Booming Southern Cities and the Shrinking Northeast

A visual guide to today's Census Bureau population data release

This morning the Census Bureau released data about how the country’s “incorporated places” (cities, towns, and villages) grew between between the summer of 2022 and the summer of 2023. This information is useful and interesting, and is most powerful when contextualized with the population data from recent years.

This first figure shows how the 10 largest…