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The U.S. Census Bureau released today tables ranking cities according to population growth between 2011 and 2012, and in the listings of how many new residents every city took in, the District of Columbia ranked 12th.

Over the one-year period beginning July 1, 2011, D.C. added 13,303 new residents, bringing its total population to 632,323. As DCist has harped on before, that’s more than live in either Vermont or Wyoming, though those states both count among their residents three more voting members of Congress than the District boasts.

The ranking of overall residents added reads not too differently from a list of the most populous U.S. cities. New York gained the most new people, with 67,058. Houston, the nation’s fourth-biggest city, gained the second greatest amount of residents, with 34,625. Chicago, the third-biggest city, did not make the top 15.

But in terms of which cities are growing at the fastest clip, that bounty goes mostly to Texas. San Marcos, between Austin and San Antonio, grew at a pace of 4.91 percent, though its overall population increased to just 50,001. You probably haven’t heard of many of the other cities in that set, either.

Still, D.C.’s growth for a city its size is remarkable. The District continues to grow at a pace of more than 1,000 new residents per month, a figure that, as Housing Complex points out, city officials love to cite when talking about D.C.’s economic growth.