[marothisu]

Originally Posted by sixo1

First of all, a shout out to marothisu for all of the Census data research. Ultimately, that gave me the idea to do the following:

I decided to look into the population growth (from 2010 to 2016) of Millennials (Generation Y) in the 50 largest cities. I define Millennials as those born between 1982-1995. Booming tech cities like Seattle have high millennial growth. Chicago is number 11. Maybe McDonald’s new HQ will catapult Chicago into the top 10. I also noticed that Texas cities are beating out California cities, with the exception of San Francisco. The data on Boston is quite surprising.

New York City: 126,524
San Francisco: 59,233
Houston: 48,726
Seattle: 45,223
Denver: 43,866
Austin: 38,289
Washington, DC: 34,005
Charlotte: 28,403
Dallas: 26,260
Portland: 25,391
Chicago: 23,088
Los Angeles: 21,742
New Orleans: 20,429
Nashville: 18,917
Oakland: 18,772
Forth Worth: 17,551
Columbus: 15,392
San Diego: 14,261
San Jose: 13,737
Miami: 13,310
San Antonio: 13,185
Atlanta: 13,041
Minneapolis: 12,056
Colorado Springs: 10,759
Oklahoma City: 10,077
Raleigh: 9,564
Boston: 3,522
Jacksonville: 3,497
Indianapolis: 3,165
Louisville: 2,012
Sacramento: 1,670
Virginia Beach: 1,293
Omaha: 269
Arlington: 98
Phoenix: -555
Kansas City: -794
Las Vegas: -1,318
El Paso: -1,656
Tulsa: -2,082
Wichita: -2,195
Mesa: -2,378
Baltimore: -3,405
Philadelphia: -3,678
Albuquerque: -3,980
Long Beach: -6,051
Fresno: -10,060
Memphis: -10,454
Tucson: -11,955
Milwaukee: -13,886
Detroit: -32,915

Source: 2010 and 2016 5-year US Census ACS.

Nice. Why those birth years? Is it because that's basically the closest to how the census reported the data aligning with the notion of millenial? I think Chicago fairs decently well. NYC is not surprising at all. Living here I can tell you this place is crawling with young/young-ish people. Houston is a little surprising but maybe not much.

I like that Chicago beats LA a little in this regard. Am curious as to what downtown Chicago is as well as downtown + surrounding areas. I'll bet it's more than that...

Not surprised by Boston but that's only because of my other studies in which Boston scores surprisingly low lately in a number of categories.