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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
Well that sure is an unexpected one.
Detroit city proper lost another 10% over the past decade, but the MSA got a little bit denser overall?
Milwaukee, Baltimore, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh all lost central city population as well, and got a little less dense at the MSA level, but somehow metro Detroit bucked that trend. Strange.
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I think this might be a fluke of using census tracts to calculate the weighted density. I calculated the Detroit tri-county weighted density using municipal boundaries and it actually went down, but just slightly. While doing the calculation, I noticed that some of the densest tracts in the tri-county are just suburban
apartment complexes.