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Census Vintage 2025 · City growth atlas

2025 U.S. City Growth Atlas

Census Vintage 2025 population estimates for 19,483 U.S. cities and places, reference date July 1, 2025. Fastest growth, biggest numeric gains, state briefs, milestone crossings, and reusable downloads for reporters and editors.

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Fastest over 20k

Celina, TX

+24.6%

51,717 to 64,427, a one-year change of +12,710.

Biggest numeric gain

Charlotte, NC

+20,731

944,053 to 964,784 from July 2024 to July 2025.

Milestone watch

6 crossings

Austin, TX crossed 1,000,000. Raleigh, NC crossed 500,000. Longmont, CO, Edmond, OK, Avondale, AZ crossed 100,000. Garland, TX fell below 250,000.

Where U.S. cities gained and lost residents in the past year

19,479 mapped cities · gain, decline, or no change

Each dot is a city in the Vintage 2025 file. Color shows the direction of change between the two July estimates, gray marks no one-year change, and circle area shows the number of residents added or lost.

Map of U.S. cities with green dots for one-year population gains, rust dots for one-year population declines, and gray dots for cities with no one-year change.
Total population change includes births, deaths, and migration; it is not a net-migration measure. All-city gain/loss mapContiguous U.S. hero mapContiguous U.S. social mapContiguous U.S. square mapGainers emphasis mapDeclines emphasis mapLarge moves map

Two ways to rank growth

Percent change and raw residents added

Biggest numeric gainers

The ten cities that added the most residents in raw numbers between the 2024 and 2025 estimates.

1 Charlotte, NC +20,731 2 Fort Worth, TX +19,512 3 San Antonio, TX +14,359 4 Celina, TX +12,710 5 Seattle, WA +11,572 6 Houston, TX +11,515 7 Fulshear, TX +11,196 8 Nashville-Davidson, TN +9,281 9 Port St. Lucie, FL +9,131 10 McKinney, TX +8,504

Charlotte, NC added +20,731 residents, the largest one-year numeric gain in this slice. Numeric gain reflects total population change, not net migration.

Milestone crossings

6 threshold crossings

Cities that crossed a round-number population threshold between the 2024 and 2025 estimates.

Crossed above 100,000

Longmont, CO

99,600 to 100,109 (+509).

Crossed above 100,000

Edmond, OK

99,101 to 100,479 (+1,378).

Crossed above 100,000

Avondale, AZ

96,646 to 100,983 (+4,337).

Fell below 250,000

Garland, TX

251,034 to 249,625 (-1,409).

Crossed above 500,000

Raleigh, NC

499,017 to 506,306 (+7,289).

Crossed above 1,000,000

Austin, TX

998,607 to 1,002,632 (+4,025).

Declines and rebounds

Large-city declines and one-year reversals

Comedown to comeback

Cities with at least 50,000 residents in 2025 that declined from 2023 to 2024, then gained population from 2024 to 2025.

City 2023 to 2024 2024 to 2025 Swing
Peoria, AZ -24 +2,146 +2,170
Tempe, AZ -818 +1,195 +2,013
Richardson, TX -762 +570 +1,332
Bloomington, IN -519 +727 +1,246
Ann Arbor, MI -438 +786 +1,224

State briefs for local follow-up

50 states + DC

A per-state summary built for assignment editors: fastest qualifying grower, biggest numeric gainer, largest current city, and largest one-year decline where present.

