Los Angeles Growth Declared Fastest in the Nation

LOS ANGELES - MAY 21: Layers of dirty air settle on the city as day turns to night on May 21, 2003 in Los Angeles, California. A Census Bureau survey released May 19 reports that about 782 people moved to the Los Angeles-Long Beach metropolitan area, already the nation's most populated at nearly 9.5 million, each day in 2001. The 2001 total was more than 285,000. Nearly one-third of those new southern California residents arrived from abroad. This does not include L.A.'s commuter population sprawl, which extends over into northern Los Angeles, Ventura, and Riverside Counties. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)