CORRECTION to May 21 story on city population gains

EDS: Clients who used a Cronkite News story slugged BC-CNS-Buckeye Bumped that moved Thursday, May 21, under a PHOENIX dateline are asked to run the followingĀ correction. The error occurred in the headline and in graf 3 of the original. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.

PHOENIX – Due to an editing error, a May 21 Cronkite News story on new city population data from the Census Bureau incorrectly stated Phoenix’s gains relative to other cities. Phoenix was again the No. 1 city in the country for its population growth from 2018-2019, when it was the nation’s fifth-largest city overall.