Charlotte area population statistics

[KJHburg]

does anyone know where  I can find a chart on the 2020 census metro area populations for the biggest US metros ?  I can't seem to find a complete updated list just estimates in one place or specific metro populations in another?

 

[CLT2014]

2 minutes ago, KJHburg said:

does anyone know where  I can find a chart on the 2020 census metro area populations for the biggest US metros ?  I can't seem to find a complete updated list just estimates in one place or specific metro populations in another?

 

Here: https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/2020-population-and-housing-state-data.html

Click "All CBSAs"

[KJHburg]

So metro Nashville grew slightly faster than Charlotte when in the previous decade they were growing almost exactly at the same rate. 

Charlotte metro  18.6% 

Nashville metro  20.9%  

 

[Norm2]

21 minutes ago, KJHburg said:

So metro Nashville grew slightly faster than Charlotte when in the previous decade they were growing almost exactly at the same rate. 

Charlotte metro  18.6% 

Nashville metro  20.9%  

 

Nashville is the place to be it seems, especially the last few years.

[KJHburg]

5 hours ago, norm21499 said:

Nashville is the place to be it seems, especially the last few years.

It is smaller metro around  1.98 vs our 2.6 M but some of their surrounding counties are exploding like Williamson.  But they are years behind on transportation improvements like highways and mass transit. 

[KJHburg]

Concord is really excited about joining the top 10 club as one of the ten biggest cities in NC

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[KJHburg]

I have been looking at the Census figures from NC and other states and thanks for the tips on using the Census site.  One thing I noticed that we can all be proud of in NC is how our population is really spread across the state.  If you look at the top 5 county populations in Georgia they are all around Atlanta.  Ours in the Triangle, Charlotte area, Triad. even Fayetteville.  It speaks to our great our state is to live so many choices of cities and counties across the state.  The only other state that comes close to a very dispersed population in the state of Texas which has 5 large metro regions.  I know there is a lot of instate rivalry in the NC cities but I like it because it makes all better.  The way that Raleigh has gone from very small city to pass Richmond and if you put the Raleigh Durham metro area as one which it should be we would have 2 metro areas over 2 million.  Florida is another state with a very dispersed population. 

 

[Crucial_Infra]

Was really hoping Wake and Mecklenburg would pass Fairfax in county population. Fairfax remains the most populous county in the southeast outside of Florida — for now. 

[KJHburg]

10 hours ago, Crucial_Infra said:

Was really hoping Wake and Mecklenburg would pass Fairfax in county population. Fairfax remains the most populous county in the southeast outside of Florida — for now. 

I think Wake for sure and Mecklenburg afterwards will pass Fairfax my old stomping ground.  Fairfax is mostly built out but is becoming higher density but the growth rate is really much slower there than when I live there in the 1990s. 

[QCxpat]

3 hours ago, KJHburg said:

I think Wake for sure and Mecklenburg afterwards will pass Fairfax my old stomping ground.  Fairfax is mostly built out but is becoming higher density but the growth rate is really much slower there than when I live there in the 1990s. 

U.S. Census Bureau 2020 enumerated pop. and growth rate (%) of Fairfax Cty, VA,  Wake Cty, NC,  and Mecklenburg Cty, NC

Fairfax County, VA     - -                1,150,309     -        6.3%    (% growth rate 2010 to 2020) 

Wake County, NC       - -                1,129,410      -     25.4%

Mecklenburg County , NC -      1,115,982     -     21.3%

Links: First look at 2020 Census for North Carolina | Carolina Demography (ncdemography.org) 

https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/2020-population-and-housing-state-data.html

Edited August 14, 2021 by QCxpat

[KJHburg]

Great job by the Charlotte Ledger in talking about individual census tracts and the racial composition thereof.  From todays free edition.  Hint Ballantyne is a lot more diverse than you think. 

by Cristina Bolling

Charlotte’s Indian community was small and tight knit in 1999 when Samir Shukla and his brother Divakar noticed a need for a community news vessel. They typed up a 4-page flier with local news, printed off 1,000 copies and distributed it in local Indian businesses and temples.

Fast forward 22 years and they’re still cranking out monthly dispatches, but now in the form of the glossy Saathee magazine, website and e-newsletter to an Indian community that has undergone explosive growth in the last 20 years — most noticeably in the Ballantyne area of south Charlotte.

A Ledger analysis of new 2020 census data released last week shows that 20% of residents in the Ballantyne-area census tracts are Asian, and it’s clear that a large percentage hail from India. Asians make up 6.4% of the county’s total population, or nearly 72,000 residents — up from 4.6% in 2010. Census estimates last year showed that residents of Indian descent accounted for about 3/4 of Mecklenburg County’s growth in its Asian population in the last decade.

