This statistics shows the top 20 fastest growing large-metropolitan areas in the United States between July 1st, 2022 and July 1st, 2023. The total population in the Wilmington, North Carolina, metropolitan area increased by 0.05 percent from 2022 to 2023.

In 2023, the metropolitan area of New York-Newark-Jersey City had the biggest population in the United States. Based on annual estimates from the census, the metropolitan area had around 19.5 million inhabitants, which was a slight decrease from the previous year. The Los Angeles and Chicago metro areas rounded out the top three. What is a metropolitan statistical area? In general, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is a core urbanized area with a population of at least 50,000 inhabitants – the smallest MSA is Carson City, with an estimated population of nearly 56,000. The urban area is made bigger by adjacent communities that are socially and economically linked to the center. MSAs are particularly helpful in tracking demographic change over time in large communities and allow officials to see where the largest pockets of inhabitants are in the country. How many MSAs are in the United States? There were 421 metropolitan statistical areas across the U.S. as of July 2021. The largest city in each MSA is designated the principal city and will be the first name in the title. An additional two cities can be added to the title, and these will be listed in population order based on the most recent census. So, in the example of New York-Newark-Jersey City, New York has the highest population, while Jersey City has the lowest. The U.S. Census Bureau conducts an official population count every ten years, and the new count is expected to be announced by the end of 2030.

This multi-scale map shows counts of the total population the US. Data is from U.S. Census Bureau's 2020 PL 94-171 data for county, tract, block group, and block.County and metro area highlights:The largest county in the United States in 2020 remains Los Angeles County with over 10 million people.The largest city (incorporated place) in the United States in 2020 remains New York with 8.8 million people.312 of the 384 U.S. metro areas gained population between 2010 and 2020.The fastest-growing U.S. metro area between the 2010 Census and 2020 Census was The Villages, FL, which grew 39% from about 93,000 people to about 130,000 people.72 U.S. metro areas lost population from the 2010 Census to the 2020 Census. The U.S. metro areas with the largest percentage declines were Pine Bluff, AR, and Danville, IL, at -12.5 percent and -9.1 percent, respectively.View more 2020 Census statistics highlights on local populations changes.

This statistic provides projected figures for the Gross Metropolitan Product (GMP) of the United States in 2021, by metropolitan area. Only the 100 leading metropolitan areas are shown here. In 2022, the GMP of the New York-Newark-Jersey City metro area is projected to be around of about **** trillion U.S. dollars. Los Angeles metropolitan areaA metropolitan area in the U.S. is characterized by a relatively high population density and close economic ties through the area, albeit, without the legal incorporation that is found within cities. The Gross Metropolitan Product is measured by the Bureau of Economic Analysis under the U.S. Department of Commerce and includes only metropolitan areas. The GMP of the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metropolitan area located in California is projected to be among the highest in the United States in 2021, amounting to *** trillion U.S. dollars. The Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, Texas metro area is estimated to be approximately *** billion U.S. dollars in the same year. The Los Angeles metro area had one of the largest populations in the country, totaling ****** million people in 2021. The Greater Los Angeles region has one of the largest economies in the world and is the U.S. headquarters of many international car manufacturers including Honda, Mazda, and Hyundai. Its entertainment industry has generated plenty of tourism and includes world famous beaches, shopping, motion picture studios, and amusement parks. The Hollywood district is known as the “movie capital of the U.S.” and has its historical roots in the country’s film industry. Its port, the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach are aggregately one of the world’s busiest ports. The Port of Los Angelesgenerated some ****** million U.S. dollars in revenue in 2019.

As of May 2020, the greater New York area was the metropolitan area in the United States with the largest number of employed financial analysts. The metropolitan area of Los Angeles followed, with ****** individuals employed as financial analysts in May 2020.

In 2020, Memphis, TN-MS-AR reported 1,358.8 violent crimes per 100,000 inhabitants, the most out of any metro area in the United States. Monroe, LA followed closely behind, with a violent crime rate of 1,308.5 crimes per 100,000 inhabitants.

VITAL SIGNS INDICATOR Population (LU1)

FULL MEASURE NAME
Population estimates

LAST UPDATED
February 2023

DESCRIPTION
Population is a measurement of the number of residents that live in a given geographical area, be it a neighborhood, city, county or region.

