^ So black population dropped by 84k from 2010-2020
It had dropped by 180k from 2000-2010. So black flight continues to slow down.
Just for kicks, if there were no black flight at all from 2010-2020, Chicago’s population now would be around 2.83 million people. That would be a much more respectable growth rate of 5%
If, from 2000-2020 Chicago had not lost ANY black residents, our current population would be 3.01 million, if everything else were equal. That would be a modest but not too shabby 3.9% growth rate in a cold weather, rustbelt city that is gentrifying like crazy.
So everything that is holding down Chicago’s growth rate has to do with black flight. Every single other group is growing. And black flight is slowing down, not speeding up, so that bodes well. I do hope that recent upticks in murders from 2020-present don’t cause black flight to re-accelerate, though...
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