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Las Vegas is Fastest Growing City20 October 2000WASHINGTON, D.C. – As reported by the Associated Press: “Besides bright lights and a ton of hotels, New York and Las Vegas share at least one other characteristic: lots of traffic. ”…Residents of Las Vegas and its environs -- the nation's fastest-growing metro area in the 1990s but nowhere near the largest -- still have to get accustomed to congested roads as a fact of life. ”…Such is life when population grows in the Las Vegas metro area by 62 percent between April 1990 and July 1999 to 1,381,086 million, the largest percentage growth for any metro area in the country, according to the Census Bureau's annual estimates. ”…Two suburbs in the Las Vegas metro area, Henderson and North Las Vegas, were the fastest-growing cities of at least 100,000 population. Henderson grew 155.6 percent to 166,399, and North Las Vegas grew 112.4 percent to 101,841. ”…Las Vegas was followed in the top five by two Texas metro areas: Laredo (up 45 percent), and McAllen-Edinburg-Mission (up 39.5 percent); then Boise, Idaho (up 37.9 percent), and Naples, Fla. (up 36.1 percent)…” |