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ST. LOUIS — A growing number of civic and business groups are highlighting the St. Louis metropolitan area’s stagnant population as an urgent problem, and they’re pushing the region’s ...
The St. Louis population is aging rapidly and, if current trends persist, nearly one quarter of the population will be 65 or older in the next 10 years. Some believe the region isn't ready for it.
Louis’s population declined by 5.8% from 2010 to 2019, so without the earnings tax it would have only declined by 2.4%. Kansas City grew by 7.5% over the same period, but without its earnings ...
Census figures showed that St. Louis’ population dipped below 300,000 near the start of the 2020s decade. The city has lost an average of around 6,000 residents in each of the last three years.
The total population of 2,811,927 represents an increase of 0.23% over the prior year, keeping St. Louis ranked at No. 23 among the nation's largest metro areas.
Rather than anemic growth as in previous decades, the St. Louis region as a whole appears now to be losing population, with census figures estimating some 23,000 fewer residents here than were ...
The St. Louis metropolitan area has recorded the highest percentage increase in foreign-born population among the 30 largest U.S. metro areas from 2022-2023, with a 23.2% year-over-year increase ...
LOUIS — The St. Louis metro area had the highest growth rate of foreign-born population from 2022-2023 among the top 30 metro areas in the country, according to a report from the U.S. Census Bureau.
If you take that into consideration with St. Louis City’s population loss over the last half-century (around 320,000 people), that scale means roughly 240,000 people who moved from the city ...
The St. Louis Regional Chamber named it the second-fastest growing region for that population in 2017, and the year before, it was fastest-growing for foreign-born populations, according to KWMU ...