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May 17, 2020 · At 665 square miles, the City of Houston is larger than the cities of Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix and San Diego. If Houston were a country, it would rank as the 26th...
- Population Turnarounds Are Most Prevalent Among The Biggest Cities
- Fewer Big Cities Lost Population from 2021 to 2022
- Immigration and Domestic Migration Contributed to City Population Rebounds
- Growth Disparities Between Cities and Suburbs Narrowed
- Will Cities See A Demographic Revival?
Figure 1 shows the pandemic’s impact on the aggregate population of the nation’s 88 cities with over 250,000 residents. Combined, these cities’ populations registered growth at varying levels from at least 2000 until 2019-2020. Growth levels trended downward in the early 2000s during a population dispersal to the suburbs, only to increase for years...
The prime pandemic year of 2020-21 was notable for the large number of cities that lost population. According to the new estimates, 54 of the 88 cities with populations exceeding 250,000 lost population that year—a number higher than any year since at least 1990. As Figure 3 indicates, there have been ups and downs in the trends of big city populat...
Changes in cities’ populations involve the sum of so-called “demographic components”: migration within the U.S. (domestic migration), immigration from abroad, and natural increase (the excess of births over deaths). During the prime pandemic year (2020-21), natural increase and immigration stood at decades-long low points—the former attributable to...
The new census estimates also allow for an examination of city-suburban population shifts during 2021-22. This analysis surveys primary cities and suburbs in the nation’s 56 major metropolitan areas with populations exceeding 1 million.3 During the prime pandemic year, severe population losses or reduced growth in cities led to a sharp rise in city...
The new census statistics for the nation’s biggest cities suggest a potential for revival. One year after most of them experienced near historic population losses, the new numbers show they are moving in a positive direction. The vast majority of cities with populations over 500,000 showed greater gains and slower declines than in the year before, ...
Jul 11, 2022 · The pandemic began to affect city growth in 2019-20, and even more so in 2020-21—the first year this century when large cities in aggregate registered a population loss, declining by 1%.
Sep 21, 2022 · We know that Houston is the 4th largest city in the U.S., but in what ways is Houston big other than in size and population? And how does Houston’s size affect its residents directly and indirectly?
Aug 13, 2021 · Houston remains the fourth-largest city in the country, and its population growth lagged the county as a whole. Between 2010 and 2020, the city’s population grew just 9.8%, to about 2.3 million.
Jun 6, 2024 · The cities of San Francisco, Houston, Boston, Seattle, Atlanta, Detroit, Minneapolis, Miami, and Washington, D.C. all turned population declines in 2020–2021 into gains in the subsequent two...
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Dec 8, 2022 · A new report is reinforcing why Houston is a great global city after it ranked No. 42 globally, beating Dallas and Austin, and ranked No. 1 in Texas.
