Re:The Bad Economics of Wtfhappenedin1971
by drewcoo on Friday January 26, 2024 @05:49PM
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https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022/urban-ru...
> Despite the increase in the urban population, urban areas, defined as densely developed residential, commercial, and other nonresidential areas, now account for 80.0% of the U.S. population, down from 80.7% in 2010.
Re:The Bad Economics of Wtfhappenedin1971
by enterprise_cog on Friday January 26, 2024 @08:32PM
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Not sure why you left this part out.
> This small decline was largely the result of changes to the criteria for defining urban areas implemented by the Census Bureau, including raising the minimum population threshold for qualification from 2,500 to 5,000.
The number of people who left cities is a remarkably small part of the US population and many of them just left high-cost cities for other lower-cost cities.
The steady increase in % of the US population who live in cities (83% in 2023 up from 70% in 2022) [https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/urba...] suggests that yes, Americans do in fact want to live in cities.