Metro Milwaukee is not.

At the other end of the spectrum, Mequon grew by 15%, Oak Creek an astonishing 46%. Metro Indianapolis grew a whopping 9.9%. In civilian labor force, total, percent of population age 16 years+, 2014-2018: 65.4%: In civilian labor force, female, percent of population age 16 years+, 2014-2018: 62.6%: Total accommodation and food services sales, 2012 ($1,000) 1,831,041: Total health care and social … Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. Milwaukee has lost close to 3,000 residents since 2010, while similarly sized cities nationwide continue to gain population, according to the latest data released from the U.S. Census Bureau. Only 6% of young whites said they were unhappy and planning to move.

The question is whether this younger, more diverse population will remain in metro Milwaukee.

Places that were shrinking have stabilized or are treading water, while most places that were growing have seen their growth rates greatly diminish. The official 2020 census count is still underway, but Census Bureau population estimates show that in the last decade, thousands of metro Milwaukee residents have left … The Milwaukee metro area added 19,000. The 1990s were a rags or riches decade for the area. Just 22% said they were happy and planned on staying in their community. Most of our population loss comes from young adults. For comparison, consider our neighbor to the northwest. About 6,500 18- and 19-year-olds move to metro Milwaukee each year. The novel coronavirus changed life in metropolitan Milwaukee. Population change is determined by three things — birth, death and migration. Before the virus hit, they saw a metropolitan area growing in vitality and confidence.

But there’s another significant differentiation: population growth. Where we struggle is keeping them once they grow up, and in attracting new residents to replace them. It’s a relatively healthy number. According to new U.S. Census Bureau population estimates, the Minneapolis metropolitan area added 306,000 new residents between 2010 and 2019.

The city of Milwaukee is home to 38% of the metro area’s residents, but it attracts more than 42% of international immigrants and about 45% of those moving here from another state. But metro Milwaukee never experienced the boom.

Over the next five years, did they see themselves staying or moving? In civilian labor force, total, percent of population age 16 years+, 2014-2018: 65.1%: In civilian labor force, female, percent of population age 16 years+, 2014-2018: 63.2%: Total accommodation and food services sales, 2012 ($1,000) D: Total health care and social assistance receipts/revenue, 2012 ($1,000) 5,488,325 All rights reserved. The population outside the city of Milwaukee is 85% white, though there is evidence that is slowly changing. Air passengers, Mitchell International Airport, 2017, Air freight, Mitchell International Airport, 2017, (thous. Metro Minneapolis, which includes St. Paul and Bloomington, is home to the state’s flagship university and capitol. As part of its Milwaukee Area Project, Marquette Law School’s Lubar Center for Public Policy Research and Civic Education compiled and analyzed publicly available data from 2010 to 2019. Two “M” cities in fly-over country, easily and often confused. Some municipalities do better than others in attracting new residents. That was in stark contrast to young people of color. How we determined the worst Milwaukee hoods in 2020. Were they happy where they lived? Just one-third of white residents there are under 30, compared to 40% of Asians, 45% of blacks, and half of Latinos. We are ranked 49th in net international migration. We threw the following criteria into this analysis in order to get the best, most complete results possible. Our economies feature more Fortune 500 companies than most similar-size cities. Those people are more likely to move to one of the suburbs. Put another way, lots of kids are born here. While other cities in Wisconsin have experienced larger population declines, Milwaukee’s loss of residents is worth noting because the city is the economic engine of the state. The growth of the minority population outside the city has the potential to continue. To be sure, the Minneapolis and Milwaukee metro areas do have some similarities.

Copyright© 2019 Suburban Stats, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Below are summary economic and demographic statistics for the metro Milwaukee area (Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Washington and Waukesha counties). Again, hardly robust growth, but not terrible. Metro Milwaukee grew 1.2%. We’re lagging in a key metric that often reflects the vitality and desirability of a metro area: population growth. Metro Milwaukee’s current slow or no growth mode can be found in Milwaukee and its suburbs. We asked them to think about their community and their futures. The Milwaukee area's Hispanic population has increased by roughly 75,000 in the past two decades, the Wisconsin Policy Forum report showed. Changing that reality will be one of the keys to metro Milwaukee’s population growth in the future. We’re 46th in the nation in natural increase, which is births minus deaths. In a telling reflection of the metro area’s sluggish population growth, Oak Creek — now a city of 36,000 — still has the second-fastest rate of population growth among metro-area cities with at least 20,000 residents. Forty-seven percent of young white people said they were happy and planned on staying in their community. During that same time, the number of black, Asian and Latino residents outside Milwaukee grew from about 90,000 to 120,000. The only reason our population grew is because of a relatively strong birth rate.

