https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/21/us/asians-census-us.html?referringSource=articleShare

 

A story about the growing Asian population in the US.  Columbus was highlighted for its large Bhutanese population.  It was interesting because it mentioned that they were refugees resettled in other cities, but ended up moving to Columbus later.  It supports the idea that Columbus is growing more attractive to immigrants in general and aren't simply all being placed there by the government.

I forgot to ask @jonoh81, how much did the old city limits grow and current population?

Top 10 Census Tracts with the Highest Non-Hispanic White Population by % of Total Population

1. 65: 91.5%

2. 6950, 9802: 91.4%

3. 120: 90.9%

4. 9753: 90.8%

5. 110: 90.7%

6. 6910: 90.6%

7. 9801: 90.0%

8. 66: 89.9%

9. 6810: 89.7%

10. 220: 89.6%

 

Bottom 10 Census Tracts with the Lowest Non-Hispanic White Population by % of Total Population

1. 7511: 6.3%

2. 15, 7552: 6.5%

3. 7532: 7.3%

4. 730: 8.2%

5. 7512: 8.9%

6. 7533, 7534: 10.2%

7. 9337: 10.3%

8. 6933: 10.9%

9. 9326: 11.3%

10. 29: 11.5%

 

Top 10 Fastest-Growing Tracts for Non-Hispanic White

1. 45: +269.6%

2. 29: +262.0%

3. 36: +217.6%

4. 5410: +190.0%

5. 16, 4002: +171.6%

6. 22: +135.1%

7. 55: +112.5%

8. 23: +108.1%

9. 2520: +100.2%

10. 6240: +97.2%

 

Top 10 Fastest Declining Tracts for Non-Hispanic White

1. 9251: -68.9%

2. 9326: -59.7%

3. 8230: -39.6%

4. 9386: -38.1%

5. 9321: -35.1%

6. 4302: -34.5%

7. 7534: -32.4%

8. 9336: -31.8%

9. 6933: -31.7%

10. 5002: -29.0%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

49 minutes ago, ColDayMan said:

I forgot to ask @jonoh81, how much did the old city limits grow and current population?

 

Well, as usual, I must give the caveat that the 1950 boundary that I normally use for this is not exactly the same one that exists in 2020 given many changes to individual census tract boundaries in the past 70 years.  That said, the closest population for that area is 256,939, which is 22,357 more than in 2010.   

 

Out of the 53 tracts that made up the 1950 boundary, 36 of them grew 2010-2020. 

 

Downtown itself- made up of roughly tracts 30, 32, 4001, 4002 and 42- is at 14,294, up 4,731 from 2010.  

Edited August 22, 20213 yr by jonoh81

On 8/21/2021 at 12:44 PM, jonoh81 said:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/21/us/asians-census-us.html?referringSource=articleShare

 

A story about the growing Asian population in the US.  Columbus was highlighted for its large Bhutanese population.  It was interesting because it mentioned that they were refugees resettled in other cities, but ended up moving to Columbus later.  It supports the idea that Columbus is growing more attractive to immigrants in general and aren't simply all being placed there by the government.

Per the local Bhutanese Community of Central Ohio there are 30,000 Bhutanese in Columbus mainly through secondary migration. It makes sense - there’s support and a common language so why not be together. All immigrant groups succeed if there are support communities. The BCCOH has an office on Tamarack in the Northland area where a lot of Bhutanese have settled. Columbus is all the more richer with immigrants IMHO. 
 

https://www.bccoh.org/about.html

 

1 hour ago, Pablo said:

Per the local Bhutanese Community of Central Ohio there are 30,000 Bhutanese in Columbus mainly through secondary migration. It makes sense - there’s support and a common language so why not be together. All immigrant groups succeed if there are support communities. The BCCOH has an office on Tamarack in the Northland area where a lot of Bhutanese have settled. Columbus is all the more richer with immigrants IMHO. 
 

https://www.bccoh.org/about.html

 

 

Incidentally, that is the city's most diverse area by far.  Tracts around Tamarack Circle have exploded not only in population, but in immigrants from just about every part of the world.  

