Fastest Growing US Cities Table
| City | 2020 census | 2025 estimate | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fulshear city, Texas | 17,185 | 64,630 | +276.1% |
| Celina city, Texas | 18,033 | 64,427 | +257.3% |
| Saratoga Springs city, Utah | 38,318 | 61,397 | +60.2% |
| Georgetown city, Texas | 68,725 | 106,907 | +55.6% |
| Kyle city, Texas | 46,431 | 69,917 | +50.6% |
| Leander city, Texas | 60,868 | 91,132 | +49.7% |
| Eagle Mountain city, Utah | 44,502 | 66,557 | +49.6% |
| Queen Creek town, Arizona | 60,700 | 89,770 | +47.9% |
| Westfield city, Indiana | 47,019 | 66,258 | +40.9% |
| Greer city, South Carolina | 35,916 | 50,007 | +39.2% |
| Lebanon city, Tennessee | 38,908 | 53,412 | +37.3% |
| Buckeye city, Arizona | 93,422 | 125,445 | +34.3% |
| Little Elm city, Texas | 46,783 | 62,727 | +34.1% |
| New Braunfels city, Texas | 91,640 | 122,492 | +33.7% |
| Maricopa city, Arizona | 58,848 | 78,362 | +33.2% |
| Conroe city, Texas | 91,156 | 119,564 | +31.2% |
| Port St. Lucie city, Florida | 206,788 | 268,062 | +29.6% |
| Casa Grande city, Arizona | 54,166 | 69,753 | +28.8% |
| Goodyear city, Arizona | 97,774 | 125,359 | +28.2% |
| North Port city, Florida | 75,698 | 96,551 | +27.5% |
| Caldwell city, Idaho | 60,708 | 76,629 | +26.2% |
| St. Cloud city, Florida | 59,565 | 74,960 | +25.8% |
| Marana town, Arizona | 52,625 | 65,523 | +24.5% |
| Lehi city, Utah | 76,867 | 95,313 | +24.0% |
| Apex town, North Carolina | 65,249 | 80,419 | +23.2% |
| Palm Bay city, Florida | 120,159 | 148,092 | +23.2% |
| Winter Haven city, Florida | 50,692 | 62,313 | +22.9% |
| Palm Coast city, Florida | 89,713 | 109,886 | +22.5% |
| Daytona Beach city, Florida | 72,283 | 88,471 | +22.4% |
| Clermont city, Florida | 43,297 | 52,812 | +22.0% |
| Gallatin city, Tennessee | 44,838 | 54,590 | +21.7% |
| Surprise city, Arizona | 144,390 | 175,304 | +21.4% |
| Holly Springs town, North Carolina | 41,570 | 50,288 | +21.0% |
| Cape Coral city, Florida | 195,442 | 236,264 | +20.9% |
| Waxahachie city, Texas | 41,602 | 50,090 | +20.4% |
| Denton city, Texas | 141,141 | 169,431 | +20.0% |
| Columbia city, Tennessee | 41,835 | 50,072 | +19.7% |
| Meridian city, Idaho | 119,506 | 142,988 | +19.6% |
| McKinney city, Texas | 197,507 | 236,001 | +19.5% |
| Spring Hill city, Tennessee | 51,339 | 61,336 | +19.5% |
| Apopka city, Florida | 54,904 | 65,552 | +19.4% |
| Sherman city, Texas | 43,984 | 52,417 | +19.2% |
| Temple city, Texas | 82,837 | 98,412 | +18.8% |
| Madison city, Alabama | 57,236 | 67,968 | +18.8% |
| Nampa city, Idaho | 101,406 | 120,384 | +18.7% |
| Burleson city, Texas | 48,002 | 56,907 | +18.6% |
| Smyrna town, Tennessee | 53,501 | 63,321 | +18.4% |
| Frederick city, Maryland | 78,396 | 92,059 | +17.4% |
| Round Rock city, Texas | 120,556 | 141,282 | +17.2% |
| Wake Forest town, North Carolina | 49,725 | 58,147 | +16.9% |
Growth is happening at the fringe, not the core. Among the 824 incorporated places that had at least 50,000 people in 2025, the fastest-growing is Fulshear, Texas - a Houston exurb that quintupled from 17,185 at the 2020 census to 64,630 in 2025, a 276% jump. Celina, another Dallas exurb, is right behind at +257%. The rest of the top 50 is a who's-who of suburban rings: Texas hill-country towns, Utah's Silicon-slope satellites, and the Orlando and Nashville fringes.
The bar to make this table is brutal now - Wake Forest, North Carolina needed +16.9% to claim rank 50, which tells you how far ordinary city growth (1-2% a year) sits from boomtown growth. Every figure is Census-verbatim from the Vintage 2025 estimates, and the finder above searches the top 50 by name.
How to use
- Type a boomtown name (Celina, Fulshear, Georgetown) to see its rank, 2020 count, 2025 estimate, and percent change.
- Read the jump from 2020 to 2025 as the raw scale of the move - Fulshear added more people in five years than it housed in total two decades ago.
- Compare against the largest-cities table to see the difference between growing fast and growing big.
Frequently asked questions
How is fastest-growing measured here?
Percent change in population between the 2020 census count and the Census Bureau's Vintage 2025 estimate, restricted to incorporated places that had at least 50,000 residents in 2025 - 824 places qualify. Percent, not absolute numbers, is the honest ranking for growth: raw additions would just list the already-huge cities adding one percent of a lot. The 50,000 floor keeps single-neighborhood spikes and tiny resort towns from dominating with noise.
Why do Texas exurbs dominate the list?
Cheap land at the metropolitan edge, no-zoning or light-zoning development rules, aggressive annexation, and corporate relocation pipelines all point the same direction. Fulshear and Celina are the Houston and Dallas growth fronts respectively; Georgetown and Leander ride Austin's northward sprawl. Utah's Saratoga Springs repeats the pattern on the Provo side of the Silicon Slopes. The jobs are in the metros; the rooftops are one tax jurisdiction out.
Where are the big cities on this list?
Nowhere - that is the point of splitting the intent. Among the 50 largest US cities, the fastest grower was Fort Worth at +11.3%, which would only rank around 40th here. Big, established cities grow slowly because they are built out and expensive; boomtown growth happens where farmland converts to subdivisions at thousands of homes a year. This table is where the growth is; the largest-cities table is where the people already are.
Can annexation inflate a city's growth numbers?
Yes, partially - and it is worth knowing when reading rankings like this. When a city annexes adjacent developed land, the census-vs-estimate comparison can book existing residents as new growth. Texas cities annex aggressively, which flatters Texas entries somewhat. The Census Bureau estimates the population of the legal entity as it exists in each year, so boundary changes are real population of the city, but not all of it is babies and movers.