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12-23% is pretty easy, and includes some very prominent present-day cities. Detroit lost about 2/3 of its population between 1950 and today. Pittsburgh lost a
by nostrademons 3y ago
12-23% is pretty easy, and includes some very prominent present-day cities. Detroit lost about 2/3 of its population between 1950 and today. Pittsburgh lost about 60%. St. Louis lost 65%. Buffalo lost 53%, Cincinnati and Baltimore around 40%.
Ghost towns are rarer, and it doesn't usually happen to major cities that have national recognition. There's a good list [1] on Wikipedia. tl;dr: they number in the hundreds, easily, but are largely small towns that you wouldn't have heard of unless you lived locally.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_ghost_towns_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_ghost_towns_in_the_Un...