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Started 11 months ago by jbcmh81
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For all Columbus metro places with 5,000+ people and the change from April 2010 to July 1, 2011.

1. Columbus: 797,434 +10,401
2. Newark: 47,790 +217
3. Dublin: 42,346 +595
4. Lancaster: 39,026 +246
5. Marion: 36,689 -148
6. Westerville: 36,665 +545
7. Reynoldsburg: 36,293 +400
8. Grove City: 36,052 +477
9. Delaware: 35,541 +788
10. Upper Arlington: 34,223 +452
11. Gahanna: 33,694 +466
12. Hilliard: 28,816 +381
13. Marysville: 22,288 +194
14. Pickerington: 18,408 +117
15. Whitehall: 18,306 +244
16. Mount Vernon: 17,087 +97
17. Pataskala: 15,031 +69
18. Worthington: 13,755 +180
19. Circleville: 13,389 +75
20. Bexley: 13,221 +164
21. Powell: 11,777 +277
22. Heath: 10,357 +47
23.London: 9,896 -8
24. New Albany: 7,834 +110
25. Canal Winchester: 7,191 +90
26.Grandview Heights: 6,625 +89
27. Granville: 5,662 +16
28. Groveport: 5,435 +72

Really good to see that Grandview, Bexley and Whitehall have reversed losses from the last decade and are growing again. I actually found that just about every place within Columbus/Franklin County that was losing people the last decade has been growing the past year.

Posted 11 months ago #
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So Columbus likely passed the 800,000 mark sometime around New Year, growing at a 1.3% clip. If that keeps up, we'll be just shy of 900,000 by the next census.

Posted 11 months ago #
Pickerington_Kyle

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I imagine Columbus is probally around 805,000 people right now. Less than 5 years we should be around 850,000 at this rate. 15 years maybe 1,000,000? with a metro of 2.4 million?

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Pickerington_Kyle said:
I imagine Columbus is probally around 805,000 people right now. Less than 5 years we should be around 850,000 at this rate. 15 years maybe 1,000,000? with a metro of 2.4 million?

2.4 is probably a bit ambitious for the next 15 yrs, although the city is primed to take advantage of any sustained economic recovery that keeps dangling just beyond our reach. the 2010 metro population was 1.8 mil, growing at roughly a 200k clip each decade. so even if we start trending up, we're not likely to reach 2.4 until sometime after 2030. again, if the economy starts hitting on all cyliders, we should hit it sooner.

Posted 11 months ago #
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Cbusbill, you also have to factor in just the positive feedback effect. The larger the metro gets, especially if unemployment continues to drop, the more people that may take notice. The growth the last year was faster than the average growth of the last decade for the city, even during the ongoing housing issues. I think part of that is because Columbus remains attractive for people to move there, and the bigger it gets, the more its name gets out there.

Posted 11 months ago #
Pickerington_Kyle

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I know Columbus has one of the lowest, if not lowest unemployment rates, how does it fair compare to other larger cities?

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Pickerington_Kyle said:
I know Columbus has one of the lowest, if not lowest unemployment rates, how does it fair compare to other larger cities?

Go to the BLS site and you can check out metros in any state. A majority seem to have higher unemployment than Columbus, especially in previous "boom" markets.

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