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When I was doing the west I realized that I had forgotten Columbia, Greensboro and McAllen in the south so I edited them in. I also forgot El Paso but I added that to the west.
Here is the south, I combined Raleigh and Durham's numbers because it seemed to make sense to do so:
Houston 392,742
Dallas 384,699
Miami 263,556
Atlanta 236,214
Austin 166,762
San Antonio 135,402
Orlando 133,435
Charlotte 118,346
Raleigh-Durham 114,247
Tampa 87,326
Nashville 87,022
Oklahoma City 66,690
New Orleans 51,111
Jacksonville 49,028
Charleston 47,613
Fort Myers 42,361
McAllen 41,227
Richmond 37,663
Hampton Roads 30,547
Sarasota 30,254 Northwest Arkansas Metro 28,759 (MSA Total Pop. 491,996)
Greenville 26,853
Louisville 26,553
Columbia 26,181
Little Rock 24,628
Tulsa 24,083
Lakeland 20,914
Greensboro 17,264
Memphis 16,917
Augusta 15,397
Knoxville 15,144
Chattanooga 13,601
Birmingham 12,253
Daytona Beach 10,467
Winston-Salem 10,225
Jackson 9,260
Melbourne 7,447
I think you just did metros of 500k+, but I wanted to show where my little metro fits in there. We are one of the south's fastest growing metros percentage-wise.
When I was doing the west I realized that I had forgotten Columbia, Greensboro and McAllen in the south so I edited them in. I also forgot El Paso but I added that to the west.
Your forgot Huntsville, AL for the South.
Huntsville:
+18,144 (up from 417,593 in 2010)
There is also a new metropolitan area in the South region that was previously a micropolitan area.
It is starting to look like this will be the decade that Minneapolis passes Chicago as the fastest growing Midwest metro in terms of raw numbers. Census population growth estimates from 2010 - 2013 for Midwestern metros of over half a million:
Minneapolis 110,287
Chicago 76,184
Indianapolis 66,084
Columbus 65,092
Kansas City 45,131
Des Moines 30,156
Omaha 29,801
Grand Rapids 27,665
Cincinnati 22,826
St Louis 22,355
Madison 21,996
Milwaukee 13,751
Wichita 6,475
Dayton 3,257
Akron 2,486
Detroit -1,267
Toledo -1,856
Youngstown -10,267
Cleveland -12,515
Interesting. What's up with Grand Rapids? Pretty impressive for the size of the metro and the upper midwest / rustbelt location.
Interesting. What's up with Grand Rapids? Pretty impressive for the size of the metro and the upper midwest / rustbelt location.
Grand Rapids is very socially conservative by upper Midwest standards. Western Michigan has a larger Dutch reformed population and a larger population that identifies as evangelical. It is has the largest percentage of the total population under age 18 of any metropolitan area in the Great Lakes region.
Does that have anything to do with the fact that the metro or CSA expanded to include another county? I thought I heard that about GR.
It did, but the city itself is growing as well. The downtown area has been seeing a nice growth of residential development due to the growing medical industry there.
Does that have anything to do with the fact that the metro or CSA expanded to include another county? I thought I heard that about GR.
Grand Rapids is mostly all within Kent County, with Holland and South Haven, part of metro area, located in Ottawa. It is really a tri-cities regional area comprised of Grand Rapids, Holland/South Haven, and Muskegon.
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