Immigrants played a key role in the growth of major US urban counties last year, with areas like Houston, Miami, and Phoenix seeing significant population increases due to international migration. The shift helped counteract the trend of domestic residents moving to suburban areas,

Population growth in U.S. metro areas outpaced previous years and is largely being fueled by international migration, the Census Bureau found. A report released Thursday by the bureau found major counties in Texas,

All of the United States’ net population growth between 2022 and 2023 was due to immigration, according to the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank. It’s the first time population influx from immigration has outpaced native births since the Census began to collect data on nativity in 1850,