{"id":685960,"date":"2026-03-27T17:13:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/685960\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T17:13:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:13:19","slug":"only-two-major-u-s-metros-outpaced-the-valleys-growth-rate-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/685960\/","title":{"rendered":"Only two major U.S. metros outpaced the Valley&#8217;s growth rate in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2014 The Valley saw slower growth in 2025 than it did a year earlier, adding nearly 60,000 people between July 1, 2024 and the same date in 2025, according to the latest federal numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Census Bureau released its metro-level 2025 Vintage Estimates today, showing a total population increase for the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler metropolitan statistical area of 1.14% during the measurement period. That\u2019s a drop from 1.62% growth during the previous twelve-month period.<\/p>\n<p>In raw numbers, the Valley\u2019s population rose by 59,065 people \u2014 still the fourth-highest increase in the U.S. \u2014 to clock in at 5,228,938 by July 1, 2025, making it the 10th most populous metro in the nation.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/phoenix\/news\/2026\/03\/25\/valley-population-growth-slows-but-outpaces-us.html?2utm_source=sy&amp;utm_medum=ptr&amp;utm_campaign=knxv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more of this story from the Business Journal.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc15.com\/apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769200040_488_liveplayerbanner1.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 The Valley saw slower growth in 2025 than it did a year earlier, adding nearly 60,000&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":685961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-685960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116302263645476449","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}