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　　More People Move to Houston in US

　　More people moved to the Houston, Texas area inone year than to any other metropolitan area in theUnited States.

　　The U.S. Census Bureau recently releasedinformation about the growth of America's cities in2015.

　　It noted that five metropolitan areas in Texas -- Midland, Odessa, Austin, College Station-Bryan and Houston -- are among the 20 fastest-growing areas in the country.

　　Texas gained almost a half-million new residents from July 2014 to July 2015. That is more thanany other state.

　　Many people have also moved to Atlanta, Phoenix, New York and Los Angeles. The CensusBureau reported that Los Angeles County has more than 10 million people. It leads the nation's3,100 counties.

　　Metropolitan areas in Florida, North Carolina and South Carolina are also growing fast.

　　Last year, the population of North Carolina increased by more than 100,000 people. It is nowthe ninth state with 10 million or more residents. Most of the growth took place in or near thecities of Raleigh and Charlotte.

　　North Carolina's metropolitan areas attract people because they have many different kinds ofjobs and large universities and research organizations.

　　Rebecca Tippett is the director of Carolina Demography at UNC-Chapel Hill's Carolina PopulationCenter. She told VOA that North Carolina has "everything from the mountains to the coast."She moved there from Ohio. She says North Carolina is warmer.

　　The Villages, an area in Florida west of Orlando, was the fastest-growing metropolitan area inthe United States, and has been for the past three years.

　　The Villages grew 4.3 percent between 2014 and 2015. Five other metropolitan areas in Floridaare among the top 20 fastest-growing areas in the country.

　　Stefan Rayer is a population specialist at the University of Florida. He told VOA that "youngpeople generally move either for education or for a job, and Florida is one of the largest statesin the country. It's very attractive. It has big metropolitan areas, it has good jobopportunities, so that's why people are moving to Florida."

　　About 275 million people lived in the country's metropolitan areas in 2015. That is an increaseof about 2.5 million from 2014.

　　I'm Christopher Jones-Cruise.