Where are some of the fastest growing communities in the United States?

The latest Census Bureau data show that some of the fastest-growing cities are often sitting in the distant orbit of a larger city and centered on booming master-planned communities.

By absolute numbers and percentages, these communities highlighted by the Wall Street Journal have grown quite a bit since 2020.

But what is it like to experience that rapid growth? It could be new and exciting. Change, development, construction. Increased status. A sense that something is happening here.

It could also mean new features that change day-to-day life in negative ways. Traffic. Less open space. More people around. Do these newcomers care about the community like we do? That’s a lot of people to add in a short time and earlier residents might have liked their previous experience.

At some point, the rapid growth of these communities will slow. That could bring its own issues; are the glory days past? Why is a community a little further out now getting all the attention? How do we pay for maintaining the infrastructure and the established quality of life?

If suburban patterns continue in the United States, these exurbs could be established suburbs in a few decades with the rapid growth happening in a place further out from the big city.