{"id":91886,"date":"2011-04-19T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/las-vegas-atop-the-list-of-america-s-fastest-growing-cities-of-the-decade\/"},"modified":"2018-10-16T03:34:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T07:34:36","slug":"las-vegas-atop-the-list-of-america-s-fastest-growing-cities-of-the-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/las-vegas-atop-the-list-of-america-s-fastest-growing-cities-of-the-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Atop the List of America\u2019s Fastest Growing Cities of the Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The results of the 2010 Census have been made public and now experts are going over the data, trying to figure out where the American public is moving and why.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Forbes <\/em>recently published an article based on the census data that looked at the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/joelkotkin\/2011\/04\/15\/the-census-fastest-growing-cities-of-the-decade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> fastest growing cities in America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Not so surprisingly, the authors found that population growth was heavily influenced by job growth.\u00a0 Americans seem to be moving where the jobs are.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Once again, Las Vegas found itself atop the list as it remained a major tourist draw and source of job creation on the decade. However, Raleigh, North Carolina was right on Sin City\u2019s heels, matching its 48.1% population increase.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A list of the top 10 cities can be found below. (Please note: these rankings are based on the population of entire metropolitan areas, not just the populations within city limits):<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Las Vegas (48.1 % population increase)<br \/>\n2.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Raleigh, North Carolina (48.1 % population increase)<br \/>\n3.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Austin, Texas (37.3% population increase)<br \/>\n4.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Charlotte, North Carolina (32.1% population increase)<br \/>\n5.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Riverside, San-Bernardino, California (29.8% population increase)<br \/>\n6.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Orlando, Florida (29.8% population increase)<br \/>\n7.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Phoenix, Arizona (28.9% population increase)<br \/>\n8.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Houston, Texas (26.1% population increase)<br \/>\n9.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0San Antonia, Texas (25.2% population increase)<br \/>\n10.\u00a0 Atlanta, Georgia (24% population increase)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results of the 2010 Census have been made public and now experts are going over the data, trying to figure out where the American public is moving and why. &nbsp; Forbes recently published an article based on the census data that looked at the fastest growing cities in America. &nbsp; Not so surprisingly, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-international-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98897513,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91886\/revisions\/98897513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}