven, GA
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Originally Posted by Gnutella View Post
The 2013 Census estimates were released today, and the Atlanta metropolitan area now has 5,505,161 people, which is an increase of 68,559 people over 2012. Here's the county-by-county breakdown:


Atlanta MSA population by county (2013)
984,293 - Fulton County
859,304 - Gwinnett County
717,190 - Cobb County
713,340 - DeKalb County
264,220 - Clayton County
225,106 - Cherokee County
211,128 - Henry County
195,405 - Forsyth County
146,950 - Paulding County
136,379 - Douglas County
133,180 - Coweta County
112,355 - Carroll County
108,365 - Fayette County
102,446 - Newton County
101,273 - Bartow County
86,919 - Rockdale County
85,754 - Walton County
71,453 - Barrow County
63,829 - Spalding County
29,584 - Pickens County
28,495 - Haralson County
23,361 - Butts County
22,686 - Dawson County
21,232 - Meriwether County
17,959 - Lamar County
17,796 - Pike County
13,601 - Jasper County
11,558 - Heard County

5,505,161 - TOTAL

Atlanta MSA population growth by county (2013)
+18,729 - Gwinnett County
+9,913 - Cobb County
+7,478 - Forsyth County
+7,164 - Fulton County
+5,939 - DeKalb County
+4,133 - Cherokee County
+2,506 - Henry County
+2,422 - Douglas County
+2,262 - Coweta County
+2,030 - Paulding County
+1,288 - Barrow County
+1,249 - Rockdale County
+1,156 - Walton County
+1,147 - Newton County
+923 - Fayette County
+856 - Carroll County
+793 - Bartow County
+291 - Dawson County
+219 - Pickens County
+107 - Haralson County
-13 - Jasper County
-13 - Pike County
-42 - Spalding County
-86 - Meriwether County
-89 - Lamar County
-94 - Heard County
-119 - Butts County
-1,590 - Clayton County

+68,559 - TOTAL

By the way, the Atlanta metropolitan area accounts for 89.6% of Georgia's growth in the last year. Without it, Georgia would have only grown by 7,962 people.
That's amazing. Georgia really needs to focus on helping other cities like Columbus and Savannah grow. Georgia's 2nd tier cities have grown but nothing like they should IMO. Glad to see Columbus at #2 in the state though!
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Old 03-27-2014, 11:11 AM
 
Location: Atlanta's Castleberry Hill
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Gwinnett clearly will be Georgia's most populous county one day.
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Old 03-27-2014, 11:16 AM
 
Location: Savannah GA
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Somebody needs to tell the Darlington ...
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Old 03-27-2014, 11:21 AM
 
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Wow, Atlanta is slowing down dramatically. 68,000 only? It used to be over 100,000 every decade and even 80,000 recently. By the end of the decade, I can't seeing Atlanta growing by anymore than 700k people from what it was in 2010....Houston and Dallas will probably close to double Atlanta's growth. Houston grew by 138k.
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Old 03-27-2014, 11:34 AM
 
Location: Piedmont Park
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The actual total for Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell is 5,522,942 - you left out Morgan County 17,781 (added in 2013).

BTW, the CSA - Atlanta--Athens-Clarke County--Sandy Springs is 6,162,195.

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Old 03-27-2014, 11:39 AM
 
Location: Jonesboro
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So?
After living in metro Atlanta for 35 years, growth for the sake of it & the comensurate bragging rights does little for me anymore. What's the point of super fast growth if one has quality of life issues pegged as more of a personal priority?
I'm not worried about or ashamed for the area if it slows noticeably in growth. Count it as sort of an opportunity for metro Atlanta to take a long-overdue "breather" to hopefully concentrate on improving the infrastructure (given Georgia's anti-tax climate, that 's a big if!) & continuing to improve the core of the City of Atlanta.
How fast Houston or Dallas grows barely registers on my scale of import.
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Old 03-27-2014, 11:39 AM
 
Location: Atlanta, GA
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Wow, Atlanta is slowing down dramatically. 68,000 only? It used to be over 100,000 every decade and even 80,000 recently. By the end of the decade, I can't seeing Atlanta growing by anymore than 700k people from what it was in 2010....Houston and Dallas will probably close to double Atlanta's growth. Houston grew by 138k.
You do realize it was an increase of 68k since 2012. That was 2 years ago. Soooo, not sure what you mean.
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Old 03-27-2014, 11:44 AM
 
Location: Piedmont Park
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You do realize it was an increase of 68k since 2012. That was 2 years ago. Soooo, not sure what you mean.
Its a 2013 estimate so its one-year of growth. The 2014 estimate will be released March 2015.
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Old 03-27-2014, 11:47 AM
 
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By the way, the Atlanta metropolitan area accounts for 89.6% of Georgia's growth in the last year. Without it, Georgia would have only grown by 7,962 people.
Well, seeing as the Atlanta Metro is about 90% of Georgia, that makes sense.

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So?
After living in metro Atlanta for 35 years, growth for the sake of it & the comensurate bragging rights does little for me anymore. What's the point of super fast growth if one has quality of life issues pegged as more of a personal priority?
Because this is America, and growth, competition, and squashing the other guy is what it's all about. Who cares about quality as long as you are beating someone else?
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