100 Fastest Growing Counties - census.gov The pandemic, which pushed the death rate higher and the birthrate even lower, appears to have deepened that trend. In Illinois, a state that also lost a congressional seat, 93 of 102 counties are believed to be shrinking. Five of the last years top 10 largest-gaining counties Collin at No. 4 (53,000); and San Antonio-New Braunfels at No. Los Angeles County lost nearly 185,000 residents last year, while New York County shrank by some 117,000. Its huge.. There were exceptions to the pattern the population of a rural county in North Dakota exploded, for example, during an oil boom but overwhelmingly, the United States growth was fueled by increases in large cities and metropolitan areas. Seven lost a seat: California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Collin and Denton counties were among the top 10 counties in the U.S. for population growth last year, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Californias Hispanic population became the largest in the state in 2020, outstripping the states white population, newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau showed. 6) and Montgomery (No. Vast areas of predominantly white, rural America saw their populations decline. African Americans share of the overall population increased from 31.5 percent to 33 percent in the last decades, while Hispanics went from 8.8 percent to 10.5 percent of the population. 8) were in Texas. But among groups, there is quite a large variation. And redistricting will take place this fall without critical guardrails that the Voting Rights Act had erected: a process known as preclearance that ensured oversight of states with a history of discrimination. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser. You have more older Americans, and birth rates are low so you dont have many children being born, said Kenneth Johnson, a senior demographer at the University of New Hampshire.