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

Content: Today on FiveThirtyEight, Trulia economist Jed Kolko points out that based on neighborhood density, Austin could be considered more than half suburban, as would other high-growth locales like Phoenix; Fort Worth, Texas; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Houston. So while cities are growing as political units (which is wonderful for their tax bases), that doesn’t necessarily mean Americans living in them are opting for what most of us would consider urban lifestyles. Advertisement
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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.