“We’re Number Three!” It doesn’t have quite the same ring as “We’re Number One!”
But Greensboro has long been proud of its number three ranking in population in North Carolina, and according to the latest official US Census estimates, we are still number three.
However, those same figures show our lead over number four, Durham, is dwindling.
Charlotte is indisputably number one with an estimated population of 897,720 in 2022, according to the US Census Bureau.
Raleigh is solidly in second place with an estimated population in 2022 of 476,587
And Greensboro is in third with an estimated population in 2022 of 301,115. According to the US Census Bureau, Greensboro finally made it over the 300,000 hurdle in 2022.
However, Durham in 2022, according to the US Census Bureau estimate, had a population of 291,928. The 2020 Census population figure for Durham was 283,588, which represents an increase of 2.9 percent.
The population of Greensboro in 2020 according to the US Census Bureau was 299,035, and the growth in 2022 to 301,115 represents an increase of 0.7 percent.
With Durham growing at nearly 3 percent every two years and Greensboro growing at 0.7 percent, Durham will pass Greensboro in population long before the 2030 US Census.
In fact, according to the 2023 population estimate of the City of Durham Planning Department, Durham has already passed Greensboro in population.
The Durham Planning Department estimates the 2023 population at 306,495. If this figure is correct, it would mean that Durham in 2023 grew much faster in population than it did from 2020 to 2022.
That population estimate by Durham is based on local development permits completed in the city multiplied by the average persons per household and the current occupancy rate, which are taken from the American Community Survey.
There don’t appear to be comparable figures based on the same data for the City of Greensboro during that time period.
Being # 3 is not a good thing, especially the segment of the population that puts us at # 3. No wonder crime has gone up in the past few years!
It’s you, your family, and yoh gur kind that is the segment of the population that makes people not want to move to Greensboro, NC. The world sought a racist fool. Then you opened your mouth. Search over. Congrats!
Even when the new industries are complete and operational, I can’t imagine anyone wanting to live in Greensboro or Guilford county. Unfortunately, they don’t know what many citizens are aware of or maybe the do.
Cute stat. Compare the size of the metro areas! Guilford county growth is more than just Greensboro an inconvenient fact when Highpoint is brought into the conversation. 546k when compared to Durham 448k almost 100k more people don’t seem we will be losing third largest metro anytime soon!
Would rather be No. 100 with a good quality of life.
Actually, Greensboro is #2.
Soiuhern Durham is expanding fast down the 451 corridor as Cary and Hilly Springs are running out of land. Greensboro better get move on or be number 4!
When I was scoping out US colleges in the mid-eighties, Leeds Central Reference Library only had the data from the 1980 Census. I was sick of living in a huge metropolis and was drawn to a town that had a population of just 154,000 (hope that’s right, it’s from memory). And with a name like Greensboro it sounded suitably bucolic.
Back then Greensboro was NC’s second city after Charlotte, much bigger than Raleigh. We were North Carolina’s second city.
I also liked that its economy was based on industry and manufacturing (furniture, textiles & tobacco) rather than the economy of Raleigh which was based on government, bureaucracies, and higher education. I (correctly) anticipated that Greensboro folk would be “real people’, not officious self-satisfied types in the public sector.
And I was right!
I love Greensboro (even as we are slowly losing what made this place great).
Thank God I found my home.
Sorry, you’re misrembering some of these facts. Raleigh’s been larger than Greensboro for a long time. At least 30k larger in the 1980 census, when Greensboro was at about 170k. Maybe you were reading the 1960 or 70 Census.
You’re right. The library must have been using the census data from 1970, not 1980. In 1970 Greensboro’s population was 153,000. I recall it being in the low 150’s from the data I saw (which evidently was not the most up-to-date).
And in 1970 Raleigh’s population was just 122,830, so Greensboro was indeed the state’s second largest city.
There you go, it’s why I stayed after I first visited my family who lived in Stokesdale in 1978. I don’t care if we’re #3 or 4, just don’t like what has come with climbing the ladder. I prefer what was.
Greensboro is a sick City. Greensboro should be destroyed off the face of the earth. Racism has destroyed Greensboro.
Too bad you’re in the minority that might offend somebody! But your powerless so it’s really just something to snicker at
If this is the metric, then at best it’s useless data.
“That population estimate by Durham is based on local development permits completed in the city multiplied by the average persons per household and the current occupancy rate, which are taken from the American Community Survey.”
That survey is mailed to only about 2% of addresses nationwide, so if you have 15 illegals living at one address, none will respond to it and the property owner may never get it, but you can bet the illegal residents are signed up for every government benefit.
The point is that any government statistic is what the dems call “malinformation” now, so disregard appropriately.
And Durham can have ’em.
Tell Nancy if she ain’t first, she’s last.
We don’t really need any more people. Heck, Gates, Soros & Fauci are doing everything they can to thin the herd as it is.
ACTUALLY #1, CONSIDERING THE AMOUNT OF CRIME
Although the populations of Durham and Greensboro are nearly identical, Durham had 49 homicides compared to Greensboro’s 74 in 2023. Sad.
With the killing and treatment of white persons Greensboro does not even have a decent ratting. If I were not already living here I would NEVER move to Greensboro. Greensboro has the worse government on earth. The city government is outof control and going down hill so fast that we are all going to have a hard time living here. More murders of white persons are going to happen and Greensboro will accepted the situation as normal. There doesn’t seem to be anyway the citizens can change the way Greensboro is being governed. Things is going to bet alot worse. We are all going to suffer and killings will increase. We all will surfer. Greensboro needs help.
Greensboro is the door to HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Since when is being overcrowded a good thing? I live in Greensboro because it’s not a big city. Good luck Raleigh, you can keep the traffic.
Now you have made an excellent point Greg. And with all the bedroom communities around here one does have a choice.