America’s Fastest Growing Cities Revealed for 2014

The population of the US grew slightly (.75%) in 2014, with that said, a few metro areas grew in population more than some, while some metro areas shrunk.

24/7 Wall St. recently examined  the  released of the U.S. Census Bureau estimates, for  the cities with the fastest growing populations.

The top 10 cities are-

1. The Villages, FL
2. Midland, TX
3. Austin- Round Rock, TX
4. Odessa, TX
5. Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC
6. Bismarck, ND
7. St. George, UT
8. Auburn-Opelika, AL
9. Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL
10. Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL

According to 24/7 Wall St-

"As in several other metros with especially fast-growing populations, a regional  oil boom in the Bismarck area has stimulated the area’s economy and generated  high-paying jobs. The area’s unemployment rate of 2.7% was the lowest in the  nation in 2013, and down even from 2010. Although, for the first time in years,  Bismarck’s unemployment rate had risen slightly to 3.1% as of December 2014.  More than 75% of the population growth came from migration, and many of the new  arrivals were relatively young. The area’s 30-39 age group grew 2.8% from 2010  to last year, one of the larger such increases in the country. Like in most  metro areas, however, more than 20% of the population was between 50 and 64 in  2013.

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