By Leon Stafford
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Metro Atlanta/State News
June 23, 2010
After years of rapid population increases, the pace of growth in the city of Atlanta appears to be slowing, according to new numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Atlanta's population increased by 0.7 percent between July 1, 2008, and July 1, 2009, to 537,385 residents, one of its slowest growth rates in the first decade of the new millennium, according to figures from the bureau's survey of cities with populations over 100,000.
The recession is to blame, said University of Georgia demographer Doug Bechtel.
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