Still Growing

If this continues it will be interesting to see how policymakers adapt to the new reality after decades of declining population.

The Census Bureau estimates that the city's population on July 1 was 1,536,471, an increase of 10,465 or a 0.7 percent jump from the official census count taken two years ago.

The new estimates show that the city's growth spurt from April 2010 to July 2011 was mainly due to an increase in births.