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Re:The Great Decentralization? Geographic shifts and where t... by kipchak on Friday June 10, 2022 @12:22PM (#31696227)
From what I can find it looks like Seattle's growth rate was about 2% annually from the 1980s to 2000, then tapered off to 1.2% from 2000 to 2019.[1] I'm not very familiar with Seattle, but maybe that growth has been extremely localized? [1]https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/23140/seattle/population
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Re:The Great Decentralization? Geographic shifts and where t... by EB66 on Friday June 10, 2022 @12:26PM (#31696267)
You're looking at numbers for the Seattle metro area. The story with the city itself is different. The population went from 608k in 2010 to 737k in 2020. That's a huge jump for a city that's geographically constrained and already had no empty land available for development.
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