Downtown Population of Major Florida Cities

[heights unknown]

From time to time within this forum, we all have discussed what makes a city's downtown popular, successful, and even burgeoning. All of us seem to agree that "people" are what makes a downtown. You can build all of the stores, businesses, skyscrapers, and other structures, but, if you don't have the people, especially in and around downtown and the urban core, that city's downtown might be doomed for failure. That being said, to the best of my knowledge, I have acquired the population of the four biggest Florida cities. As you can see, our city is sorely lacking. I visite Jax a few months ago and it seems that our downtown is finally on the move, so, I am hoping that 2020 population totals are much bigger; by the way, these are 2010 figures, and, if you know the downtown population of Hialeah, St. Petersburg, and other top Florida cities, please list them. I am not perfect, so if you see a disparity or error, I stand ready to be corrected. Thanks everyone.

1) Jacksonville            -        3,200
2) Miami -                          71, 600
3) Tampa -                           6,784
4) Orlando -                       43,400

[thelakelander]

I seriously doubt Orlando has 43k people living downtown.  I'd be interested to see what type of boundaries are used. I wonder if they are all apples to apples comparisons.

[heights unknown]

I was wondering about that myself Lake; when I get time I'll look for Orlando's downtown boundary map on the web. If you get it before I do please post. Tampa seems right as does Miami with all of the vertical condo's and hotels along with residents in its downtown.

[thelakelander]

The Orlando numbers include half of it's inner city neighborhoods.

Downtown Orlando is the historic core and central business district of Orlando, Florida, United States. It is bordered by Marks Street in the north, Mills Avenue (SR 15) in the east, Orange Blossom Trail (US 441) in the west, and Kaley Avenue in the south. There are five enclaves in downtown; "Uptown" in the north around Lake Ivanhoe, "Lake Eola Heights" and "Thornton Park" in the east around Lake Eola, "Parramore" in the west, and the "Central Business District" (or the "Financial District") between Colonial Dr and Lake Lucerne in the center. In 2010, the estimated population of downtown was 44,300.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Orlando

[heights unknown]

I thought it included ALL of its inner city neighborhoods; daytime pop is around 65K. So do we need to extend our boundaries? Our population, I think if I am not wrong, does not include "purely" any residential neighborhoods, as most of those neighborhoods was razed of residents. I would think there's much more in our downtown than 3,200.

[thelakelander]

The only way DT Tampa would have 7k residents is to include areas like the Channel District and Harbour Island. That would be like combining DT Jax with San Marco.

[tufsu1]

^ I don't know...I think of the north part of Harbour Island as similar to our Southbank...and Channelside would be like Brooklyn/LaVilla

[thelakelander]

Tampa's DT hasn't doubled in population since 2012. With those numbers, it includes all of Harbour Island, not just the north tip. Overall, it appears the numbers are coming from wikipedia, so I'm pretty sure we're not working apples to apples with land use between all of these places. Heights, what's your source for the population numbers?