Top Ten Metros for Growth 2000-2010

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Top ten in growth in 1,000,000 plus metros from 2000-2010

1. Las Vegas, NV 41.8%
2. Raleigh, NC 41.8 [[squeaks in a 1.130 mill today from 800k in 2000)
3. Austin, TX 37.3
4 Charlotte-Gastonia, NC/SC 32.1
5. Riverside, Ca 29.8
6 Orlando, FL 29.8
7. Phoenix, Az 28.9
8. Houston Tx 26.1
9. San Antonio Tx. 25.2
10. Atlanta, GA. 24.0
11. Dallas, Tx 23.4% [[if you don't count Raleigh.)

That list has an awful lot of poster children for sprawl, anti urban growth policies, and lack light rail/decent mass transit....or if they got it, its pretty damn recent ...like Austin...they got it last year. Heck, until 2004...Houston was the reigning king of large cities without rail, yet Houston metro grew by the same amount Detroit [[city of) fell. Heck, most on that list saw more people move to that metro than live in Detroit proper today.

What these areas seem to have is a reason to be there. Orlando and Vegas have got to be top ten tourist destinations. Most if not all have major tier 1 [[some have several) universities located there. Most if not all thrive on a diverse knowledge based economy . A few are state capitals . Not one gets snow on a regular basis, but you can't tell me it's all snowbird retirees [[maybe phoenix..lol) And practically half the list is in Texas where they are pathological about keeping taxes down.

Looking at this list, is it a lack of jobs in a one trick pony economy and an onerous burden on doing business in this state or is being a sprawled out metro killing SeM?


longer list is here.. http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/inter...aps-and-charts

Interesting to note that Chicago and NY were no where near the top ten in growth during the last decade. Have they peaked? Just mature with slow manageable growth?

40. Chicago 4.0% [[Chicago itself shrunk 6.9% which put it #7 on the shrinking cities list)
44. NYC.NJ 3.1%

50. Detroit-Warren-Livonia -3.5%