According to the latest U.S. Census Bureau data, released at midnight May 21, the cities of Alpharetta and Milton saw greater percentage increases in population growth from 2010-19 than neighboring North Fulton cities of Roswell, Sandy Springs and Johns Creek—and Milton also outranked the city of Atlanta.

The cities of Alpharetta and Milton saw a 17.13% increase and a 20.56% increase, respectively, in population from 2010-19, bringing Alpharetta's population to 67,213 and Milton's population to 39,587 in 2019, census data shows.

Meanwhile, the cities of Roswell, Sandy Springs and Johns Creek saw a 7.28% increase, 16.65% increase and 10.36% increase, respectively, during the same time. The city of Atlanta saw an 18.67% population increase from 2010-19—almost 2% less than the city of Milton—bringing its population to 506,811 in 2019. However, the city of Atlanta still crossed what the Census Bureau refers to as a major population threshold from 2010-19, as it broke the 500,000 population mark.

Fulton County, which includes all of the aforementioned cities, also saw a 15.6% population increase from 2010-19, bringing the county's population to 1,063,937 in 2019. The county saw a 1.31% year-over-year increase in population from 2018-19.

See the population growth for Alpharetta and Milton below.