Las Vegas, Birmingham & Salt Lake City Show Continuing Dispersion to Suburbs (population, metropolitan)

[Wonderful Jellal]

Census data released in the last week indicates confirms the continuing dispersion of population away from the historical core municipalities (central cities) to the suburbs in the 2000 to 2010 decade. The new figures, for Las Vegas, Birmingham and Salt Lake City indicate that a majority of growth occurred in the suburbs in each metropolitan area and that the dispersion of population to the suburbs was greater in the 2000s in each case than in the 1990s.

The suburbs gained 19 percent between 2000 and 2010. The suburbs attracted 97 percent of the metropolitan population growth, which is up from 89 percent in the 1990s.

Las Vegas, Birmingham & Salt Lake City Show Continuing Dispersion to Suburbs | Newgeography.com

Interesting, you can see that around Houston and Dallas, not too much around San Antonio/Austin for the moment because these cities are pretty expanded and cheap

[GoneNative]

That is also the case here in Denver and, I would imagine, the majority of major US cities. For all the talk about urbanization, it's just not happening in a significant enough way to offset the number of families moving into the suburbs and exurbs.

[Wonderful Jellal]

Originally Posted by GoneNative

That is also the case here in Denver and, I would imagine, the majority of major US cities. For all the talk about urbanization, it's just not happening in a significant enough way to offset the number of families moving into the suburbs and exurbs.

Exactly !