7 hours ago, jonoh81 said:

 

Well, as usual, I must give the caveat that the 1950 boundary that I normally use for this is not exactly the same one that exists in 2020 given many changes to individual census tract boundaries in the past 70 years.  That said, the closest population for that area is 256,939, which is 22,357 more than in 2010.   

 

Out of the 53 tracts that made up the 1950 boundary, 36 of them grew 2010-2020. 

 

Downtown itself- made up of roughly tracts 30, 32, 4001, 4002 and 42- is at 14,294, up 4,731 from 2010.  

 

Here's a deeper dive into Downtown and 1950 core numbers. 

https://allcolumbusdata.com/columbus-ohio-downtown-population-growth/

2 hours ago, Pablo said:

Per the local Bhutanese Community of Central Ohio there are 30,000 Bhutanese in Columbus mainly through secondary migration. It makes sense - there’s support and a common language so why not be together. All immigrant groups succeed if there are support communities. The BCCOH has an office on Tamarack in the Northland area where a lot of Bhutanese have settled. Columbus is all the more richer with immigrants IMHO. 
 

https://www.bccoh.org/about.html

 

I remember one of my old anthropology professors from OSU talking about his research and work with the Cbus Bhutanese community. It was really the first time I had really learned about such large immigrant communities in Cbus. I love that our city is made up of people from so many diverse backgrounds!

9 hours ago, jonoh81 said:

 

Well, as usual, I must give the caveat that the 1950 boundary that I normally use for this is not exactly the same one that exists in 2020 given many changes to individual census tract boundaries in the past 70 years.  That said, the closest population for that area is 256,939, which is 22,357 more than in 2010.   

 

Out of the 53 tracts that made up the 1950 boundary, 36 of them grew 2010-2020. 

 

Downtown itself- made up of roughly tracts 30, 32, 4001, 4002 and 42- is at 14,294, up 4,731 from 2010.  

 

Thank you for that.  Do you have the population density of the old city (roughly)?

18 hours ago, jonoh81 said:

 

Well, as usual, I must give the caveat that the 1950 boundary that I normally use for this is not exactly the same one that exists in 2020 given many changes to individual census tract boundaries in the past 70 years.  That said, the closest population for that area is 256,939, which is 22,357 more than in 2010.   

 

Out of the 53 tracts that made up the 1950 boundary, 36 of them grew 2010-2020. 

 

Downtown itself- made up of roughly tracts 30, 32, 4001, 4002 and 42- is at 14,294, up 4,731 from 2010.  

That is great news. And that sounds like a density of around 6,400 per square mile?-still off the 9,000 plus of 70 years ago but moving in the right direction. I am pretty sure that 1950 number was a bit inflated because of the lack of home construction with the depression and the war and all...along with adding 85,000 people from 1930 to 1950. I don't think the annexation had really kicked in before 1950 and I would expect they did not have much room or much time to add too much in the way of many of the tract Cape Cod houses they were building in the late 40's.

 

My parents always complained about how crowded* the city(and downtown)was in the few years after the war. Apparently downtown there was hardly a room to be had and every hotel was packed.

 

*and dirty/in a state of disrepair. I guess the lack of money and then materials from 1930-1945 left the city looking a bit in need of "sprucing up".

Oddly, Columbus does have a lot of housing constructed in the 1940s.

51 minutes ago, GCrites80s said:

Oddly, Columbus does have a lot of housing constructed in the 1940s.

Huh. How much and where is it at? Maybe they got more constructed in the latter part of the decade than I realized. I have an old booklet that was put out by the city in late 1948/early 1949 and they do show houses being built(they look like the Cape Cod/Levittown types)but I assumed there were not too many of them built because of the transition back from a war economy and all. I knew the 50's was very different of course. 

