Headline news today over at the UT, “We’re now No. 8″ referring to the fact that San Antonio, Texas has knocked San Diego off the number 7 spot according to the latest Census Bureau estimates.
In 2004 and 2005, the city actually lost population– 8,276 people, to be exact– for the first time this decade. San Antonio, by contrast, grew at a nearly 2 percent clip. READ THE FULL ARTICLE….
A couple of questions come to mind… is this population estimate just for the city? or the entire metropolitan area? I mean WHERE did these 8,726 people go? I’m thinking they just moved out to El Cajon, or maybe Temecula, ’cause there are STILL plenty of cars on the road!
Any population story about San Diego is nonsense. We are not the 7th or 8th largest metro. The only reason we are in the top-10 with the Census is because the city founders incorporated more land than the average city of it’s size.
RadioAndRecords tracks metro size based upon how many people can hear a radio signal over the age of 12 in a given area. Using those size metrics, not incorporated limits, we are the 17th largest metro. San Antonio is 30th.
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Duh…. They moved out here to wonderful San Antonio, Texas. Got ya a link on this post.