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Here are the next 20 (so #11-30) plus San Juan. The changes from last year are Pittsburgh and Charlotte switching places and Cleveland dropping out of the top 30 altogether.
NAME: San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA
2013 Pop. Estimate: 4529645
2014 Pop. Estimate: 4594060
2014 Pop. Change: 64406
Percent Change: 1.4%
01. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area: 20,025,000 (officially welcome to the hypercity club New York ) 6,720 square miles
02. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area: 13,210,000 4,850 square miles
03. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area: 9,545,000 ? square miles
04. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area: 6,930,000 9,286 square miles
05. Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area: 6,475,000 10,062 square miles
06. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metropolitan Statistical Area: 6,040,000 5,118 square miles
07. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area: 6,010,000 5,564 square miles
08. Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area: 5,891,000 6,137 square miles
09. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area: 5,585,000 8,376 square miles
10. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Metropolitan Statistical Area: 4,710,000 ? square miles
Detroit-Warren-Livoinia Metropolitan Statistical Area: 4,296,250 with only 3,913 square miles
Metro Detroit's MSA is the smallest in land area. Detroit is also disadvantaged in that it cannot count 319 square miles of Windsor, Ontario with another 320,000 people.
If Detroit's MSA were to cover 6,100 square miles and allowed to include its Canadian bordering area, the population would be 5,620,000.
Going further, if it included Toledo, Ohio's MSA of 1,619 square miles, all together Metro Detroit would be 7,700 square miles with a total population of 6,270,000.
These stats are oftentimes deceiving. A huge amount of land in South Florida is protected wetlands including the Everglades National Park. For example, MiamiDade County is huge but its population of over 2.6 million occupies only about 35-40% of it. The rest is basically undevelopable.
Yeah Illinois is in a rouch patch right now. I really hope the shakeup in Springfield will at least start to figure out some of the pension mess so the economy can move on and start growing. I feel like the crap going on in city and state finances is a huge reason why the economy refuses to jump start itself. Looks like it finally started to in 2014 with 2015 looking better - regardless of the state.
July 2013 to July 2014:
* Illinois lost 10,000 people
* Chicago metro gained 10,000 people
* Chicago metro gained 77,000 jobs
* Chicago unemployment fell by 2.7%
The population is on the decline, but at least the number of jobs is picking back up. That should heal the overall economy a bit faster, since people are leaving at the same time jobs are coming.
The unemployment rate keeps dropping:
*June 2013: 9.8%
*June 2014: 7.1%
*December 2014: 5.7%
-4.1% since June 2013
Number of people on unemployment:
*June 2013: 492,000
*June 2014: 355,000
*December 2014: 280,000
-212,000 since June 2013
A lot of that's going to depend on how our Supreme Court rules on the general plan for the state. If they rule it to be in violation of Illinois' constitution, then the legislature is going to have to start at square one.
If you want to see for yourself which tech users are in San Francisco, they include just about everyone but chip manufacturing stalwarts and older blue chips like Cisco, as well as newer companies like Amazon or Qualcomm, but consider that *everyone* else keeps an office in the city, and many tech companies are actually started and based in the city.
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DC slowed down considerably. 156k moved to Houston? Wow. But chicago is the one that is surprising. Less than 10k moved there over the past year. Ouch.
"Slowing down" some sure but "Slow growth" no, DC through 2013-2014 still showed a higher percentage rate growth than all of its NE cooridor peers. Honestly on birth/deaths/fertility rate combined with international immigration alone, it will at least stay at good pace ahead of those peer cities. 66k in one year is not poor by any means, but it did tighten up compared to the previous couple of years. I do expect pace to stay at a good rate towards the end of the decade for DC however.
Do you have Cleveland? didnt see it - am curious as was in decline I believe and wondder if it turned the corner
Cleveland dropped out of the top 30. It's #31 at 2063598.
Also, here are some population milestones that were reached this year:
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA has passed 20 million. (!!!!) Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV has passed 6 million. Tucson, AZ has passed 1 million. (The US now has 53 metros of over 1 million.) Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA has passed 900k. Columbia, SC has passed 800k. Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA has passed 600k. (It has also leapfrogged Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL and Toledo, OH.) Santa Rosa, CA has passed 500k. Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Beaufort, SC has passed 200k. Odessa, TX has passed 150k and also jumped ten places in the full ranking.
Looks like Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX is set to hit 7 million this year. Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL could hit 6 million if it has a good year. Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI by this time has almost certainly passed 3.5 million. (Its net growth was 3 times bigger than Chicago's.) Columbus, OH by this time has almost certainly passed 2 million (It will pass Cleveland in 2016-17 at this rate.) Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN could hit 2 million if it has a very good year. Anchorage, AK is set to hit 400k this year. Athens-Clarke County, GA is set to hit 200k this year. Sioux Falls, SD is set to hit 250k this year. (It leapfrogged Yakima, WA and Binghamton, NY this year.)
These stats are oftentimes deceiving. A huge amount of land in South Florida is protected wetlands including the Everglades National Park. For example, MiamiDade County is huge but its population of over 2.6 million occupies only about 35-40% of it. The rest is basically undevelopable.
Yep. Exactly what I was telling him with Houston.
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