Everything’s Bigger in Texas – Including Urban Populations

🏙️ The Southern and Western US contained all of the top 15 fastest-growing cities or towns during the year that ended July 1, 2021, according to new Census Bureau data published Thursday.

• Arizona had five locations among the 15 fastest-growing cities or towns with a population above 50,000, while Texas, Florida and Idaho each had three; when it came to overall numeric increase in residents, over half of the top 15 towns were located in Texas.
• San Francisco saw the largest rate of decline, losing 6.3% of its population, or almost 55,000 residents. Its population, along with Chicago, has fallen to levels not seen since 2010.
• The top 15 largest cities remained the same as in 2020, though more than half experienced population decline. In the nine cities with more than one million people, the collective population fell by 419,000.
• Despite losing 3.5% of residents, NYC remained America’s largest city. Its July 1 population of 8.5 million was more than twice that of second place LA, with nearly 4 million.