 The distribution of change in population growth is uneven in New York State; the New York City metropolitan area is growing, along with Saratoga County, while cities such as Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse and several others having been losing population for decades.New York City gained more residents between April 2010 and July 2018 (223,615) than any other U.S. city.Conversely, outside of the Ithaca area, population growth in much of Western New York is nearly stagnant.