There's an issue with scale with those numbers on the metro area growth/decline. For example, Vegas, Cincinnati, and Columbus are metro areas home to 2+ millio

There's an issue with scale with those numbers on the metro area growth/decline. For example, Vegas, Cincinnati, and Columbus are metro areas home to 2+ million people, while Elmeria is the 10th smallest American metro area listed wikipedia with just 83k people, literally a rounding error compared to the others.