Newest Census Shows Alarming Growth

There has been a major shift in the 50 largest areas from 2000-2010 of which only 24 are still listed in the top 50! Miami, Fort Lauderdale, & Pompano Beach are all quickly growing! There were nine metro areas that were not among the 100 fastest growing between 2000 and 2010 but are among the 50 fastest growing from 2010 to 2011. As you can see from the statics below Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, Fl was the 6^th greatest increase in a little over a year’s time and the 4^th greatest increase in population was in the county of Miami-Dade, Fl.  South Florida is a diverse & rapidly growing community, which is lacking the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This can be found on J.D. Payne’s blog, “Missiologically Thinking”, he wrote an article on April 9, 2012, that shares a link to the U.S Census bureau’s fastest growing Metro areas.

More statistics from the US Census can be found here.

The 10 Metro Areas with the Largest Numeric Increase from April 1, 2010, to July 1, 2011

Numeric Increase

1. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas

154,774

2. Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, Texas

139,699

3. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, D.C.-Va.-Md.-W.Va.

121,911

4. New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, N.Y.-N.J.-Pa.

118,791

5. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, Calif.

115,964

6. Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, Fla.                         

105,490

7. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, Ga.

90,345

8. Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, Calif.

80,146

9. Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale, Ariz.

70,349

10. Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, Texas

67,230