The added population pushed the area’s number of people to 5.16 million. ARC said the City of Atlanta, Cherokee County, and Forsyth and Henry counties had the fastest growth across the region.

The population of the 21-county Atlanta region will reach 7.9 million by 2050, an increase of 1.8 million over the 2020 U.S. Census baseline, according to population and employment forecasts ...

The population for 2023 was 6,307,261, not including another 222,060 residents in Athens-Clarke County. The metro Atlanta area added 68,585 residents between 2022 and 2023. OTHER GEORGIA-RELATED ...

Atlanta metro area now 6th largest in U.S., Census Bureau estimates It joins Fulton as the only Georgia counties to breach that mark, and it’ll be decades — or longer — before another county ...

The decline, a modest 1,330-person dip from mid-2023 to mid-2024, signals a potential inflection point for one of the Sun Belt’s longtime real estate growth.

Atlanta outpaced the metro regions of Washington D.C., Miami and Seattle during the nine-year period, according Census data.

Over the last decade, a lot of people have also moved in and out of Atlanta. Between 2010 and 2019, 171,000 people came and 161,000 left, meaning overall, our city grew by about 10,000 people.

The ARC forecasts that Forsyth County, north of Atlanta, will be the region’s fastest growing, doubling its population to 430,000 by 2040.

Still, Atlanta remains the most populated area, officially breaking past 500,000 residents by more than 10,000 people, according to the Census report. As a state, Georgia had an overall 1.1% ...

The City of Atlanta added 14,300 residents in the past year, the report stated. It claimed that the population totaled to 521,315.