Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
In the east Brunswick County keeps moving up in the rankings...last census they passed Craven and this census they passed Robeson and Wayne County.
East of I-95, the list of population counties is...
1) New Hanover
2) Onslow
3) Pitt
4) Brunswick
Look for that to stay the same in the next census and those 4 counties will most likely just trade places going forward. Brunswick could eventually become #1 in the East because of its land area potential over New Hanover, which is one of the smallest counties in the State. Wilmington's growth has essentially spilled over dramatically into Brunswick County. Leland had a 70% growth between 2010 and 2020 in the census as reported today in the Star News.
Is Brunswick going to switch back to Wilmington, or is it pretty firmly a Myrtle Beach county?
The general consensus is it will switch back....and that it shouldnt ever have been switched.
The census folks said the main reason it was switched was because of "traffic patterns"...which showed a huge exodus of folks leaving Wilmington and going through Brunswick Co to Horry County on a non interstate road...
At the time of the 2010 census, the I-140 bypass was partially built, which dropped off ALL traffic on 421 which then went south over the causeway into Leland...folks going to Myrtle Beach from up north were using the 140 bypass to 421 to get to Myrtle so it had little to do with local traffic flow and was all to do with Interstate travel.
This census the bypass is fully finished and the traffic patterns from Leland to Wilmington (via 74 and 421) are ALL local. Plus Leland grew by 70% in those 10 years. Obviously folks from Leland are not commuting to Horry County, they are commuting to New Hanover County.
Location: Chapel Hill, NC, formerly NoVA and Phila
9,781 posts, read 15,815,772 times
Reputation: 10894
Quote:
Originally Posted by TarHeelNick
Indeed. Omaha pulled a Fayetteville (from the 2000 census). Calling Omaha a "peer city" of Raleigh/The Triangle is....silly.
They still have Warren Buffet and some decent steaks though!
I am surprised to see Apex at only 58,000. I would have thought it would be pushing 70k by now. The "slowest-growing" core county in the Triangle (Orange); still grew faster than the fastest-growing county in the Triad (Guilford)
When people discuss Raleigh being the 40th (or whatever) biggest city in the US, then it is being compared to those cities around it in size such as Omaha, Long Beach, Atlanta, Virginia Beach, etc. That is what I meant by peer city. Obviously, they are all much different in other contexts such as metro size, density, etc.
[quote=HP91;61669146]The general consensus is it will switch back....and that it shouldnt never have been switched.
/QUOTE]
Agreed! This one never made sense to me in the first place. Switching back to Wilmington should give the MSA much more visibility and the prominence that it deserves within the state.
Quote:
Originally Posted by HP91
Population density rankings in NC from the census...
1) Mecklenburg (2,130)
2) Wake (1,353)
3) New Hanover (1,174)
4) Durham (1,133)
5) Forsyth (938)
I think that the population density in Meck is why we're seeing a slowdown in its growth. With so much of it already built out, further densification is a much more tedious process than the sort of expansion that NC cities/counties had experienced over the last several decades. Raleigh proper has been experiencing that over the last 10 or so years as the most densely populated of NCs larger municipalities. With its limits now only growing like slowly spreading refrigerated molasses, further densification has been its primary route to growth. Charlotte proper and Mecklenburg county are likely on a similar path. Wake still has lots of opportunity to expand on its eastern and southern side to continue another decade of fairly rapid expansion. When all is said and done, Wake is going to have a rather large collection of rather large municipalities.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
