Durham grew by less absolute people and is less densely populated at the city level than Raleigh.
Where is Durham coming in here? I never mentioned Durham in original post. By the way Durham was only behind about 5,000 people in raw numbers during the same period .
Wake County is driving the growth in the Triangle. Western Wake suburbs are driving the growth in Wake County. But trying to separate out Raleigh as if it was the weak man of Wake County is just silly. It’s the anchor city to the region, and feels it with every development going up in Raleigh.
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Raleigh proper grew 15.7% from 2010 to 2020. Durham grew over 24% from same time period .
ummmmm…You mentioned Durham.
So a merger might happen but still Raleigh and Wake County pull all the weight and will have to even more with the merger.
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Numbers. Suburbs on the rise. Exurbs really on the rise.
Enjoy the exurbs in Chatham County. 
Whether unified (before 2003) or not, Wake has been shouldering the Triangle’s growth for many decades. There’s no current end in sight for that pattern. Maybe by the 2040s or 50s another county like Johnston will take the lead in absolute growth numbers? As for growth rates, Wake will continue see lower ones as its base population increases. It’s simply impossible to sustain the highest rates when base numbers reach a certain point, but it’s not impossible for Wake to sustain highest absolute growth numbers with lower rates of growth.
As for Raleigh itself, the state basically tied its hands in 2012 with a new law that makes involuntary annexations (nearly?) impossible. Coupled with the fact that Raleigh has other municipalities around it with their own growth ambitions, Raleigh’s best path forward is upward, not outward. Redevelopment opportunities also exist in the city’s plethora of strip shopping centers. The Village District is a good example of how a strip shopping center can transform itself into a mixed use district with lots of housing, and North Hills is an example of that happening with a former enclosed mall. Dying strip centers in key locations are likely to see massive change in years to come.
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I shall! Thanks Not worth the premium for me anyway to reside ITB. Downtown just not there yet compared to other cities with similar prices. So I will enjoy space and privacy, low taxes. To each their own I suppose.
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Just seems like a lot has to happen that will take a while to reverse the choices that have been made over the decades. Driving in from Capital, Glenwood, Wilmington, Saunders, New Bern kind of depressing. Too old to wait it out.
I know this is about 12 days late but I’ve actually worked as a surveyor on that Coca Cola project for several months, so it’s interesting to see it talked about on here.
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The Federal Transit Administration formally announced that it’s accepting applicants for a competitive grant program to “improve public transportation in areas experiencing long-term economic hardship” both in urban and rural areas.
Where is this, you ask? As seen in this web app made by the USDOT:
…the census tracts in blue are “Areas of Persistent Poverty (AoPP)” and those in green are those where many of its residents are from “Historically Disadvantaged Communities (HDC)”. This grant targets those populations, so it’s naturally called the AoPP/HDC Grant.
Interestingly, some of the big transit investments (BRT along New Bern, Western, and Wilmington corridors, bus expansions in southeastern Raleigh and eastern/northern Durham etc.) overlap with these areas, too. I thought the stats nerds in this community would find this dataset fun to play with.
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Interesting Post article about the influx of white people into downtown areas their parents and grandparents had left, and a corresponding drop in non-white populations.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/2023/us-city-white-population-increase/
Here’s Raleigh’s numbers, along with a couple of our peer cities:
Top big cities with areas of high White gains
Most census tracts with a high White population increase from 2010 to 2020 are in large urban core counties. How population changed in those areas:
|City (County): Raleigh (Wake)
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|White: +6,628
|Non-White: -4,000
|Census Tracts: 7
And a couple of our peer cities:
|City (County): Charlotte (Mecklenburg)
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|White: +12,120
|Non-White: +541
|Tracts: 14
City (County): Richmond (independent)
White: +7,236
Non-White: −1,953
Tracts: 15
Obviously can be a delicate conversation, but it’s good to know. The article has plenty of background and context about how it came about and what it means.
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Wow, huge difference between Raleigh and CLT. I wonder how this data overlaps with new residential units delivered per capita, and total immigration.
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Agreed, also with totals for each 
I find it interesting that they picked only 7 Census tracts for Raleigh yet 14 for Charlotte and 15 for Richmond. I’d like to know more about that process. Were there specific reasons why certain tracts were selected?
The numbers for Raleigh with only a net gain of 2628 makes me think that not all of downtown tracts were tallied.
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They started by looked at tracts where the the white population as a percentage of total population jumped by more than 9%, and found they clustered in major metros. It’s just those looking at tracts in this chart.
I would like to know which of our tracts fit that profile.
Is this data for the county or for the city. It’s a bit unclear. It says cities but then mentions urban counties.
It’s the 7 tracts in Wake County where the white population jumped by 9% or more.
To compare the other two I pulled, we had 7 tracts where that happened, while Mecklenburg had 14 and the independent city of Richmond had 15.
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