Las Cruces among nation’s fastest-growing metros

New Mexico Business Weekly - Las Cruces was the 30th fastest-growing metropolitan area in the U.S. between 2010 and 2011, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday. The area’s population grew by 2.1 percent, or 4,364 people, between April 2010 and July 2011. In 2011, the area had a population of 213,598. Las Cruces was the only New Mexico metro area that made the Census Bureau’s list of the 50 fastest-growing metro areas. New Mexico’s population grew by 6,733 during the period, for a 0.3 percent growth rate. Bernalillo County’s population grew by 1,861, or 0.3 percent. Texas had 10 metro areas on the list of the 50 fastest-growing areas, Colorado had four, Utah two and Arizona one. The fastest-growing metro area in the U.S. was Kennewick-Pasco-Richland in Washington state. Its population increased by 10,793, or 4.3 percent. Nearly all of the 50 fastest-growing areas were in the South or West, the Census Bureau said. Read More News New Mexico 

Las Cruces among nation’s fastest-growing metros