State Cities Fastest over 20k Growth Biggest gain Added Largest city
Alabama 463 Foley +7.8% Madison +4,157 Huntsville
Alaska 149 Juneau +0.1% Bethel +269 Anchorage
Arizona 91 Queen Creek +8.2% Surprise +7,702 Phoenix
Arkansas 501 Centerton +5.7% Fayetteville +2,908 Little Rock
California 483 Lathrop +4.7% San Diego +5,874 Los Angeles
Colorado 272 Johnstown +8.4% Colorado Springs +2,288 Denver
Connecticut 30 Norwalk +0.8% New Haven +886 Bridgeport
Delaware 57 Middletown +1.0% Milford +649 Wilmington
District of Columbia 1 Washington +0.3% Washington +2,335 Washington
Florida 411 Haines City +10.0% Port St. Lucie +9,131 Jacksonville
Georgia 538 Canton +7.0% Atlanta +8,350 Atlanta
Hawaii 1 Urban Honolulu -0.2% Urban Honolulu -523 Urban Honolulu
Idaho 198 Kuna +8.4% Caldwell +3,452 Boise City
Illinois 1,294 Lockport +3.4% Chicago +5,253 Chicago
Indiana 566 Westfield +5.3% Westfield +3,341 Indianapolis
Iowa 939 Waukee +9.3% Waukee +2,963 Des Moines
Kansas 625 Junction City +2.4% Olathe +1,361 Wichita
Kentucky 418 Elizabethtown +2.8% Lexington-Fayette urban county +2,680 Louisville/Jefferson County
Louisiana 305 Hammond +2.9% Baton Rouge +1,255 New Orleans
Maine 23 Auburn +0.8% Auburn +210 Portland
Maryland 157 Frederick +3.0% Frederick +2,713 Baltimore
Massachusetts 58 Everett +4.6% Everett +2,362 Boston
Michigan 533 East Lansing +1.3% Detroit +5,060 Detroit
Minnesota 856 Rosemount +4.2% Rosemount +1,299 Minneapolis
Mississippi 299 Gulfport +2.2% Gulfport +1,624 Jackson
Missouri 936 Republic +5.9% Kansas City +4,681 Kansas City
Montana 127 Kalispell +2.0% Missoula +718 Billings
Nebraska 528 Norfolk +1.3% Lincoln +2,257 Omaha
Nevada 19 Fernley +2.7% Henderson +5,379 Las Vegas
New Hampshire 13 Dover +2.1% Dover +720 Manchester
New Jersey 323 Fair Lawn +2.4% Newark +3,646 Newark
New Mexico 105 Rio Rancho +1.8% Rio Rancho +1,972 Albuquerque
New York 594 Kiryas Joel +6.6% Kiryas Joel +2,933 New York
North Carolina 549 Monroe +6.2% Charlotte +20,731 Charlotte
North Dakota 355 Williston +2.4% Fargo +1,088 Fargo
Ohio 924 Grove City +2.9% Columbus +7,696 Columbus
Oklahoma 591 El Reno +3.3% Oklahoma City +6,104 Oklahoma City
Oregon 240 Woodburn +4.9% Woodburn +1,495 Portland
Pennsylvania 1,014 Chambersburg +1.5% Philadelphia +1,546 Philadelphia
Rhode Island 8 Warwick +0.9% Providence +1,068 Providence
South Carolina 271 Greer +7.3% Greer +3,412 Charleston
South Dakota 310 Brookings +2.0% Sioux Falls +3,862 Sioux Falls
Tennessee 345 Lebanon +5.6% Nashville-Davidson +9,281 Nashville-Davidson
Texas 1,224 Celina +24.6% Fort Worth +19,512 Houston
Utah 255 Eagle Mountain +8.5% Eagle Mountain +5,195 Salt Lake City
Vermont 39 Burlington -0.3% Essex Junction +217 Burlington
Virginia 227 Fairfax +2.8% Richmond +2,450 Virginia Beach
Washington 281 Kirkland +3.0% Seattle +11,572 Seattle
West Virginia 230 Morgantown -0.1% Ranson corporation +809 Charleston
Wisconsin 608 Middleton +2.6% Madison +1,955 Milwaukee
Wyoming 99 Cheyenne +1.1% Cheyenne +734 Cheyenne

Rank movement worth checking

Top 100 current or prior population ranks

Moved up 6 ranks

McKinney, TX

#105 in 2024 to #99 in 2025.

Moved down 4 ranks

Hialeah, FL

#98 in 2024 to #102 in 2025.

Moved down 2 ranks

Irving, TX

#89 in 2024 to #91 in 2025.

Moved down 2 ranks

St. Paul, MN

#67 in 2024 to #69 in 2025.

Reporter downloads

CSV and JSON resources

Files reflect the same Vintage 2025 release as the full dataset. Ranking files keep GEOID, city, state, 2024 estimate, 2025 estimate, numeric change, and percent change where applicable; state briefs are one-row summaries for assignment planning.

