ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. Census figures show metro Atlanta's population continues to grow as hundreds of thousands of new residents moved in during the past five years.
The influx of new residents boosted metro Atlanta's population to 5.7 million.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (bit.ly/1PFANRB) that metro Atlanta, which the Census defines as stretching from the Alabama border to the outskirts of Athens, expanded by more than 95,000 people from 2014 to 2015. It remains the ninth-largest metro area in the U.S.
Fulton County became Georgia's first county to cross the 1-million-resident mark last year. But Gwinnett County has added slightly more people — about 90,500 — since 2010, an 11 percent increase.
