Milwaukee looks to appeal census population figures. For which decade?

 

The City of Milwaukee has been losing population since the 1960s, although the rate of loss has slowed down since the 1970s.

WIkipedia (red box added below)

Big hit?  What about 2000?  And what do you call 1980?  On average, Milwaukee has lost 3.7% of its population in each of the last 6 decades.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8/14/2021

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and his administration were immediately skeptical and said city officials would be checking the population figure from the Census against the city's own records. 

"We are already looking at the potential for appealing the count," Barrett told the Journal Sentinel on Friday. "We believe, as we have in the past, that there is a tendency to undercount, and as you recall the Trump administration really was not trying to get the most accurate count." 

Related reading: 
What's going on with Milwaukee's population?  (Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog, 8/22/2019) 

Whatever the cause (be it continued movement to the suburbs, an aging population, or something else), Milwaukee’s population loss is driven by its shrinking white population. This is not new, but now it seems the black population may be joining the trend. Asians, Latinos, and (non-hispanic) whites all experienced statistically significant population change. The white population declined by around 13,000 from 2010 to 2017. The Latino population grew by almost 11,000; Asians by about 5,000. The black population, on the other hand, declined by almost 5,000. This figure is within the margin of error, but only just.