San Antonio's population growth continues to pace the rest of the country, according to new figures from the U.S. Census Bureau, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports.
San Antonio added more than 24,000 new residents in the last 12 month Census measurement period, between July of 2015 and July 2016, the third largest numerical growth of any major city in America.
Only Los Angeles and Phoenix added more new residents during that period than San Antonio.
San Antoinio's city population as of July of 2016, according to the Census Bureau, hovered just under one and a half million, at 1,492,000.
In fact, San Antonio is poised to jump from the seventh largest to the sixth largest city in the USA in time for the 2020 Census. San Antonio today ranks only about 60,000 people less than Philadelphia, which is now number six, and Philly's population is shrinking.
If the City receives permission from the state to annex more than 15,000 residents who live in rural northwest Bexar County along fast growing I-10, that will boost the City's population even more.
In fact, five of the fifteen fastest growing major cities in the USA are in Texas. Behind San Antonio at number three is Dallas at #6, Ft. Worth at #7, Houston and #8 and Austin is #9 in actual population growth.
Six of the fifteen fastest growing mid sized cities in the USA are also in Texas, including New Braunfels, which ranks as the ninth fastest growing small city in the USA in terms of population growth. New Braunfels' population has ballooned to just under 74,000.Other small Texas cities on the list of the fastest growing are Conroe, Frisco, McKinney, Georgetown and Cedar Park.