FILE - The Detroit skyline is seen, May 12, 2020, in Detroit. The city of Detroit which has seen an exodus of tens of thousands of people since the 1950s has grown in population for the first in more than six decades, according to U.S. Census estimates. Data released Thursday, May 16, 2024, show Detroit's population rose by 1,852 people from 631,366 in 2022 to 633,218 last year.
Modest reversals of population declines also were seen last year in other large cities in the nation's Northeast and Midwest, while the census estimates showed 13 of the 15 fastest-growing cities in the U.S. were in the South — eight in Texas alone. Los Angeles lost only 1,800 people last year, following a decline in the 2020s of almost 78,000 residents. Chicago, which has lost almost 82,000 people this decade, only had a population drop of 8,200 residents last year.
Houston at 2.3 million residents, Phoenix at 1.7 million, Philadelphia at 1.6 million, San Antonio, Texas, at 1.5 million, San Diego at 1.4 million, Dallas at 1.3 million and Jacksonville, Florida, at 986,000 round out the top 10 largest cities.
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