Top 10 Small U.S. Cities Growing Faster Than Their Suburbs

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http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2012/12/top-10-small-cities-growing-faster-their-suburbs/4123/



Back in June, Brookings Institution demographer William Frey dug into a new set of Census figures and determined that in America's 51 largest metro areas, on average, the core cities had suddenly started growing slightly faster than their suburbs. Frey's analysis focused on larger metros, but as it turns out, much the same story had been happening in smaller metros such as Clarksville, Tennessee, or Lexington, Kentucky. A new study released Monday by Smart Growth America, the national community-development advocacy organization, expanded on Frey's work to examine the population growth rates in the center cities of small U.S. metros (those with under one million people) between 2010 to 2011.

The top 10, below (table from the report):

[Sedona]

1. All red areas.......

with the possible exception of Greensboro (?)

What gives?

[caraher]

2. Not that simple...

Some of them are also college towns. Locally they may be blue or at least purple.