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I would also like to know the source of these estimates. While many cities seem too high, Winston-Salem actually seems too low.
How's that? In the 2010 Census, W-S was 229,634. In its 2018 estimate, W-S was 246,328. That's less than 17,000 people added in 8 years, or just over 2,000 a year on average. If we add 5K to the 2018 estimate to more than account for 2 more years of growth, it's still lower than the 253K that's listed.
In comparison, here are the following deltas between the Census' 2018 estimates and this list of 2020 populations for the other top cities:
Charlotte: 872,498 (51,779)
Raleigh: 469,298 (36,432)
Greensboro: 294,722 (13,518)
Durham: 274,291 (17,154)
Cary: 168,160 (19,137)
Not only did Charlotte not grow by over 51K in two years, the entirety of Mecklenburg County didn't add that many people. The same is true for Raleigh+Cary in Wake (~54K when combined).
Greensboro has been growing a bit over 3000 per year since 2010, so its nearly 14K growth in 2 years is highly questionable, as is Durham's growth of 17K in 2 years when it growth has averaged under 6K a year since 2010.
Now, it's possible that the Census estimates have been under counting NC cities, but they have been more likely to over count based in years past. Anyone remember the gross overestimate of Atlanta leading up to the 2010 Census? Their 2009 estimate was WAY over the actual 2010 Census count by about 121,000.
How's that? In the 2010 Census, W-S was 229,634. In its 2018 estimate, W-S was 246,328. That's less than 17,000 people added in 8 years, or just over 2,000 a year on average. If we add 5K to the 2018 estimate to more than account for 2 more years of growth, it's still lower than the 253K that's listed.
I was going by WS's wikipedia which says the 2019 estimate was 255,969. I checked the source of that but it just links to the census and I can't seem to download the right csv file to even see what data was used. So maybe that's not accurate either.
The Town of Apex website lists their population as of January 31, 2020 at 62,165 which is nearly 5,600 higher than the list shown. As others as said, I'm sure there are other significant errors in those numbers.
Far fewer newcomers here are coming to rural areas.
Most gravitate to the cities or suburbs of about a dozen or so of the state's 100 counties. Though cities in NC usually don't have the same layout/density as cities in the coastal Northeast, where a lot of people are moving from.
I understand - that is very logical since North Carolina doesn't have any cities.
"since North Carolina doesn't have any cities." Okay!
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