 

Was it more infill in already established areas, new greenfield tracts within the city limits, in new land annexed to the city???

5xNW, Clintonville and Linden are the big ones that come to mind. Also Grove City, Hanford Village and Urbancrest come to mind as far as suburbs go.

Edited August 23, 20213 yr by GCrites80s

10 minutes ago, Toddguy said:

Huh. How much and where is it at? Maybe they got more constructed in the latter part of the decade than I realized. I have an old booklet that was put out by the city in late 1948/early 1949 and they do show houses being built(they look like the Cape Cod/Levittown types)but I assumed there were not too many of them built because of the transition back from a war economy and all. I knew the 50's was very different of course. 

 

Was it more infill in already established areas, new greenfield tracts within the city limits, in new land annexed to the city???

I'd also venture to take a look on the Westside in Westgate and surrounding area.  My home is a 1948 cape cod and most of the homes in my area were 1930's-1950's.

Speaking of the Bhutanese community, someone on reddit said that Reynoldsburg has the first Bhutanese-Nepali elected official in the country.  I thought that was pretty cool.

12 hours ago, ColDayMan said:

 

Thank you for that.  Do you have the population density of the old city (roughly)?

 

About 5684.5, up from 4712.7 in 2010.  It's roughly where it was in the mid-1990s.  Ironically, if Columbus were the same size as Cleveland, it would already have the the state's highest density.

 

Downtown is at 4331.5, up from 2,598.6 in 2010.  

Edited August 23, 20213 yr by jonoh81

3 hours ago, Toddguy said:

That is great news. And that sounds like a density of around 6,400 per square mile?-still off the 9,000 plus of 70 years ago but moving in the right direction. I am pretty sure that 1950 number was a bit inflated because of the lack of home construction with the depression and the war and all...along with adding 85,000 people from 1930 to 1950. I don't think the annexation had really kicked in before 1950 and I would expect they did not have much room or much time to add too much in the way of many of the tract Cape Cod houses they were building in the late 40's.

 

My parents always complained about how crowded* the city(and downtown)was in the few years after the war. Apparently downtown there was hardly a room to be had and every hotel was packed.

 

*and dirty/in a state of disrepair. I guess the lack of money and then materials from 1930-1945 left the city looking a bit in need of "sprucing up".

 

Annexation didn't really get going significantly until around 1953.  

16 hours ago, Pablo said:

Per the local Bhutanese Community of Central Ohio there are 30,000 Bhutanese in Columbus mainly through secondary migration. It makes sense - there’s support and a common language so why not be together. All immigrant groups succeed if there are support communities. The BCCOH has an office on Tamarack in the Northland area where a lot of Bhutanese have settled. Columbus is all the more richer with immigrants IMHO. 
 

https://www.bccoh.org/about.html

 

 

Now that I think about it, I wonder how they are arriving at the 27,000 figure.  The Census doesn't specifically list Bhutan in its list of nations of origin for the foreign-born population, only Nepal.  But the estimated foreign-born population total is otherwise fully accounted for in their figures.  Under the South-central Asia section, they list Nepal with just under 4,000 immigrants in the metro, and under "Other", there are 7,501.  Even if most of those were from Bhutan, that would still be well under 1/3rd of the stated estimate on that site.  The latest census estimates were for 2019 for the metro area, so perhaps after the 2020 census data is input, we'll have a better idea of just how many foreign-born people now live in the region.  If they all arrived after 2010, I guess that could explain some of the discrepancy, but it's a pretty large one.

Edited August 23, 20213 yr by jonoh81

^I imagine at this point there are quite a few US born Bhutanese. 

12 minutes ago, Pablo said:

^I imagine at this point there are quite a few US born Bhutanese. 

 

Some yes, but it suggested a lot of the community were part of the original immigrants that just ended up moving to Columbus.  If we just looked at ancestry, unfortunately the Census does not list Bhutanese or Nepalese as an option.  If we just went by the generic "Asian", Bhutanese alone would account for about 1/3rd of all Asians living in the metro, which seems pretty high.

