New York City Adds 205,750 New Citizens

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New York City has added more residents than any city in the United States since 2000. So many that the ‘new’ New Yorkers could fill a city the size of Boise, Idaho, bringing its population totals to an all time high.

New York City is the only major old industrial town that has not experienced a shrinking in the number of its residents. The top 10 cities of a hundred years ago would have included places like Baltimore, now at 631,366, the 19th largest, Boston - 590,763, 22nd, Cleveland - 444,313, 40th and St Louis - 347,181, 52nd.

Each of the 10 largest cities once lay within 500 miles of Canada. Currently, seven of the top 10 are sun belt cities and they are closer to Mexico than Canada.

Some of the nation’s biggest cities today were mere blips on the radar at the turn of 20th-century America. Los Angeles, the nation’s second largest city with 3,849,378 people, had a population of just over 100,000 in 1900.

Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, San Diego and San Jose, California all had fewer than 100,000.

Phoenix, which 100 years ago was not even among the 100 most populous cities, grew by more than 40,000 residents in just 12 months ending July 1, 2006. Phoenix passed Philadelphia, which has lost about 70,000 residents during the 2000s, to become the fifth biggest American city.

The biggest population losses of the 2000s, outside of New Orleans, where hurricane-related losses drove more than half the city’s residents away, was seen in the Motor City of Detroit.

City (population over 500,000)	State	Population	Percent growth
Ft. Worth	TX	653,320	4.8%
Phoenix	AZ	1,512,986	2.9%
Austin	TX	709,893	2.7%
San Antonio	TX	1,296,682	2.6%
Charlotte	NC	630,478	2.3%
Albuquerque	NM	504,949	2.1%
El Paso	TX	609,415	1.9%
San Jose	CA	929,936	1.6%
Denver	CO	566,974	1.5%
Jacksonville	FL	794,555	1.5%