Many people in the United States left their cities and sought refuge in the states of Texas, Arizona, Florida, Tennessee, and Idaho during the pandemic.
During the pandemic, a substantial number of Americans left metropolitan cities in favor of suburbs and rural locations in red states.
That period saw Georgetown, Texas developed at a pace of 10.5 percent, which Axios said would quadruple the community’s size in less than seven years. Leander (10.1 percent) and New Braunfels (8.0 percent) rounded out the top five Texas cities for migration. The third- and fourth-highest migration rates are found in the Arizona cities of Queen Creek Town (8.9 percent) and Buckeye (8.6 percent).
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Axios analyzed Census Bureau statistics Monday and found that the 15 fastest-growing cities between July 1, 2020, and July 1, 2021, were all located in red states like Texas, Florida, Arizona, Tennessee, and Idaho.
There has been an exodus from America’s greatest cities, with New York City suffering a population decline of 3.5%, a net loss of 305,000 individuals over that period.
