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Originally Posted by db2797
But it's not stagnating as ckhthankgod pointed out. It is growing. Stagnation to me is a metro that has flatlined in population and hovers around the same total. That's not Rochester. The metro has grown 20,000 to 30,000 every census. (2%-3%)
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Since the 2010 Census, Rochester's MSA is projected to have grown a "staggering" 3722 people for a growth rate of 0.34% over the first four years of the decade. Mind you, this is for a MSA over a million people. It's practically treading water. If past decades grew at 2-3% as you claim, then you only prove my point. Rochester is on track to end the decade with less than 1% growth. Compared to previous decades, its growth is stagnating. It only looks impressive compared to the projected growth in Buffalo's MSA: a whopping 0.07% since 2010.
To put this in perspective, Grand Rapids' MSA grew by nearly 39,000 since 2010 with a similar but slightly smaller base population from 2010. Salt Lake City had a very similar base population to Rochester in 2010 and has since grown by over 65,000 since then.
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