Projecting our population

By Geert De Lombaerde Posted on June 12, 2009 at 7:01 am

G. Scott Thomas at bizjournals has analyzed county population growth rates and crunched the numbers out to 2025. According to those numbers, Nashville will move up six spots in the size rankings, topped 2.1 million by the middle of this century’s third decade.

One interesting angle is that Music City’s peer group will change drastically in the next 15 years. Charlotte and Austin are expected to boom much more than Nashville, which will in turn catch up to a number of the nation’s older cities, such as Pittsburgh and Cleveland.

Here are the five cities on either side of Nashville using 2005 estimates (with Nashville’s population in parentheses):

34. Indianapolis
35. Providence
36. Milwaukee
37. Charlotte
38. Austin
39. Nashville (1.45M)
40. New Orleans
41. Memphis
42. Jacksonville
43. Louisville
44. Hartford

And here is that same list based on 2025 projections (with 2005 ranks in parentheses for cities other than Nashville):

28. San Antonio (29)
29. Cincinnati (24)
30. Kansas City (27)
31. Pittsburgh (21)
32. San Jose (30)
33. Nashville (2.11M)
34. Indianapolis (34)
35. Columbus (31)
36. Jacksonville (42)
37. Cleveland (23)
38. Raleigh (51)

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Clarksville growth flatlining

By Kleinheider Posted on March 23, 2009 at 8:28 am

From WPLN:

In recent years, Clarksville has made the country’s top-ten list for population gains. But new county census figures show double-digit growth has slowed to a fraction of a percent. Clarksville’s four-county statistical region actually lost population from 2007 to 2008. It’s the only MSA in the state to lose residents last year.

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Nashville state’s fastest grower in ‘08

By Geert De Lombaerde Posted on March 19, 2009 at 7:44 am

The Census Bureau estimates Nashville’s population grew by 30,000 people from July 2007 to July 2008, easily outpacing Knoxville and Johnson City to rank tops in the state. The MSA’s growth rate was right in line with its average from the first seven years of this decade and more than double that of Louisville and Birmingham. Access the database here.

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