When news breaks out that Greater Phoenix is one of the best places in the nation to find work, people move to Arizona and Phoenix’s growth explodes. At the end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019, this news spread in one ranking after the other. Job opportunities wait and a new population follows. The jobs available today fill positions in the expanding knowledge economy and growing technology, life science and manufacturing sectors. The quality of life in Phoenix makes it easier for companies to recruit from other areas. ALSO READ: The 15 Highest Paid Jobs in Arizona On July 1, 2020, the US Census Bureau estimated that the metropolitan area’s population was growing by an average of 291 people daily. Maricopa County saw the population increase by 86,820, more than any other US county. The entire Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler metropolitan area grew by an estimated 106,008 to 5.1 million people, the fastest pace of the top 10 metro regions. The Census Bureau’s population estimates differ from the 2020 census in that the estimates are calculated projections for the period July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020. Jobs and quality of life are the magnets that attract new populations. More than 80 percent of Arizona’s 2020 population growth moved to the greater Phoenix area. Typically, between 67 and 70 percent of Arizona’s population lives in Phoenix. As Phoenix continues to grow, more and more companies looking to expand are being drawn to the area to retain their skilled workforce. Greater Phoenix’s population has grown steadily over the past decade, with some acceleration between 2019 and 2020. The subway saw a 2.1 percent population increase, the 16th fastest percentage nationwide. Greater Phoenix remains the 10th largest subway area. The three largest metropolitan areas, New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago, all lost significant populations in 2020 compared to 2019. The new population in the Phoenix metro was supported by a steady birth rate of 57,251, up from 56,978 in 2019. The trend of declining birth rates has remained constant in Greater Phoenix, averaging 57,000 over the past five years. In 2020, there were 6,590 people who moved here from abroad. However, global immigration fell from nearly 8,300 in 2019. The number in 2020 is less than half of the 15,575 that moved here from an international address in 2015. The remaining population increases came from other states or counties in Arizona. The subway to subway and state to state migration data will be released in late summer. City population estimates are expected towards the end of May. Population estimates are computed by the Census Bureau using sampling, birth and death rates, and new housing starts. The estimates do not match the actual population that makes up the ten-year census. The ten-year census data will not be released until the end of 2021. The first official published census data for 2020, the Redistribution Census, estimated the state’s population at 7.2 million.
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