Catherine Nesset's Real Estate News

June 1, 2009

Bizdemographics

G. Scott Thomas bizjournals

Atlanta will climb into the top six.

Atlanta was No. 9 in 2005, and will be moving higher in coming years. Atlanta is ticketed for sixth place at 7.3 million.

Projecting population growth is as much an art as a science -- and often an inexact art at that. But it still offers an interesting, useful and provocative view of the future.

That's why bizjournals is issuing its own population projections for the nation’s 250 largest metropolitan areas, looking as far ahead as 2025.

Bizjournals analyzed recent county-by-county growth patterns within each state, and then used that information to predict metropolitan growth at five-year intervals between 2005 and 2025.

No one can foresee all of the economic twists and demographic turns that the coming two decades will bring, but bizjournals' projections suggest a range of intriguing possibilities.

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http://www.bizjournals.com/edit_special/80.html