![]() Moreover, population growth or natural increase, which is otherwise the biggest contributor to population increase, registered an overall decline in the ongoing decade: it peaked at 0.73 percent between 20 and considerably slowed down between 20. Fort Worth also has the distinction of having the highest growth rate in Texas of 2.34%. Likewise, besides Houston, Dallas and San Antonio, other Texan cities of Fort Worth, Austin, and El Paso, have been crowded well over by 500,000 residents each. Manhattan).Īlso, the capital or federal city of Washington, D.C., is estimated to have 0.70 million residents.Īmong cities showing the highest population density are New York City at 11,000/km², San Francisco at 7,242/km² and Boston at 5,434/km².īesides Log Angeles, San Diego and San Jose, other populous Californian cities of San Francisco, Fresno, Sacramento, Long Beach and Oakland are home to populations above 500,000. ![]() The city of New York, having gained the most number of new residents in 20, tops the list with over 8.5 million residents, followed by Los Angeles, Chicago and Houston with 3.9 million, 2.6 million and 2.3 million residents, respectively (read our article about 25 most densely populated cities in the world vs. ![]() Not surprisingly, of these highly crowded cities, three cities each come from the states of largely populated California and Texas, while one each from the states of New York, Illinois, Arizona and Pennsylvania. None of them can be termed a ‘megacity’ which usually has more than 10 million inhabitants. ![]() This percentage keeps rising, as more Americans, in pursuit of a bright future or better business opportunities, concentrate in large and medium cities in droves, notably industry-specific hubs like New York, San Francisco, Chicago and Houston, and as the population clock keeps ticking resulting in the net gain of one individual every 16 seconds.Īs of July 1, 2019, a total of 10 US cities – New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas and San Jose – are estimated to have populations above one million. ![]()
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