Friday, August 25, 2023

Disappearing cities of the United States: St. Louis, Missouri (2022 census update)


St. Louis's 2022 estimated population decreased 5% since the 2020 census.  Its population has dropped 67% since its 1950 peak of 856,796.  The city has as many residents now as it did in the 1860s.

Source:  Wikipedia

KDSK, 5/2/2023
Overall, the bureau said the region's population fell by 0.4%, or more than 11,000, from 2021 to 2022, to 2,801,319. The regional decline from 2020 to 2021 was 0.23%. And that followed a 2020 census that saw the metro's population growth rank it 47th out of the biggest 50 U.S. regions. 
St. Louis County's population declined 0.78% from 2021 to 2022, to 990,414, the bureau estimated, more than the 0.48% decline from 2020 to 2021. The city's decreased 2.38% from 2021 to 2022, to 286,578, worse than a 2.3% decline the previous year, it said. 
These are bigger (out-migration) numbers than people anticipated," Ness Sandoval, associate professor of sociology and demographer at Saint Louis University, said of the figures. "There are a historic number of people leaving the region. I don't think anybody (anticipated it being) that high."

Related post:
Disappearing U.S. city of the day: St. Louis, Missouri.  (1/2/2019)

Other 2022 updates:
Cairo, Illinois.  (6/15/2023)
Flint, Michigan.  (7/20/2023)
Gary, Indiana.  (7/19/2023)
Hamtramck, Michigan.  (6/15/2023)
Scranton, Pennsylvania.  (7/19/2023)
Youngstown, Ohio.  (6/15/2023)

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