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Originally Posted by Yuri
Do you have very recent data on natural growth at counties/metro areas/states level? As the US is in a sharp decline since 2007, I guess there are plenty of metro areas firmly on negative terrain.
That makes Pittsburgh growth in 2010's even more remarkable. Their natural growth is in a much worse position than it was in the 1960's. They might even have had a domestic migration surplus.
I checked it again and Detroit CSA grew faster than Philadelphia metro area.
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Natural growth or decline in pre-COVID 2019 and in 2022 (latest data) in a few selected Metro areas
NYC: +80,604 / +58,745
LA: +56,832 / +25,658
Houston: +51,220 / +39,983
Dallas: +49,393 / +40,679
Washington DC: +39,263 / +29,999
Chicago: +32,738 / +12,423
Atlanta: +30,494 / +20,415
Phoenix: +20,491 / +7,990
Minneapolis: +19,079 / +12,602
Seattle: +19,031 / +13,466
Miami: +15,974 / +723
Austin: +14,294 / +13,907
Boston: +10,807 / +8,921
Philadelphia: +10,038 / +3,085
Salt Lake City: +9,944 / +7,545
Detroit: +7,105 /
-4,020
Baltimore: +6,443 / +3,463
St. Louis +4,200 /
-2,714
Birmingham: +1,696 /
-798
Cleveland: +41 /
-5,471
Buffalo:
-206 /
-1,731
Pittsburgh:
-4,502 /
-9,225
Metro areas that showed natural decline in 2019 included Akron, Asheville, Atlantic City, Bangor, Buffalo, Charleston WV, Davenport, Dubuque, Flint, Knoxville, Naples, Palm Bay/Melbourne FL, Pittsburgh, Portland ME, Port St Lucie FL, Roanoke VA, Scranton, Tampa, and Youngstown. Many many others showed negative in 2021 and 2022 due to COVID.
Source:
https://www.recenter.tamu.edu/data/population/