Posted on 07/04/2009 8:05:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Big Easy is making a big comeback. New Orleans has steadily won back some of the population it lost in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, according to a government report released Wednesday.
New Orleans lost more than half its residents during the deluge. Few large U.S. cities have ever had to cope with disaster on that scale. Since then, it has been one of the country's fastest growing cities.
Only a couple of instances can compare. Galveston, Texas, was also devastated by a hurricane in 1900, a storm that remains the most lethal natural disaster in U.S. history with a toll of about 6,000 deaths. And San Francisco was almost leveled by the earthquake and fire of 1906.
New Orleans is now growing rapidly. Its population is up 8.2% in 12 months that ended July 1, 2008, gaining 23,740 people to 311,853, according to the Census Bureau. That still leaves it well below its pre-storm population of 484,674.
For sheer numerical increase, New York City trumped the birthplace of jazz. During the same 12-month period, Gotham added nearly 53,500 residents, more than any other city. That represented a growth rate of only 0.6%.
Following New York City were Phoenix, which added 33,184 residents (2.1%) to a total of 1,567,924, and Houston, up 33,063 to 2,242,193 (1.5%).
The top percentage winners, after New Orleans, were Round Rock, Texas, part of Austin metropolitan area, which grew by 8.2% to 104,446; Cary, N.C., which gained 6.9% to 129,545; and Gilbert, Ariz., which swelled by 5% to 216,449.
New York retained its position as the largest U.S. city by far. Its nearly 8.4 million folks crammed into 303 square miles is more than twice the number of people who live in sprawling Los Angeles, the nation's second biggest city, 3,833,995 people.
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I wonder what makes New York City so attractive that people would actually still want to live here....
I mean people are actually LEAVING the state of NY, but the city is something else....
The city is crowded as it already is and still people want to come !!??
Maybe its the immigrants.
How many of these ‘new citizens’ are productive, tax-paying individuals versus those just moving to liberal meccas for the handouts?
The highest rate of growth since 2000 was reported by McKinney, Texas, which more than doubled to 121,211 from 54,369.
Gilbert, Ariz., was second with an 88.7% jump to 216,449
Looks like the Crescent City is really in the news these days. I wonder if the population influx is mainly of Producers, or is it Consumers?
Cary, NC.
Containment Area for Relocated Yankees or Can’t Afford Raleigh Yet.
I kinda wish that everyone that is a lib in Texas would move to NYC. I really don’t give a cr#p what city is the fastest growing.... only that the nipple people move the heck outta here and to New Orleans or NYC.
Why would anyone want to live in NYC except for the ethnic foods. Why would anyone want to live in a city where the water level is higher than the city itself.
Duh???
Soooo what’s so exciting down in McKinney ?
I lived there in 1982 and wished I could live there forever. I actually LOVED it. I guess you got it, but WOW...NY is the life.
When my father-in-law visits his hometown of Alkali, NV the population jumps 100%.
Just tryin’ to be fair, y’know? Just sayin’.
And now for the losers...
Detroit, suffering from the turmoil in the auto industry, fell 0.5% to 912,062.
The population of Philadelphia dipped slightly to 1,447,395 from 1.446,631.
Baltimore dropped 0.5% to 636,919
Memphis fell at about the same percentage rate to 660,651.
Should have used the /sarc tag, you busted me.
If nothing else, this should be a clarion call to remind all freedom-loving people to do EVERYTHING they can do to get out of the cities. Lord knows that the ‘burbs will be bad enough in a societal collapse. But the cities? YIKES!!
“I wonder what makes New York City so attractive that people would actually still want to live here....
Maybe its the immigrants.”
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Could be!
More than 1 million people became citizens in 2008,
Largest number of people naturalizing lived in:
California (181,684), New York (73,676) and Florida (54,563).
SOURCE: Office of Immigration Statistics, Department of Homeland Security
http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/WestVolusia/wvlHEAD03WEST012209.htm
“In 2008, California had the most illegal immigrants at 2.7 million, double its 1990 number, followed by Texas, Florida, New York and New Jersey.”
http://www.star-telegram.com/state_news/story/1245213.htm
Bush is no longer President. Now, we have The One We Have Been Waiting For. It is natural that New Orleans is in full-blown recovery.
