U.S. Census Bureau population estimates for July 1, 2024

[minneha]

U.S. Census Bureau population estimates for July 1, 2024 have been released. The data is available here:

https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2020s-total-cities-and-towns.html

Some observations in my neck of the woods:

Wichita, Kansas has surpassed 400,000 for the first time. It now has a population of 400,991.

Aurora, Colorado has surpassed 400,000 and now has a population of 403,130.

Garden City is the largest city in western Kansas, but only by a few hundred. Garden City has 27,996 and Dodge City has 27,663.

[Road Hog]

Celina, Texas has dropped from No. 1 in annual growth among cities 20K or larger in 2024 to No. 4 this year. No. 1 is neighboring Princeton, which had to call a 120-day development moratorium last year because they didn't have their shit together.

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/2025/05/17/princeton-is-the-fastest-growing-city-in-the-u-s-

[Great Lakes Roads]

All of the Indy's northern suburbs are still growing...

Carmel- 103,606
Fishers- 103,986
Noblesville- 75,239
Westfield- 62,994
Zionsville- 33,161
Whitestown- 14,564
Lebanon- 17,608

Both Carmel and Fishers have passed the 100k mark in 2021, and both Westfield and Noblesville are not that far behind.

[epzik8]

Dang, Baltimore supposedly grew for the first time in a while.

[SEWIGuy]

Dang, Baltimore supposedly grew for the first time in a while.

Same with Milwaukee. Younger people moving into trendy neighborhoods, along with some retirees returning to an urban environment, outpaces those who are leaving.

[Max Rockatansky]

Seems like Visalia is going to pass a crap ton of cities in this coming decade.  Fresno keeps growing also at a rapid pace (which I have mixed feelings on).

[hotdogPi]

Of the 351 municipalities in Massachusetts, 61 went down from 2023. All are in western Massachusetts except for Rowley (by exactly one person), six on Cape Cod, and Concord which was somehow the largest percentage decrease of all of them.

Four of the five largest percentage increases are Stoneham, Woburn, Wakefield, and North Reading, where the first three touch and North Reading is two towns away. (The other one in the top five is Pelham, which I guess increased because it's adjacent to Amherst.) The SW corridor between 128 and 495 (Millis, Dover, Norfolk) also has some with large percentage increases.

Lawrence, which is 80% Hispanic, grew way more than expected between 2010 and 2020. It's in the middle of the pack from 2023-2024, which is still a minor increase.

[mgk920]

Dang, Baltimore supposedly grew for the first time in a while.

Same with Milwaukee. Younger people moving into trendy neighborhoods, along with some retirees returning to an urban environment, outpaces those who are leaving.

Detroit, MI (city) grew slightly, too.  I am expecting that as people with direct memories of the 'bad old days' continue to age out and move/pass on, this trend will continue and speed up.

Mike

[LilianaUwU]

With Baltimore and Detroit growing, it's a good time to remind everyone that gentrification is a bad thing.

[JayhawkCO]

No mention made of this yet, but now we have two more million resident cities - Jacksonville and Fort Worth.

Also, the five most populous cities to have lost population - Memphis, Albuquerque, Long Beach, New Orleans, and Chandler.

[Rothman]

With Baltimore and Detroit growing, it's a good time to remind everyone that gentrification is a bad thing.

I don't know.  There's displacement and then there's tangible improvement.  I find labeling all rises in property value as gentrification to be a bad thing.

[Max Rockatansky]

With Baltimore and Detroit growing, it's a good time to remind everyone that gentrification is a bad thing.

Depends on how you feel about Urban Exploration and Ruins Porn.

[Max Rockatansky]

Dang, Baltimore supposedly grew for the first time in a while.

Same with Milwaukee. Younger people moving into trendy neighborhoods, along with some retirees returning to an urban environment, outpaces those who are leaving.

Detroit, MI (city) grew slightly, too.  I am expecting that as people with direct memories of the 'bad old days' continue to age out and move/pass on, this trend will continue and speed up.

Mike

In theory I have at least 30-40 years to go in which to remind others how bad Detroit (my home city) was. 

[SEWIGuy]

With Baltimore and Detroit growing, it's a good time to remind everyone that gentrification is a bad thing.

There are likely plenty of affordable options available in Detroit, Baltimore and Milwaukee, while also providing housing options for those with more wealth. I doubt any of them are going to become like San Franciso or Manhattan anytime soon.

[wxfree]

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram had a story about its city reaching 7 digits.  It's currently one of 11, and the story said it was the 13th US city to ever reach that level.

[Rothman]

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram had a story about its city reaching 7 digits.  It's currently one of 11, and the story said it was the 13th US city to ever reach that level.

