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Would have thought Raleigh and Las Vegas would be higher.
Well Raleigh is growing faster than every city before it and behind it (sans Austin) but there are too many metros all close to each other in population to make that jump in just 10 years. Austin manages to do it but that's because it's expected to grow by 575K which is higher than larger metros like Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, Minneapolis.
Miami and SF Bay Area are the biggest surprises, they have sped up since the last decade. Las Vegas is the wildcard, as the economy recovers, I wonder what it means for Vegas real estate and tourism. Time will tell.
It passed Tampa in 2010 but they are growing almost equally so they will have the same relationship DC/Miami/Atlanta, Houston/Dallas, Austin/San Antonio, Denver/San Diego, and Phoenix/Seattle have.
Would have thought Raleigh and Las Vegas would be higher.
I suspect that Raleigh's may be higher. It usually outstrips projected growth rates. That said, I don't think it's significantly off....maybe 150,000, maybe less?
County inclusions might have played a role in some of those "current growth" rates.
We find out in June '13 which counties will be added or removed.
There wont be many surprises, if any. Barnstable maybe seems ready for inclusion into Greater Boston, Walworth into Chicagoland, Las Cruces into El Paso, Dutchess into NYC MSA, San Joaquin into SF Bay Area. Those are the obvious ones.
I thought Phoenix was growing like gangbusters (still, according to the projections), yet Seattle eclipses it by 2020 and its population is nearly stable?
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