Downtown Salt Lake City
--------------------------------- 2020 ------ 2010 ------ 2000 ------ 1990 ------ Growth -------- Area -------- Density
Downtown --------------------- 17,633 ----- 11,669 ------ 9,374 ------ 7,637 ------ 51.1% --- 24.5% --- 22.7% ------- 7.0 km² ---- 2,517.2 inh./km²
Salt Lake City MSA -------- 1,257,936 -- 1,087,873 ---- 939,122 ---- 752,557 ------ 15.6% --- 15.8% --- 24.8% -- 19.902 km²
Salt Lake City CSA -------- 2,701,129 -- 2,271,696 -- 1,846,252 -- 1,435,855 ------ 18.9% --- 23.0% --- 28.6% -- 60.496 km²
Salt Lake City is the textbook boomtown and we don't usually associate them with urban living, but still, its Downtown is growing very fast, showing how strong is this trend in the US.
The MSA, as the other Texan metro areas, with no signs of slowing down despite being already big. It's very well discussed, but still very impressive nevertheless.