Immigration Fueled US Metro Population Growth in 2024, Census Says

Metro areas added nearly 3.2 million people between 2023 and 2024, led by overseas arrivals that outweighed domestic departures, the Census Bureau says.
Immigration Fueled US Metro Population Growth in 2024, Census Says
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The population in U.S. metropolitan areas grew faster than the nation as a whole between July 1, 2023, and July 1, 2024, rising almost 3.2 million, or about 1.1 percent, to reach 293.9 million. The national population increased nearly 1 percent to a little more than 340 million, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

“Increasingly, population growth in metro areas is being shaped by international migration,” said Kristie Wilder, a demographer in the Census Bureau’s Population Division. She noted that births still add people, but higher net international migration is offsetting ongoing net domestic outmigration.

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