The vast majority of American cities are shrinking, but new data shows that a few are regaining residents after population declines early in the pandemic — bolstered, perhaps, by the rapid construction of new homes.
Seattle, Houston, Atlanta and Tucson, Arizona, are among the cities that lost population between 2020 and 2021 but now have more people than they did a decade ago, according to a Stateline analysis of city population estimates to be released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Only about 631 of the 9,344 cities that lost population early in the pandemic, or 7%, have made such a turnaround. In many of them, the construction of new homes is adding to the housing supply.
