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The following look possible, going by the US Census, but before 2005 I only have population numbers by decade so maybe there were declines in an individual year that were recouped by decade's end. I tried to limit to ones with relatively high growth each decade to avoid that.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Anchorage, Alaska
Austin, Texas
Bakersfield, California
Charlotte, North Carolina
Fresno, California
Greensboro, North Carolina
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Phoenix, Arizona
San Antonio, Texas
I'm not sure of those in California, took out Riverside even, and maybe others have more detailed stats for some I named by my own quick research.
The following look possible, going by the US Census, but before 2005 I only have population numbers by decade so maybe there were declines in an individual year that were recouped by decade's end. I tried to limit to ones with relatively high growth each decade to avoid that.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Anchorage, Alaska
Austin, Texas
Bakersfield, California
Charlotte, North Carolina
Fresno, California
Greensboro, North Carolina
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Phoenix, Arizona
San Antonio, Texas
I'm not sure of those in California, took out Riverside even, and maybe others have more detailed stats for some I named by my own quick research.
It's interesting to note Phoenix is the largest city in the nation that has never recorded a population decline.
Even the recent recession and the housing crunch didn't affect growth, people are still moving there.
If you are going by official census counts then Houston never lost.
It did lose based on estimates in the 80's but by the time the census came around the numbers from 1980 to 1990 was positive
The following look possible, going by the US Census, but before 2005 I only have population numbers by decade so maybe there were declines in an individual year that were recouped by decade's end. I tried to limit to ones with relatively high growth each decade to avoid that.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Anchorage, Alaska
Austin, Texas
Bakersfield, California
Charlotte, North Carolina
Fresno, California
Greensboro, North Carolina
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Phoenix, Arizona
San Antonio, Texas
I'm not sure of those in California, took out Riverside even, and maybe others have more detailed stats for some I named by my own quick research.
San Antonio had Declines in the mid 1800's when it was still a small town and under constant threat from mexico
Las Vegas had a population of 25 people in 1900, about 24,000 in 1950 and over 580,000 by the 2010 census... It might possibly suffer a decline in population in the near future, but it didn't at any other time in its history from what I can see.
San Diego(8th largest city in the US) also doesn't have a recorded population decline by census figures for any decade, although I don't know if the city ever lost population for a given year. Same with San Jose.
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