This post is like a really bad Jeopardy answer.

[tdindy88]

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram had a story about its city reaching 7 digits.  It's currently one of 11, and the story said it was the 13th US city to ever reach that level.

This post is like a really bad Jeopardy answer.

Nevertheless. What is San Jose and Detroit?

[thspfc]

With Baltimore and Detroit growing, it's a good time to remind everyone that gentrification is a bad thing.

Why do we have to shove abrasive negativity into such a non-charged thread?

But if the topic at hand is out there and open for debate

gentrification is a bad thing.

I would ask for some justification as to why . . . I think people don't understand that the trendy hip cities everyone wants to live in are, in a sense, the gentrified versions of places like Baltimore, Detroit, and Milwaukee. If Milwaukee was heavily gentrified, it would look a lot like Minneapolis. If Tulsa was gentrified, it would be a smaller Austin. If Louisville was gentrified, it would be a less touristy Nashville.

White flight is racism. The reverse of white flight is, supposedly, gentrification, which is of course also, supposedly, racist. That criticism, supposedly, wipes away the benefits of additional housing (which helps COL for everyone), walkable communities, and revitalizing often empty city blocks (of which there are plenty in those cities).

[DTComposer]

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram had a story about its city reaching 7 digits.  It's currently one of 11, and the story said it was the 13th US city to ever reach that level.

This post is like a really bad Jeopardy answer.

Nevertheless. What is San Jose and Detroit?

According to the estimates, San Jose gained 13K last year and sits at 997K. In all likelihood both Austin (993K) and San Jose will cross (or re-cross) the 1 million line this year, giving us 13 cities over 1 million.

By 2030, Charlotte will likely cross 1 million as well, meaning four cities will have passed 1 million between 2020 and 2030. Previously there had never been more than two cities crossing that line in a decade: Chicago and Philadelphia in 1880-1890; Detroit and Los Angeles in 1920-1930; San Diego and Dallas in 1980-1990.

[Max Rockatansky]

Detroit is a special case even by rustbelt standards.  Detroit sunk lower than any large American ever has for a myriad of reasons.  Going from 1,800,000 residents in to just over 600,000 without war being a factor in seven decades is pretty amazing (in a bad way).  The bottom had to be somewhere, and it appears to have been finally reached.

[SP Cook]

"White flight" is not racism.  So-called white flight was simply the fact that some (most) people prefer a suburban lifestyle to a urban one.  They worked hard and achieved what, for them, is the American Dream.  "Gentrification" is also not racism.  It is simply the fact that some other people prefer a urban gentrified lifestyle to a suburban one.

Others prefer rural areas, high rises, cabins in the mountains, RV wandering, Ex-pat to Panama or Costa Rica, older close in suburbs, gated lifestyle communities, 55 plus communities, whatever.

It's a big country and a bigger world.  Before condemning people you do not know, learn that.

[LilianaUwU]

With Baltimore and Detroit growing, it's a good time to remind everyone that gentrification is a bad thing.

Why do we have to shove abrasive negativity into such a non-charged thread?

But if the topic at hand is out there and open for debate

gentrification is a bad thing.

I would ask for some justification as to why . . .

Because I live in poverty and I don't like the idea of being pushed out of my own neighborhood by hipsters.

[Scott5114]

I would ask for some justification as to why

The problem with gentrification is when a neighborhood with lower-income residents begins to gentrify, property values increase, which means that rents generally increase too. So people who have lived in a place for years, grinding out a living and living within their means, through no fault of their own, suddenly can no longer afford to live where they have for years. Depending on tax laws even homeowners may be affected, if their property values increase so much they are no longer able to pay their property tax.

On the other hand, gentrification is usually the result of cleaning up and generally improving derelict properties, and typically increases the tax base of the affected area, which are both good things for a city overall. So neither "gentrification is always bad" or "gentrification is always good" is correct.

[Max Rockatansky]

With Baltimore and Detroit growing, it's a good time to remind everyone that gentrification is a bad thing.

Why do we have to shove abrasive negativity into such a non-charged thread?

But if the topic at hand is out there and open for debate

gentrification is a bad thing.

I would ask for some justification as to why . . .

Because I live in poverty and I don't like the idea of being pushed out of my own neighborhood by hipsters.

Outside of the small cluster of gentrification which has occurred on Woodward nobody stays in Detroit because they want to. 

[Scott5114]

Others prefer rural areas, high rises, cabins in the mountains, RV wandering, Ex-pat to Panama or Costa Rica, older close in suburbs, gated lifestyle communities, 55 plus communities, whatever.

Clearly the solution that would serve everyone is an older high-rise cabin with a motor that relocates to different gated mountain properties in rural Costa Rica.