2009 Metropolitan Area Census Estimates Released

[Metro Jacksonville]

2009 Metropolitan Area Census Estimates Released



The latest U.S. Census metropolitan area population estimates for the U.S. and Puerto Rico as of July 2009 have been released. Find out where Jacksonville ranks.

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http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2010-apr-2009-metropolitan-area-census-estimates-released

[simms3]

I wish we were growing a little faster than we were, especially in Duval County.  We have a lot of apartments and new houses to fill.

[reednavy]

Not bad, but we're never going to catch the Austin MSA, they're still booming.

Most surprising to me is that the New Orleans MSA has nearly recovered from Katrina, which is a very good thing.  It is one of those areas where a city shouldn't be, but also should be.

[thelakelander]

After spending the morning in DT Mobile, I plan to head over to New Orleans for a few days.  So expect a few new "Elements of Urbanism" articles in the upcoming weeks.

[reednavy]

Try a story on the gambling industry in Biloxi and Gulfport to see how it can be done here or what not and see how well they've recovered.

[Wacca Pilatka]

That's a terrific picture at the top of the article.

[Overstreet]

Interesting to note that our state capital is nowhere to be found on the Metropolitan area ratings list. 

Also note that the areas below Jacksonville are all less than 50% of the Jax metro population. Kind of a dramatic jump.

[Jason]

The ones that hurt are that Nashville is still pulling away and Memphis is neck & neck.

I'm also amazed to see Charlotte jump ahead of Indy.

[tufsu1]

Interesting to note that our state capital is nowhere to be found on the Metropolitan area ratings list. 

Tallahasee metro has about 300,000 people...so it doesn't make the Top 100 list

[blizz01]

How about Atlanta taking on an additional 1 million+ in a decade!

[samiam]

Try a story on the gambling industry in Biloxi and Gulfport to see how it can be done here or what not and see how well they've recovered.

If you do make it to Biloxi Try and get some photos of the devastation that is still there from hurricane Katrina HW 90 along the coast looks OK but go inland about 3 streets and you will find open fields that use to be filled with houses. It looks like less than 10% have been rebuilt.

[Captain Zissou]

No real surprises.  If current trends hold, in 2018 we will be 50k behind Milwaukee and 47K behind Providence, RI.  Austin, Nashville, and Charlotte are taking off.  We should have been on that wagon, but we missed it. 

I would be interested to see population by state, TX looks like it has grown immensely. 

[coredumped]

Interesting to note that our state capital is nowhere to be found on the Metropolitan area ratings list. 

Tallahassee is #140 - the full list can be seen by clicking on the wikipedia link below the wikipedia screenshot.

[stjr]

We should be more focused on quality of life rather than population numbers.  Have QOL and population growth will follow.  Not the other way around.

If all it took was to have lot of people, then big cities would always grow faster and smaller ones would always decline and that is clearly not true.  Actually, part of what is masked by these numbers is that the "metropolitan areas" that are counted here are incorporating many smaller cities by envelopment.

[heights unknown]

Still relatively slow growth in our neck of the woods.  Something catastrophic has to happen from below Gainesville south in order for us to again be numero uno (hope that never happens).  Anyhoo, 40th metro is not bad; where do we place in the city population race?  Are we in the top 10?

"HU"