3 month 11 days change in MSA population-bizjournals (Virginia Beach, Norfolk: club, bars, estimated)

[confusedprotoplasm]

Metro area Richmond, VA Estimated population (as of Aug. 4, 2010)
1,255,204

Metro area Population (estimated as of Nov. 15, 2010) Rank (of 940 areas) Richmond, VA 1,259,635
Net Gain: 4,431


Metro area estimated population (as of Aug. 4, 2010)Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC
1,680,963
Metro area Population (estimated as of Nov. 15, 2010) Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC 1,682,636
Net Gain: 1673

(Posted by DANNYY. Thanks for the info!)

Largest Gainers in 3 Months & 11 Days (Numerically) Most to Least:

01. Dallas-Fort Worth: + 44,819
02. Houston: + 40,734
03. Atlanta: + 38,215
04. Phoenix: + 35,830
05. New York City: + 21,820
06. Washington DC: + 21,307
07. Austin: + 17,145
08. Chicago: + 15,700
09. Charlotte: + 15,566
10. Las Vegas: + 14,826
11. Los Angeles: + 14,568
12. Denver: + 13,698
13. Seattle: + 13,670
14. San Antonio: + 13,332
15. Raleigh: + 12,689
16. Miami-Fort Lauderdale: + 12,294
17. Orlando: + 11,594
18. Portland: + 10,949
19. San Francisco-Oakland: + 10,649
20. Minneapolis-Saint Paul: + 9,485
21. Nashville: + 9,307
22. Tampa: 8,867
23. Philadelphia: + 8,459
24. Boston: + 8,405
25. Sacramento: + 8,332
26. San Diego: + 8,166
27. Kansas City: + 7,629
28. Indianapolis: + 7,043
29. San Jose: + 6,358
30. Columbus: + 6,185
31. Jacksonville: + 5,749
32. Salt Lake City: + 5,700
33. Tucson: + 5,101
34. Oklahoma City: + 4,980
35. Cincinnati: + 4,714
36. Albuquerque: + 4,205
37. Saint Louis: + 3,755
38. Baltimore: + 3,435
39. Louisville: + 3,223
40. Tulsa: + 2,946
41. El Paso: + 2,945
42. Omaha: + 2,860
43. Memphis: + 2,840
44. Milwaukee: + 1,819
45. Honolulu: + 931
46. New Orleans: + 783
47. Providence: -202
48. Buffalo: -1,003
49. Pittsburgh: -1,423
50. Cleveland: -1,654
51. Detroit: -4,880

[confusedprotoplasm]

Tha larger MSAs I undertand but look at Austin, Charlotte, Raleigh and Nashville. They are comparable to Richmond MSA yet attracting way more people.

[RVA-Jsn20]

Richmond will get there, it has a great downtown, plenty of buildings with tons of potential (they just need to be renovated and filled out). If the city actually invested on repaving the roads everywhere, especially downtown, and providing better public transit as well as a better nightlight (music venues and bars are nice but where's the clubs?) the city would be doing much better. It seems to cater to the African American population, which there is nothing wrong with to an extent since the city is 57% black, however giving a 2 million dollar grant to open a rap/hip-hop club (the Hippodrome or something), is not really fair when the same treatment is not given to white people, and all though there aren't as many white people in the physical city, there are PLENTY in the surrounding suburbs.

Perhaps the biggest issue is the lack of cooperation between Henrico/Chesterfield and the city of Richmond?

[passo82]

could you post a link to this? Does it also include smaller cities like Roanoke and Lynchburg?