Nev. population growth rate rebounded in 2016
By Henry Brean, Las Vegas Review-Journal
Call it the Great Basin boom.
Utah and Nevada ranked as the nation’s two fastest-growing states over the past year, according to U.S. Census Bureau population estimates for 2016 released Tuesday.
Utah’s population grew by just more than 2 percent while Nevada’s added 1.95 percent from July 1, 2015, to July 1 of this year. That brought Nevada’s population to 2.94 million, up 56,300 from the previous year, the bureau said.
At this rate, Nevada could welcome its 3 millionth resident in 2017.