Fleeing....
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NYC’s population shrank by 78K last year
Nearly 78,000 residents fled New York City last year, shrinking its population down to 8.26 million people, according to the latest census estimates released on Thursday and first reported by the New York Times.
In 2022, more than 126,000 New Yorkers moved out of the city.
Cook County lost 24,000 residents last year
Despite an influx of international immigrants, Cook County bucked a broader post-pandemic trend and continued to lose population last year, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released Thursday.
The Vintage 2023 estimates show Cook County remains the second largest county in the U.S. at nearly 5.1 million residents, but its population fell by more than 24,000 last year, the fourth largest decline among all counties. Los Angeles County, the nation’s largest, lost more than 56,000 residents, followed by Kings, Queens and Bronx counties in New York.
Chicago’s home county has lost more than 188,000 residents since the start of the pandemic in 2020, according to the census population estimates.
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78K is less than 1% of NYC, and for Cook County it's about 0.5%. Is that significant? What's typical for a year, I wonder.
The numbers kind of look like the pandemic migration away from the cities is slowing down.
Personally, I would never want to live in a big city. They're dreadful places.
I was only joking
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I remember our navigational adventure in Boston. The blind leading the blind.
"The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil
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@Mik said in Fleeing....:
I remember our navigational adventure in Boston. The blind leading the blind.
To be fair, the Boston road system would be much better suited to a small village in Cornwall.
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@Mik said in Fleeing....:
I remember our navigational adventure in Boston. The blind leading the blind.
Chicago is remarkably navigable, isn't it?
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@Mik said in Fleeing....:
I remember our navigational adventure in Boston. The blind leading the blind.
Chicago is remarkably navigable, isn't it?
@George-K said in Fleeing....:
@Mik said in Fleeing....:
I remember our navigational adventure in Boston. The blind leading the blind.
Chicago is remarkably navigable, isn't it?
It's funny, I drove through Toronto, population 3 million, a number of times without a problem, but Boston (650K) and Providence (190K) are a bloody nightmare. New England is like Ye Olde Englande in that regard.
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78K is less than 1% of NYC, and for Cook County it's about 0.5%. Is that significant? What's typical for a year, I wonder.
The numbers kind of look like the pandemic migration away from the cities is slowing down.
Personally, I would never want to live in a big city. They're dreadful places.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Fleeing....:
78K is less than 1% of NYC, and for Cook County it's about 0.5%. Is that significant? What's typical for a year, I wonder.
1% is a lot. Just ask the Gazans. about 1% of them have been killed and that's a genocide.
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78K is less than 1% of NYC, and for Cook County it's about 0.5%. Is that significant? What's typical for a year, I wonder.
The numbers kind of look like the pandemic migration away from the cities is slowing down.
Personally, I would never want to live in a big city. They're dreadful places.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Fleeing....:
78K is less than 1% of NYC, and for Cook County it's about 0.5%. Is that significant? What's typical for a year, I wonder.
The numbers kind of look like the pandemic migration away from the cities is slowing down.
Personally, I would never want to live in a big city. They're dreadful places.
I think an interesting stat would be the average net worth of those who left...
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What are the fastest growing counties?
The pendulum will swing to them, and then at some point in the future, swing back I think.
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What are the fastest growing counties?
The pendulum will swing to them, and then at some point in the future, swing back I think.
@taiwan_girl said in Fleeing....:
What are the fastest growing counties?
The pendulum will swing to them, and then at some point in the future, swing back I think.
Among counties with a population of 20,000 or more, the 10 fastest-growing were in the South—six in Texas (Kaufman, 7.6%; Rockwall, 6.5%; Liberty, 5.7%; Chambers, 5.0%; Comal, 5.0%; Ellis, 4.9%); two in Georgia (Jackson, 5.5%; Dawson, 5.1%); and one each in South Carolina (Jasper, 4.9%) and Virginia (New Kent, 4.7%).
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@taiwan_girl said in Fleeing....:
What are the fastest growing counties?
The pendulum will swing to them, and then at some point in the future, swing back I think.
Among counties with a population of 20,000 or more, the 10 fastest-growing were in the South—six in Texas (Kaufman, 7.6%; Rockwall, 6.5%; Liberty, 5.7%; Chambers, 5.0%; Comal, 5.0%; Ellis, 4.9%); two in Georgia (Jackson, 5.5%; Dawson, 5.1%); and one each in South Carolina (Jasper, 4.9%) and Virginia (New Kent, 4.7%).
@LuFins-Dad Thanks!
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@Axtremus said in Fleeing....:
More space for the immigrants bussed from the South, right?
Absolutely!
Abbott needs to hire some freight trains. Put a Portapotty, a few cases of water and some MRE's in the freight cars and send them straight to the Left Coast.
