2 ms·
Birmingham is way off its peak population. It’s under 200k now (still falling) and was 340k in the 1960s. There is probably a lot of hesitancy to build in a pla
by seanmcdirmid 3y ago
Birmingham is way off its peak population. It’s under 200k now (still falling) and was 340k in the 1960s. There is probably a lot of hesitancy to build in a place where the population is shrinking.
- greenie_beans 3y agobirmingham is one city in a bigger metro area. when i speak of "birmingham" i speak of the entire metro area, which has grown in population since the 60s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_metropolitan_area,_Alabama#Cities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_metropolitan_area,_... that stat you grabbed doesn't exist in a vacuum. that stat matches the same time as the white flight demographic shifts that happened in all metro areas in the south. now do huntsville.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoEven if you take the entire metro, growth since the 1960s has been anemic. 300k growth since 1960, and it actually shrunk in 2021 according to your chart. Again, there are much better places to make money building housing, supplies and know how are limited.