Another chart from the Brookings “State of Metropolitan America” report shows which metro areas are adding population. Big dots represent larger magnitudes, blue dots are growth and red ones are decline :
One thing to note is that the large dot in Southern California actually represents the Riverside-San Bernadino-Ontario MSA (#5 in growth) to the east of Los Angeles rather than LA itself (#9). Of course if you look at the data in terms of percentages, it looks different. Metro areas like New York and Chicago rank in the top ten in terms of raw numbers but because the growth is from some a giant base you often don’t see them on “fastest growing” lists. In terms of infrastructure needs, however, the fact of the matter is that many of these large older cities are adding a lot of people and need to think about how they’ll get around.
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