Earlier this year, the US Census Bureau released the population estimates for metro areas as of July 1, 2015. News outlets always pick up these data releases, but they tend to focus on the 1-year growth rates from 2014-2015. I’m more interested in the longer trend over the last several years. In this blog, I show you comparisons of growth rates from 2010 to 2015 for all 382 US metro areas. Because a single year is far less telling than a 5-year trend. To make the comparisons more meaningful, … [Read more...]
