Population Flowing to Mid-Sized Metros in the Sunshine State
Following up on the large metro migration analysis we did last week, we now look at the migration patterns for the mid-sized metros with populations between 500,000 and 1 million. Again, using the U.S. Census Bureau's recently released population estimates, we first take a look at total population change between 2016 and 2017. The five mid-sized metros in Florida (Lakeland, Cape Coral, North Port, Deltona and Palm Bay) stand out in the map below. Each saw their populations gr