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re: SEC Metro Growth Rates
Posted on 4/24/19 at 2:15 pm to BHMKyle
Posted on 4/24/19 at 2:15 pm to BHMKyle
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Starkville actually lost population... which is actually really difficult for a major college town to do.
Except it's not...the whole point of being a "college town" requires your college students to leave said college town upon graduation.
City Population: 25k
University Enrollment: 21k
You do the math.
This post was edited on 4/24/19 at 2:19 pm
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Posted on 4/24/19 at 2:19 pm to BobLeeDagger
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Except it's not...the whole point of being a "college town" requires your college students to leave said college town upon graduation.
So you're saying students from literally every other SEC school is doing it wrong?
Or is it because Starkville is a shithole and everyone wants to leave?
Posted on 4/24/19 at 2:36 pm to BobLeeDagger
Even if students were measured as part of a city's permanent population (they're not) your argument would only be true if the enrollment at the school is declining (I didn't look this up but I would venture to say it is not)
Posted on 4/24/19 at 3:08 pm to BobLeeDagger
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Except it's not...the whole point of being a "college town" requires your college students to leave said college town upon graduation.
Of all the 31 Power 5 college towns with populations under 500,000 people, Starkville had the worst growth rate in the entire country between 2017-2018. Only Starkville and Champaigne-Urbana, IL lost people.
**Other interesting note: Starkville is now officially the smallest Power 5 college town in the entire country.
Of the 63 Power 5 College Towns, here are the 10 smallest:
54. State College, PA- 162,805
55. Morgantown, WV- 140,259
56. Lawrence, KS- 121,436
57. Ames, IA- 98,105
58. Manhattan, KS- 97,980
59. Corvallis, OR- 92,101
60. Stillwater, OK- 82,040
61. Oxford, MS- 54,793
62. Pullman, WA- 49,791
63. Starkville, MS- 49,599
**Pullman passed Starkville in 2018.
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