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The US census has Charlotte growing from 738,710 in 2010 to 792862 in 2013, a gain of 54,152 people in 3 years. 6.8% growth
The US census has Raleigh growing from 406.324 in 2010 to 431,746 2013, a gain of 25,422 people in 3 years 5.8% growth
Charlotte had 28,730 more population growth than Raleigh.
The US census has Durham growing from 240,777 in 2010 to 288,133 in 2013 a gain of 17,356 people in 3 years a 6% growth
The US census has Greensboro growing from 269,628 in 2010 to 279,639 2013 a gain of 10,011 people in 3 years 3.3% growth
The US census has Winston Salem growing from 229,997 in 2010 to 236,441 in 2013 a gain of 8,444 people in 3years 3.6% growth
If Charlotte maintains it same growth to 2020 in will have 920,230 people.
If Raleigh maintains it same growth to 2020 in will have 660,544 people.
If Durham maintains it same growth to 2020 in will have 443,337 people.
If Greensboro maintains it same growth to 2020 in will have 340,887 people.
If Winston-Salem maintains it same growth to 2020 in will have 314,437 people.
Charlotte and Raleigh will still be the largest cities in NC.
Your figures might be off a little. Charlotte is about right but Raleigh will be in 490-500 thousand range ,Durham in the 310-329 thousand range & Greensboro & Winston in the 275-290 thousand range.
That's a pretty tall order and unless more counties get added to the metro, it would be pretty scary for Charlotte to grow that rapidly in such a short period of time.
It wouldn't be growth alone, it would be the addition of area included in the metro. Although, i don't see the Charlotte metro adding too much geography as it starts to bump up against GSO and CAE metros. I think a great deal of the population growth in the metro will be more dense. In that case, 3 million is much likely in 20 years. The CMSA is already at 2.5?
It wouldn't be growth alone, it would be the addition of area included in the metro. Although, i don't see the Charlotte metro adding too much geography as it starts to bump up against GSO and CAE metros. I think a great deal of the population growth in the metro will be more dense. In that case, 3 million is much likely in 20 years. The CMSA is already at 2.5?
The Charlotte Regional Partnership includes 16 counties in the Carolina's including 2 from the Hickory-Morganton MSA. They estimate the population at 2.8 million. I fully expect the Unifour to be included in Charlotte's CSA within the next 20 yrs, so 4 million is more than possible with the majority of that in 30 mile range of Charlotte
Your figures might be off a little. Charlotte is about right but Raleigh will be in 490-500 thousand range ,Durham in the 310-329 thousand range & Greensboro & Winston in the 275-290 thousand range.
I was using the average growth between 2010 & 2013 x 10 plus 2010 + 10 years X 1 year average growth. But who knows what will be the true growth in 2020. It could be more or less.
Would be interesting the state upgrade the roads so we end up with a second major artery between Charlotte & Raleigh. A sort of southern alternative of I85. Perhaps a route like NC49 from Charlotte to Asheboro and then US64 from Asheboro to Raleigh.
There is a long term plan by the state to use that corridor as an alternative to I-85:
Though, they only want to upgrade NC 49 to expressway standards, but US 64 between Asheboro and Cary will be at interstate standards. I'm not sure why.
I was using the average growth between 2010 & 2013 x 10 plus 2010 + 10 years X 1 year average growth. But who knows what will be the true growth in 2020. It could be more or less.
If you use the average growth of those 3 yrs then Raleigh would add 85,000 & Durham 60,000 residents. That would put Raleigh in the 500,000 thousand & Durham in the low 300,000 range
The state of North Carolina has be get serious about how they treat the piedmont belt from the RTP Area, Burlington, the triad an Charlotte Metro. This is the main population belt in North Carolina. I feel these areas have paid the most in taxes to fund road system, but has not benefited in roads improvements. How the state wants to put tolls roads, because they waited too long to help these areas. How many toll roads are going to be in eastern NC other than I95 a cash cow for NCDOT.
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