Baltimore City Population Increases
Stop the presses!
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the population of Baltimore City increased by 1,100 residents between July 2011 and July 2012.
That is the first increase in population since the 1950s.
That is no small feat.
That is big news.
How we got here is a bit confusing (see the Baltimore Sun for a detailed explanation). But one thing is pretty certain, our population increase has been fueled by immigrants - mainly Hispanic immigrants - to be more accurate.
Other cities in the Northeast megalopolis have seen population growth over the last decade mainly due to Hispanic immigrants. It took Baltimore some catching up but it seems we have finally joined the party.
But it seems Mayor Rawlings-Blake is a bit underwhelmed by the great news for our city. She is quoted in the Baltimore Sun as saying the population increase is "certainly a step in the right direction."
I understand we still have a long way to go before this blip in the census number becomes a permanent trend, but I would expect the Mayor to show a little bit more excitement.
In fact, as the Sun reports, despite her apparent success at promoting Baltimore to "foreign-born people", this is not part of her long range plans for continued growth.
I respectfully request that the Mayor reevaluate her "plan".
I have always said that in order to turn this city around, we must focus on crime, grime, and property taxes. I am now revising that statement. The new business plan should be to focus on crime, grime, and immigrants. If we continue to see population growth the property tax issue and many other issues will take care of themselves.
And just think, our population grew without a new trash tax.
I, for one, am ecstatic about our growth.
I sincerely believed I would never live to see this day.
Sean Tully
4:19 pm on Thursday, March 14, 2013
I proudly changed our wikipedia entry to read: "At 621,342 as of July 1, 2012, the population of Baltimore increased by 1,100 residents over the previous year ending over six decades of population loss since its peak in 1950."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore
M. Sullivan
3:38 pm on Saturday, March 16, 2013
Seems to me that Baltimore needs to increase its population be people who are going to contribute to the system more than they are going to drain the budget. This news is not so great. No wonder the Mayor is less than thrilled!
gino
11:39 pm on Saturday, March 16, 2013
Hey xenophobic racist doode,nothing wrong with hispanics, they all work and pay their dues,carpenters,stone masons,truck drivers,cooks and medical doctors.
They very rarely sit on their asses pushing papers and producing nothing
M. Sullivan
4:36 pm on Sunday, March 17, 2013
Hey Gino, just what do you produce? Baltimore isn't going broke for no reason. Before you start calling names like some kind of fool, check the facts, AH.
DARRELL HAMMERBACKER
12:37 am on Sunday, March 17, 2013
As long as they're legal,work and not strain the system good,but if they're here to milk the system, we already have enough of that type .
poster X
12:50 am on Sunday, March 17, 2013
They changed how they count prisoners. Too bad neither the Sun or the Patch bothered to look up the details.
Able Baker
9:56 am on Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Cite?
Chuck Burton
10:32 am on Sunday, March 17, 2013
After losing over a quarter million people the city finally gains a thousand or so. Well, it has to start somewhere. Still, the metro pop is respectable, even if that urb to the south has gotten twice as big - but it did so on the backs of the entire country.
Robert Frisch
1:05 pm on Sunday, March 17, 2013
At that rate it will only take a few hundred years to recoup Baltimore's lost population and probably several hundred more years to recover a reasonable and sustaining tax base, if that is even possible.
Poster X
7:50 pm on Monday, March 18, 2013
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-06-25/news/bs-md-redistricting-plan-affirmed-20120625_1_counts-inmates-prison-population-census-counts
Able Baker
10:10 am on Tuesday, March 19, 2013
That law went into effect two years ago, so any change in the population would've been seen at the end of 2011.
Sean Tully
4:02 pm on Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Actually more people moved out of Baltimore City then moved in, according to the linked Sun article. Less people died, it seems, thus the increase. But the final number is what counts, not so much how we got there.
Baltimorecityofanimals
12:34 am on Saturday, March 23, 2013
This is shocking. But proof that the animals who comprise the city's core population will breed unabated. More criminals to prey on the next generation. As a crime victim of a small gang of animals, it is painful to see news such as this. Each of these additions gets a vote under our system, which gives a vote to each person regardless of how stupid or violent they are.