“Some are undocumented and don’t want to be found.” “It’s getting harder and harder to count people in the census, and people of color are hard to count,” he said. In addition to inflated housing prices, Fulton said the decreased population may be overstated due to undercounts, especially among Hispanic and minority communities, who usually live in the largest urban areas. “Collin County is one of the fastest growing counties in the country and now has a population of almost one million people.” “In the Dallas metro area, the population of Collin County went up a lot, but the city of Dallas’ population went down,” he added. “The offset happened in both Houston and Dallas.” “In Houston, the population of Harris County went down, but the population of Fort Bend and Montgomery counties (which are part of the Houston Metro area) went up spectacularly,” Fulton emphasized. Meanwhile, fast-growing urban areas like Houston, Dallas and Atlanta continued to increase in numbers, but their levels of growth have slowed significantly. Last year marked the first time in a decade that major metro areas like Philadelphia, Seattle, Washington, D.C., Boston and Miami decreased in population. “Home prices really accelerated during COVID, and that accelerated the outward trend of people moving to the suburbs,” he said. “People started saying, ‘If I have to work at home and I don’t have to be close to my job, then why even stay here?’”įulton believes the exodus from big cities during the pandemic is primarily due to skyrocketing home prices. “The exodus from the big cities started happening during the (coronavirus) pandemic when people started working remotely,” explained Fulton. Los Angeles and Chicago saw a drop in population of more than 1%, along with Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Miami and Minneapolis.īut San Francisco’s population fell the most over the past year, by 6%. New York’s numbers decreased by 2%, as did Washington, D.C.’s, while Boston’s population fell 3%. “We began to see population losses as early as 2016, but that really accelerated during COVID,” he said. The three largest metropolitan areas – New York, Los Angeles and Chicago – continued their population loss, a trend Fulton said has been taking place over the past six years. “If you look all across the country, the population in big cities went down,” said urban planner Bill Fulton, the director of Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research. The numbers show that 62 of America’s 100 biggest counties decreased in population between July 2020 and July 2021. America is witnessing a population decline in its largest metro areas, according to the latest data from the US Census Bureau.
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