(The Center Square) – Not a single Michigan city made a recent list of fastest-growing metropolitan areas.

From 2019 to 2024, cities in Florida , South Carolina and Utah saw the largest population increase by percentage.

This is according to a recent report from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, which analyzed data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U.S. Census Bureau to list the top 35 metropolitan areas.

James Hohman, director of fiscal policy for the center, said in the report that state officials should reassess their current strategy and take note of the cities and states that are seeing massive population growth.

“Michigan’s population has been stuck in the same spot for a generation, and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wants to change that,” Hohman said. “The

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