The Seattle metro area is 15th in size on that chart; it's much lower than (44th) that if you sort by growth rate. By absolute growth (which isn't in the chart

The Seattle metro area is 15th in size on that chart; it's much lower than (44th) that if you sort by growth rate. By absolute growth (which isn't in the chart, so I had to copy the data into a spreadsheet) it is 9th: METRO POP. GROWTH 2010–16 ----- ------ 1 Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land 852054 2 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington 807109 3 New York-Newark-Jersey City 586224 4 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell 502972 5 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach 501752 6 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria 495745 7 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim 481610 8 Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale 468650 9 Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue 359093 10 San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward 343775