Population Growth Rate

Faster recent population growth scores higher using Census Population Estimates Program city and town estimates where available.

Scale0-100

Higher values rank better for this score.

How It's Calculated

The latest published score is normalized to a 0-100 scale. The method below explains what the score rewards, with technical source metadata available for audit.

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The scorer calculates total growth and annualized growth from PEP annual population estimates.
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Annualized growth is converted to a 0-100 population-weighted percentile-rank score, where higher growth scores higher.

Technical details

Score TypeMaster Score

Read from the current master score table for this criterion.

Ranking BasisSingle Score

The top 10 below ignore your blended relocation weights and sort only by Population Growth Rate.

No source details available for this score.

What This Score Means

Population Growth Rate rewards places with faster recent Census-estimated population growth.

Statistics Feeding This Score

Annualized growth since 2020
Annualized growth from the 2020 population estimate to the latest PEP vintage.
Source: U.S. Census Population Estimates Program
Latest-year growth
One-year growth from the prior estimate year to the latest estimate year.
Source: U.S. Census Population Estimates Program

Source Data

Source: U.S. Census Population Estimates ProgramAnnual Census population estimates for cities, towns, and other local governmental units. Population-size scoring uses these estimates when available and falls back to ACS for Census places not covered by PEP.

Known Limits

This score is available only for locations matched to Census Population Estimates Program incorporated-place rows.
Very small places can have noisy growth rates, so the percentile normalization is weighted by current population.
Uses place population, not metro-area population or commute-shed population.

Top 10 Locations

Ranked by Population Growth Rate.

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