2025 U.S. City Growth Atlas media kit

Source: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 estimates. Graphics and analysis: Every City in the USA (https://www.everycityintheusa.com/atlas/2025-us-city-growth/), licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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Use Census Bureau Vintage 2025 as the primary source for population estimates.
Use Every City in the USA as the source for compiled rankings, maps, chart exports, and joined story leads.

Important caveat:
One-year change is total population estimate change inside Vintage 2025; it is not a net-migration count.
Context story leads join Census estimates to ACS, BEA, NOAA, FEMA, FCC, or BLS data. Treat them as reporting leads, not causal claims.

Graphic formats:
Annotated map exports include embedded legend/source/caveat. Numeric-change maps scale circles by residents gained or lost; percentage-change maps scale circles by one-year percent change and can visually emphasize small-base cities. Clean map exports are intended for hero/social art and intentionally omit labels and legends. State map sets are listed in growth-atlas-state-map-sets-v2025.json and include SVG/PNG variants for each state. Story-lead plots are plot-first exports; use growth-atlas-graphic-captions-v2025.json for title, caption, source, caveat, and alt text when publishing.

Suggested attribution:
Every City in the USA, "2025 U.S. City Growth Atlas," https://www.everycityintheusa.com/atlas/2025-us-city-growth/. Graphics and analysis licensed CC BY 4.0. Data source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 city and place estimates (reference date 2025-07-01).
