New Estimates Show Detroit Population Continues To Decline; Lowest Since 1850

[hack89]

Source: AP

DETROIT (AP) – New U.S. Census Bureau estimates say Detroit’s population continued its decline, knocking it off the list of the nation’s 20 most populous cities.

Figures released Thursday say Detroit’s population was 677,116 last summer, down 3,107 from the previous year and putting in 21st on the list. The Detroit News reports the Census Bureau says the last time Detroit wasn’t in the Top 20 was 1850, when it was 30th.

Mayor Mike Duggan tells the Detroit Free Press positive trends have continued but aren’t yet included in Census estimates. He says he’s “very confident that the city of Detroit is growing now” and says that Detroit is “at a historic tipping point.”

Detroit had 1.8 million residents in 1950. The newest decline, however, is smaller than declines in other recent years

Read more: http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2016/05/19/new-estimates-show-detroit-population-continues-decline-lowest-since-1850/

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I think the Mayor is whistling past the graveyard.

[LisaM]

1. I have two upcoming trips planned to Detroit

It's a great town to visit, and downtown is getting to be a nice place to live - but - rebuilding the neighborhoods is a more arduous task.

[turbinetree]

2. Lets see what happens "if" the TPP goes through-------------

http://www.citizen.org/tradewatch

http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2016/05/new-gtw-researcher-keeping-an-eye-on-trade.html

http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/18259/oreos-union-busting

Honk-------------------for a political revolution Bernie

[Texano78704]

3. Still more than ...

That is still more people that entire population of either Wyoming or Vermont.

[oneshooter]

4. Is it because of people leaving?

Or just dying?

[hack89]

7. Leaving. Population has been declining for 50 years.nt

[First Speaker]

5. Let's hope that Detroit can find the road back to where it should be...

...and Cleveland, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, St Louis, Buffalo, and all the other cities that have lost so much of their populations. This is an American tragedy...and so many "conservatives" are apparently just fine with the cities dying, maybe even disappearing. Just what do they want to "conserve", if it isn't our cities and communities?

[branford]

6. People move; its not evil.

Many cities are also growing and doing quite well. Further, living in cities is not inherently virtuous.

Cities need to adapt and change to survive and prosper. The reasons why most of the cities you list are suffering are not particularly difficult to discern, to say nothing of myriad of issues facing Detroit over the last 60 years, ranging from taking the auto industry for granted, vast political incompetence and over-promises, and ample instances of outright corruption.

[kwassa]

8. The headline is deceptive: 1850 Detroit population was 21,019.

which may have not quite put it in the top 20 like the 1860 population of 45, 619.

Detroit didn't hit 677,116 until between 1910 and 1920.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Detroit