Missouri comes in with a resident population of 6,154,913, an increase of 165,986 from 2010, for 2.77% population growth over the last decade.
This is the lowest percentage increase in the state's history.
The overall national growth rate from 2010-2020 was the second lowest in American history - the only decade with a lower growth rate since the first census in 1790 was between 1930-1940, entirely attributable to the Great Depression. I wouldn't necessarily read too much into the Missouri numbers - the whole country was growing relatively slow over the last ten years.
Missouri would benefit with a thriving healthy St.Louis. I would think the city population right will be around 296,000 give or take either way it’s time to move on from the past and stop the excuse’s. Too me St.Louis Co & City are one big St.Louis there’s no barriers
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Exactly, I think for the efforts trying to be made on both sides of the states what is happening or should say happening from the middle of the state is truly one of the biggest issues.
I think you can go down the list that Sc4mayor posted on cities that did very well in the last census and you could argue that their is state backing behind those cities. Better yet, you could argue that a lot of it is not so much about what political party but what investments are being made.
St Louis and KC may have one arm tied behind back instead of a help hand from the state but still some unique opportunities. St. Louis might be in a great shape to benefit immensely first from Covid Aid and then Infrastructure aid to ride progress in central corridor and start inching that progress north and south & second, get some semblence of a plan to bring calmness back to the streets with new leadership. Previous mayor getting elected on family name on old school was simply a big step backwards in public safety and governance of servicers.
By "previous mayor", I assume you're referring to Slay? I'm not aware of Lyda Krewson's family name having had any significant cachet in STL prior to her election.
Seems in line with the trend... does anyone know if that 2009 to 2010 census update was catching up for what estimates were missed the prior years? Could that possibly mean that the previous few years (2018-2019) may have actually lower than what was estimated?
Just trying to see if you can draw any conclusions from that 2009->2010 vs the 2019->2020 jump.
My (very limited!) understanding is that the Slay administration pushed hard on the "Annual estimates" to make it seem like the City had stopped shrinking & was growing under their leadership. But you can't really push on Census data, so when it actually got down to hard #'s, the number dropped dramatically.
Unless Lyda Krewson was doing the same push on annual estimates (and I don't believe they were because the 2010 numbers were an embarrassment for Slay after all the rah-rah with the annual estimates), I would expect the 2019-->2020 drop be much closer to estimates than the 2009-->2010 numbers.
At shock value, the <300k number is bad. However, I'd be curious for outbound/inbound numbers and each area of the city are doing by breaking the city into 3 large districts, North, South, Central Corridor(CC). 2 factors are going to hurt STL, diminishing size of families, and the emptying of NSTL. NSTL is prolly as close to bottom as it can get, at least regarding population. CCSTL is going to see growth, and SSTL is going to be a mixed bag. SSTL has several hoods that are stable or very minimal loss of pop. Other hoods with strong growth from '00 and '10 census. But Dutchtown and surrounding will likely see large loss as both diminishing size of families and people with means to move will be doing so. Further, Dutchtown is the most populous AND dense of all STL hoods and the most to lose unfortunately.
So I am not as worried about the sub 300k number if it means most of the geographic area is doing well. Further, I think NSTL will begin to see modest growth and investment that hasnt happened in prolly 50 years.
However, I wonder if the financial state of STL is not better than the pop loss would otherwise indicate. To me, this is more important as services like police, schools, fire protection, etc need to be enhanced for us to see any significant pop growth.
Glaser wasn't alone. Since Covid-19 shutdowns were first put in place, in March 2020, the St. Louis metro area has gained 8,400 residents, according to Unacast, a New York research firm that analyzes cellphone data. This year alone, St. Louis has gained 3,200 residents, which is above 2019 rates.
"That's quite a lot," said Thomas Walle, the company's CEO.
Foot traffic in the region has also been resilient, rebounding to 81% of 2019 levels, Unacast said.
Unacast says it found that St. Louis' total income has fallen by $287 million since March 2020.
But that figure has improved of late. After area income fell by $887 million from March through December last year, it's increased by $600 million so far in 2021, according to Unacast.
Compared with Baltimore and Denver, which grew by about the same number of people, St. Louis "has weathered things pretty well," said Scott Valentine, Unacast's head of content. Those metros lost closer to $1.4 billion in income last year during the pandemic, he said.
Though St. Louis hasn't performed that well, it has beaten out some other peers. This year, Kansas City has lost 15,800 residents, Baltimore 8,300 and Indianapolis 5,500, according to the company.
Seems as though the 2020 estimate for the city is 294,000. Haven’t read the article too closely but found it interesting, anyway. This number is also listed in Wikipedia in the Demographics section of the St. Louis wiki page.