Edited August 23, 20213 yr by jonoh81

Newark and Dublin will battle it out in the 2020s for largest suburb of Columbus - both are just under 50k residents as of the census.

^Is Newark a suburb or just another central city? 😉

Dispatch article about the new 2020 census data showing Asian and other immigrant residents driving Northland’s population growth:

 

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2021/09/03/census-shows-northland-becoming-more-diverse/5653600001/

 

There have been a good number of posts/articles here at UrbanOhio about how "immigrantification" has helped the Northland area recover from the 2002 closing of the Northland Mall:

• 2010:  https://forum.urbanohio.com/topic/2764-columbus-retail-news/?do=findComment&comment=430924
• 2010:  https://forum.urbanohio.com/topic/2764-columbus-retail-news/?do=findComment&comment=433081
• 2011:  https://forum.urbanohio.com/topic/488-columbus-general-business-amp-economic-news/?do=findComment&comment=473800
• 2011:  https://forum.urbanohio.com/topic/488-columbus-general-business-amp-economic-news/?do=findComment&comment=477972
• 2012:  https://forum.urbanohio.com/topic/11830-ohio-foreign-born-population-amp-immigration-data/?do=findComment&comment=523552
• 2018:  https://forum.urbanohio.com/topic/2764-columbus-retail-news/?do=findComment&comment=806112
• 2018:  https://forum.urbanohio.com/topic/682-columbus-restaurant-news-amp-info/?do=findComment&comment=837588

In the 2000's, Somali and Latino populations led the initial recovery.  But the biggest immigrant group adding to the Northland population growth since the 2010 census has been Bhutanese Nepali.

Linden area gaining population again, while Franklinton and some Hilltop areas declined. Linden's growth is related to lower housing prices to the west in Clintonville and the Short North. I know lots of folks who bought in Linden after getting priced out of Clintonville. East Franklinton should show growth in the next census.

 

 

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2021/09/13/linden-population-up-franklinton-and-hilltop-areas-struggle-census/5572183001/

1 hour ago, Pablo said:

Linden area gaining population again, while Franklinton and some Hilltop areas declined. Linden's growth is related to lower housing prices to the west in Clintonville and the Short North. I know lots of folks who bought in Linden after getting priced out of Clintonville. East Franklinton should show growth in the next census.

 

 

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2021/09/13/linden-population-up-franklinton-and-hilltop-areas-struggle-census/5572183001/

The Hilltop decline was negligible and some areas did grow. The Linden growth is very impressive and I hope it keeps up, but what really stands out is the Franklinton decline. We know what is causing the East Franklinton decline(and yes that will turn around dramatically) but what about the West Franklinton decline? Also how much gentrification is happening in the area west of 315? 

 

I am surprised the Hilltop did not decline more than the small amount it did even with the housing crisis. Much of it is a mess and the city is doing little for that area as far as I know.  Crime, drugs, bodies being found buried in cement in basements, serial killers, etc.  And much of it looks as bad as it is-just junky looking. Parts of it are like a lost forgotten part of the city it seems. And there are few if any amenities there or relatively close by it seems-part of the curse of the uncool crescent-something Linden fortunately does not have to deal with.

Linden suffers from a lack of amenities currently which is why it is indeed a part of the Uncool Crescent.

2 minutes ago, GCrites80s said:

Linden suffers from a lack of amenities currently which is why it is indeed a part of the Uncool Crescent.

Yep, this exactly. We had looked at some house in the area last year, and decided it wouldn’t be worth it, because there is nothing over there. 

3 hours ago, GCrites80s said:

Linden suffers from a lack of amenities currently which is why it is indeed a part of the Uncool Crescent.

I think it is close enough to them though...at least much closer than the Hilltop. Even the lowly(but improved compared to 30-40 years ago)Dispatch recognized as much. And it is not a part of the uncool crescent-too far North. And yeah I know you coined the term but I stand by this part lol. 

