According to numbers released today by the Missouri Office of Administration, the City of St. Louis and St. Louis County are heading towards more population losses.
St. Louis City, which has seen a small population increase since 2000, is projected to lose another 3,000 residents by the year 2030. The 349,004 population estimate is only a fraction of the city’s 1950 population of 856,796.
St. Louis County is also projected to lose population. The state estimates the County will lose about 50,000 people, down to just 956,817.
Click here to view the county-by-county projections.
April 25th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Oooooh, is Slay gonna whine about this one too until he gets it changed to a 3,000 person increase?
April 25th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
2030? How accurate is that?
Is this the same study showing an overall decline in Midwestern cities? Because if it is then the decline is due mostly to lack of State funding for transportation and education.
Sorry but you really can’t blame this or any future Mayor for that.
April 25th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
The loss is because of the flying cars, right?
April 25th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
I understand that the St. Louis city population is declining due to the many flawed policies of that damn Slay!
April 26th, 2008 at 8:01 am
No, it is not the same study. And how can you not blame Slay for endorsing policies that favor mythical suburban “development” at the expense of the people he was elected (with what, 18% voting?).
April 26th, 2008 at 8:58 am
Maybe everyone has moved North due to global warming by then, or the cannibalism predicted by Ted Turner was responsible for the decline. While this report focuses on counties, I wonder when the City of St. Louis drops from being the largest city in the state? Nothing will change until the schools are fixed, the city earnings tax is repealed and two-party system of government is re-established. Just a small manifestation of the level of incompetence, I was driving to the ball game last Sunday. I took Olive and stopped once at Warson and once it turned green, I didn’t hit a red light until I entered the city limits. Then I hit a red light at almost every intersection. How much sense does it take with 40 closed? When Tony’s starts looking for a Ladue location, you know how bad it is and 40 isn’t even closed in the city yet. While getting downtown is still fairly easy by taking the innerbelt to the open stretch of 40, once they close it at the innerbelt and county residents have to take city side streets into downtown, it is going to really be a nightmare.
April 26th, 2008 at 9:09 am
I wonder if these include the number of residents that were kicked out by Paul McKee and McRee Town?
April 26th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Dear Flyover,
The City and MoDot have the only coordinated traffic lights in the region. Your precious St. Louis County has zero coordinated traffic lights.
Go back to Plaza Fortenac your annoying the grown ups.
April 26th, 2008 at 9:57 am
You should go back to grade school grammar class and learn the difference between “your” and “you’re”. I understand there are “adult” continuing education classes now.
If the city’s plan is to have drivers stop at every light, it is working.
April 26th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
“I wonder when the City of St. Louis drops from being the largest city in the state?”
Kansas City has had more residents than St. Louis since the early 1980s.
April 26th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
You are correct, of course. I meant to ask when another city in the region will surpass St. Louis. I wonder then will the Post and the rest of the media stop concentrating coverage on the city.
April 26th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Why do you hate the city so much? The Post doesn’t do anything near to a good job covering the city. If you are pissed about it, why don’t you start your own newspaper?
April 27th, 2008 at 10:41 am
I disagree in a Small Population increase since 2000. The Bosnian population tripled that year according to the Southside Journal and many thousands were not counted in the census of 2000. Who is keeping the immigration stats? I also agree with the Paul McGee land grab theory but what is the status of his properties since the special session the Gov had with Lt Gov Kinder that gave him the 15 million dollar tax credit? Could we get an update on his properties or progress? Thanks
April 27th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Sorry that’s Paul(CEO Barnes)McKee Geee what a disaster zone it looks like.
April 27th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
You will have to pardon me if I don’t take criticism seriously from someone named Turd.
April 27th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
It’s a joke, a$$hat.
April 27th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Bosnians are also moving to areas like Affton so I’m not sure as to whether they are still moving here en mass. The real question I have is where are those 15,000 downtown residents? I certainly don’t see them walking around. Maybe after moving from the county they’re still used to staying inside? Another important question, for the long run, is whether Paul McKee can bring in enough white affluent residents to offset the number of African Americans he displaced.
April 27th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Live by the Numbers, die by the numbers: The city had a short population increase in the middle of this decade, and Slay took credit for it. Now that folks are leaving again, he must take the blame.
The 800-pound gorilla of a reason for population loss is the schools. The Post-Dispatch recently ran a feature about trendy urban pioneers who can’t afford private schools beginning to look elsewhere as their eldest children approach school age. Pro-stem cells activist Laura Winter (wife of Arch City Chronicle co-founder Will Winter) was among those featured.
April 28th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Next time, try a funny one. I see by the use of his word A$$hat you also prowl the Mike Anderson media website
May 1st, 2008 at 5:03 pm
I’m sorry if I offended your high-class sense of humour. The joke comes from SNL. And who in the hell is Mike Anderson?
May 1st, 2008 at 5:31 pm
regardless of the current poltical implications of this, I have some serious question s about the methodology of this study. For instance, it projects a near doubling on the population in St. Charles County, where available land for development is almost already maximised. So unless that county clears up some of its subburban blight anytime soon, I’m pretty sure their population wouldn’t go up so far. It looks like this study is almost entirely based on projecting a beeline along a sample 5 year period that might not be a good representation developmentally in another 30 years…
May 1st, 2008 at 5:39 pm
TF, everyone knows you’re really Burt Reynolds.