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I was looking over the Combined Statistical Area growth rates for these 3 cities and noticed that Louisville is growing at 1.2% per year while Cincinnati is only growing 0.6% per year and Pittsburgh's metro has lost 500,000 people since 1960.
IF these growth rate trends continue Louisville's greater Metro Area (or Combined Statistical Area) would overtake Cincinnati's by the year 2070. Of course that's a long ways off.
Do you think these trends will continue and Louisville will become the preeminent Ohio River city?
Louisville would take decades to grow larger than cincinnati and even then it would not be nearly as important than cincinnati in influence, business, economics, demographics etc.
I was looking over the Combined Statistical Area growth rates for these 3 cities and noticed that Louisville is growing at 1.2% per year while Cincinnati is only growing 0.6% per year and Pittsburgh's metro has lost 500,000 people since 1960.
IF these growth rate trends continue Louisville's greater Metro Area (or Combined Statistical Area) would overtake Cincinnati's by the year 2070. Of course that's a long ways off.
Do you think these trends will continue and Louisville will become the preeminent Ohio River city?
Cincinnati's metro will probably meld with Dayton's before 2070, and Louisville will have to wait another century to catch up.
No, the Pittsburgh MSA has stopped losing population and now does a good job at attracting migrants compared to other cities in the Northeast and the Cincinnati metro is gaining people too.
No way. From what I have seen Pittsburgh is back on the upswing. Also, Cincinnati's metro never stopped gaining population and Cincinnati's economy has been doing very well lately(as has Ohio's: Ohio created more than a quarter of U.S. jobs in May | cleveland.com). I think the metro growth rate will increase and the city population will start posting increases again. Unless something major happens, I don't see Louisville catching up.
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