College Educated 25-34 Year Olds are Moving to Cities (Philadelphia: neighborhoods, to live in)

[Goodjules]

Just got the following from CEOs for Cities. This bodes well for Pittsburgh.

"The Young and (Definitely) Restless are City Material

College-educated 25-34 year-olds are the most mobile Americans, which makes them one of the most desirable demographic segments for cities attempting to grow their talent pool. In the next week, CEOs for Cities will release its latest update to the 2005 study, “The Young and Restless in a Knowledge Economy.” The study by economist Joe Cortright tracked the migration patterns and preferences of college-educated 25-34 year-olds.

The new statistics make one thing absolutely clear: The march toward the central city by well-educated young adults has become a stampede.

In 2000, young adults with a four-year degree were about 24% more likely to live in close-in urban neighborhoods than their counterparts with less education. Now, these well-educated young adults are about 64% more likely to live in these close-in urban neighborhoods. This relative preference for close-in neighborhoods increased in every one of the metro areas examined.

This is no longer an anecdote or clever story in USA Today. The trend is real and unmistakable."

Here's a link to the entire study: http://www.ceosforcities.org/pagefil..._YNR_FINAL.pdf

[BrianTH]

I know some people are inclined to dismiss this with "oh, young people always do that", so I am glad to see people doing what I hoped, which was start comparing different cohorts at the same stage and see if that is true.

I think this sort of thing can obviously feed on itself as well. Those young educated people can really transform neighborhoods quickly when they put their mind to it.

Edit: I believe that link is to the 2005 study, incidentally.

[AaronPGH]

Interesting study for sure.... a bit dated though. Looks like they were checking data from 1990-2000.

[BrianTH]

Originally Posted by AaronClark

Interesting study for sure.... a bit dated though. Looks like they were checking data from 1990-2000.

That is what they did in the original 2005 article. Apparently they are coming out with an update soon based on more recent data which they can compare to their 2000 data.

[pman]

The Downtown Renaissance Extends Its Reach « The Transport Politic

[BrianTH]

That Transport Politic article is interesting. As we know, Pittsburgh's Downtown is a little too small to represent the "downtown" in most places, and in addition we have a second large CBD in Oakland. Plus, Pittsburgh has the ongoing post-steel-bust dynamics which put it into its own category. Still, consider the following map. Note you basically have to swap Downtown and the Bluff, because the Census shifted its understanding of the location of the Allegheny County jail (making it look like Downtown lost that population and the Bluff gained it).



If you lump together Downtown, the closest parts of the North Side, the Strip, the South Side, Oakland, Shadyside, and the dense part of Squirrel Hill, you get a similar pattern to what is being described in that article.

[pman]

Originally Posted by BrianTH

That Transport Politic article is interesting. As we know, Pittsburgh's Downtown is a little too small to represent the "downtown" in most places, and in addition we have a second large CBD in Oakland. Plus, Pittsburgh has the ongoing post-steel-bust dynamics which put it into its own category. Still, consider the following map. Note you basically have to swap Downtown and the Bluff, because the Census shifted its understanding of the location of the Allegheny County jail (making it look like Downtown lost that population and the Bluff gained it).
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If you lump together Downtown, the closest parts of the North Side, the Strip, the South Side, Oakland, Shadyside, and the dense part of Squirrel Hill, you get a similar pattern to what is being described in that article.

downtown is a fuzzy thing to begin with. for example, I know for a fact the numbers for baltimore's downtown are inflated (last I saw they were celebrating 10k downtown, no way it shot up to 40k) and must include "greater downtown" or what I like to call core neighborhoods while the numbers for Philadelphia do not, those are the numbers for the strictly defined downtown. I'm curious why the golden triangle isn't green. If one assumes the triangle should be green, that's a solid grouping of growth (and I suspect you would have seen something similar ten years ago in Philly that expanded over the subsequent decade into something more substantial in terms of population.

[BrianTH]

We covered the jail issue in the other thread. So, yep, that is a solid "core" cluster centered on Downtown, and another on Oakland, which is more or less what you would expect after reading the Transport Politic piece and applying it to Pittsburgh.