Frogville is Growing

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The fastest growing U.S. cities
From the Empire State to the Lone Star State - the cities that are growing the most.

By Les Christie, CNNMoney.com staff writer - June 28 2007

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- What's the fastest-growing American city with more than half a million people?

If you guessed Ft. Worth, you are correct. Dallas' next-door neighbor added more than 20 percent to its population from July 2000 through July 2006, according to the latest estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.

But if you answered New York, you were also correct. With 205,750 new citizens, Gotham added more residents than any city in the United States since 2000. That's enough new New Yorkers to fill a city the size of Boise, Idaho, bringing its total number to 8,214,826 - an all-time high.

New York is one of the few major old industrial towns that have not experienced a substantial shrinking in the number of its core residents. The top 10 cities of a hundred years ago would have included places like Baltimore (now at 631,366, the 19th largest), Boston ( 590,763, 22nd), Cleveland (444,313, 40th) and St Louis (347,181, 52nd).

Each of the 10 biggest cities once lay within 500 miles of the Canadian border. Now, seven of the top 10 are sun-belt cities, closer to Chihuahua than Toronto.

Some of the nation's biggest cities today were mere blips on the radar at the turn of 20th-century America. Los Angeles, the nation's second largest city with 3,849,378 people, had a population of just over 100,000 in 1900.

Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, San Diego and San Jose, Calif. all had fewer than 100,000.

Phoenix, which 100 years ago was not even among the 100 most populace cities, grew by more than 40,000 residents during the 12 months ended July 1, 2006. Phoenix passed Philadelphia, which has lost about 70,000 residents during the 2000s, to become the fifth biggest American city.

The biggest loser of the 2000s, outside of New Orleans, where hurricane-related losses drove more than half the city's residents away, has been Detroit. Motown endured a net loss of 80,000 people during the 2000s, leaving the population at less than half of its 1950s heyday.

Cleveland (- 6.9 percent), Pittsburgh (-6.5 percent) and Buffalo (-5.7 percent) also continued to show big losses since 2000.

The fastest growing of any of the cities of more than 50,000 population was McKinney, Texas, which lies in the path of the outward expansion of Dallas. It has nearly doubled in size since 2000 to 107,530.

Other growth spurts occurred in Gilbert, Arizona (73.9 percent to 191,517), North Las Vegas (71.1 percent to 197,567) and Port St Lucie, Florida (61.9 percent to 143,868).

North Las Vegas led the nation in growth rate for the 12 months ended July 1, 2006. Its population increased 11.9 percent. Second was McKinney at 11.1 percent and Port St. Lucie was third at 9.9 percent.

Twelve-month numerical leaders included Phoenix (43,192), San Antonio (33,084) and Ft. Worth (30,202).

[EastStang]

I guess they couldn't afford to live in Dallas.

[Stallion]

get ready-because in about 2030 Tarrant County and Ft. Worth could be bigger than Dallas County and Dallas. Ever seen a map of the city limits of Ft. Worth.

[mrydel]

Here in the Little Rock area we call the large expansion on the outskirts of our community "landfill".

[MrMustang1965]

get ready-because in about 2030 Tarrant County and Ft. Worth could be bigger than Dallas County and Dallas. Ever seen a map of the city limits of Ft. Worth.

Word has it that SMU will soon move its campus to Arlington, too.

[FroggieFever]

get ready-because in about 2030 Tarrant County and Ft. Worth could be bigger than Dallas County and Dallas. Ever seen a map of the city limits of Ft. Worth.

Exactly...

[OC Mustang]

get ready-because in about 2030 Tarrant County and Ft. Worth could be bigger than Dallas County and Dallas. Ever seen a map of the city limits of Ft. Worth.

Oookay...you have gone past the buoys again. Come on back...come on back...don't wade out into the deep water, Stal...little too far for those legs...at least on this comment. Geez.

[Sideline]

TCU aside, Ft Worth is great.

[smupony94]

TCU aside, Ft Worth is great.

Why yes it is but you suckas still live in the Metroplex

[Stallion]

I'm basing my opinion on U.S. Census projections that have been published in the DMN. Check out a map of Ft. Worth-there are areas that have been annexed that go all the way to DFW. Dallas on the other hand is landlocked and will grow relatively little in the next 25 years. The growth is clearly in Tarrant County and Ft. Worth which are among the fadtest growing cities and counties in the US. You know Ft. Worth is already is the No 18th biggest city by population in the US.

[2112]

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