# Fastest growing cities in Canada and the US

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com) · 2025-04-24

toronto, new-york, tmu, population-growth, metro-areas, houston, montreal, vancouver, cur, demographics

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Toronto may [not be selling](https://brandondonnelly.com/only-533-new-condominiums-were-sold-last-quarter-in-the-toronto-region) that many new condominiums these days, but [population growth remains high](https://brandondonnelly.com/greater-golden-horseshoe-added-382,000-people-last-year-1) across the region. For the 12-month period ending July 2024, the Toronto census metropolitan area added approximately 269k people. And for the 12-month period ending July 2023, it added about 255k people. In the context of Canadian and American cities, this makes it [the fastest growing metropolitan area for two years running](https://www.torontomu.ca/centre-urban-research-land-development/blog/blogentry73111111111111111111111111/) (see above chart). Lower immigration targets are expected to bring this number down going forward, and so it'll be interesting to see what these numbers look like for the period ending this summer, but this is still over half a million people in two years. I think it's also noteworthy that our housing market turned and pre-construction sales slowed around the middle of 2022, and yet our population growth and immigration levels remained the highest in Canada and the US for at least another two years. Maybe this lag helps us recover sooner than some might expect.

_Chart from the_ [_Centre for Urban Research and Land Development at TMU_](https://www.torontomu.ca/centre-urban-research-land-development/blog/blogentry73111111111111111111111111/)_; cover photo by_ [_Mikayla Martorano_](https://unsplash.com/@mikmartorano?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash) _on_ [_Unsplash_](https://unsplash.com/photos/buildings-at-daytime-f6IgvPTp2ZA?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash)

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/fastest-growing-cities-in-canada-and-the-us)*