Phoenix Population 2024 Growth Rate By City. Since then, the phoenix metro area has gained more than 800,000 new residents and surpassed 5 million in population for the first time, according to newly released 2022 figures from the u.s. Chart and table of population level and growth rate for the phoenix metro area from 1950 to 2024.

Phoenix’s population grew from 1.4 million people in 2010 to 1.6 million in 2020 a rate of 11.2 percent, according to the census bureau. Cities on the far outskirts of metro phoenix saw much higher rates of population growth than the valley as a whole last year, according to newly released census estimates.