USA 2020 Census Results Thread (Release: Today, 26 April)

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The July 2020 estimate was off by a whopping 1.75 million for the Northeastern census region. That's a 3% difference, that suggests a systematic error in the estimation.

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Phoenix:       1321045 1445632 1608139
Philadelphia: 1517550 1526006 1603797

Phoenix, again, was massively overestimated. It is only 5000 larger than Philadelphia. It would have been hilarious if it was the fifth largest city in the US again, just like 2010 that also overestimated it.

And even Chicago grew over 2010-2020, 2.0% more than the rest of the state.

This whole census estimate thing was a nonsense.

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NYC: "But everybody is leaving that crime ridden liberal hellhole!"

And, seriously, take a look at San Antonio:

2020 census estimate: 1,567,118 (Wikipedia -- screencap it for reference).
2020 census count    : 1,434,625

That is an astoundingly bad estimate. And when I still lived in TX that was the city that had the best growth prospects, since Dallas was built out (and crime ridden, and full of liberals) and Houston was getting expensive and SA sprawls even worse than those two cities do.

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I'm kind of gutted that Camden still lost population over 2010-20. Given its site and situation it deserves better than just being another East St Louis.

I think the east coast, in general though, turned a corner by the late 2000s: the revival started first in MA in the 1970s, then New York and DC in the 1990s, and Philadelphia a decade later. The still-declining east coast cities like Baltimore are the exceptions now more than the rule -- examples of willful neglect and intentional demolition rather than places succumbing to a general economic decline.