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Looking at the race map on the first page, I'm really surprised that Washington is less white than Arkansas and Tennessee, and that Texas is (marginally) less white than New Mexico.
It's because Washington is much more Hispanic than those states. It's 14% Hispanic, 9.5% Asian, and 4% Black. Plus (like most Western states) significantly higher in the Two or More Races category.
I'm surprised no one is talking about Oklahoma City gaining more than 100k residents. Aside from NYC's growth, this one is so far one of the most impressive.
Oklahoma City is one of 14 cities that did. Texas had 5 of them. Maybe some spillover population growth from there. Oklahoma draws more people from Texas than any other state.
It probably also reflects Oklahoma City making itself more desirable of a place to live by citizens voting to keep the city sales tax up every 8 years, or so, to pay for civic improvement projects. The latest one will spend nearly 1 billion dollars. What other large city under 1 million does something like that?
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Well kinda, but not really. About 900,000 people in Wake County live in about 300 square miles of incorporated cities/towns. Almost all the 230,000 people this past decade moved into those 300 square miles. But certainly the other 500 square miles of farmland/Wendell/Zebulon will begin to fill up once median prices in Cary top a million (though indeed Chatham County and Pittsboro probably are first in line for overfill).
Yeah, really. If Wake County is counting all of its residents in its numbers then it counts all of its land in its numbers too. Fairfax County is half the size in area of Wake with a larger population. Fact.
The United Nations in the early 90s set a goal to move more people from rural areas into suburban ones (Agenda 21), so looks like it's going according to plan. Meanwhile the rural land these people are leaving is being bought up by corporations.
Kansas City, Missouri grew by 9% this decade, a bit more than the 7.7% growth estimated. However, I wonder how much of that growth is from its suburban outskirts rather than core areas.
Kansas City, Kansas also grew by about 6%, a bit more than the 4.9% estimated.
Cincinnati grew slightly more than expected, which was by 2.3%, but instead it grew by about 3%. I think that's encouraging and meets a lot of my expectations for the city considering how revitalized its most dense neighborhoods have become in the last 10 years. Neighborhoods like Over-The-Rhine and nearby areas that were crumbling in the early 2000s are now only 5-6 years away from having blight completely eliminated
Still, very shocking results from Milwaukee and Pittsburgh considering the amount of new development in those cities in the past couple of years. But I think its even more surprising considering Chicago, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and Cincinnati grew.
To little surprise, 2020 wasn't good for rural college towns where the colleges were shut down from COVID-19.
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