[ssiguy]

Totally appreciate the info and hard work and gives a good indication of how and what cities are growing.

The US is quite interesting in that there is very little growth in the entire Atlantic Seaboard or Great Lakes and the vast majority seems to be concentrated in Florida, Texas, nd the Pacific. The UK growth seems to be completely dominated by London with the rest of the country picking up the scraps. Melbourne is rocking and all of Australia is growing quickly and Auckland too. Canada is doing well especially Toronto. Those Canadian stats are for 2016 which does not include the standard "undercount" by StatsCan which is why 2015 figures are actually larger than 2016 figures.

It's clear that most people are funneling into a rather select few cities and in the US all those places are in the South and Westcoast resulting in a decline of everywhere else.

The problem when comparing more specifically is what exactly constitures as metropolitan area. The US and Australian cities in particular are massive in sq area and similar sq areas used for many UK and Canadian cities would show substantially larger numbers. Still makes for interesting reading and comparisons.