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Yes but Buffalo grew the most. Nearly 18,000 new residents in the city. Only Cincinnati came close.
Sure, but clearly what you said wasn't quite that, but was inaccurate on one point and so I pointed it out and I've helpfully pasted your original post below.
Anyhow, several rust belt cities did see at least see growth in their core county or their metropolitan area overall, so compared to what happened between the 2000 to 2010 census, it's a mixed but better bag of news.
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How about the growth in Buffalo City and Erie County, NY?
The only rust belt city to grow other than Cincinnati.
Buffalo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Detroit all posted metro growth. Being careful when I say that because I don't want to understate how significant the gains were for Buffalo. Detroit city lost the most people of the group, but inspite of that it's metro gained almost 100k people. Buffalo metro gained about 1/3rd of that numerically, but still grew faster by a small margin.
I was surprised by the amount of growth in the municipalities next to/within Detroit. Hamtramck!
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Well, I’m pleased as punch to report that Omaha’s Official 2020 US Census CSA number finally passed the 1 million threshold clocking in at 1,004,771. The MSA is not far behind at 967,604.
It’s fun to officially say- 1 million+ population and Omaha in the same sentence
The Pittsburgh MSA grew in spite of the fact that it's the only major MSA in the United States with more deaths than births. I can't wait to see the migration data next month, because it can't possibly be net negative.
People are now, finally, voting with their feet in favor of Pittsburgh. Anybody with a soul would be happy to see a place that was down on its luck for so long turn the corner, don't you think?
Buffalo’s rebound has been incredible. It’s almost surreal to see the city grow again. In the mid-late 2000s, Rochester was positioned to become the shining jewel of the region. Some predicted the metro to surpass Buffalo’s by the 2020s due to the then-higher GDP, relatively stable business landscape and outlier status as a growing MSA compared to the rapidly shrinking Buffalo-Niagara region. Safe to say, the 2010s were far kinder to Buffalo than anyone could have predicted. It’s become the Columbus of Upstate New York.
Speaking of Columbus, crossing 900,000 is a nice milestone. Their metro area must be creeping up on Cincinnati.
I haven't looked at all of the counts (or % growth) for all of the top 10 major cities, but the NY Times is reporting that Phoenix is the fastest growing large city in the nation.
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Allegheny County
2010: 1,223,348
2020: 1,250,578
Change: +2.2%
Armstrong County
2010: 68,941
2020: 65,558
Change: -4.9%
Beaver County
2010: 170,539
2020: 168,215
Change: -1.4%
Butler County
2010: 183,862
2020: 193,763
Change: +5.4%
Fayette County
2010: 136,606
2020: 128,804
Change: -5.7%
Washington County
2010: 207,820
2020: 209,349
Change: +0.7%
Westmoreland County
2010: 365,169
2020: 354,663
Change: -2.9%
Pittsburgh MSA
2010: 2,356,285
2020: 2,370,930
Change: +0.6%
The Pittsburgh MSA grew in spite of the fact that it's the only major MSA in the United States with more deaths than births. I can't wait to see the migration data next month, because it can't possibly be net negative.
People are now, finally, voting with their feet in favor of Pittsburgh. Anybody with a soul would be happy to see a place that was down on its luck for so long turn the corner, don't you think?
I was in Pittsburgh last week. Every time I go there, which isn't very often, I am always impressed by what a lovely, urban, walkable city it is. It seems so much bigger than the population count. This was the first time I entered the city from the west (coming from Columbus), and I audibly gasped after we came out of the tunnel. What a spectacular view of the city! It was such a nice surprise! As someone born and raised in Philadelphia, I always root for my home state's other major city to do well. And it should; Pittsburgh has a lot going for it.
Louisville grew by 6.9%, much faster than estimates, as I predicted. On a national scale, that's average. Compared to most rustbelt peers, its closer to Indy and Columbus in growth than slow growth rustbelt metros it's often compared to.
That said, the city has not nearly reached its potential. The city has two of its best mayoral candidates in probably 70 years since the city started to get passed by peers. I'd watch out for this city in the 2020s.....
Louisville has vast industrial corridors and amazing urban brick stock just waiting to get redeveloped...alot of it is already happening with thousands in new apartment and hotel units announced in the downtown core on both sides of the river....
Louisville has some of the urban bones that City data folks salivate (yet few notice or acknowledge) over yet a location that can pass as south with better weather and all the trappings.
I'm enjoying looking around the census tract viewer --- you can see tracts if you zoom into counties.
I'm kind of surprised how little of Seattle crosses the 10k/sqmi threshold. There are a lot of areas with small house plots and at least some apartments that only ended up in the 6-9k range. Even downtown Redmond, for all its crazy development lately, is just under 10k.
Also, that Spokane only has a single >10k tract, a suburban apartment complex in the far-north part of the city. Coeur d'Alene is a lot less dense than it feels, although I guess most of the mid- and high-rises are hotels so that makes sense.
I'm always struck by how Portland is so much less dense than it feels.
Chicago on the other hand still has a ton of 20k+ and 30k+ tracts in the impoverished areas of the South and West Sides, despite the years of people flooding out. But the city's density cuts off much more sharply at the city limits than I would have guessed.
I was in Pittsburgh last week. Every time I go there, which isn't very often, I am always impressed by what a lovely, urban, walkable city it is. It seems so much bigger than the population count. This was the first time I entered the city from the west (coming from Columbus), and I audibly gasped after we came out of the tunnel. What a spectacular view of the city! It was such a nice surprise! As someone born and raised in Philadelphia, I always root for my home state's other major city to do well. And it should; Pittsburgh has a lot going for it.
There is still some work for Pittsburgh to do. It appears that the city proper probably lost a couple thousand, and several of the exurban fringe counties continued to lose population, but Allegheny County beginning to grow again is great news. In fact, it carried the entire Pittsburgh MSA, growing by 27,230 when the MSA grew by 14,645. Also, the city proper still has more than 300,000 population, which means the 2007 population estimate continues to be a punchline for Pittsburgh data geeks, because that estimate had the city proper population falling below 300,000 for the first time. It's been 14 years, and not only are we still waiting for that to happen, but now, there's no guarantee that it ever will.
The Columbus Dispatch has a nicely laid out site for visualizing 2020 demographic data down to the census tract level, and the changes since 2010. Example below of a randomly chosen tract around Nashville, TN, but it appears the entire nation is available here.
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