The figures reflect the initial months of President Donald Trump’s second term.
Growth rates in U.S. metro areas dropped the steepest last year in communities along the border with Mexico because ofWall Street’s 2025 bonuses reached unprecedented levels in a rollicking year for marketsUS filings for jobless aid tick up last week to 210,000 but remain at historically healthy levelsThe estimates showed that a majority of metro areas and counties had slower population gains last year, which the agency attributed primarily to a slowdown in international migration.
A year earlier, an influx of immigrants had helped urban areas recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.The figures, covering one year through July 1, 2025, reflect the initial months of President Donald Trump’s second term and the beginning ofand birth rates in the Unied States declining over the past two decades, immigration has become an important source of growth in many communities. “With so little natural increase, migration determines whether an area grows or declines, particularly in the big metro cores that have continuous domestic out-migration and are dependent on immigration,” said Kenneth Johnson, senior demographer at the University of New Hampshire.Three metro areas along the southern border stretching from Arizona to Texas had the steepest drops in population growth rates in 2025. The growth rate in Laredo, Texas, dropped from 3.2% to 0.2%. It went from 3.3% to 1.4% in Yuma, Arizona, and declined from 1.2% into negative territory at -0.7% in El Centro, California. All three experienced growth in 2024 because of an influx of thousands of immigrants. “That pattern suggests a sharper rise-and-fall effect in border regions, where international migration plays a more central role in year-to-year population change,” said Helen You, interim director of the Texas Demographic Center. As in 2024, the top destinations for immigrants in pure numbers in 2025 were counties that are home to Houston, Miami and Los Angeles. But the drop in immigrant numbers in those counties was stark. FILE – A Marine stands in front of newly installed concertina wire lining one of two border walls separating Mexico from the United States during a news conference, March 21, 2025, in San Diego. , tore through Gulf Coast counties in Florida in fall 2024, causing tens of billions of dollars in damage. The storms also caused residents to leave, according to the population estimates. Pinellas County, home to St. Petersburg, lost almost 12,000 residents, the second most in the country, trailing only Los Angeles County, which has been losing population all decade. Pinellas County relies on migration for growth because deaths outpace births more than in any American county. Taylor County, a tiny rural community ravaged by the hurricanes in Florida’s Big Bend area, had the steepest growth rate decline among U.S. counties last year, with a -2.2% drop. Urban counties such as Pinellas likely will be quicker to rebuild their counts than the more rural ones in Big Bend, said Richard Doty, a research demographer at the University of Florida. “These communities may recover in time, but they have lost a lot of appeal due to the hurricanes, the cost of insurance, etc.,” Doty said. The hurricane migration was not limited to Florida. In the Blue Ridge Mountains, the county that is home to Asheville, North Carolina, had more than 2,000 residents leaving in the months after the remnants of Helene destroyed homes and cut off power and communications to mountain towns.The New York metro area slid from growing by the most people in 2024 to ranking No. 13 in 2025 because of the drop in immigrants. Instead, two perennial growth powerhouses this decade, the Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth metro areas, were at the top of the list, followed by the Atlanta, Phoenix and Charlotte, North Carolina, metro areas.Ocala, Florida, located 80 miles northwest of Orlando and known for its horse farms, led the nation at 3.4%. It was followed by metro Myrtle Beach, South Carolina,; Spartanburg, South Carolina; Lakeland, Florida, located between the much larger metros of Tampa and Orlando; and Punta Gorda, Florida, about 35 miles north of Fort Myers.Even though New York had more people moving out than moving in, births allowed the metro area to gain more than 32,000 residents. The New York metro area led the nation in natural increase, or births outpacing deaths, followed by the Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston metros. The metros where deaths outpaced births in the greatest numbers were Pittsburgh and several Florida communities with large senior populations — the Sarasota, Daytona Beach and Tampa metro areas. The two Texas metro areas topped the charts in natural increase because of their age structure and the fact that they have gained more people than anywhere in the U.S., You said. “Decades of domestic and international in-migration have produced relatively young populations, with a large share of residents in childbearing ages, alongside comparatively smaller proportions of senior populations,” she said.Fourth Padres suitor becomes publicEl destructor de San Diego USS Gridley se dirige a Sudamérica para entrenar con el portaaviones NimitzConcerning trends for seniors prompt shift in San Diego CountyPadres sign broadcaster Jesse Agler to multi-year extension
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