Posted on 06/12/2020 10:00:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Decatur, in central Illinois about 40 miles east of Springfield, has lost 7.1% of its population since the 2010 census, according to the recently released 2019 population estimates. That drop is the third-largest percentage loss in the U.S. among cities with a population of 50,000 or more. Rockford comes in at No. 15 on that list. The northern Illinois city, the fifth-largest in the state with an estimated 145,609 residents, has lost 5% of its population during that nine-year period.
Rockford’s total population loss of 7,676 people over the last decade places it ninth nationwide among large cities, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, with Decatur (-5,385) at No. 15. Four of the five cities that have lost the most people since the last census are in the Midwest. Detroit has lost the most people, about 43,000, since 2010, followed by Baltimore, St. Louis, Cleveland and Toledo, Ohio.
Chicago, meanwhile, remains the third-largest city in the country, behind Los Angeles and in front of Houston. The gap between Chicago (2.7 million) and Houston (2.3 million) continues to shrink, though the difference remains sizable.
Chicago’s population is essentially flat from the 2010 census, with an estimated 2,693,976 people living in the city in 2019, 1,676 fewer than nine years before. Meanwhile, Houston has been steadily gaining population, gaining about 225,000 new residents over the last decade.
Houston has experienced the second-largest numeric increase in population, behind only Phoenix, of all U.S. cities with a population of 50,000 or greater since 2010, according to the Census Bureau. New York remains the nation’s most populous city by a wide margin, with 8.3 million residents. Los Angeles, at No. 2, has nearly 4 million people.
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Fixed! I fled Dane County, WI and 'The People's Republik of Madistan' five years ago. Should've left Dane County MUCH sooner!
Headline should be “Long term controlled democrat cities losing population...”
FROM THE ARTICLE:
Six of the country’s fastest-growing large cities since 2010 are in Texas, according to the census, and every one of the Top 15 are in the South or West regions. Expanding beyond city limits, three of the Top 10 metro areas with the largest gains in population nationally are in Texas: Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston and Austin.
MY COMMENT: Austin? Houston?
Aren’t these also liberal controlled cities?
Chinese refugees from Hong Kong could save Chicago. That would be Mayor Daley’s legacy for subverting the 1960 election.
RE: Chinese refugees from Hong Kong could save Chicago.
And what are they going to do with the daily shootings?
Probably most are taking with them their liberal values that will change the face of more conservative areas.
Most people from HK would vote democratic. They want the HK version of the NHS.
Kung Fu fighting, of course.
I suspect most of that is related to reductions of workforce and plant closings by CAT....
Want to fix Illinois?
Just remove Chicago and East St. Louis and you’ll have an economic powerhouse red state...
Austin, TX is much like Madistan, WI. College town. Liberal. I could see where living there would be attractive to the younger crowd fleeing Chicago and Rockford. They wouldn’t have to change their politics one bit. :)
They can enjoy it until they eventually burn it down, LOL!
In St Louis you can drive for miles along the interstate and see boarded up brick houses and churches that reflect the population loss.
Yeah, we won that war and helped to make an ally of Japan. The other war we won that ended in 1865 was where the mistake was made. We didn’t outlaw the democrat party and hang their leadership North and South.
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