People Are Ditching Chicago In Record Numbers As Windy City Leads U.S. In Population Loss
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Mar 23, 2017
In just the latest sign that things are about to get a whole lot worse for the city of Chicago, especially in their efforts to deal with that pesky little $130 billion pension problem, the latest population statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau reveal that people are abandoning the Windy City in record numbers. Per the table below from Crain’s, the population of metropolitan Chicago has now declined two years in a row, a rate of decline that is accelerating, with over 65,000 people choosing migrate to other safer areas of the country.
The metro area declines are heavily concentrated in Cook County, but show signs of spreading to outlying counties, too. For instance, the bureau estimates that DuPage County lost 3,000 people in the past two years, and that Will and Grundy counties had small population losses last year.
The bureau did not break down the data by municipality, so it’s impossible to tell for sure if the Cook County decline was in Chicago proper, suburban areas, or both.
One particularly stunning figure: net domestic migration, with an estimated 89,000 more people moving from the Chicago area to other portions of the country in the past year than those who moved in.
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