2010 Florida Census Numbers Released

[Lunican]

Florida Attracts 2.8 Million Over Decade

MIAMI â€" Overcoming the effects of high unemployment and a crashed housing market, Florida attracted 2.8 million new residents in the last decade, according to census data released Thursday.

The state’s population growth of 17.6 percent represented the seventh straight decade of double-digit gains, far outpacing the national growth rate in the last decade of 9.7 percent, demographers said.

Florida’s minority populations also surged.

Full Article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/us/18florida.html?_r=1&ref=us

[reednavy]

Since 2000, Orlando grew by 28.2 percent, Jacksonville grew by 11.7 percent, Tampa grew by 10.6 percent, Miami grew by 10.2 percent, and St. Petersburg decreased by 1.4 percent.

Why?

Why St Pete decreased??   Probably the hurricane damage/lack of insurance issue. That'd be my educated stab in the dark.     You'll notice Monroe county also declined in population, and I'd cite the same reason.

Pinnellas County is completely built out and has much older population average compared to the rest of the state. You are partly correct though because of it's location, which is fairly level and close to sea level, it is a peninsula itself.

Monroe is in the same boat age wise, but probably more due to the fact it is so expensive to call the county home. It doesn't help that nearly all of mainland Monroe is Everglades and protected.

[thelakelander]

Interesting census tract map from the TU.

[PeeJayEss]

it'd be nice to see more green in the middle and more red on the outside.

[Fallen Buckeye]

^^I'm surprised that the beaches seemed to decrease in population. When I moved here 4 years ago that's one of the areas everyone recommended to me along with Mandarin and St. Johns and Clay counties.

[Shwaz]

Looks like all of the core neighborhoods suffered.

[Doctor_K]

it'd be nice to see more green in the middle and more red on the outside.

I was actually thinking the same thing looking at that graphic.  Hopefully in the next decade those colors can invert - green around the core/main arteries (read, TODs and commuter rail!) and other colors in the more outlying areas.

[thelakelander]

The urban core didn't do as bad as I thought it would, although I still suspect the overall number is a loss.  Looking at the map, it appears DT, San Marco, St. Nicholas, Springfield (north of 8th St), Longbranch, Panama Park, Tallulah, Commonwealth and Avondale experienced growth.  The major urban core losers appear to be Murray Hill, Lackawanna, Eastside, Brentwood, Durkeeville and Moncrief.

[simms3]

Looks to me like a lot of shades of red in the core.  Also, Downtown went from like 1,000 to 2,000, so that's a huge percentage jump, but is really hardly a jump.

Jacksonville looks exactly like it has not caught on with the rest of the country in urban, upscale, dense, etc growth.  It is suburbia heaven.

[hillary supporter]

Looks to me like a lot of shades of red in the core.  Also, Downtown went from like 1,000 to 2,000, so that's a huge percentage jump, but is really hardly a jump.

Jacksonville looks exactly like it has not caught on with the rest of the country in urban, upscale, dense, etc growth.  It is suburbia heaven.

Moving back to Jax from the NYC metro area, it really is. Decent homes under $100,000. In
Florida? Its just a great deal. Albeit we are in riverside , which i will define as an urban neighborhood.

[Fallen Buckeye]

Looks to me like a lot of shades of red in the core.  Also, Downtown went from like 1,000 to 2,000, so that's a huge percentage jump, but is really hardly a jump.

Jacksonville looks exactly like it has not caught on with the rest of the country in urban, upscale, dense, etc growth.  It is suburbia heaven.

And sometimes hell.

[thelakelander]

Looks to me like a lot of shades of red in the core.  Also, Downtown went from like 1,000 to 2,000, so that's a huge percentage jump, but is really hardly a jump.

Jacksonville looks exactly like it has not caught on with the rest of the country in urban, upscale, dense, etc growth.  It is suburbia heaven.

Is there a census tract population growth map for Atlanta?  It would be interesting to compare its growth patterns with Jax's.

[St. Auggie]

I'd be lying if I wasn't a little miffed at the fact Jax got kicked a spot back by Indianapolis!

One city has a vision, the other is utterly lost. Guess which is which...

