Ohio Loses Population
1 October 2009
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The state of Ohio lost population overall for the first time in nearly a decade, according to a study by Community Research Partners.
90.3 WCPN in Cleveland reports that the state lost 35,000 residents. In-migration and birth rates were not able to offset the decline.
Experts believe the out-migration can be traced to job loss. Ohio has a tendency to lose residents during a recession, experts report.
Franklin County, home to Columbus, managed to avoid the decline and gained residents. Cleveland’s Cuyahoga County and Cincinnati’s Hamilton County both lost residents overall.
“A decade years”?
35,000 is a lot. I wonder how far away they’re going.
And where are they going?
Florida’s population declined this year for this first time since WWII. So if people aren’t relocating to the Sun Belt, where are they headed?
The study couldn’t say where people were going.
I think people are still going to the Sun Belt in some cases. It’s more of just a general diaspora, if I had to guess. I mean a plant shuts down, they might transfer workers to Kentucky or Tennessee.
People are fickle. California and Florida used to be the go-to places for Ohioans. Now those two states have terrible economies and people are going to Colorado and the Carolinas.
Americans can and often do move where they wish. No reason not to explore a mobile society rather than starve in place.
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