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Dang, Boston's Suffolk County lost 3.3% of its population. about 84.6% of Suffolk County is in Boston and one town is suburban and may have grown. Boston might've lost 25k people in one year. The only ones worse were LA SF and NYC. Maybe Chicago or DC?
Suffolk County — which is anchored by Boston and its roughly 675,000 residents but also includes Chelsea, Revere, and Winthrop — lost 28,850 people who moved elsewhere between July 2020 and July 2021, data show.
Honestly, because of Covid, I don't think I would put a lot of long-term bets on these numbers.
people left expensive cities they might not be able to afford to return to...
And the rush back to work probably isn't going to happen, at least not in those cities - but will be fairly gradual or 'days-in-office' will be rare enough where people who moved an hour out can still manage not to move back.
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Dang, Boston's Suffolk County lost 3.3% of its population. about 84.6% of Suffolk County is in Boston and one town is suburban and may have grown. Boston might've lost 25k people in one year. The only ones worse were LA SF and NYC. Maybe Chicago or DC?
Suffolk County — which is anchored by Boston and its roughly 675,000 residents but also includes Chelsea, Revere, and Winthrop — lost 28,850 people who moved elsewhere between July 2020 and July 2021, data show.
DC proper lost 19,000. Arlington lost like another 6,000, combined that would make 25k.
Honestly, because of Covid, I don't think I would put a lot of long-term bets on these numbers.
Yes, there's certainly going to be a substantial return of city-dwellers, which has honestly already/is currently happening with all of the pandemic-related lockdowns/mandates having ended months ago now.
So, in March 2022, these estimates are already pretty outdated. Large cities/metro areas continue to be the epicenters of opportunity and entertainment. That hasn't changed and will continue to be the case forever.
The biggest drag on cities moving forward is natural population decline (really caused by continually declining birth rates, mostly), cost-of-living and access to housing that's affordable to the middle-class.
Those were already critical issues that the pandemic essentially put into overdrive. I don't see them getting much better any time soon, either. The concerning thing is they're more likely to get worse.
I don’t know if this was already captured but don’t forget that nearly a million Americans died from Covid outright. That’s gonna have major effects on population members, regardless of folks moving in and out of cities.
So, essentially, Millennials are now fleeing cities in droves and moving to suburbia. Ugh.
I think there is a sizeable contingent of people that are moving to more rural areas of the country, similar to the 1960's and 1970's. Piscataquis County, Maine- a county with one of the lowest population densities east of the Mississippi River, registered a 2.2% gain in population between 2020-2021.
Interesting how my rural county, which is also a micro, increased in population from 2020 to 2021 as well as all the rural counties that border on it. Overall, 65.6% of American counties saw an increase in population as Americans abandoned larger cities for smaller ones. U.S. micro areas, up 0.2% between 2020 and 2021, grew slightly faster than U.S. metro areas, which increased by 0.1%. This is a departure from past trends when metro areas typically grew at a faster rate than micro areas.
Cities losing population was expected to happen due to covid
This. Major cities with huge college populations where campus closed are going to feel it way harder than cities without
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