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re: Size and Growth of SEC Metros
Posted on 3/24/17 at 12:42 am to MullenBoys
Posted on 3/24/17 at 12:42 am to MullenBoys
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Posted on 3/24/17 at 12:51 am to ImayGoLesMiles
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Yeah. Usually decent sized cities have a crime problem bc of the number of people and poverty in certain parts. Baton rouge has alot of crime and murders but it's alot of thug on thug bs involved...hence the "great white flight" in rush hour to get home in the outskirts. I have lived here for 30 years in a middle class home and haven't once had a break in in my house or known someone who got murdered. Every city has violent crime and some more than others. It's not like random people are getting killed here...however, if youre looking for troube it will be found I promise.
I have family living in your area and also Shreveport , New Orleans, Kenner and French Settlement. I love Louisiana, good people. But I can tell you that after Katrina, the New Orleans thugs went to places like your city and drove up the crime rate.
Jackson, Ms population has actually gone down a lot while crime has sky rocketed and it's getting worse every day.
Posted on 3/24/17 at 1:02 am to MullenBoys
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Posted on 3/24/17 at 1:08 am to ImayGoLesMiles
Yes I do.
Oh, but let me add this. My family in BR lives in EBR parish. That's just one of the places in Louisiana I grew up spending weekends at visiting family. I can say this having spent a lot of time in your own city. EBR always had plenty of opportunity and still does. However, the crime rate there has deffinately risen since Katrina. In their neighborhood alone they have seen more crime in the years following Katrina than the many years combined before.
Oh, but let me add this. My family in BR lives in EBR parish. That's just one of the places in Louisiana I grew up spending weekends at visiting family. I can say this having spent a lot of time in your own city. EBR always had plenty of opportunity and still does. However, the crime rate there has deffinately risen since Katrina. In their neighborhood alone they have seen more crime in the years following Katrina than the many years combined before.
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Posted on 3/24/17 at 2:04 am to MullenBoys
I believe you. Just speaking from personal experience over 30 years.
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Posted on 3/24/17 at 2:10 am to BigBlue8Titles
Yes Lexington metro is over 500K Lex-Fayette is 320. Def 180K+ between Scott, Madison, Jessamine etc.
Though I don't consider it a real metro.
Though I don't consider it a real metro.
Posted on 3/24/17 at 4:06 am to MaroonNation
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We have smaller ones but I'm talking Boing or Air Bus level.
Don't think they will let you work there if you can't spell the name of the company.
Posted on 3/24/17 at 4:15 am to Gary Busey
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What was Huntsville's?
According to an article on AL.com from March 2016 Huntsville added 4000 during the previous year which was the largest in the state of Alabama. Population of the metro area which is second largest in Alabama now is 445,000 and is projected to be the largest in the state within the next decade.
Posted on 3/24/17 at 8:17 am to DannyB
There's no way Huntsville's metro is going break 1 million in a decade. Can the city be larger than Bham population wise? Yes, but it won't have a larger metro than Bham.
Glad to see Madison County progressing though. Probably my favorite place in AL, outside of Baldwin County.
Glad to see Madison County progressing though. Probably my favorite place in AL, outside of Baldwin County.
Posted on 3/24/17 at 8:46 am to Reservoir dawg
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Ole Miss people claim that a city in another state is in the Oxford metro
Where is that in this thread? Where is that anywhere?
Posted on 3/24/17 at 8:46 am to Reservoir dawg
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Posted on 3/24/17 at 9:15 am to Gary Busey
I live in Madison and love it.
Posted on 3/24/17 at 9:32 am to BHMKyle
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7. College Station: +4,888
All males
Posted on 3/24/17 at 9:42 am to Reservoir dawg
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Arkansas is just as rural, but with less small towns. The Arky delta, and the Ozarks are as rural as anywhere in MS
An excellent point. Arkansas has seen a major population shift over the last several decades. It used to be Little Rock followed by the Delta while NW Arkansas had practically no one living there.
Now the population has shifted west in a major way and formerly thriving Delta cities are virtual ghost towns. The only area in Eastern Arkansas that seems to be experiencing constant growth right now is Marion, right across the river from Memphis.
People who work in downtown Memphis have finally started to realize that Marion and its run down neighbor West Memphis are... well... closer to Memphis then most of Memphis if you catch my meaning (from where I live now I can be in downtown Memphis in ten or twelve minutes if the traffic isn't bad). That and the massive expansion of train yards and warehouses in the area points to slow but steady boom period.
For a very rural state Arkansas has a weirdly urban concentrated population.
Posted on 3/24/17 at 10:04 am to TIGERSPIKE
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Interested to see what other area that are adding to Tuscaloosa? 240k seems to be quite an overestimate unless they are claiming Hoover which is 40 min down the road and only 10 minutes from Bham.
Tuscaloosa metro is simply defined as Tuscaloosa County.
Hoover is part of the Birmingham Metro, which is defined as Jefferson, Shelby, St. Clair, Blount, Bibb, Walker, and Chilton Counties
Posted on 3/24/17 at 10:08 am to East Coast Band
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12. Tuscaloosa: +1,155
Bullcrap. There have been more apartments alone than this built in the past year in Tuscaloosa.
Are you saying your casual observation of apartment construction is a better estimate than the US Census Bureau?
Apartments being built doesn't always equal population gain. First of all, most college kids are not counted in the population totals. Unless they own a home and change their official residence, they are still counted where they grew up. I would assume, especially based on the relatively slow growth of Tuscaloosa, that most of these new apartments are housing college kids.
This post was edited on 3/24/17 at 10:26 am
Posted on 3/24/17 at 10:11 am to BHMKyle
Curious on what they considered as Metro. You would have to expand the city boundaries to Birmingham for Tuscaloosa and Montgomery for Auburn to show those population levels.
Posted on 3/24/17 at 10:18 am to BHMKyle
Once they put 249 through to Navasota, College Station will be a bona-fide exurb of Houston. It's already heavily trending that way. The only thing keeping it from being The Woodlands, West is the lack of a direct shot out of the heart of Houston. But it's coming.
Posted on 3/24/17 at 10:23 am to Gary Busey
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What was Huntsville's?
Huntsville is the 3rd fastest-growing area in the state, behind Baldwin County and Auburn. In terms of actual people, they've added the most of any metro in the state since 2010.
Here is the state of Alabama (which is pretty miserable overall) in terms of growth rate since 2010:
1. Daphne-Fairhope: +14.43%
2. Auburn: +13.36%
3. Huntsville: +7.69%
4. Tuscaloosa: +4.87%
5. Birmingham: +1.72%
6. Dothan: +1.51%
7. Mobile: +0.45%
8. Montgomery: -0.16%
9. Florence-Shoals: -0.41%
10. Decatur: -1.02%
11. Gadsden: -1.79%
12. Anniston: -3.34%
Here is how they rank in nominal population growth since 2000:
1. Huntsville: +32,127
2. Daphne-Fairhope: +26,298
3. Birmingham: +19,370
4. Auburn: +18,744
5. Tuscaloosa: +11,216
6. Dothan: +2,195
7. Mobile: +1,844
All of the others have lost population.
This post was edited on 3/24/17 at 10:52 am
Posted on 3/24/17 at 10:25 am to DannyB
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According to an article on AL.com from March 2016 Huntsville added 4000 during the previous year which was the largest in the state of Alabama. Population of the metro area which is second largest in Alabama now is 445,000 and is projected to be the largest in the state within the next decade.
Huntsville is growing, but it will not be the largest in the state within the next decade... probably not even in the next century.
Birmingham's populatoin is 1.15 Million. Huntsville's is 450,000.
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