 

*We do need a map of the uncool crescent. Has this been done before? We also need to push this name. It needs the recognition and respect it deserves!

Edited September 14, 20213 yr by Toddguy

In another thread, a breakdown of Afghan refugees coming to Ohio per city was noted.  Below that info is a Dispatch article about the first refugees arriving in Columbus:

 

On 10/8/2021 at 3:17 PM, MuRrAy HiLL said:

Yep, looks like most immigrants are going to Columbus:

 

Columbus 345

Cleveland 285

Akron 150

Cincinnati 50

Toledo 25

 

https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/ohio-receiving-855-displaced-afghans-345-columbus-toledo-akron-cleveland-cincinnati-9-16-2021

 

 

First Afghan families, evacuees start to arrive in Columbus, hundreds more to follow

 

When Zaib Jamili walked out of the security checkpoint at John Glenn Columbus International Airport on Thursday evening with his wife and 1-year-old baby, resettlement staff spotted them right away. ... Jamili was one of the first Afghan nationals to arrive in Columbus following the U.S. military withdrawal in August.  The first person came on Sep. 24, according to Angie Plummer, executive director at a local resettlement agency called Community Refugee and Immigration Services (CRIS).

 

On Thursday, Jamili’s family as well as another family of four landed in the city.  About 340 more are making their way to Columbus in the next six months, according to local resettlement agencies. ... Jamshid Jalili, Jamili’s uncle who lives in Dublin, came to the airport with his wife and four kids to pick up the newcomers.  They greeted each other with big smiles and hugged each other's children as soon as they met.  Jalili came from Afghanistan to the United States as a refugee six years ago after the Taliban threatened to kill him due to his interpretation work for the U.S. government.

 

Jamili’s family will stay with their relatives in Dublin for now until CRIS helps them figure out a long-term housing plan.  Ahead of them are three months of federally funded resettlement programming aimed to help them adjust to their life in the Greater Columbus area.  Local agencies are required to have two meetings with refugees, but Jhuma Acharya, a caseworker at CRIS, said that CRIS employees usually talk to new arrivals at least 10 times to introduce them to their new neighborhood, assist them with government paperwork, and help them with employment, housing, their children’s schooling and more.

 

MORE:  https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2021/10/01/afghan-nationals-refugees-arriving-columbus-ohio/5932339001/

Oh so perhaps the numbers are based on how many family members are already present in said city. I didn't think of that. 

A Dispatch reporter did a recent profile on the six of the largest refugee communities in Columbus/Central Ohio:

 

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2021/10/20/largest-refugee-communities-populations-columbus-ohio/8456136002/

 

1) Bhutanese Nepalis

2) Somalis

3) Congolese

4) Iraqis

5) Afghans

6) People of Myanmar

And the Columbus Metropolitan Club had a recent forum talking about the Afghans, the most recent refugee community settling in Columbus/Central Ohio:

 

One more news item about the Afghan refugees coming to Columbus.  This one is about City Council forming a housing safety net fund for their rent:

 

City of Columbus starts fund to help new Afghan families secure housing

 

Columbus City Council approved the creation of a housing fund this week to ease the resettlement process of about 350 Afghan evacuees who fled their home country earlier this year and are set to start their new lives in the city.  The initiative, called the Afghan Neighbors Rental Assistance Fund, will set aside $50,000 to cover rent costs for Afghan families should they default.

 

The goal is to reassure landlords that they will get their payments even in the event that tenants fall behind on rent, said council member Emmanuel Remy, who sponsored the legislation. ... Like other refugee groups, all Afghan evacuees are entitled to a one-time federal stipend of $1,225 to cover personal expenses.  Despite the federal assistance, however, landlords are sometimes reluctant to rent to refugees because most new arrivals do not have rental histories, credit scores or incomes when they first come to the United States.

