The Austin-Round Rock metropolitan statistical area increased its population 21 percent between April 2000 and July 2006 to just over 1.5 million people. That makes Austin the 19th fastest growing MSA in the country. In terms of overall numerical gains, Austin ranked 15th in the nation with 263,802 new residents over the six-year period.
The only other Texas metro growing at a faster rate than Austin is the McAllen-Edinburg-Mission area, which increased its population 23 percent since 2000, according to Census data.
The top U.S. cities in terms of percentage growth were St. George, Utah; Greeley, Colo.; Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Fla.; Bend, Ore.; and Las Vegas-Paradise, Nev.
The metropolitan area with the largest overall population increase was Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, which added 890,211 people during the study period. Atlanta is followed by Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (842,449 gained), Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown (824,547), Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale (787,306) and Riverside-San Bernadino-Ontario, Calif. (771,314).
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
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