Phoenix Is the Fastest-Growing Large City

• Aug. 12, 2021, 3:08 p.m. ET

The census numbers confirmed the scorching gait of maturation successful Phoenix.

Arizona’s godforsaken superior grew astatine the fastest complaint among America’s biggest cities, vaulting it up of Philadelphia to officially go the fifth-biggest metropolis successful the United States since the past census.

Phoenix’s colonisation grew from 1.4 cardinal radical successful 2010 to 1.6 cardinal successful 2020, a complaint of 11.2 percent, according to the Census Bureau.

The summation has been fueled not conscionable by migration and sun-seeking retirees but besides by the accomplishment of tech companies and middle-class families from California and different much costly parts of the state seeking much affordable housing.

The Phoenix metro country continued to sprawl outward into the desert, with outlying suburbs specified arsenic Buckeye increasing by astir 80 percent implicit the past 10 years. But Phoenix is besides increasing up, booming with caller condo towers and rowhouses filling successful the downtown.

All this maturation has raised anxieties astir however the portion volition proviso capable h2o for each the caller residents and their yards erstwhile brutal droughts and hotter summers are draining rivers and reservoirs.

The colonisation roar crossed Phoenix and surrounding Maricopa County has besides translated into a governmental shift. President Biden narrowly won Arizona’s 11 electoral votes past November, eking retired a triumph successful what had erstwhile been a reliably Republican statesmanlike state.