The purpose of this paper is to look at the formation and characteristics of Korean cities and to identify the factors of urban growth. Urban social service facilities and other physical amenities may be in inverse proportion to population increase. Therefore, it seems that variable-to-variable correlation results may be considered to some extent. Factors influencing urban development over a ten-year period from 2000 to 2010 were used to conduct data analysis. As for population growth, 11 of the 36 factors related to population, economy, education, society, culture, urban infrastructure, and politics and administration were found to be statistically significant. Factors having a significant effect on a district's population growth were found to be the number of educational services, welfare businesses, art services, health/social welfare services, and umber of transportation employees. On the other hand, the number of cultural facilities, ratio of senior citizens, number of business facility maintenance and business assistance service employees, number of hospital beds, publications, the number of broadcast communications and information services, and the number of construction employees were found to have a negative effect.