The US Census Bureau thread

[TWAK]

Is there a normal link for this or not yet? I'm looking up Sac city/county and it has 2019 estimates.

[iheartthed]

Originally Posted by Ant131531

Atlanta ended up coming in at 499k for 2020 so you were wrong with saying Atlanta would drop in population.

But it didn't grow as fast as estimated. So I wasn't entirely wrong.

[Steely Dan]

Originally Posted by Buckeye Native 001

That's what, the second decade in a row now where Chicago expected to lose population in the decennial census but actually grew?

not quite.

but it is the 3rd decade in a row that the CB has estimated chicago in the completely wrong direction.

1990 - 2000: CB estimated city lost ~100,000 people, but it actually gained ~100,000 people

2000 - 2010: CB estimated city gained ~100,000, but it actually lost ~200,000 people

2010 - 2020: CB estimated city lost ~20,000 people, but it actually gained ~50,000 people


the CB just doesn't know how the fuck to estimate chicago. they always get it wrong.

[Ant131531]

I think the key thing to take away from all of these figures is that the American city boom of the 2010s was real no matter what certain people try to say. Whether or not that continues this decade, who knows, but if you're a person who loves cities, this was a great census.

[Innsertnamehere]

New York's growth is incredible for such a mature city, and for one which is just so empirically large. 7.7% growth is over 600k people, which is crazy. That's 60k people a year.

[Steely Dan]

Originally Posted by DCReid

My guess - the loss of poorer and middle class mostly African-Americans from the south and west sides came to a trickle as the majority who wanted to leave had slowed by 2015-2016.

the slowing down of black flight in chicago seems to be a significant factor in its modest growth this decade.

all decade long we had article after article decrying black flight, from estimates based upon the trend of chicago losing ~200,000 black people from 2000 - 2010.

but black flight from 2010 - 2020 was significantly less, with only ~100,000 black people leaving, a 50% drop in black flight from the previous decade!


still, black flight remains THE demographic challenge of chicago. all other groups gained in the last decade.

in fact, if chicago's black population had just remained even-steven, the city would have grown by ~150,000, a very respectable growth rate of 5.5%.

[craigs]

Would this be the first Census with ten cities of over a million residents?

[The North One]

Census really destroying whatever credibility they had. How do we even know if these counts are right? Most cities were horribly counted. Nobody will ever take census numbers without pounds of salt ever again.

[mhays]

A map with census tract densities! They've of course subdivided a lot of tracts. I'm in heaven.

https://mtgis-portal.geo.census.gov/...ed2b2fd7ff6eb7

[themaguffin]

Originally Posted by The North One

Census really destroying whatever credibility they had. How do we even know if these counts are right? Most cities were horribly counted. Nobody will ever take census numbers without pounds of salt ever again.

Why do you say that?

[James Bond Agent 007]

[ChiSoxRox]

Detroit Free Press

Detroit's persistent population decline continued through the last decade, with the city's tally of residents dropping to 639,111, a 10.5% decline, according to 2020 U.S. census data released Thursday.

However, a very nice Cincinnati number, here

For the first time in 70 years, Cincinnati's population is on the rise.

U.S. Census counts released Thursday show the Queen City had 309,317 residents in 2020, an increase of 4.2% from the last Census 10 years ago. It's the first population increase recorded by the Census for Cincinnati since 1950.

Edit: St. Louis gets the psychological victory of staying above 300k!

[muertecaza]

Originally Posted by craigs

Would this be the first Census with ten cities of over a million residents?

Yes, they mentioned that on the release video.

[James Bond Agent 007]

Some presentations:
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/C...ting-perry.pdf
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/C...ting-jones.pdf

[James Bond Agent 007]

Web map:
https://mtgis-portal.geo.census.gov/...ed2b2fd7ff6eb7

[proghousehead]

Shocked LA didnt cross 4 MM. so close/

[ChiSoxRox]

The Bronx is just above its 1970 high, while Brooklyn is 2k shy of its 1950 high.

3 of the 5 boroughs at historic highs, and another effectively tied. Well done, NYC. (Manhattan's historic high was 1910 when the Lower East Side was the densest tenements on Earth.)

Also, Hudson County, NJ smashed its 1930 record population.

[The North One]

Originally Posted by themaguffin

Why do you say that?

Why? These numbers are all over the place and they're contradicting. The pandemic also ruined the count for most big cities. The cities that are hardest to count depend on in person door to door counting the most.

[Pedestrian]

Anybody else here get the "American Community Survey" form to fill out? I got mine last week and completed it online. It prominently says your "response is required by law". Wouldn't want to go to census prison where doubtless the scurviest characters in the country reside (all the thieves and others having been released due to covid and "restorative justice").

[Camelback]

Census 2020 (yaaay!) and then the pandemic strikes (boooo!), most of these official numbers are already out of date by August 12th 2021.