There have been some changes this year to the 25 largest cities.
For one thing, Denver moved into 24th place with 598,707 residents. It replaced Nashville, which dropped out of the top 25.
In addition, Dallas (1,279,910) edged past San Diego (1,279,329) to eighth place from ninth.
San Francisco also moved up to 12th place; its population (808,976) surpassed Jacksonville (807,815).
And Austin (757,688) blew past Columbus (754,885) to 15th.
Charlotte (687,456) leapfrogged Memphis (669,651) to 18th and El Paso (613,190) passed Boston (609,023) to 21st.
Chicago, once the nation’s second city, has fallen nearly a million behind Los Angeles with 2,853,114.
Give me land lots of land. McKinney and Frisco have created a fantastic pair of suburbs, north of Dallas, with amazing homes, entertainment venues, like the Frisco ball park, that also has MSL, and more places to play for a family than you can imagine. On top of that there is so much golf on wonderful courses that anyone with a fat wallet can play. AT+T has put in a huge amount of their corp offices in this area, so employment at good pay is close to home.
So Goldfield must be a thriving megalopolis to him, huh?
; )
I gotta believe my city shrunk (Bakersfield CA). Seems every street has several empty houses.
But it's always worse in Stockton, I hear tell...
The thing about Dallas is that it is part of the larger metro area of Dallas, Fort Worth and Arlington and other little towns. It all feels like....Dallas. LOL
Yes. I don’t know what he sees in that town. He must see it as he did as a child.
It is, and has been for quite awhile. It actually has some decent neighborhoods yet still retains a rural flavor. One big negative: mosquitoes! It's just south of the rice fields that extend all the way to the Hwy 70 -- Hwy 99 split.
Positive: In winter, you can view tens of thousands of ducks, geese, and tundra swans in this area.
So it's a mixed bag.
Nipple people. I'm going to steal that!
Good point. I know Rush started the “Rio Linda” thing, but what brought that about? That may have been before my time...
My sister moved to McKinney about 15 years ago. It was a nice little quiet hamlet in Texas then. I go to visit about every year. Every year I am amazed at the transformation and continued growth. It is hard to grasp how many people and businesses have moved into that area. I have never seen anything like it. I don’t know how they can build that fast. My brother in law is a surgeon there and loves it. No unions, lots of good companies with good insurance. Mckinney been very, very good to them.
Then I must view the world through the eyes of a child too. I find the emptiness and austerity of Nevada (and its ghost towns such as Alkali) to be stirring to the soul.
In so many places in Nevada, you can feel truly alone. It's frightening. It's beautiful.
Indeed, solitude can be a wonderful thing.
I agree with you-I’ve lived here all my life and find the desert beautiful. But Goldfield is just a pile of firewood at best.
Cary, N.C., which gained 6.9% to 129,545;
Great, more dem voters for the Old North State.
LOL! Can't argue with you. But try the Northern Saloon. It's a nicely renovated miner's shack. Just had a beer there three days ago. Hit the spot!
Rush cut his teeth in the Sacramento radio market. On the outskirts of Sac is Rio Linda. In th 80’s, when this started, I was a letter carrier there. Every other house had junk cars in the yard and an old refrigerator on the porch. The general population at that time seemed like they were straight out of the deliverance movie. Rush used to make me laugh so hard with his Rio Linda jokes.
Mmmm how interesting. I have been looking to move...
Plus it is not in the city of Dallas.
I suspect New Orleans has gone from Dark Chocolate to Brown Chocolate.
Maybe we got lucky and a bunch of the illegals here have gone home. ;)
It is hypocritical for those in the blue states to leave in order to come to a red state. They ruined those states with their liberal/socialistic politics, now they want to move out to destroy another state.
I moved here in 1984. The population was 34,000 .
Almost 100,000 increase in 25 yrs. Argh
i wonder about Cary. When I lived in Raleigh, Cary was where we went to get some good cheap bar b que. When they vote. are they a red or a blue zone. My cousins retired and moved there from Maryland
Known to be liberal.
Cary is locally referred to as the Containment Area for Relocated Yankees.
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