{"id":14167,"date":"2020-03-30T09:58:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T13:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=14167"},"modified":"2023-09-24T15:44:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T19:44:23","slug":"atlanta-is-the-fourth-fastest-growing-metro-area-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=14167","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta is the fourth fastest-growing metro area in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Metro Atlanta was the nation\u2019s fourth fastest-growing metropolitan area in the last decade, according to new numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The population of Atlanta, including Sandy Springs and <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"\/city\/Alpharetta\"   title=\"Alpharetta\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Alpharetta<\/a>, was just more than 6 million as of last July 1, up from just less than 5.3 million on April 1, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That increase of 733,646 was behind only the Dallas, Houston and Phoenix metropolitan regions. The Dallas metro area \u2013 including Fort Worth, Texas; and Arlington, Texas \u2013 was the fastest-growing metropolitan area in the country, adding 1.2 million residents during the last decade bringing its population to nearly 7.6 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"\/city\/Atlanta\"   title=\"Atlanta\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Atlanta<\/a> region also is the nation\u2019s ninth-most populous. Ahead of metro Atlanta in the rankings as of last July 1 were the New York City\/Newark, N.J., with more than 19.2 million residents the nation\u2019s largest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Big Apple is followed in order by Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Washington, D.C., Miami\/Fort Lauderdale and Philadelphia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Census Bureau also reported that all of the 10 counties with the largest numeric gains since 2010 are in the South and West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the growth in some counties, more than half (53.6%) of the counties in the United States were smaller in 2019 than they were in 2010.&nbsp; These patterns of growth or decline were largely related to county size, with most small counties losing population this decade and most large counties gaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro Atlanta was the nation\u2019s fourth fastest-growing metropolitan area in the last decade, according to new numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau. The population of Atlanta, including Sandy Springs and Alpharetta, was just more than 6 million as of last July 1, up from just less than 5.3 million on April 1, 2010. That increase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":14168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}