2010 Census: Montgomery, Prince George's populations soar, Baltimore shrinks (real estate, 2015)

[Danbo1957]

The population of Washington's Maryland suburbs soared over the last decade while Baltimore city shrank dramatically, new census data shows.
Montgomery County accounted for more than a fifth of the state's total population growth, swelling 10 percent, from 873,341 in 2000, to 971,777 in 2010.

Prince George's County grew by 7 percent, from 801,515 to 863,420.
Baltimore City shed more than 30,000 residents, or 5 percent of its population. The city now has 620,961 residents.

Maryland Politics - 2010 Census: Montgomery, Prince George's populations soar, Baltimore shrinks

[AlicynD]

Here is the article from the Baltimore Business Journal

[Internal Breathing Fire]

Montgomery and Prince George's should become their won cities, as well as Fairfax and Arlington. Add in Alexandra and you have five large cities surrounding Washington, D.C.
Convert them into Burroughs and annex D.C. into all that land, we'd be known as the United Burroughs of America

[GoPhils]

How can Montgomery and PG become their own cities when they each have several cities within them?

But anyway, what is the point of this article? To further prove the extent of suburban sprawl? To me the title makes it sound like it's trying to say the DC area is growing while the Baltimore area is shrinking, when that's not the case since all of the counties surrounding Baltimore city grew. What did the population of DC do?

[PGC301]

Originally Posted by GoPhils

What did the population of DC do?

DC's population grew 5.2% from 572,059 in 2000 to 601,723 in 2010.

[MDAllstar]

Originally Posted by PGC301

DC's population grew 5.2% from 572,059 in 2000 to 601,723 in 2010.

DC's population not only grew to 601,723 but is expected to grow 45,000 by 2015.

[Tallybalt]

So Washington will overtake Baltimore's population in the not too distant future.

Washington's revival is impressive. It wasn't long ago people in Baltimore were saying that no matter how bad things were in Baltimore, at least it wasn't as bad as Washington.

Originally Posted by MDAllstar

DC's population not only grew to 601,723 but is expected to grow 45,000 by 2015.

[sl0622]

Ahh. No wonder real estate prices keep going up in DC (2nd highest increase in prices last year (behind Hawaii); forecasted to be No. 1 =this year). Even factoring in what I would pay for Baltimore's exhorbitant property taxes each month, I still can't afford to buy a decent sized rowhouse in DC (unless it's in an undesirable part of town).

DC is in it's own little bubble though... Gov't will have to shrink at some point (if we ever hope to shrink our massive debt), and maybe that will take some of the wind of out DC?

[jonjj]

A lot of the wind in DC is due directly to federal spending and federal jobs.

[rudy_d]

I admit that I was disheartened to hear that the city lost population while the rest of the state gained. I wish there was more details in the data for analysis. The 1990s saw a much greater rate of population loss in the city, and the exodus has obviously slowed. It's possible that the outward flow has stabilized or reversed course in the latter part of the past decade, but there's no way to know that from the census data. I think it would paint a very different picture.