Source: US Bureau of Economic Analysis Tools: Alteryx, Tableau, Adobe Illustrator
Few things popped up while making this… 1. San Francisco and the Bay Area doing well despite negative news coverage 2. Florida has been the fastest growing state by GDP over the past 5 years 3. Dallas/Forth Worth has the fastest growing population of any US metro. At least one study forecasts it to be the most populous metro in the US by 2100 4. Utah is growing quickly while also being the youngest state in the US with a median age of 32 years old. For comparison, Florida is the oldest with a median age of 43
Wow. Some interesting finds here. Doesn’t feel like this is the data we hear about in the news. Probably because it doesn’t fit any particular narrative.
I feel like fastest shrinking is in the wrong order, looks like the least fastest shrinking,
Data from 2017-2022 may not be indicative of any normal trend because of the Covid shutdowns during that period.
This looks a lot more accurate than your attempt last week. The fastest shrinking metros actually matches the data this time around.
It looks like Lake Charles never bounced back after Covid (2020).
San Francisco is an interesting case as it had a pretty s[ignificant population decrease](https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/covid-pandemic-charts-changes-17829278.php) as workers left for many reasons, usually attributed to cheaper rent during remote work/early covid. So, these urban increase may just be a return to pre-pandemic numbers. By contrast, increases in Bozeman and other “metro regions” with **way too few** people to be considered a metropolis, may reflect insignificant growth in numbers because it takes so little to skew the mean. TL;DR data is interesting enough that we puzzle over it… so maybe beautiful
Seems a bit like using BMI on individuals rather than populations.
Also, when I think about whether an area’s growing, I think about population growth.
What is/was going on in the Gulf area? Something related to shipping? Fishing? Both? Neither?
What’s happening in Montana?
Why is this calling Broomfield a metro? It’s a small suburb of Denver.
It’s weird that Broomfield, CO is considered its own metro. It’s effectively a small city that’s a part of the Denver metro, maybe it could be considered Boulder metro.
But still, seems odd to me and since it’s pretty small, using a percentage change would have a drastic impact since it started with a smaller population to begin with.
Ah yes the metropolis of West Yellowstone, Montana
Where does San Francisco have to grow?
wtf is going on in Bozeman that is making so many people wanna go there?
Not surprising Moline is on here. A lot of people here have just moved across the river to Bettendorf or Davenport to get away from the ever increasing taxes here. Funny enough though, I think Bettendorf’s are almost as bad.
FYI: The color for Seattle is not correct given the data.
I lived in Bloomington, Il during this time and the 14% drop seems wild. The housing market heated up and McLean County is one of the few downstate Illinois counties to grow in population. Mitsubishi had already tapered off and closed and Rivian came in. Our house sold in one day. The city is doing well.
EDIT2: I’m silly for not realizing this was about GDP, not population. Whereas most places rely heavily on overall population in their GDP, this shows the opposite. The fact that San Francisco is a top boom town despite essentially no population growth on the whole shows just how remarkably much value the Bay Area produces.
That’s kinda crazy that San Francisco is considered a top boom town from 2017 – 2022 given that its population declined by a whole 10% in 2020 alone. Like, that must mean the bay area’s growth before that especially was ludicrous, for already being so populous and in demand.
Edit: Looking at population numbers again, I’m really not sure how SF could be a boom town given that the metro population has only barely increased from 2017 – 2022. There was a giant exodus around 2022, so obviously growth was really high at other points to compensate for that, but the point stands.
Florida can’t be the only place on the east coast booming…come on!
it’s always struck me how history and industries have shaped cities. it seems that a lot of places out west are very boom/bust, while a lot of places in the east are either shrinking or are more neutral in their growth
Very skeptical of how this data is being interpreted. Including West Yellowstone as the number 3 metro area is a huge red flag. West Yellowstone is a town of barely over 1,000 people, and the “metro area” might include the 20 people that live outside of city limits.
It’s a tourist town and is very busy during the summer, but to include it on this list as #3 metro area is deceiving.
My secret favorite town of St. Augustine is very quickly becoming booming. It used to be a quiet, not-too-popular vacation spot and my family and I would visit extended family there every year growing up.
How is West Yellowstone a metro? It’s not even half as big as the village I live in.
Does anyone know if datasets like these adjust for immigration in some regard to the USA? It sits in the back of my mind whenever I see this.
Wow, nobody commenting on the dumb color coding. You have green and red values but use orange and blue in the graphics… I thought “data is *beautiful”* 🙂
John Dutton must be pissed
I’m surprised Bloomington IL is one of the fastest shrinking
On the other hand so much of the town is student housing that it’s hard to tell permanent resident homes to permanent homes.
California is net losing companies and citizens as they move to other states Is increase of population im California cities due to their sanctuary status?
Is there a link to see the map and the cities?
Lake Charles is so low because of Covid and hurricane Laura in 2020. The area is actually recovering nicely now.
Everyone from Norfolk is moving to Richmond. Crazy amounts of new high rise apartments popping up everywhere downtown.