Fastest-growing cities over 20k Top 25 places with at least 20,000 residents in 2024, ranked by 2024 to 2025 percent change Biggest numeric gainers Top 25 by residents added from 2024 to 2025 State briefs One row per state plus DC: fastest grower, biggest gainer, largest city, largest decline Milestone crossings Cities crossing 100k, 250k, 500k, or 1m between the 2024 and 2025 estimates Atlas summary JSON Thresholds, counts, leaders, and rank shakeups for reuse All-city gain/loss map SVG Every mapped city: green gain, rust decline, gray no one-year change Contiguous U.S. hero map SVG 16:9 clean crop with no labels, legend, Alaska, or Hawaii Contiguous U.S. social map SVG 1200 by 630 clean crop for social cards and article thumbnails Contiguous U.S. square map SVG Square clean crop for embeds and social variants Gainers emphasis map SVG Population gains highlighted; flat and declining cities shown as gray context Declines emphasis map SVG Population declines highlighted; flat and growing cities shown as gray context Large moves map SVG Only cities that gained or lost at least 1,000 residents from 2024 to 2025 Remote-work boomtowns plot SVG Plot-first graphic; title, caption, caveat, and source are carried in the media-kit text Affordable fast-growth plot SVG Plot-first graphic; title, caption, caveat, and source are carried in the media-kit text Heat-growth plot SVG Plot-first graphic; title, caption, caveat, and source are carried in the media-kit text Housing-pressure plot SVG Plot-first graphic; title, caption, caveat, and source are carried in the media-kit text High-income suburb declines plot SVG Plot-first graphic; title, caption, caveat, and source are carried in the media-kit text Exurban commute plot SVG Plot-first graphic; title, caption, caveat, and source are carried in the media-kit text Full cities CSV 19,483 rows with every published field

Graphic reuse standard

Plot SVGs are intentionally light on embedded text. Use the adjacent headline, caption, caveat, and source block when embedding them in an article; use the clean contiguous U.S. crops for hero images, thumbnails, and social cards. Use the all-city annotated map when the legend is part of the story.

Reporter kit

Citation and reusable copy blocks

Citation

U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 city and place estimates (reference date 2025-07-01), via everycityintheusa.com/atlas/2025-us-city-growth/.

Methodology note

All figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 city and place file, with a reference date of July 1, 2025. Percent-growth tables are limited to cities with at least 20,000 residents in the 2024 estimate to avoid small-base distortions. All comparisons are within the Vintage 2025 series, so 2024 and 2025 figures are directly comparable.

Caveat: These are total population change figures from a single Census estimate vintage. They are not migration counts, and a one-year change is not a trend.

Copy-paste lede templates

{CITY}, {STATE} added {NUMERIC_CHANGE} residents between July 2024 and July 2025, reaching {POP_2025}, according to Census Bureau Vintage 2025 estimates.

{CITY}, {STATE} grew {PERCENT_CHANGE} from July 2024 to July 2025 among cities with at least 20,000 residents in the 2024 estimate.

{CITY}, {STATE} crossed {THRESHOLD} residents in the Census Bureau Vintage 2025 estimates, reaching {POP_2025} as of July 1, 2025.

{CITY}, {STATE} recorded a one-year population decline of {NUMERIC_DECLINE}, from {POP_2024} in 2024 to {POP_2025} in 2025.

In {STATE}, the fastest-growing city over 20,000 residents was {CITY}, which grew {PERCENT_CHANGE} from 2024 to 2025.

Share graphic briefs

Static chart copy for social and newsletters

Story leads reporters can localize

Census V2025 joined to official context datasets

These are assignment-ready angles, not causal claims. Each lead pairs the new city growth estimates with one official context dataset and carries its caveat beside the chart idea.

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Opportunity + broadband

Remote-work boomtowns

Three high-income growth cities where work-from-home shares clear 35% and provider-reported gigabit coverage runs near total.

  • Celina, TX: +276.8% since 2020, +24.6% in one year, 35.8% WFH, $170,894 median household income, 88.2% gigabit availability.
  • Frisco, TX has 37.8% WFH and 90.3% gigabit; Redmond, WA has 38.4% WFH and 99.1% gigabit.

Sources: Census V2025, ACS 2020-2024, FCC BDC 2025-06-30. FCC is provider-reported availability, not adoption, speed, or price.

Chart comparing Celina, Frisco, and Redmond across population growth, work-from-home share, median household income, and gigabit availability.
Opportunity stack strips: growth, WFH share, income, and gigabit availability. Download SVG
02

Affordability

Affordable fast-growth outside Texas

The cleanest counterpoint to the Texas boomtown story: fast-growing cities where regional price levels still sit below the national average.

  • Centerton, AR: +52.1% since 2020, all-items RPP 91.4, rent RPP 76.9, cash-rent burden 27.5%, home-value-to-income 2.9.
  • Waukee, IA: +45.7% since 2020, all-items RPP 91.7, rent RPP 84.7, home-value-to-income 3.5.

