(QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Charlotte added the most people of any city in the state from 2020-24, remaining the largest in North Carolina by more than 400,000 people, new population data shows.
The Office of State Budget and Management unveiled last week municipalities’ changes in population ending July 1, 2024. The Queen City reached 944,742 people, up adding 70,000 from April 2020, an 8 percent change.
The state demographer data has Raleigh still as the second-largest city, eclipsing half-a-million residents this decade. The City of Oaks also grew rapidly at a 7 percent rate…