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December 3, 1985 Top Five Cities in U.S. By 2000 Are Projected AP Los Angeles will grow to be the nation's most populous metropolitan area by the turn of the century, topping New York, while San Francisco will surpass the rest of the nation in personal income, new Government projections show. A study by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis projects that the population in the Los Angeles metropolitan area will grow to 8,870,000 by the year 2000. That would surpass New York, which is expected to have 8,433,000 people at that time. The analysis projects growth of 13.5 percent in Los Angeles from 1983 to 2000, and of only 1.7 percent for New York. The new projections, released today, cover the 55 largest metropolitan areas in the nation, those expected to have a population of 1 million people or more in the year 2000. The nation's five largest metropolitan areas in 2000 are expected to be Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, 6,131,000; Philadelphia, 4,914,000; and Boston, 4,301,000.>