The decline, a modest 1,330-person dip from mid-2023 to mid-2024, signals a potential inflection point for one of the Sun Belt’s longtime real estate growth.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Atlanta's growth is “finally cooling off” based on new census data. But the Big Peach is still growing, sustaining and thriving.

Metro Atlanta’s industrial market at the end of June posted its first quarter of negative net absorption — a measure of whether a sector is growing or shrinking — since 2011.