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How much has your metro area grown?
Bruce:
Washington started enforcing urban growth boundaries in the early 1990s, but that hasn't prevented sprawl from spilling over.
From 1980 to 2020, the tri-county metro population for Seattle grew from 2.10 million to 4.02 million. My county alone grew 245% (338K to 828K) in that period.
Dirt Roads:
The Triangle has exploded in population since I first worked here on the railroad back in the mid-1980s. Raleigh-Durham was once an MSA, but was split into two separate MSAs at least by 2010. Back in the 1980 United States Census, the Raleigh-Durham MSA was comprised of only 3 counties (Wake, Durham and Orange) had a population of 635,008. In the most recent United States Census, the Raleigh-Cary MSA had a population of 1,413,982 and the Durham-Chapel Hill MSA had a population of 649,903. The Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill CMSA has grown to include 9 counties (adding Johnston, Franklin, Vance and Lee to the Raleigh MSA; adding Chatham, Person and Granville to the Durham MSA), for a combined total of 2,106,463 (includes the Henderson μSA, ergo Vance County). That is a 224% increase since 1980.
Jumping up to July, 2022: Raleigh-Cary comes in at 1,489,947 and Durham-Chapel Hill 670,863. Adding in Vance County (42,051), we get a derived total for the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill CMSA of 2,202,861. That's a 4.5% increase in just a little over 2 years and 247% increase since 1980.
westerninterloper:
--- Quote from: Flint1979 on February 12, 2023, 08:03:24 AM ---I was born in Flint but live in Saginaw now. Flint consists of Genesee County which had a peak population of 450,449 in 1980, in 2020 it had a population of 406,211. Flint city proper had a peak population of 196,940 in 1960, when I was born the following year was 1980 which had a population of 159,611. Flint was still somewhat in it's prime when I was born, there were 80,000 General Motors employees in the city of Flint in 1978, the year before I was born today that number is down to 5,000 or under. Flint's population in the 2020 census was 81,252 which means Flint has lost 115,000 people over the past 60 years, almost 2,000 people per year.
Saginaw isn't much different than Flint other than it's smaller. Saginaw is part of the Tri-Cities area though which includes Midland and Bay City. Saginaw city proper had a peak population of 98,265 in 1960, it was 77,508 in 1980 and 44,202 in 2020. Saginaw County had a peak population of 228,059 in 1980 and 190,124 in 2020.
All of Michigan's major cities except for Grand Rapids and Ann Arbor have lost population.
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Secondary cities in the midwest built on a single industry - largely steel and automobiles - suffered mightily since the 1970s.
Youngstown MSA peak: 1980, 434K; 2020, 352K
Gary city peak: 1960, 168K; 2020; 68K
Flint MSA peak: 2000, 365K; 2020: 244K - Flint seems to have dropped less, perhaps because its southern reaches are on the growing side of Metro Detroit.
Takumi:
The Richmond metro area has slowly but steadily grown. In the past 30 years it went from 732,000 to 1,140,000.
Flint1979:
--- Quote from: westerninterloper on February 12, 2023, 08:49:11 PM ---
--- Quote from: Flint1979 on February 12, 2023, 08:03:24 AM ---I was born in Flint but live in Saginaw now. Flint consists of Genesee County which had a peak population of 450,449 in 1980, in 2020 it had a population of 406,211. Flint city proper had a peak population of 196,940 in 1960, when I was born the following year was 1980 which had a population of 159,611. Flint was still somewhat in it's prime when I was born, there were 80,000 General Motors employees in the city of Flint in 1978, the year before I was born today that number is down to 5,000 or under. Flint's population in the 2020 census was 81,252 which means Flint has lost 115,000 people over the past 60 years, almost 2,000 people per year.
Saginaw isn't much different than Flint other than it's smaller. Saginaw is part of the Tri-Cities area though which includes Midland and Bay City. Saginaw city proper had a peak population of 98,265 in 1960, it was 77,508 in 1980 and 44,202 in 2020. Saginaw County had a peak population of 228,059 in 1980 and 190,124 in 2020.
All of Michigan's major cities except for Grand Rapids and Ann Arbor have lost population.
--- End quote ---
Secondary cities in the midwest built on a single industry - largely steel and automobiles - suffered mightily since the 1970s.
Youngstown MSA peak: 1980, 434K; 2020, 352K
Gary city peak: 1960, 168K; 2020; 68K
Flint MSA peak: 2000, 365K; 2020: 244K - Flint seems to have dropped less, perhaps because its southern reaches are on the growing side of Metro Detroit.
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The growing side of Metro Detroit is really northern Macomb County which is more east from Flint. There's about a 15 mile gap before you start getting into Metro Detroit.
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