N.C. cities may lap Atlanta
Courtesy of Tom Baxter and GONSO:
For most of this decade, Atlanta has been the nation’s fastest growing metropolitan area. But in the latest batch of data released last week by the US Census Bureau, the metro area that had grown fastest in the previous year was Raleigh, N.C., and its suburb, Cary.
Raleigh-Cary grew by 4.3 percent over the year ending last July and, for the first time, it now numbers more than a million people. This could be a mere demographic blip or something we’ll look back on a few decades from now as a fateful turning point.
Atlanta and Raleigh lie on the northern and southern ends of what is now being called the Piedmont Atlantic Megaregion, or PAM. More than 34 million people live in the string of cities and suburbs stretching from Raleigh to Charlotte, down through Greenville-Spartanburg and west to Atlanta and Birmingham.
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