Montgomery County’s population grew by another 10,680 people last year, again giving the state’s most populous jurisdiction the largest year-over-year increase in population.
The U.S. Census on Thursday released county and city population changes from July 1, 2013 to July 1, 2014.
While Howard County once again had the state’s largest population growth rate (1.4 percent), Montgomery County saw the largest amount of new residents. The county’s 1 percent growth rate was good for fourth in the state, behind Howard COunty, Charles County (1.2 percent) and Prince George’s County (1.1 percent).
Howard County was second in terms of new residents with 4,350.
The 10,000 additional residents gives Montgomery County a total population of 1,030,447, according to the Census.
The information is based on population estimates since the 2010 Census and births, deaths and migration numbers.
The amount of new residents is slightly fewer than the county saw over the previous year (July 2012 to July 2013). Montgomery County added 12,201 people in that timeframe and about 13,000 people the year before, when it went over the 1 million population mark.
