U.S. Census Bureau population estimates released late last month show eight of the 10 largest cities in the U.S. saw population declines in the first year of the pandemic.
Despite not ranking in the top 15 in 2019, San Francisco led the way in 2021 with a loss of almost 55,000 residents, or 6.3% of its 2020 population.
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However, experts interviewed by the Daily Journal of Commerce note the recent data fails to capture those who have returned to urban areas in the past year as cities and workplaces reopen. Brookings Institution demographer William Frey is quoted as saying he believes the population losses in most of the largest U.S. cities from 2020 to 2021 have been “short-lived and pandemic-related.”
Read more at Census.gov and DJCOregon.com.
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