Additionally, 2020 Census figured showed that the Ballantyne area is 57% white, 10% Black and 9% Hispanic.

Of the 10 Mecklenburg census tracts with the highest concentrations of Asian residents, seven are in Ballantyne. Two are in the Mallard Creek area in northeast Charlotte, and one is in southwest Charlotte, where new development has sprung up on the site of the old Charlotte Coliseum.

For residents of Ballantyne, these numbers won’t likely come as a surprise. But they might be a bit of a revelation to people who think of Ballantyne as being not very racially diverse.

Of the 10 Mecklenburg County census tracts with the highest concentrations of Asian residents on the 2020 Census, seven were in the Ballantyne area.
‘All about the schools’: School data mirrors the trend. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district is 7.3% Asian, but Ballantyne-area public schools report Asian populations that often make up a quarter to a third of the student body.

At Ardrey Kell High School, Asian students made up 23% of the student body last year; Asian students made up 31% at Community House Middle School, 39% at Elon Park Elementary, 35% at Ballantyne Elementary and 31% at Hawk Ridge Elementary.

“The prime thing is these words: ‘It’s all about the schools,’” Shukla told The Ledger from the Saathee offices last week. “For Indian families, that’s the prime thing to look at when you’re looking at houses and property.”

What’s the draw? Many Indian families who’ve moved to Charlotte were drawn by jobs in information technology, some coming on federal work visas. A large percentage hail from southern India, which is rich in workers with computer engineering degrees, and upon moving to Charlotte they settle into neighborhoods with other Indian families.

Charlotte’s increasingly diversifying neighborhoods reflect what the 2020 Census showed nationally — that the country is becoming more diverse and more urban.

Here in Charlotte, Indian families tend to look for new home communities, Shukla said, and census maps bear that out. Tracts with new housing drew larger numbers of Asian residents.

“Friends of friends (move in), and all of a sudden you realize there’s 10 Indian (families) living on one long street,” Shukla said.

In Ballantyne-area neighborhoods like Stone Creek Ranch, Parkside and Ardrey Crest, you’ll find houses with decorative door hangings called Bandhanwar draping the front doors, signifying the bringing of good fortune to those who live in the home or visit there. Some have backyard gardens lush with herbs used in Indian cooking, which neighbors share with each other.

In some neighborhoods, houses and trees illuminate with holiday lights in October and November, as families celebrate the Hindu holidays of Navratri and Diwali.

Businesses that cater to the growing Indian community have blossomed, too. Ballantyne boasts at least five Indian restaurants, and nearby Indian grocery stores like the Patel Brothers supermarket in Pineville do steady business.

Raising the profile: Dimple Ajmera, who immigrated to the U.S. from India when she was 16, was elected to an at-large seat on Charlotte City Council in 2017. She’s the first Asian Charlottean elected to the City Council in the city’s history.

Shukla expects to see more leaders like Ajmera within the younger generations of Indian residents.

“They’re fired-up activists, … (interested in) leadership, philanthropy and support of the arts” Shukla says. “They’ve had the best of both worlds. The struggle was there for their parents to establish their roots, so their kids can really, really launch.”

Cristina Bolling is managing editor of The Ledger: [email protected]

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Census gives view of Charlotte housing patterns by race
There are lots of fascinating tidbits of information in the census data released last week — like the revelation about the growing percentage of Asian residents in the Ballantyne area (above).

Surely, there will be more analysis in the coming weeks that will show surprising tidbits of information about Charlotte. We’ll share additional trends as we discover them and will place them in context to show how our city is growing and changing.

One of the newest pieces of information in last week’s data is race and ethnicity figures at the neighborhood level (by census tract), which is not regularly estimated at that level of granularity.

We found these numbers interesting and thought you might, too:

Greatest percentage of white residents:

92.8%, Census tract 28.00, Myers Park/Eastover

89.8%, Census tract 30.20, Carmel Country Club area

89%, Census tract 62.16, Cornelius (north of Torrence Chapel Road)

89%, Census tract 62.20, Cornelius/Huntersville (north of N.C. 73, west of Catawba Avenue)

88.5%, Census tract 27.01, Myers Park

Greatest percentage of Black residents:

84.5%, Census tract 46.00, Washington Heights/University Park/West Charlotte High

83.2%, Census tract 49.00, east of I-77 by Brookshire Freeway (Greenville neighborhood)

82%, Census tract 54.06, south of Sunset Road by Beatties Ford Road

79.1%, Census tract 51.00, west of North Graham Street (Druid Hills neighborhood)

78.6%, Census tract 48.00, west of I-77 between I-85 and Brookshire Boulevard (Oaklawn, Lincoln Heights)

Greatest percentage of Hispanic residents:

