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I'm not sure how accurate those numbers are. The town of Apex notes their population estimate as of 12/31/2019 to be 61,689, where as the numbers posted here show 52,980 . That's nearly an 9k difference!
Well, Rocky Mount didn't lose as much as trends indicated, but still, Burlington and Apex will likely pass it in population by 2021 if not this year. Even with that big move of the NC Department of Motor Vehicles headquarters from Raleigh to Rocky Mount this year
Charlotte 889,019
Raleigh 485,679
Greensboro 292,265
Durham 279,501
Winston-Salem 247,222
Fayetteville 208,254
Cary 170,330
Wilmington 123,432
High Point 113,791
Concord 96,635
Greenville 93,184
Asheville 91,587
Gastonia 78,647
Jacksonville 66,479
Huntersville 61,484
Chapel Hill 59,738
Rocky Mount 55,241
Burlington 53,858
Apex 52,980
Kannapolis 51,622
Wilson 49,356
Wake Forest 46,133
Indian Trail 41,945
Hickory 41,044
Holly Springs 39,035
Holly Springs takes over Mooresville
The Interesting thing to watch is Greensboro and Durham. Durham is within striking distance in knocking Greensboro out of third place, a position Greensboro has held since Raleigh knocked the city out of 2nd place more than 40 years ago. Greensboro better get to annexing...the problem is there are more people moving in to Durham than the city of Greensboro can annex and annexation laws were changed after the 2010 midterm election that essentially limits the kind of mass annexations the city had been doing for years. Greensboro had been annexing 20,000 plus people at a time and it usually happened around census time. Durham surpassing Greensboro would be the most significant spot change in decades.
I've actually seen estimates from other sources with Greensboro pushing 295,000 (2019) it wouldn't take much for the city to gain another 5,000 people to break 300,000 for the 2020 census.
But Durham is growing remarkably fast. It wasn't that long ago when Durham passed Winston-Salem and now there is a 30,000 difference. No doubt it would be a blow to Greensboro to get knocked out of its number 3 spot. The city has been trying to protect that spot for years fending off Winston-Salem with counter annexations. But that gap seems to be widening between Greensboro and Winston-Salem with a difference of almost 50,000 people.
The Interesting thing to watch is Greensboro and Durham. Durham is within striking distance in knocking Greensboro out of third place, a position Greensboro has held since Raleigh knocked the city out of 2nd place more than 40 years ago. Greensboro better get to annexing...the problem is there are more people moving in to Durham than the city of Greensboro can annex and annexation laws were changed after the 2010 midterm election that essentially limits the kind of mass annexations the city had been doing for years. Greensboro had been annexing 20,000 plus people at a time and it usually happened around census time. Durham surpassing Greensboro would be the most significant spot change in decades.
I've actually seen estimates from other sources with Greensboro pushing 295,000 (2019) it wouldn't take much for the city to gain another 5,000 people to break 300,000 for the 2020 census.
But Durham is growing remarkably fast. It wasn't that long ago when Durham passed Winston-Salem and now there is a 30,000 difference. No doubt it would be a blow to Greensboro to get knocked out of its number 3 spot. The city has been trying to protect that spot for years fending off Winston-Salem with counter annexations. But that gap seems to be widening between Greensboro and Winston-Salem with a difference of almost 50,000 people.
Explosive growth is happening for the top cities. I see that Hickory has not increased its population that much. Somehow Hickory needs something coming to the area to help it to grow.
The Interesting thing to watch is Greensboro and Durham. Durham is within striking distance in knocking Greensboro out of third place, a position Greensboro has held since Raleigh knocked the city out of 2nd place more than 40 years ago. Greensboro better get to annexing...the problem is there are more people moving in to Durham than the city of Greensboro can annex and annexation laws were changed after the 2010 midterm election that essentially limits the kind of mass annexations the city had been doing for years. Greensboro had been annexing 20,000 plus people at a time and it usually happened around census time. Durham surpassing Greensboro would be the most significant spot change in decades.
Umm, what? How can Greensboro do something you admit it can't do?
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Originally Posted by gsoboi78
But Durham is growing remarkably fast. It wasn't that long ago when Durham passed Winston-Salem and now there is a 30,000 difference. No doubt it would be a blow to Greensboro to get knocked out of its number 3 spot. The city has been trying to protect that spot for years fending off Winston-Salem with counter annexations. But that gap seems to be widening between Greensboro and Winston-Salem with a difference of almost 50,000 people.
Actually there's a huge doubt about that, outside a tiny number of people like you who care. 99.999999% don't care.
Umm, what? How can Greensboro do something you admit it can't do?
Actually there's a huge doubt about that, outside a tiny number of people like you who care. 99.999999% don't care.
It's a big deal to city leaders and those pushing for companies to move to the area. Not saying that sky is going to fall if Greensboro drops to 4th. But there is a reason why there is always a big bump in Greensboro's population around every census year.
Explosive growth is happening for the top cities. I see that Hickory has not increased its population that much. Somehow Hickory needs something coming to the area to help it to grow.
I am looking for some updated Morganton numbers. I work in Hickory, and it seems stagnant, in fact there is the beginnings of mass store closures on upper Center Street. I reference Morganton because there is an early building boom there and most of my Hickory clients of any affluence are bailing for Burke County. I moved to the South Mountains Park area from San Diego almost 4 years ago, I actually now have small 15-25 home subdivisions popping up along my daily commute SW of Hickory. Our newest store location Marion is being hit with new resident commuters from both Asheville and Charlotte. I wish we would open a Morganton location but we bypassed it in 2017 in the interest of keeping our stores an hour apart.
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