Did the Atlanta region grow faster in the 40s or the 80s? This video shows the peak period for population growth for each of the Atlanta region’s ten counties. The lines show the average percent increase/decrease by decade.
As a whole, the region had the largest percentage gains in the 1950s, growing around 38 percent between 1950 and 1960. In terms of raw numbers, the region added the most residents in the 1990s, an increase of 900,000 people. Check out trends for individual counties below.
Source: Census Bureau; ARC Research & Analytics