[tufsu1]

Looks to me like a lot of shades of red in the core.  Also, Downtown went from like 1,000 to 2,000, so that's a huge percentage jump, but is really hardly a jump.

Jacksonville looks exactly like it has not caught on with the rest of the country in urban, upscale, dense, etc growth.  It is suburbia heaven.

Is there a census tract population growth map for Atlanta?  It would be interesting to compare its growth patterns with Jax's.

fact is most urban areas are likely to show growth in the core, losses in the older urban neighborhoods (like Arlington) and continued growth in the suburbs and exurbs...the issue for Jax is that we had less core growth than most other areqas in the 1990s and 2000s

[simms3]

In Jacksonville's case, I believe smaller families/continued gentrification led to slower growth in the intown neighborhoods.  The "in-the-perimeter" neighborhoods that aren't "intown" that showed losses are a mystery to me.  Downtown is not developing and that is a huge roadblock to intown infill development.  Every city that is experiencing growth in the core started with their downtown/midtown area and it radiated from there.

In Atlanta's case, "white flight" is happening again, this time in reverse.  Whites are moving from the suburbs to the city.  Atlanta/Fulton County was the only major county in the metro that showed an increase in the percentage of whites.  Clayton County lost 56% of its whites.  Cobb, Gwinnett, and Decatur lost white populations and gained blacks and Hispanics.  Cobb and Gwinnett did not grow nearly as fast as people predicted.

Intown Atlanta is an area of contention right now and it all has to do with race.  Race is a huge issue up here.  For the longest time, intown Atlanta has been a black stronghold, but now a more traditional, educated, upwardly mobile, affluent population is settling in to the intown neighborhoods (and this includes assimilated Asians and Hispanics and non-scene, non-hip hop oriented blacks) and so a lot of the inner city blacks are being displaced.  Also, a lot of traditional black families are doing what families did 50 years ago and they are fleeing to the far northern suburbs of Alpharetta, Marietta, Roswell, and Duluth as well.

As far as the intown neighborhoods go, some of these individual neighborhoods of between a square mile and 5 square miles are the fastest growing areas in the metro.

Atlantic Station (went from steel mills to ~2500 units, 660,000 SF retail, ~1.5 million SF office)
Midtown (58.72% growth...LOTS of new condos)
West Midtown (42.40% growth...this neighborhood is HOTTT...check out White Provisions, a rehab which now contains high rise condos, Room & Board, boutiques, restaurants, and bars, below:)

http://www.whiteprovision.com/

Anthropologie the store just renovated a warehouse across the street and located there.

Buckhead CBD (40.6% growth...lots of new condo towers)
Inman Park (30.6% growth...this neighborhood is HOT)
Cabbagetown/Reynoldstown (29.08% growth)
Homepark (28.36% growth)
Ormewood/Glenwood Park (28.34% growth...this neighborhood is HOT)

For one of the best infill/new urbanist developments in the country check out Jamestown/Green Street Property's Glenwood Park:
http://glenwoodpark.com/

Lindbergh (28.26% growth...lots of new apartments everywhere, the South's best example of a TOD but still pales in comparison to what's in DC metro)
Centennial Park/Techwood Drive area (27.9% growth...went from project towers everywhere including nation's first to middle income/student population)

The Roosevelt Towers, the 2nd to last remaining Section 8 tower in this hood recently demo'd, was ~22 floors


Old Fourth Ward (27.48% growth...this neighborhood is HOT)
Marietta Blvd Corridor (27.22% growth...no this is not near Marietta, a suburb)
Lenox Rd corridor (27.12% growth)
Lakewood (26.2% growth...a diamond in the rough in the hood, an example of how a tax allocation district can really work)
Bedford Pine (25.20% growth...our Central Park area)
West End (24.6% growth...right near all of the HBC's)
Grant Park (24.22% growth)
Ansley Park/Morningside Heights (24.20% growth...upscale neighborhood with 1880-1930 homes mixed in with these modern beauties among others:)








Downtown (23.94% growth...excluding student growth since GSU built dorms for almost 10,000 students downtown)

I have to stop here.  Virtually every intown neighborhood grew faster than our metro area did as a whole.