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In some cases those suburbs are overtaking their once larger county seats in those counties. Indian Trail overtaking Monroe in Union and Mooresville overtaking Statesville in Iredell come to mind. I remember a few years back where Indian Trail residents complained to NCDOT to get the town added onto freeway signs as a control city along with Monroe now that it's larger.
That's really interesting. The same thing has happened to Johnston, Co., with Clayton overtaking Smithfield.
Assuming nothing has changed and Chatham Park gets annexed into Pittsboro rather than becoming its own municipality (see 9th paragraph from top at link below), Pittsboro will be just like Clayton and Indian Trail in becoming the largest population center in their respective counties with the addition of Chatham Park (perhaps even without it), overtaking Siler City by a long shot. The difference in Chatham county is that it doesn't have any municipality that feels like a city; it is small towns with a little bit of Triangleburbia mixed in in the northeastern corner.
In some ways, Pittsboro already feels larger and more metropolitan than laid-back Siler City with the growth around 64 and 15-501, but once Chatham Park gets underway, it will overwhelm Pittsboro, just as the formerly sleepy Wake Forest, Apex, Holly Springs, etc. became quickly overrun and overwhelmed with Triangle suburbia.
Assuming nothing has changed and Chatham Park gets annexed into Pittsboro rather than becoming its own municipality (see 9th paragraph from top at link below), Pittsboro will be just like Clayton and Indian Trail in becoming the largest population center in their respective counties with the addition of Chatham Park (perhaps even without it), overtaking Siler City by a long shot. The difference in Chatham county is that it doesn't have any municipality that feels like a city; it is small towns with a little bit of Triangleburbia mixed in in the northeastern corner.
In some ways, Pittsboro already feels larger and more metropolitan than laid-back Siler City with the growth around 64 and 15-501, but once Chatham Park gets underway, it will overwhelm Pittsboro, just as the formerly sleepy Wake Forest, Apex, Holly Springs, etc. became quickly overrun and overwhelmed with Triangle suburbia.
Yeah, game changing mega-projects are going to be wild cards for future population growth in certain towns. Like the other fast growing towns/burbs, these are likely to be in either metro Charlotte or the Triangle.
Recent trips to Greensboro have convinced me that Durham has surpassed it as an overall more balanced city, better quality of life. Durham hasnt passed it on paper yet but it's right got it otherwise...
Hate yall got my good Gso/Durham thread shut down, can mode reopen it please?
Recent trips to Greensboro have convinced me that Durham has surpassed it as an overall more balanced city, better quality of life. Durham hasnt passed it on paper yet but it's right got it otherwise...
Hate yall got my good Gso/Durham thread shut down, can mode reopen it please?
While Durham is chasing Greensboro in population, it's doing so with about 19 square miles less land. If it were an equal playing field in land area, Durham might already be ahead. Durham already passed W-S, which has even a bit more land area than Greensboro. If Durham can get its infill development activity and density to be nearer Raleigh's and Cary's, it's reasonable to see it push 350,000 without expanding its land area. Time will tell.
^ Indian Trail surpassing Hickory (and Mooresville and Holly Springs edging up on it) is pretty amazing for anyone who has been in NC for a long time.
So is watching Rocky Mount fall behind Chapel Hill, Apex and (less so) Burlington. The latter may not happen by this census, but it definitely will by 2030. Wouldn't be surprised if Rocky Mount went under 50,000 by then either.
What's the source for this list? Many of these numbers look a lot different than numbers I've seen. Also, Wake Forest is completely missing from this list and it was estimated over 44,000 in 2018 by the Census and is rapidly growing.
Many of the top NC cities also seem to have inflated populations when compared to their 2018 estimates. Unless the Census' yearly estimates this past decade have been wildly off, it's nearly impossible that Charlotte's, Raleigh's, Greensboro's, Durham's, and Cary's populations can be that high.
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