Title: Population growth in U.S. cities: Austin is blowing away the competition.
Headings: Austin, Texas, Is Blowing Away Every Other Big City in Population Growth
Austin, Texas, Is Blowing Away Every Other Big City in Population Growth
A lone star.
Americans still love the sun
America’s fastest growing city is really a fast growing suburb
Only a few big cities are outpacing their wider regions

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Only a few big cities are outpacing their wider regions
Given how indistinguishable some major cities are from the suburbs that ring them, I got to wondering: How many are actually growing faster than their wider metro area? Not many, it turns out. Among the top 50 cities, only 14 had grown faster than the state as a whole and grown at least 0.2 percentage points faster than their wider metro area (sadly, the census didn’t includes a margin of error on its growth estimates, so I wanted to leave a little room). Of that group, the star destinations were Portland, Oregon, and Miami, which are just about as far apart, geographically and spiritually/culturally/psychologically, as two cities could be. Advertisement
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