DATA SOURCE
California Department of Finance: Population and Housing Estimates - http://www.dof.ca.gov/Forecasting/Demographics/Estimates/
Table E-6: County Population Estimates (1960-1970)
Table E-4: Population Estimates for Counties and State (1970-2021)
Table E-8: Historical Population and Housing Estimates (1990-2010)
Table E-5: Population and Housing Estimates (2010-2021)

Bay Area Jurisdiction Centroids (2020) - https://data.bayareametro.gov/Boundaries/Bay-Area-Jurisdiction-Centroids-2020-/56ar-t6bs
Computed using 2020 US Census TIGER boundaries

U.S. Census Bureau: Decennial Census Population Estimates - http://www.s4.brown.edu/us2010/index.htm- via Longitudinal Tract Database Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences, Brown University
1970-2020

U.S. Census Bureau: American Community Survey (5-year rolling average; tract) - https://data.census.gov/
2011-2021
Form B01003

Priority Development Areas (Plan Bay Area 2050) - https://opendata.mtc.ca.gov/datasets/MTC::priority-development-areas-plan-bay-area-2050/about

CONTACT INFORMATION
vitalsigns.info@bayareametro.gov

METHODOLOGY NOTES (across all datasets for this indicator)
All historical data reported for Census geographies (metropolitan areas, county, city and tract) use current legal boundaries and names. A Priority Development Area (PDA) is a locally-designated area with frequent transit service, where a jurisdiction has decided to concentrate most of its housing and jobs growth for development in the foreseeable future. PDA boundaries are current as of December 2022.

Population estimates for Bay Area counties and cities are from the California Department of Finance, which are as of January 1st of each year. Population estimates for non-Bay Area regions are from the U.S. Census Bureau. Decennial Census years reflect population as of April 1st of each year whereas population estimates for intercensal estimates are as of July 1st of each year. Population estimates for Bay Area tracts are from the decennial Census (1970-2020) and the American Community Survey (2011-2021 5-year rolling average). Estimates of population density for tracts use gross acres as the denominator.

Population estimates for Bay Area tracts and PDAs are from the decennial Census (1970-2020) and the American Community Survey (2011-2021 5-year rolling average). Population estimates for PDAs are allocated from tract-level Census population counts using an area ratio. For example, if a quarter of a Census tract lies with in a PDA, a quarter of its population will be allocated to that PDA. Estimates of population density for PDAs use gross acres as the denominator. Note that the population densities between PDAs reported in previous iterations of Vital Signs are mostly not comparable due to minor differences and an updated set of PDAs (previous iterations reported Plan Bay Area 2040 PDAs, whereas current iterations report Plan Bay Area 2050 PDAs).

The following is a list of cities and towns by geographical area:

Big Three: San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland

Bayside: Alameda, Albany, Atherton, Belmont, Belvedere, Berkeley, Brisbane, Burlingame, Campbell, Colma, Corte Madera, Cupertino, Daly City, East Palo Alto, El Cerrito, Emeryville, Fairfax, Foster City, Fremont, Hayward, Hercules, Hillsborough, Larkspur, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Los Gatos, Menlo Park, Mill Valley, Millbrae, Milpitas, Monte Sereno, Mountain View, Newark, Pacifica, Palo Alto, Piedmont, Pinole, Portola Valley, Redwood City, Richmond, Ross, San Anselmo, San Bruno, San Carlos, San Leandro, San Mateo, San Pablo, San Rafael, Santa Clara, Saratoga, Sausalito, South San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Tiburon, Union City, Vallejo, Woodside

Inland, Delta and Coastal: American Canyon, Antioch, Benicia, Brentwood, Calistoga, Clayton, Cloverdale, Concord, Cotati, Danville, Dixon, Dublin, Fairfield, Gilroy, Half Moon Bay, Healdsburg, Lafayette, Livermore, Martinez, Moraga, Morgan Hill, Napa, Novato, Oakley, Orinda, Petaluma, Pittsburg, Pleasant Hill, Pleasanton, Rio Vista, Rohnert Park, San Ramon, Santa Rosa, Sebastopol, Sonoma, St. Helena, Suisun City, Vacaville, Walnut Creek, Windsor, Yountville

Unincorporated: all unincorporated towns

In 2020, the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metropolitan area in California had the highest share of millionaire households of any U.S. metropolitan area, with **** percent of all households having at least *** million U.S. dollars in investible assets.

