America’s fastest growing cities
                     
America’s fastest 



America’s fastest 
growing cities 


America’s fastest growing cities. 
 

1. Kent, Washington 

 

This city, about 20 miles from Seattle, may be a 

lot smaller than its neighbor (right now!), but in, 

oh, 20 years, it could rival Seattle’s size. In four 
years alone, it went from under 90,000 

residents to early 123,000. That’s a 27 percent 
growth rate! 


2. Frisco, Texas 

 

Proving the basic concepts of economics, 

Frisco shows that the fastest growing city in the 

US costs a bunch to live in also — it’s the 
richest city in the country according to our data. 

In terms of population growth, 41% growth in a 

6 year period comes out to a 5.89% compound 

annual growth rate. That’s about 8x faster than 
the US as a whole. 


3. Pearland, TX 

 

It’s at this point that you’ll begin to realize that 
Texas dominates the top ten. Pearland ranks as 

the fifth fastest growing large city in America 

and is the smallest in the top ten. 

In fact, Pearland wouldn’t have even had 
enough people to qualify for the 100,000 person 

threshold in 2010 — it broke that mark for the 
first time in 2015. 


4. New Orleans, LA  

 

New Orleans is the largest city in the top ten by 

a wide margin. 

Good food, jobs, and awesome things to do 

make New Orleans a great place to call home 

as its growth rate will attest. 


5. Irvine, CA  

 

California makes an appearance for the first 

time with Irvine coming in at the 6th spot. 

I would have expected more California cities on 

the list, but I guess population growth in earlier 

in the 2000s set the bar too high. Irvine added 

almost 48k people in this frame. 

 

 


6. Midland, TX 

 

And concluding the top fastest growing cities in 

the US is Midland. 

The first city with less than 20% growth, 19% is 

nothing to sneeze out. 


7 Surprise, AZ  

 

In a surprise to no living in Surprise, Surprise, 

AZ ranks as the 7th fastest growing city in 

America for 2018. 

23% population growth is unsurprising for one 

of Arizona’s up and coming cities. 
 

 


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