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Basically it looks like the Charlotte and Triangle cities/suburubs are accounting for the majority of the rapid growth in NC by far.
Greensboro might see itself displaced by Durham as the #3 NC city in 2020.
In the Charlotte area it’s interesting how once tiny suburbs like Indian Trail and Mooresville have overtaken their traditionally larger county seats of Monroe and Statesville in population.
Concord is growing rapidly and leaving Gastonia and Rock Hill in the dust as far as being the 2nd largest city in the Charlotte Metro.
Yeah Concord has the benefit of directly bordering a fast-growing part of Charlotte and capturing some of that spillover growth and having the most land area of the three. Rock Hill is experiencing healthy growth but hasn't historically been able to capture as much of the area's growth due to SC's restrictive annexation laws.
The site says Concord projected to hit 100k in 2026 at a growth rate of 1.33 percent each year based on last 10 years. I think that it will outpace it because for the last 4 years the growth rate on average was over 2 percent. ALSO the population is wrong because in 2017 Concord had 92k and it says that 2017 concord had 88k. If Concord grows at 2 percent for the next ten years -add 4k because of wrong population numbers-, it could hit 100k by 2022.
2018- 94,000 - rounded to nearest 1k
2019- 95,880
2020- 97,797
2021- 99,752
2022- 101,747
2023- 103,781
2024- 105,856
2025- 107,913 - Year Charlotte is projected to hit 1,000,000.
2026- 110,132
2027- 112,334
2028- 114,580
2029- 116,871
2030- 119,208
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Basically it looks like the Charlotte and Triangle cities/suburubs are accounting for the majority of the rapid growth in NC by far.
Greensboro might see itself displaced by Durham as the #3 NC city in 2020.
In the Charlotte area it’s interesting how once tiny suburbs like Indian Trail and Mooresville have overtaken their traditionally larger county seats of Monroe and Statesville in population.
Concord is growing rapidly and leaving Gastonia and Rock Hill in the dust as far as being the 2nd largest city in the Charlotte Metro.
I'm not sure how accurate they are with Gastonia, number-wise. They had undercounted Gastonia last time, by a lot. I suspect they're doing it again. There has been consistent building coupled with rehabbing in Gastonia since the last census.
The site says Concord projected to hit 100k in 2026 at a growth rate of 1.33 percent each year based on last 10 years. I think that it will outpace it because for the last 4 years the growth rate on average was over 2 percent. ALSO the population is wrong because in 2017 Concord had 92k and it says that 2017 concord had 88k. If Concord grows at 2 percent for the next ten years -add 4k because of wrong population numbers-, it could hit 100k by 2022.
2018- 94,000 - rounded to nearest 1k
2019- 95,880
2020- 97,797
2021- 99,752
2022- 101,747
2023- 103,781
2024- 105,856
2025- 107,913 - Year Charlotte is projected to hit 1,000,000.
2026- 110,132
2027- 112,334
2028- 114,580
2029- 116,871
2030- 119,208
That site has a couple of interesting notes about Concord. One is that the population estimate for 2018 is 90,827. Not 94K. As well it is interesting that when the last census was done the estimate in Concord was 2,304 more than the actual real census number.
The 1.33% projection going forward shows how inaccurate the estimates and projections can be. Is the growth actually 2%? Is the estimate actually correct (it wasn't in 2010).
Basically it looks like the Charlotte and Triangle cities/suburubs are accounting for the majority of the rapid growth in NC by far.
Greensboro might see itself displaced by Durham as the #3 NC city in 2020.
In the Charlotte area it’s interesting how once tiny suburbs like Indian Trail and Mooresville have overtaken their traditionally larger county seats of Monroe and Statesville in population.
Concord is growing rapidly and leaving Gastonia and Rock Hill in the dust as far as being the 2nd largest city in the Charlotte Metro.
Clayton too in Johnston County overtook Smithfield. Well, they did this sometime before the 2010 census but I didn't realize it until I saw this post and wondered if they done so yet. Sure enough, they have.
Clayton too in Johnston County overtook Smithfield. Well, they did this sometime before the 2010 census but I didn't realize it until I saw this post and wondered if they done so yet. Sure enough, they have.
I mean it's not rocket science. Those traditionally smaller towns are much closer to the modern major jobs centers.
Since we haven't done one in a while here is as of 2018 per World Population
1. Charlotte 873,363
2. Raleigh 476,746
3. Greensboro 290,519
4. Durham 274,006
5. Winston-Salem 245,549
6. Fayetteville 207,089 (magically gained 5000 people from last time)
7. Cary 167,660
8. Wilmington 121,463
9. High Point 112,935
10. Concord 94,387 (up 2 from last time) (growing fast)
11. Greenville 92,621 (down 1 from last time) (still growing)
12. Asheville 90,765 (down 1 from last time) (still growing)
13. Gastonia 77,610
14. Jacksonville 66,914
15. Chapel Hill 59,574 (barley grew)
16. Huntersville 59,269 ( up 1 from last time) (growing)
17. Rocky Mount 55,316 (down 2 from last time) (losing population)
18.Burlington 53,475
19. Apex 51,103 (up 2 since last time) (growing fairly fast)
20. Kannapolis 50,361
21. Wilson 49,444 (down 3 since last time) (roughly the same population)
22. Wake Forest 44,126 (up 1 since last time) (growing)
23. Hickory 40,885 ( down 1 since last time) (roughly the same population)
24. Indian Trail 40,704
25. Mooresville 37,753
Other things to note:
Holly Springs is 26 only behind by a little more than 500 people so it's gonna make the Top 25 by next year easily.
Greenville is now out of the Top 10 despite growth
North Carolina is 9th in population
Once again major cities suburbs are growing at a high rate
It's been a year time for an update
Charlotte 889,019
Raleigh 485,679
Greensboro 292,265
Durham 279,501
Winston-Salem 247,222
Fayetteville 208,254
Cary 170,330
Wilmington 123,432
High Point 113,791
Concord 96,635
Greenville 93,184
Asheville 91,587
Gastonia 78,647
Jacksonville 66,479
Huntersville 61,484
Chapel Hill 59,738
Rocky Mount 55,241
Burlington 53,858
Apex 52,980
Kannapolis 51,622
Wilson 49,356
Wake Forest 46,133
Indian Trail 41,945
Hickory 41,044
Holly Springs 39,035
Meh; the gap closed by about 130 people (6,977 gap in 2018 vs 6,847 gap in 2019).
Honestly considering how relatively affordable Wake Forest is compared to Apex I'm surprised the gap hasn't closed more.
The bigger "wow" factor in closing gaps is Apex to Chapel Hill. CH is mostly built out and has taken a STRONGLY anti-growth stance in the past few years so I would be very surprised if Apex doesn't grow to be more populous* than CH within the next 5 years.
*this is obviously only "on paper"...CH will still be a much larger "presence" in the Triangle and the state for the foreseeable future as those population figures don't count most undergraduate students which is obviously a huge amount of people in CH. Not to mention that Chapel Hill grows by about 40% during the day due to people commuting "in" wheras Apex shrinks by about 20% during the day due to commuting "out".
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