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This has been a disappointing census for a lot of cities. Nearly everyone in St. Louis expected the city to post its first population gain since the 1950s, but
by dionidium 16y ago
This has been a disappointing census for a lot of cities. Nearly everyone in St. Louis expected the city to post its first population gain since the 1950s, but the city actually lost nearly 30k people (about 8%).
- mrdodge 16y agoI've been reading comments on this and most of them include something like 'we have all these new downtown condos, I thought we'd see growth from that'. It's simple math though, a condo with 1 single person is not going to help your population grow like a single-family-home with 5 people.
- dionidium 16y agoYou're right, but that's because there was (relatively) enormous growth downtown (up 359%) [0]. Downtown St. Louis looks nothing like it did 10-15 years ago. [0] http://www.stlmag.com/Blogs/SLM-Daily/February-2011/The-Top-10-St-Louis-City-Neighborhood-Population-Changes/ http://www.stlmag.com/Blogs/SLM-Daily/February-2011/The-Top-...