One of the Florida metros that continues to flash big-time growth is Tampa-St. Pete-Clearwater. It leads the pack in a state where such metros as Jacksonville, Ocala and Fort Myers-Sarasota are all thriving. According to Chmura Analytics, Richmond, Virginia, the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater metro area was the eighth fastest growing in the country by end of 2023. Florida was home to four of the nation’s top five fastest-growing metropolitan statistical areas and three of the top 10 that gained the largest number of people from 2022 to 2023, said the researcher.