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To little surprise, 2020 wasn't good for rural college towns where the colleges were shut down from COVID-19.
The Census Bureau made an effort to coordinate with universities to count their residential population that was present before the pandemic, which likely helped contribute to the delayed data release and prevent more extreme discrepancies in the numbers. Nonetheless, small towns with universities are generally doing much better than other similar sized places.
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.
Maybe, but many people also moved voluntarily towards areas with better economic opportunity, more quality of life amenities and a more positive outlook on the complexity of the modern era. Metropolitan areas do not have to be mega-cities either - there are a number of thriving places in the 100K - 500K population range.
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.
If your point is only that Fairfax is smaller than Wake, sure, that is true. If your point is Wake gained 230,000 people solely because it had more room, that is false. Raleigh alone, at less than half the size of Fairfax, gained roughly the same amount of people. There were other factors at play.
Maybe, but many people also moved voluntarily towards areas with better economic opportunity, more quality of life amenities and a more positive outlook on the complexity of the modern era. Metropolitan areas do not have to be mega-cities either - there are a number of thriving places in the 100K - 500K population range.
For sure and these are also areas many of the people from rural areas are moving to. Anything over 100k is going to feel like a big city if you're coming from a town of less than 10,000. On the flip side, depending on how much WFH is here to stay I think many of these small towns that are less than two hours from a major city will start to grow again and gain more amenities. They have to be in economically strong areas or states but I can see it happening.
Houston grew faster than DFW? In % terms. Is this correct? I'm surprised by this.
Had it not been for Harvey, Houston Metro area could have arguably numerically outgrown Dallas/Fort Worth in raw numbers as well.
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