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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...
May 25, 2023 · Houston is the fourth most populous U.S. city, and saw the ninth largest numeric population gain of any U.S. city in 2022, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's latest findings.
Jun 9, 2023 · Houston is the fourth most populous U.S. city, and saw the ninth largest numeric population gain of any U.S. city in 2022, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's latest findings. From July 2021 to July 2022, Houston added 11,223 new residents, bringing its total population to 2,302,878.
- A decade-wide uptick in big city growth. Big city growth over the past several decades has been shaped by economic booms and busts. The 1990s saw high growth in many large cities bolstered by strong immigration and economic forces, only to decline in the 2000-2010 decade as their populations dispersed to the suburbs and smaller-sized places due to heated housing and job markets elsewhere.
- Big cities became even more diverse. The results of the 2020 census made plain that nonwhite racial and ethnic groups—especially people identifying as Latino or Hispanic, Asian American, or with two or more races—accounted for most of the national growth in the past decade.
- ’New minority’ gains vs. white and Black flight. The increased diversity shown for most big cities is the consequence of race-ethnic shifts heavily impacted by movement into and out of these cities of different groups as well as natural demographic growth (the increase of births over deaths).2Some of this involves the growth of what I have termed “new minorities”—Latinos or Hispanics, Asian Americans, and persons identifying with two or more racial groups”—whose growth rates nationally have dwarfed those of other groups in recent decades, due in part to the rise of immigration from Latin America and Asia.
- Child populations are the most diverse. The 2020 census results made clear that racial and ethnic diversity is more pronounced for the nation’s youth than the adult population.
For a list of largest cities by area, see List of United States cities by area. This is a list of the most populous incorporated places of the United States. As defined by the United States Census Bureau, an incorporated place includes cities, towns, villages, boroughs, and municipalities.
List of largest cities of U.S. states and territories by population. This is a list of the five most populous incorporated cities and the capital city in all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the 5 inhabited territories of the United States.
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Apr 25, 2024 · Houston is getting some time in the spotlight in WalletHub's annual ranking of the "Most Diverse Cities in the U.S. (2024)," maintaining its position as the No. 1 most diverse large city in America, and the No. 4 overall most diverse. The report compared 501 U.S. cities across 13 metrics in five categories that encompass "diversity" across ...