In 2020, the Monroe, Louisiana metropolitan area had the highest rate of aggravated assault in the United States, with ******* aggravated assault cases per 100,000 inhabitants. The Memphis metro area had the second most, with ******* cases of aggravated assault per 100,000 inhabitants.

United States Price per Square: All Residential: Big Rapids, MI data was reported at 89.457 USD th in Jul 2020. This records a decrease from the previous number of 100.000 USD th for Jun 2020. United States Price per Square: All Residential: Big Rapids, MI data is updated monthly, averaging 65.257 USD th from Feb 2012 (Median) to Jul 2020, with 102 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 100.000 USD th in Jun 2020 and a record low of 36.963 USD th in Dec 2012. United States Price per Square: All Residential: Big Rapids, MI data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Redfin. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.EB060: Price per Square: by Metropolitan Areas.

United States Months of Supply: All Residential: Big Rapids, MI data was reported at 2.100 Month in Jul 2020. This records a decrease from the previous number of 2.300 Month for Jun 2020. United States Months of Supply: All Residential: Big Rapids, MI data is updated monthly, averaging 7.150 Month from Feb 2012 (Median) to Jul 2020, with 102 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 16.700 Month in Apr 2014 and a record low of 2.100 Month in Jul 2020. United States Months of Supply: All Residential: Big Rapids, MI data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Redfin. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.EB029: Months of Supply: by Metropolitan Areas.

United States Pending Sales: sa: All Residential: Big Rapids, MI data was reported at 49.344 Unit in Jul 2020. This records an increase from the previous number of 45.274 Unit for Jun 2020. United States Pending Sales: sa: All Residential: Big Rapids, MI data is updated monthly, averaging 24.510 Unit from Feb 2012 (Median) to Jul 2020, with 102 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 49.344 Unit in Jul 2020 and a record low of 0.177 Unit in Jul 2013. United States Pending Sales: sa: All Residential: Big Rapids, MI data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Redfin. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.EB047: Pending Home Sales: by Metropolitan Areas: Seasonally Adjusted.

Listings w/ Price Drops: sa: All Residential: Big Rapids, MI data was reported at 19.000 % in Jul 2020. This records a decrease from the previous number of 21.775 % for Jun 2020. Listings w/ Price Drops: sa: All Residential: Big Rapids, MI data is updated monthly, averaging 16.302 % from Sep 2015 (Median) to Jul 2020, with 59 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 24.027 % in May 2019 and a record low of 3.142 % in Apr 2020. Listings w/ Price Drops: sa: All Residential: Big Rapids, MI data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Redfin. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.EB042: Listings with Price Drops: by Metropolitan Areas: Seasonally Adjusted.

Among the 81 largest metropolitan areas (by population) in the United States, Knoxville, Tennessee was ranked first with **** percent of residents reporting as white, non-Hispanic in 2023.

