Atlanta's population grew by 75,000 people last year, the Census Bureau reports. Jay Martino, a 24-year-old master barber and recent college graduate, moved from Charleston, South Carolina, to Atlanta in November hoping to boost his career. The Atlanta Regional Commission mentions the continuing construction boom in the city, which focuses on multifamily housing. ATLANTA ATLANTA — The Atlanta metropolitan area is the fourth fastest-growing area in the country and, while most of the growth occurs in the suburbs, it is estimated that the population of the city of Atlanta could triple its population in the next thirty years.
The Atlanta Regional Commission, for example, predicts that the 21-county metropolitan area will have 9 million residents by 2050. According to the Atlanta Regional Commission, the city of Atlanta added 10,100 new residents in that same period. Martino isn't the only one who has had professional success: many of his fraternity mates moved to Atlanta and have similar stories to tell, he said. These factors will help Atlanta resist obstacles to the domestic market, which is reeling after skyrocketing home prices and interest rates prompted homebuying.
out of reach. The city of Atlanta added 14,300 residents last year, nearly three times as many as in the previous 12-month period. Nelson estimates that by 2050, the Atlanta metropolitan area will have close to 9 million people, 1.3 million of whom will live within the city. An estimate of the population of the Atlanta metropolitan area over the past seven decades, starting from an estimated 513,000 (and miserable) inhabitants in 1950.
On top of that, about 21% of Atlanta renters have the economic means to become homeowners, unlike many parts of the country, data from the NAR shows. The city of Atlanta estimates that by 2040, there could be 1.2 million people living within the city limits. Metros also shows that the Atlanta metropolitan area continues to leave the Miami area in oblivion, after having surpassed the largest city in Florida in the No. In the U.S., 5,949,951 people now live in the Atlanta metropolitan area, with an increase of more than 75,000 people in one year.
It is true that the annual growth rate of this large metropolitan area is currently lower (1.55 percent compared to last year, according to Macrotrends) than in the boom of the 1990s, when a year-on-year increase was common of the population of almost 5 percent. If current growth patterns remain stable, the Atlanta metropolitan area could surpass the country's next two largest metropolitan areas, Washington DC (No.
