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The view of downtown Portland from the Burnside Bridge.

(Jeff Mapes/The Oregonian)

New Census Bureau population estimates show Portland has moved one spot up the list of the nation's most populous cities.

The city of Portland is estimated to be the 28th most populous city, with a population of 619,360 on July 1, 2014. It's sandwiched between No. 27 Oklahoma City and No. 29 Las Vegas.

Portland has grown by an estimated 35,571 people, or 6.1 percent, since July 2010, when the population was 583,789. And it grew by about 9,840 since 2013.

Meanwhile, several Portland suburbs and other Oregon cities have seen rapid growth in recent years:

Happy Valley has grown by 21.3 percent since July 2010, from 14,283 in 2010 to 17,319 in 2014.

Wilsonville grew 12.9 percent to 22,026 in 2014.

Oregon City grew an estimated 11 percent to 35,266.

Bend (84,080) and Forest Grove (23,096) grew an estimated 10 percent. Among cities with a population over 50,000, Bend was the nation's 31st fastest-growing.

The small city of Durham is, relatively speaking, the state's fastest growing. Only a half square mile in size and tucked between Tigard and Tualatin, Durham grew 42 percent since 2010 -- from 1,351 to an estimated 1,924.

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Ontario and La Grande are the only two Oregon cities with a population greater than 10,000 to have shrunk since July 2010.

Ontario, whose population was estimated at 10,982 in 2014, is estimated to have shrunk by 3.5 percent, or 384 residents. And La Grande, population 13,026, is estimated to have lost half a percent, or 64 residents.

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