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Originally Posted by New2Fishtown
Yeah that number is fully wrong. There are a lot of ways to slice dice population and migration data, but there is no scenario in which Philadelphia overall lost a 5th of its population. Also, the total population of the entire Greater Center City area doesn't even come close to 317k, so would be very curious to understand what "urban core" means here. And CCD data from cell phones suggests that the total residential population is actually higher than it was in 2019.
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Maybe the comma is in the wrong place? All estimates fluctuate, but 317k is not remotely close to any reliable estimates that I've seen.
Might be worth writing the author, asking for sources, and if you catch an error, they will correct it quickly (unlike the Inquirer).
*Update: The author of the article is an intern. Her name is Katie Mogg, "Dow Jones News Fund Reporting Intern, The Wall Street Journal". I will write her today.
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