Central Cores Continue to Lose People
Even as some of these regions population over all, their central cores to lose people. In New York, for example, census Bureau, demographers estimate that although the metropolitan area gained nearly 389,000 people from 1990 through 1996, more than 9000,000 migrated out from the core area of New York’ 5 five boroughs, plus Westchester, Rockland and Putnam Counties.
In California, more than 1.2 million people left Los Angeles County from 1990 through 1996. But because of immigration and high births, the Los Angeles area gained 963,626 people, making it the biggest gainer in population of the country’s metropolitan areas.
According to the Census Bureau, Las Vegas has been the fastest growing metropolitan region in 1990’s, increasing by 40.9 percent. Roughly 80 percent of the growth in the Las Vegas area comes from movement of people already in the country. Many of those people come from Southern California.