The figure below depicts the 2016 population of Florida’s 19 metro areas on the x-axis, and the numerical gain of each metro area from 2016 to 2017 on the y-axis. The relationship is positive, even among the smaller metro areas bunched together in the bottom-left corner. The Orlando MSA had the eighth-largest gain in population of all metro areas—56,498 people—as well as the largest gain in Florida. The Tampa MSA gained 54,874 people, which was the 10th largest gain of all metro areas. Like the figure above, the following figure depicts each metro area’s 2016 population on the x-axis.

Source: Forbes March 23, 2018 21:56 UTC