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Ohio Loses Population

1 October 2009 4 Comments

The state of Ohio lost population overall for the first time in nearly a decade, according to a study by Community Research Partners.

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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.

4 Comments »

  • paz said:

    “A decade years”?

    35,000 is a lot. I wonder how far away they’re going.

  • Andrew said:

    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?

  • schmange (author) said:

    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.

  • Sobac Retok said:

    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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