Why is Columbus Doing So Much Better Than Other Cities in Ohio? (Cleveland: how much, unemployment rate)

[Cincy-Rise]

Originally Posted by Hey_Hey

Are you speaking of the actual cities or the metro areas? In terms of metro areas Cincinnati is doing just as well as Columbus. Both had pretty solid, but not spectacular, growth since 2000. Columbus has grown a little less than 10% in total population while Cincinnati has grown a little over 7%. The city of Cincinnati has generally lost population for the last few decades (although that may now be changing). However, the city of Columbus includes many areas that would be suburban in Cincinnati's area. If the city of Columbus hadn't annexed a lot of the land that they did years ago it's likely the city would have seen a drop in population as well.

Yes, Cincinnati's MSA and City pop. are both growing.

[Cincy-Rise]

Two reasons:

A) It's the capital (show me a capital that gets short-changed?).
B) Its suburban economy also happens to be within its city limits.

[aquila]

Originally Posted by Cincy-Rise

NOKY contains about 5% of Cincinnati's MSA.

Actually, it's more like 18-19%. NKY's population is roughly 418,000.

[Cincy-Rise]

Originally Posted by aquila

Actually, it's more like 19-20%. NKY's population is roughly 418,000.

Break it down for us!

[Cincy-Rise]

Oops, I just noticed that he was referring to "growth" ... buuuuuut I still want to see numbers showing growth comparisons.

[costello_musicman]

^^But isn't all that growth sprawl??

[Beavercreek33]

Originally Posted by Clevelander17

I'm talking metropolitan areas. However with Cincinnati, a large chunk of the metro growth is actually in Kentucky, which I'm not a big fan of seeing.

I guess you have never heard of Warren County, Ohio...

[Hey_Hey]

Here's the 2008 estimates for Cincinnati's MSA population:

Total pop - 2,155,137

KY counties in MSA:
Boone - 115,231
Bracken - 8,569
Campbell - 87,038
Gallatin - 8,072
Grant - 25,549
Kenton - 157,629
Pendleton - 14,992

Total of KY counties in MSA - 417,079
Percent of total - 19.4%

In 2005 NKY made up 19.2% of the MSA's population.
In 2000 NKY made up 18.9% of the MSA's population.

[costello_musicman]

Too bad the increase in population doesn't help Ohio much...

[Beavercreek33]

Originally Posted by costello_musicman

Too bad the increase in population doesn't help Ohio much...

Too bad in KY its all sprawl and the majority of it would not be there if it wasn't for Cincinnati. I am not worried, Cincinnati is seeing huge amounts of growth in downtown, and in the city itself, and the northern suburbs are unfortunately sprawling as well, and is about to connect with Dayton, but they are growing too, and have a much larger population than all the NKY counties. Theres a new Ikea in West Chester, and it brings in the folks from all over Kentucky 24/7.