Originally Posted by
Luke09
No doubt that population growth would be a good sign, but I believe there are more important things to measure. Things such as poverty, unemployment, crime and high school dropout rates are more important than population growth. It's better to improve life in Detroit than the number of people living in Detroit. The reason people left Detroit isn't because it wasn't a big enough city, it's been more about quality of life. If the population drops by 50k in 2020 and all of those other items improve, then i would say things are getting better.