Could just be where big equity is buying up all the housing stock and artificially inflating the local economy
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Source: US Bureau of Economic Analysis
Tools: Alteryx, Tableau, Adobe Illustrator
Few things popped up while making this…
1. San Francisco and the Bay Area doing well despite negative news coverage
2. Florida has been the fastest growing state by GDP over the past 5 years
3. Dallas/Forth Worth has the fastest growing population of any US metro. At least one study forecasts it to be the most populous metro in the US by 2100
4. Utah is growing quickly while also being the youngest state in the US with a median age of 32 years old. For comparison, Florida is the oldest with a median age of 43
Wow. Some interesting finds here. Doesn’t feel like this is the data we hear about in the news. Probably because it doesn’t fit any particular narrative.
I feel like fastest shrinking is in the wrong order, looks like the least fastest shrinking,
Data from 2017-2022 may not be indicative of any normal trend because of the Covid shutdowns during that period.
This looks a lot more accurate than your attempt last week. The fastest shrinking metros actually matches the data this time around.
It looks like Lake Charles never bounced back after Covid (2020).
San Francisco is an interesting case as it had a pretty s[ignificant population decrease](https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/covid-pandemic-charts-changes-17829278.php) as workers left for many reasons, usually attributed to cheaper rent during remote work/early covid. So, these urban increase may just be a return to pre-pandemic numbers.
By contrast, increases in Bozeman and other “metro regions” with **way too few** people to be considered a metropolis, may reflect insignificant growth in numbers because it takes so little to skew the mean.
TL;DR data is interesting enough that we puzzle over it… so maybe beautiful
Seems a bit like using BMI on individuals rather than populations.
Also, when I think about whether an area’s growing, I think about population growth.
What is/was going on in the Gulf area? Something related to shipping? Fishing? Both? Neither?
What’s happening in Montana?
Why is this calling Broomfield a metro? It’s a small suburb of Denver.
It’s weird that Broomfield, CO is considered its own metro. It’s effectively a small city that’s a part of the Denver metro, maybe it could be considered Boulder metro.
But still, seems odd to me and since it’s pretty small, using a percentage change would have a drastic impact since it started with a smaller population to begin with.
Ah yes the metropolis of West Yellowstone, Montana
Where does San Francisco have to grow?
wtf is going on in Bozeman that is making so many people wanna go there?
Not surprising Moline is on here. A lot of people here have just moved across the river to Bettendorf or Davenport to get away from the ever increasing taxes here. Funny enough though, I think Bettendorf’s are almost as bad.
FYI: The color for Seattle is not correct given the data.
I lived in Bloomington, Il during this time and the 14% drop seems wild. The housing market heated up and McLean County is one of the few downstate Illinois counties to grow in population. Mitsubishi had already tapered off and closed and Rivian came in. Our house sold in one day. The city is doing well.
EDIT2: I’m silly for not realizing this was about GDP, not population. Whereas most places rely heavily on overall population in their GDP, this shows the opposite. The fact that San Francisco is a top boom town despite essentially no population growth on the whole shows just how remarkably much value the Bay Area produces.
That’s kinda crazy that San Francisco is considered a top boom town from 2017 – 2022 given that its population declined by a whole 10% in 2020 alone. Like, that must mean the bay area’s growth before that especially was ludicrous, for already being so populous and in demand.
Edit: Looking at population numbers again, I’m really not sure how SF could be a boom town given that the metro population has only barely increased from 2017 – 2022. There was a giant exodus around 2022, so obviously growth was really high at other points to compensate for that, but the point stands.
Florida can’t be the only place on the east coast booming…come on!
it’s always struck me how history and industries have shaped cities. it seems that a lot of places out west are very boom/bust, while a lot of places in the east are either shrinking or are more neutral in their growth
Very skeptical of how this data is being interpreted. Including West Yellowstone as the number 3 metro area is a huge red flag. West Yellowstone is a town of barely over 1,000 people, and the “metro area” might include the 20 people that live outside of city limits.
It’s a tourist town and is very busy during the summer, but to include it on this list as #3 metro area is deceiving.
My secret favorite town of St. Augustine is very quickly becoming booming. It used to be a quiet, not-too-popular vacation spot and my family and I would visit extended family there every year growing up.
How is West Yellowstone a metro? It’s not even half as big as the village I live in.
Does anyone know if datasets like these adjust for immigration in some regard to the USA? It sits in the back of my mind whenever I see this.
Wow, nobody commenting on the dumb color coding. You have green and red values but use orange and blue in the graphics… I thought “data is *beautiful”* 🙂
John Dutton must be pissed
I’m surprised Bloomington IL is one of the fastest shrinking
On the other hand so much of the town is student housing that it’s hard to tell permanent resident homes to permanent homes.
California is net losing companies and citizens as they move to other states
Is increase of population im California cities due to their sanctuary status?
Is there a link to see the map and the cities?
Lake Charles is so low because of Covid and hurricane Laura in 2020. The area is actually recovering nicely now.
Everyone from Norfolk is moving to Richmond. Crazy amounts of new high rise apartments popping up everywhere downtown.
Could just be where big equity is buying up all the housing stock and artificially inflating the local economy