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Originally Posted by plinko
So, I think you might find this sort of core population reduction in many places you might not suspect.
In 1950, Phoenix was 17.1 Sq.Mi. and had a population of 106,000.
That same area in 2020? About 55,000 (accordingly to ChatGPT using a density estimate).
I would love to see the exact numbers, but that doesn't sound unreasonable. This was right before the annexation spree that took the city to 187 Sq.Mi. and 439,000 people by 1960.
During that same time (1950-2020), the metro area has grown from 400,000 to 4,500,000.
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Yeah, you can do it in just about any city. Manhattan's population in the 1980s was down 40% from its peak in the 1910s, but it has recovered some to only be down only about 30% today. Part of the drop was smaller households, obviously, but there was also suburbanization, housing loss from urban renewal, lack of immigration, etc.
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