All Over Albany

New York State city and town populations 2016

The Capital Region has some of the state's fastest growing towns in terms of population percentage change.

That's one of the bits from new population estimates for cities and towns released by the Census Bureau this week.

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+ Those Capital Region towns that are among the fastest growing in the state -- by percentage -- between 2010 and 2016 (state rank):

Halfmoon - 11.07 percent (2)

Ballston - 9.01 percent (5)

Malta - 7.63 percent (9)

Brunswick - 7.01 percent (10)

Bethlehem - 4.89 percent (19)

+ Albany is still the most populous Capital Region municipality, according to the Census Bureau estimates, at 98,111. But Colonie isn't too far back -- at 83,217 -- and it's up almost 2 percent since 2010.

+ New York City is, of course, the most populous city or town at an estimated 8.53 million people. That's up 4.44 percent since 2010.

+ It's kind of remarkable to us that the next four most populous municipalities are all on Long Island -- Hempstead town, Brookhaven town, Islip town, Oyster Bay town. Buffalo is next on the list with 256,902 people.

+ Speaking of the big upstate cities, how they've fared since 2010:

Buffalo: down 1.73 percent

Rochester: down .89 percent

Syracuse: down 1.26 percent

Albany: up .28 percent