In other words, there are only 14 metro areas in America that lost more residents to domestic migration than we did.

Besides the obvious — climate — we are places with abundant natural resources, including vast amounts of freshwater. So far this decade, metro Milwaukee has had 59,000 more births than deaths. Since 2010, metro Kansas City’s population grew 7.4%. Wauwatosa lost 4%, West Allis 3%. The new census estimates show that after a booming start to the decade, many metro areas around the country have seen growth rates decline in the last several years. There also are important differences. We continue to experience net population loss among people in their mid-20s all the way through their early 30s.

Population by race & Hispanic population, 2017 estimates All races, metro Milwaukee White Black/African American American Indian & Alaska Native Asian Native Hawaiian & other Pacific Islander Two or more races Hispanic/Latino population (may be of any race) In some respects, the population fortunes of communities in the region have converged. To figure out how bad a place is to live in, we only needed to know what kinds of things people like and then decide what places have the least amount of those things. Find out what statistics the population of the country, city, district on All-populations.com. The official 2020 census count is still underway, but Census Bureau population estimates show that in the last decade, thousands of metro Milwaukee residents have left the area for other parts of the country, and we’re struggling to replace them. Adding other racial identifiers to that total, there are about 145,000 people of color now living beyond the city limits. The future success of the area in a post-COVID world depends on not just attracting new residents, but on giving the ones we already have good reasons to stay. For civic boosters, landing the Democratic convention was proof that Milwaukee was a city on the rise. This means that every adult, child and infant in your household should be counted regardless of their immigration or citizenship status. At one point on Tuesday afternoon the wait was more than two hours. Today, those kind of population swings in the metro area have generally evened out. Hotels and office towers were mostly empty. From 2010-2018, it declined by 13,000, from 852,000 to 839,000. When you add up everyone coming here and subtract everyone leaving the metro area, we’ve lost about 39,000 people this decade. All-populations.com used data from the number of the population from official sources. "We … After adding 9,000 residents in the 1990s, it added 6,000 in the 2000s and 2,000 from 2010 to 2018. The 2020 Census – or count of the U. S. population – is quickly approaching us. Of 384 metropolitan areas in the U.S., we rank 39th in total population, with about 1,575,000 residents. ), Waterborne commerce, Port of Milwaukee, net tons, 2016, Average travel time to work, minutes, one way, 2017. For weeks, streets and shopping malls were eerily quiet.

On election day, turnout in Milwaukee, home to a majority of the state’s African American population, dropped by just over 41,000 votes compared with …

In 2019 2020, the population of the city of Milwaukee, USA is - 594 833 people. The Democratic National Convention, Milwaukee’s chance to strut its stuff before a national audience, was moved from July to August in hopes that the health crisis would ease and at least some version of the convention could be held. Factor in our middling ability to attract international migrants, and we fall to 378th in total net migration — 378th out of 384 metro areas in the nation. People line up around the building at the Zablocki Library at 3501 W. Oklahoma Ave. in Milwaukee on Oct. 20, 2020. © 2020 www.jsonline.com. For example, Oak Creek’s population growth has steadily slowed.

lbs. The 2010s are the first decade in which the white population outside the city of Milwaukee has shrunk. Indianapolis 2 M. San Jose 2 M Both metros have plenty of cultural assets. From 2010 to 2019, we attracted about 25,000 more people from another country than immigrated away. But buried beneath the COVID-19 headlines was a recent release from the U.S. Census Bureau that points to a key type of growth missing from our comeback story, something metro Milwaukee will have to contend with after the virus passes. Email: michael.gousha@marquette.edu. Mike Gousha is a distinguished fellow in law and public policy at Marquette University Law School. Milwaukee and its inner-ring suburbs struggled. Another 27% said they were unhappy and planned to move. For example, the Pittsburgh metro area had 36,000 more deaths than births. Median household income, metro Milwaukee, 2017, Technology Education & Literacy in Schools (TEALS), Attracting & retaining young professionals, Milwaukee Urban Strategic Investment Corp. (MUSIC), Business Strategies during the Pandemic webinars.