Population Growth Patterns in Metro Areas, 2000-16

[KingSweden]

Nashville? That's were my fiancée is from.

Nashville suffers from the lack of granularity issue in the south, particularly since a lot of of the population lives in the consolidated Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County.  I'll put it on my to do list, though.

I can imagine quite a few Southern cities would be tough to do for this reason

[KingSweden]

What's up with the wild population swings in Union Township, Madison County?

It has two prisons (London Correctional Institution and Madison Correctional Institution) which has a an address of London, but appears to be located in the township (Madison Township wraps around London, and the prisons are west and northwest of the city).

In 2010, 89% of the township population was male, and 78% was incarcerated.

Thanks.  It's almost always the prisons that cause wild population swings.

Nashville? That's were my fiancée is from.

Nashville suffers from the lack of granularity issue in the south, particularly since a lot of of the population lives in the consolidated Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County.  I'll put it on my to do list, though.

I can imagine quite a few Southern cities would be tough to do for this reason

Correct.  Many people in the South live in unincorporated parts of their counties, and Census doesn't do yearly population estimates for CDPs (though I can get about 5-years' CDP data from the 5-year ACS).  

It's a little less of a problem on the West Coast, but still a problem.  Eventually, I'll get around to doing maps of the Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas and Houston metros, though.  The shapes of Texas' cities are bizarre, thanks to their annexation laws.

WA has pushed many CDPs to incorporate or be annexed in the last decade, which will probably help

[KingSweden]

Greater St. Louis:



That's the last of the top 25 metros.

Really emphasizes how dire STL has been recently