I never heard anyone saying Seattle was dying. San Fransisco is the one I see people saying the sky is falling about all the time. Haven't made it up to Seattle but know some people who have recently, and they tell me things seem to be doing fine up there.GRID wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2023 8:18 am Interesting stats. Indy and Nashville are surprisingly low (especially Indy) considering the size of their city limits in relation to their metros.
Seattle just continues to boom despite all the continued talk of the city dying. And I guess everybody is either leaving CA or moving to the valley suburbs.
I'm a little surprised KCMO didn't do a little better, but at least it didn't lose people. Northland growth might be slowing since new construction single family housing has been sluggish in general across the country.
And St Louis City just keep losing a lot. I would imagine even St Louis County is losing people now. All the "growth" in metro StL seems to be migration to exurbs.
KCMO will fair a bit better in the coming years. Key is for growth to be steady, not rapid. Increases of 9-12% every decade are where we need to be and Metro KC has achieved that in the three census cycles this century while the city has really saw growth heat up (1.5% growth in the 2000 census, 4.1% in 2010 census, and 10.5% in the 2020 census).
The City of St. Louis will likely bottom out around 240,000 residents in the 2030s. The Central Corridor and Southwest side are stable and you're starting to see some people move back into parts of North St. Louis, but not many. Losing 600,000+ residents has been hard on St. Louis but at least there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel. Most "growth" in the STL region has been from a few outsiders who have moved into St. Louis, St. Charles and Jefferson Counties. Beyond that, the population is more or less stagnant.