Census City Estimates are out!

[KingSweden]

My favorite day of the year (well, one of them). Census Bureau has released their estimates for July 1, 2013 for cities and towns!

http://www.census.gov/popest/data/cities/totals/2013/SUB-EST2013.html

[cinyc]

Oil boomtown Williston, ND keeps its title as the fastest-growing town with a population over 10,000, growing at a blistering 13.9% from 2012 to 2013.  It was closely followed by north Dallas suburb Little Elm, TX (+13.3%), south Denver suburb Lone Tree, CO (+11.5%), Prosper, TX (+10.3%), another north Dallas suburb, and the NYC suburb of Harrison, NJ (+9.3%), near Newark.

Smallish, ruralish, California towns made up 3 of the top 5 10,000+ losers, with northern Caifornia's Susanville (-6.4%) bringing up the rear.  Susanville was followed by Avenal, CA (-4.8%) in the Central Valley, Florence, AZ (-4.7%), arguably exurban Phoenix but off the main highway corridors, Detroit enclave Highland Park, MI (-4.3%), and Tehachapi, CA (-4.1%), in Kern County southeast of Bakersfield.

[jimrtex]

Oil boomtown Williston, ND keeps its title as the fastest-growing town with a population over 10,000, growing at a blistering 13.9% from 2012 to 2013.  It was closely followed by north Dallas suburb Little Elm, TX (+13.3%), south Denver suburb Lone Tree, CO (+11.5%), Prosper, TX (+10.3%), another north Dallas suburb, and the NYC suburb of Harrison, NJ (+9.3%), near Newark.

Smallish, ruralish, California towns made up 3 of the top 5 10,000+ losers, with northern Caifornia's Susanville (-6.4%) bringing up the rear.  Susanville was followed by Avenal, CA (-4.8%) in the Central Valley, Florence, AZ (-4.7%), arguably exurban Phoenix but off the main highway corridors, Detroit enclave Highland Park, MI (-4.3%), and Tehachapi, CA (-4.1%), in Kern County southeast of Bakersfield.

3 state capitals are among cities with over 100,000 that lost population between 2010 and 2013: Lansing, Montgomery, and Jackson.

Cities with over 100,000 persons that declined during that period:

St. Louis, Rockford, South Bend, Lansing, Flint, Detroit, Toledo, Akron, Cleveland, Erie, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Waterbury, Paterson, Hampton, Montgomery, Mobile, and Jackson.  Flint dropped below 100,000.

There are about 33 suburbs that have over 200,000 population (some might disclaim being suburbs).

Long Beach, CA 469K
Mesa, AZ 448K
Oakland, CA 406
Arlington, TX 380K
Aurora, CO 346K
Anaheim, CA 342K
Santa Ana, CA 334K
Riverside, CA 303K
St.Paul, MN 295K
Newark, NJ 278K
Plano, TX 274K
Henderson, NV 271K
Jersey City, NJ 257K
Chula Vista, CA 257K
St. Petersburg, FL 250K
Chandler, AZ 249K
Norfolk, VA 246K
Durham, NC 245K
Irvine, CA 237K
Glendale, AZ 235K
Garland, TX 235K
Hialeah, FL 233K
Chesapeake, VA 231K
Gilbert, AZ 229K
Irving, TX 229K
Scottsdale, AZ 227K
North Las Vegas, 227K
Fremont, CA 225K
San Bernardino, 210K
Tacoma, WA 203K
Oxnard, CA 203K
Fontana, CA 203K
Moreno Valley, CA 201K

[muon2]

Aurora, IL just missed the 200K club, but should make it for the 2014 estimates. That will put two suburban Auroras on the list. If Arlington, VA were incorporated it would provide another case of two suburbs over 200K with the same name.

[ilikeverin]

Bloomington (86.3k) has now pulled into place as the fourth largest city in Minnesota in front of Duluth (86.1k).  And Minneapolis is once more larger than 400k for the first time since the 1970s.

[traininthedistance]

Oil boomtown Williston, ND keeps its title as the fastest-growing town with a population over 10,000, growing at a blistering 13.9% from 2012 to 2013.  It was closely followed by north Dallas suburb Little Elm, TX (+13.3%), south Denver suburb Lone Tree, CO (+11.5%), Prosper, TX (+10.3%), another north Dallas suburb, and the NYC suburb of Harrison, NJ (+9.3%), near Newark.

Smallish, ruralish, California towns made up 3 of the top 5 10,000+ losers, with northern Caifornia's Susanville (-6.4%) bringing up the rear.  Susanville was followed by Avenal, CA (-4.8%) in the Central Valley, Florence, AZ (-4.7%), arguably exurban Phoenix but off the main highway corridors, Detroit enclave Highland Park, MI (-4.3%), and Tehachapi, CA (-4.1%), in Kern County southeast of Bakersfield.

Harrison!  Sweet!

Harrison, BTW, is very small and urban (across the river from Newark, on the edge of the Meadowlands) and was mostly built out by 1920- not the sort of exurban boomtown that usually tops these lists.

What's going on is that a lot of old industrial land, especially in the south of the town by the PATH station, is being redeveloped.  The first step was when the Red Bulls opened their soccer stadium there in 2010, and just now the first couple blocks of apartments and mixed-use buildings have opened, with more on the way in the coming years.  In a small town that's going to be a big jump.



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[Linus Van Pelt]

There are about 33 suburbs that have over 200,000 population (some might disclaim being suburbs).

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