Fulton County at 1,000,000 (Atlanta, White: 2015, crime, neighborhoods)

[ajjam]

Is it safe to finally say that Fulton County has reached one million residents!?

Is it safe to say Atlanta has reached 500,000 which it saw once but BC of white flight declined?!

Will Gwinnett ever out populate Fulton, it has already over taken DeKalb?

[cwkimbro]

Originally Posted by ajjam

Is it safe to finally say that Fulton County has reached one million residents!?

Is it safe to say Atlanta has reached 500,000 which it saw once but BC of white flight declined?!

Will Gwinnett ever out populate Fulton, it has already over taken DeKalb?

The 2014 Census estimate was 996k, so sort of. It won't officially be over 1,000,000 until the 2015 estimates come out, even then we should remember that the Census has a large tendency to overestimate Fulton, Atlanta, and Cobb. But yes, we are pretty upon the 1,000,000 mark.


Atlanta city actually fell just under 500k in any official counts, but it got close. I don't fully blame white flight, but it was a part of it. There was a pretty much anti-"inner city" and a large wave of crime in our inner cities in the '60s-'80s. This lowered property values and led to white flight, but it was a near pretty much universal phenomena in our country often linked to higher drug use.

Gwinnett could, but it will take a really long time and much could happen.

The thing is Gwinnett can only add about another 200k or so without focusing on redevelopment alone. It is close to being "built out." That won't stop it from growing, but it might slow it a bit.

Also consider that Gwinnett has larger family sizes. There is a reason the school system is so large. Gwinnett's population will continue to rise and fall with its ability to attract families as opposed to empty nesters and singles. The population in some areas of Gwinnett is primed to go up from attracting new families where empty nesters use to live, and some areas are primed to go from being new and all families to be mixed with empty nesters in the future. These trends, beyond what is built, will affect Gwinnett's overall population numbers.

[ajjam]

Awesome responses and insight thank you

[magnetar]

Originally Posted by cwkimbro

There was a pretty much anti-"inner city" and a large wave of crime in our inner cities in the '60s-'80s. This lowered property values and led to white flight, but it was a near pretty much universal phenomena in our country often linked to higher drug use.

P.S. That's white flight.

[cwkimbro]

Originally Posted by magnetar

P.S. That's white flight.

It was two simultaneous trends in a similar era where one could help the other. If you went to some areas of the country where there wasn't a large minority population there was still suburban growth and a flight form the "inner city" with an increase in crime and drug use. I'm trying to draw attention to the different trends that happened simultaneously.

White flight was also something the creeped into what were the suburbs of the day going outwards from town and weren't always tied into what was the 'inner city' problem areas back in the day. The demographic changes to South Dekalb comes to mind as a prime example. I know that wold get muddied up in the later years were the region pretty much started calling any area they didn't want to be the 'inner city.'

[Atlwarrior]

Originally Posted by cwkimbro

It was two simultaneous trends in a similar era where one could help the other. If you went to some areas of the country where there wasn't a large minority population there was still suburban growth and a flight form the "inner city" with an increase in crime and drug use. I'm trying to draw attention to the different trends that happened simultaneously.

White flight was also something the creeped into what were the suburbs of the day going outwards from town and weren't always tied into what was the 'inner city' problem areas back in the day. The demographic changes to South Dekalb comes to mind as a prime example. I know that wold get muddied up in the later years were the region pretty much started calling any area they didn't want to be the 'inner city.'

It was more than drug use and crime that led to the white flight. Racial and political issue were major reasons also. Also public housing deter development and led to poor crime ridden neighborhoods. The construction of 1-20 also wipe out a huge part of West End.

[JoeP]

Is it safe to say Atlanta has reached 500,000 which it saw once but BC of white flight declined?!

The city of Atlanta never quite got to 500,000.

[Zanarkand A East]

Originally Posted by magnetar

P.S. That's white flight.

Heh, bingo. LOL

[cwkimbro]

Originally Posted by Atlwarrior

It was more than drug use and crime that led to the white flight. Racial and political issue were major reasons also. Also public housing deter development and led to poor crime ridden neighborhoods. The construction of 1-20 also wipe out a huge part of West End.

I'm saying they were two simultaneous trends.

Each trend impacted the other, but I'm not attributing the central cause of white flight to the other trend either.

I agree public housing development certainly played a large part of of concentrating the poor and poverty and that escalated the problem.

[isawooty]

Originally Posted by JoeP

The city of Atlanta never quite got to 500,000.

According to the Census with the responses they received.

But if everyone (including those weary of the government) had filled out their Census sheets...