Population of U.S. drifts south
NZPA Washington The United States population is shifting from north to south and although New York is still the biggest city Los Angeles has replaced Chicago in second place, says the Census Bureau. New York City has 7.09 million inhabitants, Los Angeles 3.02 million and Chicago 2.99 million. Houston, in the southern sun belt, had the fastest growth rate, 8.2 per cent, to 1.73 million, moving into fourth place past Philadelphia, which dropped 1.4 per cent to 1.69 million.
The others in the top 10 are Detroit and four sunbelt cities: Dallas, , San Diego, Phoenix, and San Antonio.
Baltimore dropped out of the top 10. Washington fell from sixteenth to seventeenth place with a 0.8 per cent population decline to 638,000.
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