Los Angeles Growth Declared Fastest In The Nation

LOS ANGELES - MAY 22: A statue of the state symbol, a grizzly bear, eating a salmon is silhouetted against the skyline on May 22, 2003 in Los Angeles. The California grizzly race was hunted to extinction in about 1924. A Census Bureau survey released May 19 reports that about 782 people moved to the Los Angeles-Long Beach metropolitan area, already the nation's most populated at nearly 9.5 million, each day in 2001. The 2001 total was more than 285,000. Nearly one-third of those new southern California residents arrived from abroad. This does not include L.A.'s commuter population sprawl, which is slopping over into northern Los Angeles, Ventura, and Riverside Counties. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)