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"According to Wendell Cox (principal of Demographia, an international public policy and demographics firm), \"...the greatest rates of domestic migration among the 53 major metropolitan areas (over 1 M pop.) are overwhelmingly in the South. Austin is number one, gaining nearly 1.7 % from domestic migration.  Austin is followed by Tampa-St. Petersburg, Raleigh and Jacksonville.  Las Vegas is the only non-Southern major metropolitan area among the top five in net domestic migration.  The second five includes four Southern metropolitan areas, Charlotte, Orlando and Nashville, ranking sixth through eighth, and San Antonio ranking tenth.  Phoenix placed ninth.\" \n \n\n\n\t \n\n\n\tCharlotte's 2016 MSA pop. was estimated to be 2,474,314.  Charlotte's population change between 2015 and 2016 was 2.05%.  Charlotte's net domestic migration rate was 1.31%.  Charlotte's domestic migration rank was 13th out of 106 MSA with pops. over 500,000.\n \n\n\n\t \n\n\n\tCharlotte remains the country's 22nd largest MSA.  Raleigh passed Louisville to become the 43rd largest MSA.  Raleigh's estimated 2016 MSA pop. was 1,302,946.  \n \n\n\n\tSee Flight From Urban Cores Accelerates: 2016 Census Metropolitan Area Estimates, by Wendell Cox 03/24/2017 at:  \n \n\n\n\thttp://www.newgeography.com/content/005570-flight-urban-cores-accelerates-2016-census-metropolitan-area-estimates\n \n\n\n\tThere are 53 MSAs with populations greater than 1 M.  Six of those 53 MSAs are not part of a CSA: Phoenix, San Diego, Tampa-St. Petersburg, San Antonio, Austin and Richmond.  See  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Metropolitan_Statistical_Areas\n \n\n\n\tFor Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2016 - United States -- Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Area; and for Puerto Rico, 2016 Population Estimates, See https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?src=bkmk \n \n\n\n\tCharlotte's 2016 CSA population was 2,632,249 (Rank 21st), just behind Pittsburgh's CSA pop. of 2,635,228.  However, the Pittsburg CSA lost more than 11,000 residents between 2015 and 2016, while Charlotte's CSA gained nearly 50,000 residents in that period.  \n \n\n\n\tSee https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?src=bkmk  (American Fact Finder, Combined Statistical Areas, 07/01/2016).\n \n\n\n\t \n \n\n\n\t \n \n\n\n\t \n \n"
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