Demographia

US Metropolitan Areas Over 1,000,000 (1999):
Ranked by Percentage Change from 1950

Rank Metropolitan Area (County Based) 1999 1950 Change % Change
1 Las Vegas, NV-AZ MSA 1,381,086 59,900 1,321,186 2205.7%
2 West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, FL MSA 1,049,420 114,688 934,732 815.0%
3 Orlando, FL MSA 1,535,004 189,579 1,345,425 709.7%
4 Phoenix-Mesa, AZ MSA 3,013,696 374,961 2,638,735 703.7%
5 Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FL CMSA 3,711,102 579,017 3,132,085 540.9%
6 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL MSA 2,278,169 436,365 1,841,804 422.1%
7 San Diego, CA MSA 2,820,844 556,808 2,264,036 406.6%
8 Sacramento-Yolo, CA CMSA 1,741,002 375,636 1,365,366 363.5%
9 Austin-San Marcos, TX MSA 1,146,050 256,645 889,405 346.6%
10 Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX CMSA 4,493,741 1,068,437 3,425,304 320.6%
11 Dallas-Fort Worth, TX CMSA 4,909,523 1,266,421 3,643,102 287.7%
12 Atlanta, GA MSA 3,857,097 997,666 2,859,431 286.6%
13 Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News, VA-NC MSA 1,562,635 417,615 1,145,020 274.2%
14 Denver-Boulder-Greeley, CO CMSA 2,417,908 683,139 1,734,769 253.9%
15 Salt Lake City-Ogden, UT MSA 1,275,076 389,081 885,995 227.7%
16 Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County, CA CMSA 16,036,587 4,934,246 11,102,341 225.0%
17 Jacksonville, FL MSA 1,056,332 356,161 700,171 196.6%
18 San Antonio, TX MSA 1,564,949 556,881 1,008,068 181.0%
19 Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC MSA 1,105,535 395,163 710,372 179.8%
20 Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, WA CMSA 3,465,760 1,252,135 2,213,625 176.8%
21 San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA CMSA 6,873,645 2,747,856 4,125,789 150.1%
22 Portland-Salem, OR-WA CMSA 2,180,996 888,998 1,291,998 145.3%
23 Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC MSA 1,417,217 588,170 829,047 141.0%
24 Nashville, TN MSA 1,171,755 501,608 670,147 133.6%
25 Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV CMSA 7,359,044 3,302,894 4,056,150 122.8%
26 Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI MSA 2,872,109 1,296,216 1,575,893 121.6%
27 Oklahoma City, OK MSA 1,046,283 472,807 573,476 121.3%
28 Columbus, OH MSA 1,489,487 708,115 781,372 110.3%
29 Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point, NC MSA 1,179,384 580,533 598,851 103.2%
30 Grand Rapids, MI MSA 1,052,092 531,081 521,011 98.1%
31 Indianapolis, IN MSA 1,536,665 831,033 705,632 84.9%
32 Kansas City, MO-KS MSA 1,755,899 963,644 792,255 82.2%
33 Memphis, TN-AR-MS MSA 1,105,058 611,493 493,565 80.7%
34 Hartford, CT NECMA 1,113,800 651702 462,098 70.9%
35 New Orleans, LA 1,305,479 770,190 535,289 69.5%
36 Cincinnati-Hamilton, OH-KY-IN CMSA 1,960,995 1,220,280 740,715 60.7%
37 Louisville, KY-IN MSA 1,005,849 628,644 377,205 60.0%
38 Chicago-Gary-Kenosha, IL-IN-WI CMSA 8,885,919 5,806,971 3,078,948 53.0%
39 Rochester, NY MSA 1,079,073 722,800 356,273 49.3%
40 Detroit-Ann Arbor-Flint, MI CMSA 5,469,312 3,716,179 1,753,133 47.2%
41 Milwaukee-Racine, WI CMSA 1,648,199 1,123,796 524,403 46.7%
42 Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City, PA-NJ-DE-MD CMSA 5,999,034 4,230,918 1,768,116 41.8%
43 St. Louis, MO-IL MSA 2,591,456 1,839,233 752,223 40.9%
44 Boston-Worcester-Lawrence-Lowell-Brockton, MA-NH NECMA 5,901,589 4,271,927 1,629,662 38.1%
45 New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA CMSA/NECMA 20,102,875 14,923,151 5,179,724 34.7%
46 Cleveland-Akron, OH CMSA 2,910,616 2,233,417 677,199 30.3%
47 Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY MSA 1,142,121 1,089,230 52,891 4.9%
48 Pittsburgh, PA MSA 2,331,336 2,500,455 (169,119) -6.8%

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