With this month’s release of the 2012 U.S. Census estimates, Clevelanders are getting one stone-cold confirmation: The city’s population is still experiencing major shrinkage.
In fact, our city is at the top of any and all *major metro shrinkage* lists – including the one you keep under your mattress. From 2011 to 2012, the change in population is estimated at -.2 percent, just a smidge beyond the net loss of cities like Buffalo, N.Y., and Hartford, Conn.
One upside is that the aptly named “clobbered metros” like Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh, et. al. actually saw the most significant growth in relative terms over that same one-year period. While Cleveland’s contribution is mostly dead weight this time around, the overall news is, at best, quasi-healthy and somewhat optimistic.
This article appears in Mar 20-26, 2013.
Well Metro Cleveland’s taxation and public services need to pull their heads out of their collective asses and get to work keeping people living in and around Cle….
Be late on your taxes and you can expect heavy fines and general torture, but look for a plow/salt truck in the winter? Forget about it….
The city is finally turning itself around now that all the crooks (or at least the major ones) have been put in jail. You can’t start the healing process until you cut out all the cancer, hopefully we got it all and didn’t miss any.
and this news is surprising to who exactly?