Population declines continued in the nation’s three largest metros — New York, Los Angeles and Chicago — but their losses were lower than in previous years. New York City lost 78,000 residents last year.
Of the 56 metro areas with populations greater than 1 million, 42 either saw their populations go up, or losses that were lower than during the nadir of the pandemic years, according to William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution. Many are now seeing less migration out to other U.S. jurisdictions, or gains from immigration.
Folks were leaving urban areas because of the pandemic, that trend appears to have slowed. And the term "metro area" includes a lot of suburban population of course.
