Texas cities continue to grow by leaps and bounds with several North Texas cities adding more residents than most others across the country, according to the latest census bureau estimates.
FILE - View of the Dallas skyline through the Horseshoe highway built to upgrade the congested interchange in downtown Dallas, Texas, on July 21, 2020. The growing Texas economy led the state to once again dominate the list of fastest-growing areas in the country.
The Denton County city of Little Elm was the 5th fastest growing in the country with an increase of 8% in one year. The population there is now just over 55,000. According to the Associated Press, during the first full year of the pandemic in 2021, more than half of the 20 largest U.S. metro areas lost residents, and all U.S. metro areas grew by just 0.1%, as fear of the virus sent residents fleeing the most densely-populated urban areas and the popularity of remote work allowed people to live far from their workplaces.
The Dallas-Fort Worth area grew the most among U.S. metros, jumping by six-digit figures for a second consecutive year. By that same token, smaller communities known as micropolitan statistical areas grew by 0.1% last year compared to 0.2% in 2021.
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