Raleigh-Cary, NC, and Austin-Round Rock, TX, were the nation’s fastest-growing metro areas between 2007 and 2008, according to July 1, 2008 population estimates for the nation’s metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas and counties.
94 of the 100 counties (with a population of 10,000 or more) with the fastest population growth last year were in either the South (71 counties) or the West (23 counties). The remaining six were in the Midwest.
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