 

Columbus’ two resettlement agencies, Community Refugee and Immigration Services and US Together, will hold on to the money from the city program and reimburse landlords if a tenant cannot pay rent.  At the end of the 12-month program, the agencies will give back to the city any unspent money.  Remy said that given past experience, he does not expect many families to default on their rent, and he believes agencies will use only a small percentage of the fund.

 

MORE:  https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2021/11/17/columbus-new-housing-initiative-to-help-afghan-evacuees-with-housing/6354889001/

Earlier this week, CBF ran a story on how WFH and the pandemic have caused a huge increase in trash collection needs. The part I found interesting, and relevant to this thread, is this quote:

 

”“Columbus is expected to grow to over a million residents by 2027 and keep growing,” Gallagher said. “More households will need weekly trash pickup. Our refuse fleet must be ready to service them while continuing to meet today’s trash collection needs.””

 

 Not sure where that projection is from, I just thought it interesting that 2027 is the year we’re projected to be the first city in Ohio to surpass one million residents. 
 

The rest of the article can be found here:

 

https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2021/11/16/trash-collection-columbus-2022-budget.html

Wouldn't that be balanced by less trash from commercial properties though?

 

Also, a ten percent growth in the next five years for a large city would be pretty damn impressive.

22 minutes ago, TBideon said:

Wouldn't that be balanced by less trash from commercial properties though?

 

It would, but commercial trash collection is an entirely different process than residential trash collection. It's not that the city as a whole has created more trash, but that one silo of the trash collection process has experienced a sharp increase in demand.

From the Axios Cbus newsletter:

 

 

The first two don’t really surprise me. I’m kinda shocked about Atlanta, however. 

24 minutes ago, amped91 said:

From the Axios Cbus newsletter:

 

 

The first two don’t really surprise me. I’m kinda shocked about Atlanta, however. 

Could it have been a search for Columbus Georgia properties and they just clicked Columbus Ohio? 

40 minutes ago, VintageLife said:

Could it have been a search for Columbus Georgia properties and they just clicked Columbus Ohio? 

Good point; I didn’t even think of that lol I always forget Georgia has a Cbus too. I wish there were an easy way to find data on in-migration. 

On 11/18/2021 at 8:56 AM, amped91 said:

Earlier this week, CBF ran a story on how WFH and the pandemic have caused a huge increase in trash collection needs. The part I found interesting, and relevant to this thread, is this quote:

 

”“Columbus is expected to grow to over a million residents by 2027 and keep growing,” Gallagher said. “More households will need weekly trash pickup. Our refuse fleet must be ready to service them while continuing to meet today’s trash collection needs.””

 

 Not sure where that projection is from, I just thought it interesting that 2027 is the year we’re projected to be the first city in Ohio to surpass one million residents. 
 

The rest of the article can be found here:

 

https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2021/11/16/trash-collection-columbus-2022-budget.html

So just when do people think Cbus will hit one million? Will the pandemic and WFH cause growth to shift outside of city limits?

 

Some estimates for 2022:

 

https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/columbus-oh-population

921,605. 

 

https://www.populationu.com/cities/columbus-population#:~:text=Columbus is the largest city,is estimated to be 918%2C429.

918,429.

 

 

Columbus is increasing 0.84% annually. So... is that 7 or 8 years compounded and extrapolated?

 

As for WFH and COVID, I don't think those will be detriments of any significance. 

Edited February 15, 20223 yr by TBideon

21 minutes ago, Toddguy said:

So just when do people think Cbus will hit one million? Will the pandemic and WFH cause growth to shift outside of city limits?

 

Some estimates for 2022:

 

https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/columbus-oh-population

921,605. 

 

https://www.populationu.com/cities/columbus-population#:~:text=Columbus is the largest city,is estimated to be 918%2C429.

918,429.

 

 

I’m thinking WPR hasn’t updated their data with 2020 census numbers either, which had showed that both Ohio and Columbus population growth had been underestimated. I wonder if the official 2020 numbers would change the estimate by much. 

