William Frey with the Brookings Institution explains that 1/3rd of the largest cities in the U.S. have seen significant losses of kids under 15, while babies are booming in the Southwest, Utah and Idaho.
Provo, Utah and Raleigh, North Carolina have seen an enormous growth in the number of children, up almost 50% since 2000:
Jeffery Spivak reports: "These gains resulted primarily from increases in births and migration, and they reflect an emerging attractiveness of western and south-central states outside the traditional Sunbelt."
A full graph and more detail over at Urban Land Magazine.
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