![]() In terms of percentage growth after Queen Creek and Buckeye, Marana and Casa Grande both grew 4.5 percent, and Maricopa and Goodyear both grew 4.4 percent. ![]() The next three most-populous Arizona cities are Chandler (265,398, up 1.6 percent), Scottsdale (262,647, also up 1.6 percent), and Gilbert (257,658, up 1.4 percent). At that rate, they will overtake Tucson as the second largest city within five years. Mesa had a 1.9 percent growth, pushing the population to 528,129. Tucson is still Arizona’s second largest city with its population growing 0.8 percent to 553,571, a gain of 4,610 people. Chicago’s population losses, though, puts Houston within striking distance of passing the Illinois city to be the nation’s third-largest city, if it returns to the pre-hurricane growth rate. ![]() This year, the Texas city gained 400 residents. city, Houston’s growth rate has been flat since Hurricane Harvey in 2018. San Antonio’s 234,000 10-year increase is second in the nation, also an 18.1 percent population jump.Īlthough Phoenix would take decades to gain the 600,000 residents needed to pass Houston as the fourth largest U.S. Phoenix also leads the country in 10-year population growth, adding almost 260,000 people since 2010, an 18.1 percent population increase. Buckeye was second in Arizona with a 7 percent growth rate. That positioned the town with the seventh-fastest growing percentage in the U.S. Queen Creek topped Arizona in percentage population growth, 10.0 percent, with its population jumping from 55,000 in 2019 to 60,097 in 2020. New York City lost the equivalent of the population of Goodyear. city behind New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Houston, but population losses in Chicago and Los Angeles were about the same amount that Phoenix gained, according to the Census. Phoenix’s growth rate, 1.5 percent lags behind the County’s 1.9 percent growth rate. Census Bureau’s 2020 estimates say that Phoenix now tops 1.7 million in population and added more new residents than any other city. READ ALSO: The 10 best places to move in Arizona in 2021 The 25,194 new Phoenix residents this year is slightly below the 10-year average of 25,912, however Phoenix continues to take the largest share of Maricopa County’s population growth, with nearly four in 10 new county residents choosing to live in the city of Phoenix. They pushed Phoenix way out in front making this the fifth year in a row that it is the fastest growing city in America. Arizona’s total population in 2020 was 7,151,502, up 12% and 759,485 people from a decade earlier.Say “hi” to 25,194 new neighbors. had 331 million residents last year, a 7.4% increase from 2010. 4 Houston was the second-fastest growing big city and has 700,000 more people than Phoenix.Īn earlier set of data, released in April, provided state population counts and showed the U.S. 5 spot since 2015 in the Census Bureau’s annual population estimates, which is based on surveys of a representative sample of residents.Īrizona’s capital city isn’t likely to climb higher on the population charts anytime soon. That’s hardly surprising in a city that has held the No. Phoenix overtook Philadelphia as the nation’s fifth-largest city in the once-a-decade count of every person living in the country. cities to post double-digit population growth. Phoenix grew 11.2%, the only one of the 10 largest U.S. The share of those identifying as more than one race more than doubled to 3.7%.īuckeye grew 80% to nearly 92,000 while Goodyear was up 46% to about 95,000 people. The Hispanic population grew to 30.7%, while the Black population made up 4.4%, Native Americans or Alaska Natives 3.7% and Asians 3.5% - all up slightly. The share of Arizona’s population that identifies as white was 53.4%, down from nearly 58% a decade earlier.
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