Sources: Census V2025, ACS 2020-2024, BEA 2024 RPP. RPP is metro or state-nonmetro geography, not city-level.

Chart comparing Centerton and Waukee across growth, regional price parity, cash-rent burden, and home-value-to-income ratios.
Growth vs. affordability quadrant with a U.S. = 100 RPP reference line. Download SVG
03

Climate context

Fast growth in heat-risk geography

Phoenix-area cities kept adding residents in places where July normal highs clear 105 F and FEMA risk context is very high.

  • Goodyear, AZ: +7,690 residents (+6.5%), July normal high 105.5 F, Maricopa County FEMA NRI 99.9.
  • Buckeye, AZ added +6,552 (+5.5%) at a 106.3 F July normal high; Surprise, AZ added +7,702 (+4.6%) at 105.2 F.

Sources: Census V2025, NOAA 1991-2020 normals, FEMA NRI. This is context, not a forecast or property-level risk claim.

Chart comparing Goodyear, Buckeye, and Surprise across one-year population gain, FEMA heat-wave risk, and NOAA July maximum temperature normals.
Heat-growth grid: one-year population gain with July normal-high overlay. Download SVG
04

Housing pressure

Big-city growth, different shelter pressure

Large numeric gainers do not share the same affordability reality once rent burden, home-value-to-income ratios, and regional rent prices are layered in.

  • Charlotte added +20,731 residents with 49.8% cash-rent burden, home-value-to-income 4.7, and rent RPP 97.6.
  • Fort Worth added +19,512 with 56.0% cash-rent burden and rent RPP 117.9; Seattle added +11,572 with rent RPP 151.3 and home-value-to-income 7.6.

Sources: Census V2025, ACS 2020-2024, BEA RPP. BEA RPP is regional, not city-grain.

Chart comparing Charlotte, Fort Worth, and Seattle across one-year population gain, cash-rent burden, home-value-to-income, and rent RPP.
Ranked housing-stress bars beside one-year population gain. Download SVG
05

Commute cost

The exurban commute tax

Growth in commuter exurbs turns into a daily time-cost story when a large share of non-WFH workers report 60-minute-plus trips.

  • Menifee, CA grew +15.7% since 2020 with 25.4% of non-WFH commuters at 60+ minutes; Manteca, CA grew +15.7% with 25.0%.
  • Kyle, TX grew +53.0% since 2020, with 16.2% at 60+ minutes and 2.9% city LAUS unemployment.

Sources: Census V2025, ACS commute tables, BLS LAUS. ACS commute time excludes WFH workers and carries margins of error.

Chart comparing Menifee, Manteca, and Kyle across 2020 to 2025 population growth and 60-minute-plus commute shares among non-work-from-home commuters.
Commute pressure ladder for non-WFH workers. Download SVG
06

High-income suburbs

High-income suburbs that lost residents

A clean localizable counter-story: affluent suburbs can still post one-year population declines, especially where housing markets are expensive or built-out.

  • Thousand Oaks, CA lost 1,387 residents from 2024 to 2025 with ACS median household income of $135,603.
  • Sugar Land, TX lost 1,211; Huntington Beach, CA lost 1,168; Centennial, CO lost 1,154.
  • Carlsbad, Santa Clarita, Redondo Beach, and Newport Beach also show high household incomes beside one-year losses.

Sources: Census V2025 and ACS 2020-2024 median household income. One-year decline is total estimated population change, not a migration count or causal housing claim.

Chart ranking Thousand Oaks, Sugar Land, Huntington Beach, Centennial, Carlsbad, Santa Clarita, Redondo Beach, and Newport Beach by one-year population loss and median household income.
Ranked loss-and-income bars for eight high-income suburban cities. Download SVG

Source links

Census Vintage 2025 city and town estimatesACS 2020-2024 5-year release notesBEA Regional Price ParitiesNOAA 1991-2020 U.S. Climate NormalsFEMA National Risk IndexFCC Fixed Broadband Availability DataBLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

Methodology · read before comparing

Within-vintage growth only.

The Atlas compares 2024 and 2025 estimates inside Census Vintage 2025. It does not compute 2010 to 2025 growth across the Vintage 2019 and Vintage 2025 seam, because those series use different base methodologies.

Read the full methodology · Open the Census source file page