Us Population 2024 By City. The territory’s urban population declined from 3,493,256 people in 2010 to 3,018,908, now accounting for 91.9% of the total population of 3,285,874 (down from 93.8%)*. An estimated 83% of the united states population lives in urban areas.
The greatest rate of growth at the start of 2023 belonged to utah (1.50%), followed by idaho (1.43%) and texas (1.34%). Among the largest 100 cities in the us, the fastest shrinking city is detroit, michigan, whose population has declined 33.0% since the year 2000.