The 10 Fastest Growing Cities In The United States For 2025

The 10 Fastest Growing Cities In America For 2025

1. Goodyear, AZ

2. Port St. Lucie, FL

3. Meridian, ID

For Idaho, Meridian counts as a major metropolis. With 124865.0 residents, it ranks among the state’s biggest cities. As it turns out, it also represents a boom town, with its population climbing 81.09% in a 10-year span.

Why are these people flocking to Meridian? Well, quietly, this has become a regional economic hub. The town provides a home for both the state police and Blue Cross of Idaho. It also has major cultural attractions, such as the Meridian Symphony Orchestra.

4. Frisco, TX

Proving the basic concepts of economics, Frisco shows that the fastest growing city in the US costs a bunch to live in also — it’s one of the richest cities in the country according to our data.

In terms of population growth, 103.8% growth in a 13 year period comes out to a 5.89% compound annual growth rate. That’s about 8x faster than the US as a whole.

5. Cape Coral, FL

6. Nampa, ID

7. Denton, TX

8. Menifee, CA

9. Round Rock, TX

Heading back to Texas, Round Rock rocks out in the 9th spot.

Along with Pearland, it only recently broke the 100k population threshold — 2012 to be exact.

10. Mckinney, TX

There’s a pretty big drop between the 2nd and 3rd fastest growing cities as McKinney has ‘only’ had a 70.51% growth. That’s still good for 6.5x the American average.

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Methodology: How We Determined The Fastest Growing Cities in The US for 2025

There are a couple of ways to measure how fast a city is growing:

1. % Change Year Over Year
2. % Change This Decade
3. Absolute change in population

We used Saturday Night Science to study option two for this analysis — how much have these cities grown since 2022 through the end of 2023, the most recently available data from the 2019-2023 American Community Survey.

We also limited the analysis to the 321 biggest cities in the US with over 100,000 people.

We looked at the percentage change in the population from 2022 until 2023 for each city using the classic formula:

((B – A) / A) * 100

We then ranked each city from largest change to smallest change. Goodyear, the fastest growing city, had a 5.5% increase in population. Jackson actually had a population loss of 5.484%, good for the slowest in America.

We updated this article for 2025. This article is our tenth time ranking the fastest-growing cities in America.

Summary: The Fastest Growing Big Cities in the United States

After measuring the populations of every major city in America for both now and 2010, we are left with Goodyear as the fastest-growing city in the US.

The cities in the United States with the largest single-year change in population are Goodyear, AZ, Port St. Lucie, FL, Meridian, ID, Frisco, TX, Cape Coral, FL, Nampa, ID, Denton, TX, Menifee, CA, Round Rock, TX, and Mckinney, TX.

My plan now? Buy a home in a small city ranked like 20-30. They will be getting much more popular in the years to come.

And for those playing at home, here’s a look at the slowest-growing cities in America:

1. Jackson
2. New Haven
3. San Francisco

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• Richest Places By State

Fastest Growing Big Cities In The US For 2025