One of my favorite website is the one published by the US Census Bureau. They release interesting statistics on a continuous basis. This week, they released growth figures for metro areas.
The Atlanta metro area gained 890,000 residents from April 1, 2000, to July 1, 2006, the largest numerical gain of the nation’s 361 metro areas. Atlanta passed Boston and Detroit and is now the 9th largest city with 5.1 million residents.
Dallas-Fort Worth had the second largest numeric increase at 842,000, and totaled about 6 million people. Houston (with an increase of 825,000), Phoenix (787,000) and Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, Calif. (771,000) rounded out the top five metro area gainers over the time period.
The ten largest cities in the US are now (population in millions):
1. New York -- 18.8
2. Los Angeles -- 12.9
3. Chicago -- 9.5
4. Dallas - Fort Worth -- 6.0
5. Philadelphia -- 5.8
6. Houston -- 5.5
7. Miami - Fort Lauderdale -- 5.5
8. Washington -- 5.3
9. Atlanta -- 5.1
10. Detroit -- 4.5
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