There are three components of change: births, deaths, and migration. The change in the population from births and deaths is often combined and referred to as natural increase or natural change. Populations grow or shrink depending on if they gain people faster than they lose them. Looking at an area’s unique combination of natural change and migration helps us understand why its population is changing, and how quickly the change is occurring.Natural IncreaseNatural change is the difference between births and deaths in a population. Often times, natural change is positive, which means that more babies are being born than people are dying. This positive natural change is referred to as natural increase. Examples of natural increase exist across the United States, one being the Salt Lake City metro area in Utah. Between 2014 and 2015, Salt Lake City had around 19,100 births and 6,400 deaths. Since there were about 12,700 more births than deaths, Salt Lake City had a natural increase of about 12,700 people, making natural increase a key reason why its population grew over the year.The opposite of natural increase is called natural decrease, where more people are dying than babies being born, which can cause a population to shrink. Areas with aging populations often have natural decrease. Two states had natural decrease between 2014 and 2015, Maine and West Virginia. Between 2014 and 2015, Maine had 450 more deaths than births and West Virginia had 940 more deaths than births. In both cases, natural decrease was one of the reasons why their populations shrank between 2014 and 2015 in our latest estimates.MigrationMigration is the movement of people from one area to another. It is often expressed as net migration, which is the difference between how many people move into and out of an area. When net migration is positive, a population has more people moving in than out. We split migration into domestic migration and international migration.Domestic migration refers to people moving between areas within the United States, and is often one of the largest contributors to population change. Regionally, the South gains the most net domestic migrants, with roughly 440,000 more people moving into southern states than leaving them between 2014 and 2015. Sometimes net domestic migration is negative, in which case more people are moving away than are moving in. The Chicago metro area in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin lost about 80,000 people through migration between 2014 and 2015, which is consistent with a long-standing pattern of negative net domestic migration for the metro area.International migration refers to people moving into and out of the United States, and consists of a diverse group of people such as foreign-born immigrants from many countries around the world, members of the U.S. Armed Forces, and U.S. citizens working abroad. Some areas, like the Miami metro area in Florida, grow (in part) due to net international migration. Miami gained about 70,000 net international migrants between 2014 and 2015, making net international migration a major factor in Miami’s population growth.

United States Avg Days on Market: All Residential: Big Rapids, MI data was reported at 44.000 Day in Jul 2020. This records a decrease from the previous number of 64.000 Day for Jun 2020. United States Avg Days on Market: All Residential: Big Rapids, MI data is updated monthly, averaging 129.500 Day from Feb 2012 (Median) to Jul 2020, with 102 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 606.000 Day in Apr 2013 and a record low of 44.000 Day in Jul 2020. United States Avg Days on Market: All Residential: Big Rapids, MI data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Redfin. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.EB006: Average Days on Market: by Metropolitan Areas.

United States Months of Supply: Multi-Family: Big Rapids, MI data was reported at 7.000 Month in Jul 2020. This records a decrease from the previous number of 10.000 Month for May 2020. United States Months of Supply: Multi-Family: Big Rapids, MI data is updated monthly, averaging 3.000 Month from Apr 2012 (Median) to Jul 2020, with 49 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 12.000 Month in Jul 2015 and a record low of 0.300 Month in Dec 2019. United States Months of Supply: Multi-Family: Big Rapids, MI data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Redfin. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.EB029: Months of Supply: by Metropolitan Areas.

United States Pending Sales: All Residential: Big Rapids, MI data was reported at 73.000 Unit in Jul 2020. This records an increase from the previous number of 62.000 Unit for Jun 2020. United States Pending Sales: All Residential: Big Rapids, MI data is updated monthly, averaging 19.500 Unit from Feb 2012 (Median) to Jul 2020, with 102 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 73.000 Unit in Jul 2020 and a record low of 2.000 Unit in Feb 2014. United States Pending Sales: All Residential: Big Rapids, MI data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Redfin. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.EB046: Pending Home Sales: by Metropolitan Areas.

United States Price per Square: sa: Single-Family: Big Rapids, MI data was reported at 85.072 USD th in Jul 2020. This records a decrease from the previous number of 94.946 USD th for Jun 2020. United States Price per Square: sa: Single-Family: Big Rapids, MI data is updated monthly, averaging 64.323 USD th from Feb 2012 (Median) to Jul 2020, with 102 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 94.946 USD th in Jun 2020 and a record low of 39.015 USD th in Aug 2012. United States Price per Square: sa: Single-Family: Big Rapids, MI data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Redfin. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.EB061: Price per Square: by Metropolitan Areas: Seasonally Adjusted.

United States Sold Above Asking: Multi-Family: Big Rapids, MI data was reported at 0.000 % in Jul 2020. This stayed constant from the previous number of 0.000 % for May 2020. United States Sold Above Asking: Multi-Family: Big Rapids, MI data is updated monthly, averaging 0.000 % from Apr 2012 (Median) to Jul 2020, with 49 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 100.000 % in Mar 2016 and a record low of 0.000 % in Jul 2020. United States Sold Above Asking: Multi-Family: Big Rapids, MI data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Redfin. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.EB021: Homes Sold Above Asking: by Metropolitan Areas.