2010 Census Results...

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Basically Michigan was the only stat to lose roughly 54,000 people [[1%), and most of it came from Metro Detroit. Almost every locale outside of Metro detroitr had growth, so this only tells us Metro Detroitr lost quite a few people for Michigan to still have a lost.

The latest unofficial number for Detroit from SEMCOG was around 772,000, but the OFFICIAL numbers from the census haven't been released yet. Consider the number of people who left when they were offered easy money to buy a house in the suburbs and also the people who were probably forced to move when their home was foreclosed on during the economic crash. The growth in Midtown [[below 100,000) probably wouldn't make up for any decline.

Either way, we can pretty much expect to fall to at least 14th place [[with Indianapolis, Jacksonville and San Francisco passing us) and 18th place at the worst. In fact, falling from the 2nd largest midwest city to the 4th largest [[Columbus) isn't out of the question either.

BTW, all of the cities that will/may surpass us grew in the 2010 census.

-Indianapolis = 829, 718 from 781,926 [[6%)
-Jacksonville = 813, 518 from 735,503 [[11%)
-San Francisco = 805, 293 from 776,733
-Austin = 790,390 from 656,562 [[20%)
-Columbus = 787,033 from 711,470 [[11%)
-Forth Worth = 727,575 from 534,694 [[36%)
-Charlotte = 731,424 from 540,828 [[35%)