Population Map Reveals Fastest Growing US States This Century
The population grew in 49 of America's 50 states between July 2000 and July 2023.
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The population grew in 49 of America's 50 states between July 2000 and July 2023.
Michigan's population has hovered around the 10 million mark for the past 20+ years, but the state's latest report outlines projections of a population roller coaster which stops at the bottom. Michigan will have more than 230,000 more people in the next decade, and then decline by 128,000 from 2034 to 2050. Overall, the state's population is expected to drop by about 700,000 in 26 years. ...
The Office of Budget and Management will release a new list of metropolitan and nonmetropolitan counties based on data from the 2020 Census, which is likely to toss formerly growing rural areas into metropolitan counties.
Later this year, some of the nation’s most economically successful “rural” counties will be reclassified as metropolitan, moving their populations and