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Leading the pack with an amazing 273 percent increase ndash and 25471 new residents was The Villages MSA Metropolitan Statistical Area in Florida a retirement community that has enjoyed explosive growth over the past few years

EW's Top 100 Metro Stars in Population Growth

Nov. 7, 2016
Ever wonder which cities and towns are adding the most population? EW's Top 100 Metros Stars in Population Growth on the map below all enjoyed population increases between 2010 and 2015 of at least 5.9%, more than two percentage points over the 4.1% population growth the United States saw as a whole.

Ever wonder which cities and towns are adding the most population? It’s actually a pretty important economic indicator to track, because every new resident contributes to the local economy in some way. They all require new products and services of some sort, and that’s good news for the electrical market. Along with needing new places to live, they need places to shop, got to school or church, eat, gas up their car and go to the movies. That means new market potential in the construction and retrofitting of buildings loaded with electrical equipment for electrical distributors, reps, electrical manufacturers, electrical contractors and other buying influences.

Electrical Wholesaling's Top 100 Metros Stars in Population Growth on the map below all enjoyed population increases between 2010 and 2015 of at least 5.9%, more than two percentage points over the 4.1% population growth the United States saw as a whole. Leading the pack with an amazing 27.3% percent increase – and 25,471 new residents - was The Villages MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area) in Florida, a retirement community that has enjoyed explosive growth over the past few years.

About the Author

Jim Lucy | Editor-in-Chief of Electrical Wholesaling and Electrical Marketing

Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 40 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling and Electrical Marketing newsletter, and as a contributing writer for EC&M magazine During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement.

Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling  and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted with his wife and three sons in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 30 years. 

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