Much has been written about the supposed preference of millennials to live in hip urban settings where cars are not necessary. Surveys of best cities for millennials invariably feature places like New York, San Francisco, Chicago and Boston. And to be sure, the numbers of millennials living in urban cores has grown, as downtowns and inner-city neighborhoods have gentrified. But overall, only roughly 30% of all millennials live in core counties, which means 70% live somewhere else. In the last three years, the number of millennials outside core counties increased by 1.28 million. The vast majority of this generation might be best described as “hidden millennials.” The fastest growth in millennial populations tend to be in the Sun Belt and Intermountain West. Leading the way is San Antonio, Texas, where the 20 to 29 population grew 9.2% from 2010-13, an increase of 28,600. Right behind it, also in the Sun Belt, are Riverside-San Bernardino, Calif. (8.3%); Orlando, Fla. (8.1%); and Miami (7.7%). [Read this article]
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