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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Baltimore population drops below 600,000, the lowest total in a century, census estimates show

2020-03-28

[BALTIMORESUN] Baltimore’s population has dipped below 600,000 for the first time in more than a century, according to U.S. Census estimates released Thursday.

The city’s estimated population was 593,490 as of July 1, 2019, the new data shows.

That suggests Baltimore lost 8,953 people, or 1.5% of its population, from the previous year.

While the city’s population has been trending downward for decades, it had some small increases during the administration of former Democratic Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, standing at more than 623,000 in 2014.

But since 2015, when Baltimore saw civil unrest after the death of Freddie Gray from injuries he suffered in police custody, the city has experienced annual declines in population.

None of the counties surrounding the city saw their population substantially decline last year, noted Michael Rendall, director of the Maryland Population Research Center and a sociology professor at the University of Maryland, College Park.

The city’s population loss, he said, "is not a phenomenon reflective of the overall metropolitan area."

Since 2010, the city has lost 27,280 residents, shedding more than 4% of its population, according to the estimates.

Welcoming new people should be a top policy priority of the city, said Seema Iyer, who oversees the Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance at the University of Baltimore’s Jacob La Belle France Institute.

"We need that message to be very clear in the leadership ‐ that we want people to move into the city of Baltimore, that we want them to be part of the city," Iyer said, adding that leaders must work to ensure that there is enough affordable housing and a good transit system.

In addition to people leaving the city, a decrease in both births and in the number of people who have moved to Baltimore from other countries has contributed to the recent population decline, observers said.

Posted by:Fred

#11 #10 Gracias

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-03-28 11:37

#10 How many shooters in SimCity?

If I remember right, in the game there are disasters like riots, fires, and The Orioles.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-03-28 11:34

#9 ^Anglos y perros no están permitidos

Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2020-03-28 11:23

#8 ^How do you say in Spanish "Anglos & dogs are not allowed"?

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-03-28 10:45

#7 Welcoming new people should be a top policy priority of the city

Grayhounds at the border? Just wait till you are a minority again who don't speak Spanish.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-03-28 09:37

#6 Since 2010, the city has lost 27,280 residents, shedding more than 4% of its population, according to the estimates.

Lost could mean anything. How many were murdered? I was going to guess one fourth to one third of them, but the actual number for that stretch is 2,395 (excluding 2019 - no official # yet), so it's a tad under 10%. So they have that going for them...

Posted by: Raj 2020-03-28 08:03

#5 Story coming soon: Dead voters now outnumber live in Baltimore...

Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-03-28 07:50

#4 Heuweltjies (termite mounds of SA). Some as old as 4000 years. They come, and they go.

Posted by: Besoeker 2020-03-28 03:54

#3 BINASH, indeed.

Posted by: magpie 2020-03-28 02:10

#2 Baltimore lost 8,953 people, or 1.5% of its population

How many shooters in SimCity?

Posted by: Skidmark 2020-03-28 01:12

#1 If you are playing Sim City and your Sim citizens are leaving, it means you are doing a crappy job of running a city. I suspect it works the same in Baltimore.

Posted by: SteveS 2020-03-28 00:16

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