10 Largest US Cities by Decade

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2000
  1. New York (NY) – population: 8,008,278
  2. Los Angeles (CA) – population: 3,694,820
  3. Chicago (IL) – population: 2,896,016
  4. Houston (TX) – population: 1,953,631
  5. Philadelphia (PA) – population: 1,517,550
  6. Phoenix (AZ) – population: 1,321,045
  7. San Diego (CA) – population: 1,223,400
  8. Dallas (TX) – population: 1,188,580
  9. San Antonio (TX) – population: 1,144,646
  10. Detroit (MI) – population: 951,270

As much as Phoenix has risen to prominence as America’s sixth largest city and first city from Arizona with more than 1 million inhabitants, Detroit has continued with its sharp decline and took one of the spots in top 10 list for the last time. At the same time, New York has breached the 8 million mark and fully recovered from the losses sustained during the seventies – not exactly “That Seventies Show” for the Big Apple, wasn’t it?

Fastest Growing Metropolitan Areas in America in 2015

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