New York added more people since 2011 than all the other cities in the metropolitan area combined, according to a new analysis of census results released Thursday.
The city gained 67,000 people between 2011 and 2012, or .81 percent, a higher growth rate than all but two cities in the region with a population of 100,000 or more: Jersey City, 1.12 percent, and Stamford, .84 percent. But those cities grew by only 2,800 and 1,000, respectively. For the second consecutive year, the city grew faster than its suburbs.
New York's gain of 147,000 since 2010, to more than 8.3 million, approached the 178,000 increase recorded in the entire decade from 2000 to 2010.
Like Boston, Los Angeles and Philadelphia, New York grew faster annually since 2010 than the annual rate during the previous decade.
Kenneth M. Johnson, senior demographer at the Carsey Instititute of the University of New Hampshire, attributed the spurt to fewer people leaving the city because of the lingering effects of the recession.
Among the region's bigger cities, Buffalo, Hartford, Paterson, Rochester, Syracuse and Waterbury recorded declines in population.
