Fort Worth is nation’s 13th largest city, among fastest-growing in U.S.

Around this time last year, the Star-Telegram reported that Fort Worth knocked Jacksonville out of the No. 12 spot on the list of America’s largest cities.

Turns out, that didn’t actually happen.

Every year, the U.S. Census Bureau releases population estimates for each city. Those estimates are based on the last Census. Since the 2020 Census count wasn’t released until later last summer, the population estimate was based on the 2010 Census count.

According to that estimate, Fort Worth jumped to the 12th-largest city. But then the actual Census count came out a few months later, correcting those estimates. The estimates overshot Fort Worth’s population and undershot Jacksonville’s population.

The Census Bureau on Thursday released its 2021 estimates (based on the 2020 census and therefore far more accurate than the 2020 estimates), and Fort Worth is still the 13th-largest city, behind Jacksonville.

However, only two U.S. cities grew faster than Fort Worth between 2020 and 2021, according to these estimates.

From 2020 to 2021, Fort Worth added 12,916 residents, ranking third in population gain, trailing San Antonio, which added 13,626 people, and Phoenix, which added 13,224 people.

Meanwhile, Dallas’ population dropped by 14,777 in the same time period. Dallas is the ninth-largest city in the country, with a population of 1,288,457 as of July 1, 2021.

Of the top 15 fastest growing cities, eight are in Texas, and four are in Dallas-Fort Worth: Fort Worth, Frisco, Denton and McKinney.

Of the 15 largest U.S. cities, five are in Texas.

• New York: 8,467,513

• Los Angeles: 3,849,297

• Chicago: 2,696,555

• Houston: 2,288,250

• Phoenix: 1,624,569

• Philadelphia: 1,576,251

• San Antonio: 1,451,853

• San Diego: 1,381,611

• Dallas: 1,288,457

• San Jose: 983,489

• Austin: 964,177

• Jacksonville: 954,614

• Fort Worth: 935,508

• Columbus: 906,528

• Indianapolis: 882,039