Puerto Rico metros lost population in 2017-18

Metro areas in Texas and Florida were standouts in percentage gains in population from 2017 to 2018, the Census Bureau reported Thursday.

The greatest percentage losses were in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico, where all metro areas shrank, according to the bureau’s population estimates as of July 1, 2018.

In actual residents added, the biggest winner was the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro, which increased by 131,767 residents, or 1.8%. The greatest headcount loss was in the San Juan-Carolina-Caguas, Puerto Rico, metro – down 81,087 or 3.9%.