Rather, big, urban counties across the Mid Atlantic and Midwest lost population a year ago, from Baltimore to Pittsburgh to Detroit to Milwaukee. This is the second year that Wayne County has held the second-place title. That’s because Chicago and Cook County’s major property and sales tax hikes had not yet taken effect at the time of this out-migration.
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Erie County’s population is higher than it was five years ago, but the trend line does not appear promising, particularly if federal government policy changes diminish immigration numbers.
But even if Baltimore isn’t unique among similarly situated cities in losing population, the decline is still a problem that needs to be addressed.
Kent County Administrator Daryl Delabbio said Grand Rapids has a growing medical sector with Michigan State University’s Medical School and the Van Andel Institute.
The Census Bureau plans to release population estimates for municipalities, including the city of Topeka, later this spring.
New U.S. Census estimates show population dips for most OH counties, including Sandusky and Ottawa counties.
The reversal comes as a disappointment, given the county’s estimated growth of more than 4,000 people in 2013 and 2014.
The Census Bureau says Arizona’s Maricopa County has replaced Texas’ Harris County as the county with the nation’s highest annual population growth.
Estimates from the Census Bureau show Hays County’s population surpassed the 200,000 mark in the 2015-16 period. For all four areas, net domestic migration was a larger component of change than either net global migration or natural increase, according to a news release from the Census Bureau.
Since the 2010 Census, Loudoun County’s population has jumped by nearly a quarter, adding an estimated 73,609 new residents.
The Toledo metro area, which includes Lucas, Fulton, and Wood counties, lost 358 residents, and now has a total population of 605,221. Seven counties comprise the metro area. The political leanings of the 100th, Matanuska-Susitna Borough in Alaska, are unclear because that state does not report presidential returns at the county level.
Williamson County was the 14th fastest-growing USA county during the one-year period, recording a 4.1 percent spike in population.
“Maricopa County, home to Phoenix, primarily grew through the addition of 43,189 residents from net domestic migration, a measure of how many people move to or from an area versus other parts of the United States”, Census.gov explained.
Four of the top 10 counties with the largest population gains were in Texas: Harris, Tarrant, Dallas and Bexar counties. It was the third straight year of population loss in the state.
New Jersey’s population inched up by the barest of margins a year ago, continuing a almost three-decade trend that has seen the state grow at one of the slowest rates in the country, according to data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Not to be outdone, St. George, the Provo-Orem area, and Logan (in both Utah and Idaho) cracked the top 20 fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the country. Three quarters of the state’s counties had flat or diminishing numbers of residents past year.
