It what the Mayor’s office fairly describes as something of an annual ritual now, the City of St. Louis challenged the US Census Bureau’s estimate of its residential population. For the fourth year in a row, the Census Bureau agreed.
The official estimate of the City’s population (as of July 1, 2006) is 353,837, a gain of 5,648 people, or 1.62%, since the 2000 Census.
Earlier this week, the New York Times published an article about St. Louis City’s struggle with population loss over the past 50 years. Click here to read it (log-in required).
April 19th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
I don’t believe any ’statistics” coming from lying Francis Slay!
April 20th, 2007 at 7:29 am
How about the US Census Bureau?
To Slay haters, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
To Slay lovers, steady, if slow, endorsement of your management.
April 20th, 2007 at 7:44 am
Lying or not, Slay is weak and without initiative. He is reactive and not proactive, unless, of course, it pertains to local corporations. this is another fine example of that.
April 20th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
Though growing, the city is still losing ground to other parts of the state because its rate of growth is less than the rest. Coupled with St. Louis County’s decline in population since 2000, the area will lose legislative seats in the next redistricting.