70%, Census tract 38.08, west of South Boulevard between Archdale and Arrowood

64.6%, Census tract 53.08, west of North Tryon Street between Tom Hunter Road and Orr Road (Hidden Valley)

49.1%, Census tract 59.20, west of the airport, between the Catawba River and Wallace Neel Road (Dixie-Berryhill area)

48.3%, Census tract 31.09, east of South Boulevard and north of Sharon Road West

47.6%, Census tract 38.07, between South Boulevard and South Tryon Street near Tyvola Road

—TM

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[KJHburg]

From CM Library today 

Last week’s #2020Census data shows 
@WakeGOV  has overtaken  @MeckCounty  to become the largest county in NC. Of course, if we had been allowed to keep 
@CabarrusCounty   &  @UnionCountyNC  it would have been no contest. Unamused face

This 1790 map comes from our friends at @NCArchives . #MapMonday

KJ says Wake gave up some of its land for Durham County so they would be even bigger! 

 

[Nick2]

On 8/12/2021 at 5:33 PM, kermit said:

Well, kinda. The deviation from 2020 estimates was pretty uneven.

 

I see high undercounts in some very high % hispanic areas, but its not like the first table is lacking in diversity (but it is entirely Northern Blue State (plus its spiritual twin, Hawaii).

 

It looks like places with very high growth over estimated and low growth underestimated.

[Hushpuppy321]

On 8/14/2021 at 10:43 AM, QCxpat said:

U.S. Census Bureau 2020 enumerated pop. and growth rate (%) of Fairfax Cty, VA,  Wake Cty, NC,  and Mecklenburg Cty, NC

Fairfax County, VA     - -                1,150,309     -        6.3%    (% growth rate 2010 to 2020) 

Wake County, NC       - -                1,129,410      -     25.4%

Mecklenburg County , NC -      1,115,982     -     21.3%

Links: First look at 2020 Census for North Carolina | Carolina Demography (ncdemography.org) 

https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/2020-population-and-housing-state-data.html

Fairfax County, VA is toast in the next 4 or 5 years.  They will probably be behind both Wake & Mecklenburg in Population by 2024/2025.

[rancenc]

Demographic changes in Mecklenburg and suburban counties.

https://charlotte.axios.com/269830/the-charlotte-area-is-becoming-more-diverse/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslocal_charlotte&stream=top

[TheRealClayton]

On 7/1/2009 at 9:22 PM, krazeeboi said:

There used to be a similar thread here, but I have no idea what happened to it so I'm starting another one.

It appears that Charlotte has overtaken Memphis to be the nation's 18th largest city according the Census estimates for cities which were recently released. Charlotte went from 669,205 in 2007 to 687,456 in 2008.

In last year's estimates, Rock Hill regained its place as the region's 3rd largest city and has retained that spot. If current trends continue, I suspect it won't be long before it overtakes Gastonia to become the region's 2nd largest city as only 5K residents separate them (Rock Hill's 67,339 to Gastonia's 72,505). Concord stands at 66,311.

 When this thread started Charlotte had 669,205 people. Thats WILD y'all.

Edited August 24, 2021 by TheRealClayton

[krazeeboi]

On 8/23/2021 at 10:15 PM, TheRealClayton said:

 When this thread started Charlotte had 669,205 people. Thats WILD y'all.

UP has been around for a long time!

So much for the prediction of Rock Hill overtaking Gastonia though. Concord came out of the gate swinging and hasn't looked back since. 

[rancenc]

Snapshot from Business NC magazine on the demographic changes in North Carolina.

https://businessnc.com/statewide-north-carolinas-changing-population/

[rancenc]

From the New York Times on population changes throughout the country in the last decade.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/upshot/the-downtown-decade-us-population-density-rose-in-the-2010s.html

[davidclt]

1 hour ago, rancenc said:

From the New York Times on population changes throughout the country in the last decade.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/upshot/the-downtown-decade-us-population-density-rose-in-the-2010s.html

Insult and injury. 

We can do better as a city.

[Temeteron]

1 hour ago, davidclt said:

Insult and injury. 

We can do better as a city.

I never understood why Atlanta’s density is so low. 

[kermit]

14 hours ago, Temeteron said:

I never understood why Atlanta’s density is so low. 

Very few people live in the Atlanta urban core (although that has improved over the past decade). The city was clobbered more than most by white flight and the enthusiastic embrace of SFH on large lots.

[Matthew.Brendan]

For anyone that think CharMeck is sprawling, go take a weekend to drive all around Arlanta. 

[KJHburg]

from Kannapolis twitter feed

[rancenc]

1 hour ago, KJHburg said:

from Kannapolis twitter feed

Wow...Mooresville has really exploded!