The 2020 US Census figures are not yet official, but the estimates are out and Greensboro remains the third largest city in North Carolina, but not by much.
Greensboro was once the second largest city in the state, but Raleigh passed Greensboro in population officially in the 1990 census and now Greensboro isn’t close.
Charlotte and Raleigh have grown enormously since 1990, while Greensboro has not, but Greensboro has remained third, albeit a much more distant third.
It appears a sure thing that Greensboro will still be third after the final 2020 census numbers are announced, but it also appears that unless Greensboro can find a way to attract new corporations and jobs to the city before the next census in 2030, Durham will have overtaken Greensboro. Silagra http://www.wolfesimonmedicalassociates.com/silagra/
Ten years ago, in the 2010 census, Greensboro had a population of 269,587 and Durham of 230,710. The estimates for 2020 are that Greensboro has a population of 299,946 and Durham has 282,737. In 10 years Greensboro grew by 30,359 and Durham grew by 52,027.
So in 10 years Durham increased over 21,000 in population more than Greensboro and currently Durham is only 17,209 smaller in population than Greensboro.
Durham is currently growing at a rate of 1.52 percent annually and, since the last census in 2010, has grown by 24 percent. Greensboro by contrast is growing at about half that at 0.88 percent and in the last decade has grown less than half as fast at 11.23 percent.
Winston-Salem, with a current population estimated at 251,762, is growing slowly but still did better than Greensboro in the past year. The current growth rate for Winston is 1.09 percent per year, but since 2010 Winston has grown by only 9.64 percent
Raleigh is currently growing at a rate of 1.33 percent per year and has grown over 19 percent since 2020. Phentermine online http://www.024pharma.com/phentermine.html
Mebane, in Alamance County next door, is making impressive gains in population with a growth of 53.59 percent since 2010 and growing at a rate of 5.77 percent per year. Mebane’s population grew from 11,393 in 2010 to 17,499 in 2020. So they have a long way to go to reach the top 10, but it’s still impressive growth.
Much better to keep low population and low migration in Greensboro.
Charlotte is becoming a filthy and chaotic city.
Interstate 77 and 85 looks like a pigpen zone.
Local politics do not care.
Shame on them.
All I can say is, just like the game of monapoly, there will always be a thing called supply and demand. Greensboro wants growth, but where are the “Leader’s” that don’t sit back and just Simmer. Greensboro needs to sprout some cahoonas (I’m speaking about the leaders) and get this city moving. Before we turn into the city of Graham. Or some bs like that. Ha
Why would any company want to come to Greensboro? Highest murder rate in the state and climbing, lack of leadership with city council, no true vision for the city only words, a council who ties the hands of law enforcement, a city council who would rather give the citizens tax dollars to a councilwoman for a program that is not working and who does not have be accountable to the citizens of Greensboro then offer productive incentives to companies that are looking to build in Greensboro.
We the citizens need leadership. We need communities to come together to fight for their community, not fight against the police who try to help.
We are not going to get leadership from this electorate. You get what you vote for.
As long as we have progressive leaders that promise to give certain groups of people ‘crumbs’as Pelosi calls .We will still be at the TROUGHS to receive our swig.When Johnson replaced Kennedy,he said ‘Everyone will have chicken in their pots.‘ This started our downward spiral into Poverty.Before this poverty in US was minimal.Afterwards certain groups bought into the ploy by the Dems and poverty spiraled up to almost 20% .And then along comes Trump and he has best unemployment percentage for all races and women.Then we vote Trump out for this guy that may not make it to the Inaugural address on the 20 of January.Boy ,you have got your hands full if The VP takes over ……The nation may not make it with her.
Rich, you’re just like the typical Republican. Poverty did not spiral up 20% when Lyndon Johnson was president. That’s a lie! Furthermore, those unemployment numbers Trump touted for minorities was also a lie! Do your research before you spout untruths!
Here’s an interesting factoid. I recently read that through mid-December, Seattle had 55 murders this year.
Why even here in li’l ol’ Greensboro, we have more than that. Bragging rights. Even here, is a small city with greater qualifications. Mebbe we should cut the GPD budget even further. We then could stand a chance to beat Chicago. We can always hope.
Third place isn’t so bad. Greensboro should focus on being affordable with great schools and low crime. Those have been the things that have attracted people to it in the past and should be timeless attributes for the future. Now if only you could work out your downtown club problems and support local musicians, Greensboro could become the cool music hotspot it used to be in the ’80s.