33 minutes ago, amped91 said:

I’m thinking WPR hasn’t updated their data with 2020 census numbers either, which had showed that both Ohio and Columbus population growth had been underestimated. I wonder if the official 2020 numbers would change the estimate by much. 

Actually they both suck-they both appear to be based on estimates smh. 

On 1/29/2022 at 7:09 PM, amped91 said:

Good point; I didn’t even think of that lol I always forget Georgia has a Cbus too. I wish there were an easy way to find data on in-migration. 

 

The Census Bureau keeps track of migration. From 2015 to 2019, here is the highest net annual in-migration to Cbus metro:

 

 

And here's out-migration, by highest net loss:

 

 

Here's net in-migration for Cincinnati:

 

 

And out-migration for Cincinnati:

 

 

In-migration for Cleveland:

 

 

Out-migration for Cleveland:
 

 

Edited February 15, 20223 yr by DEPACincy

^Thats really awesome; thanks for posting that! It’s not surprising that so much out-migration from Cbus and Cincy is to sunbelt metros; it’s interesting that very little of Cle’s loss is to the Sunbelt, though. Looks like most ex-Clevelanders choose to stay in Ohio. 

22 minutes ago, amped91 said:

^Thats really awesome; thanks for posting that! It’s not surprising that so much out-migration from Cbus and Cincy is to sunbelt metros; it’s interesting that very little of Cle’s loss is to the Sunbelt, though. Looks like most ex-Clevelanders choose to stay in Ohio. 

A lot of that outmigration from Cleveland is to college towns, so, probably young people leaving to go to college.  Then, the outmigration from Columbus and Cinci is people graduating from OSU or UC and then moving to sunbelt metros for jobs.  Just a guess.

Edited February 15, 20223 yr by TH3BUDDHA

21 minutes ago, TH3BUDDHA said:

A lot of that outmigration from Cleveland is to college towns, so, probably young people leaving to go to college.  Then, the outmigration from Columbus and Cinci is people graduating from OSU or UC and then moving to sunbelt metros for jobs.  Just a guess.

Yeah, that’s along the lines of what I was thinking, too. Cbus and Cincy are basically “stops” on the way to Sunbelt metros. I’m hoping with Intel, Hyperion, and (I’m sure) whatever else comes next we can both retain and attract more. Mainly because I think it’ll be great for our innovation, research and start up industries to have so many educated, talented folks in the area. 

Please keep posts that are not related to Columbus population trends in the appropriate thread and not in this thread. Not our fault if other threads got closed.

 

Thanks.

Some of the Sunbelt migration, especially to Florida and Arizona, are just retirees. Like, no one is moving to a Daytona for economic opportunity.

https://www.nbc4i.com/news/investigates/as-columbus-housing-costs-rose-last-year-franklin-county-lost-population/

 

As Columbus housing costs rose last year, Franklin County lost population

 

Quote

“Unfortunately, in our community, people cannot afford to live where they work,” she said, adding that IMPACT’s mission has become more challenging during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“In 2019, IMPACT served 250 people,” she said. “And then in 2020 when the pandemic hit, we went from serving 100 people to over 25,000 people.”

 

A Pew Research survey from January found more than 6 in 10 Americans living in urban areas said the cost of housing is a major problem. Only 4 in 10 rural Americans said the same.

 

Doing the math, Franklin County lost 1 in 500 people last year, for example, and Cuyahoga nearly lost 1 in 100.

 

But while people are moving away from Ohio’s big cities, central Ohio is still growing. All six counties that border Franklin were among the top 10 Ohio counties for population gain last year:

 

Ohio State University economics professor Bruce Weinberg says the rising cost of living in Columbus is the result of the community’s prosperity.

 

“There’s the Intel development and so forth; It’s going to be bringing more activity,” he said. “So, I think in general, it’s probably the case that Columbus is going to become less affordable over time.”