Philadelphia lost 3.3% of its population between April 2020 and July 2023.
Despite a decline in population throughout the pandemic, Philadelphia has retained its spot as the sixth-most-populous city in the country. But if trends continue, San Antonio, Texas, stands to surpass Philadelphia in the coming years, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau., or about 53,000 residents, census estimates showed. Those pandemic-era losses dropped the city’s population to about 1,550,542.
Population losses in Boston and Baltimore also outpaced Philly’s decline from 2020 to 2023. Some West Coast cities also shrank more than Philly, including San Francisco, which lost 7.4% of its population, and San Jose. . So, in that sense, the city’s loss may be slowing, said Greg Diebold, a planning data analyst with the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission.
What’s more, the Philadelphia metro area — a designation that includes an urban center and its surrounding communities — was already pushed down a spot last year. The Atlanta metro area surpassed both the Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., metros in population in 2023, pushing Philly to eighth. The Miami metro area has similarly been gaining in recent years, and could knock Philadelphia down further in the near future.
“I wonder about longer-term habitability of some of the more Southern places where temperature can be warmer,” Fusco said. “Texas tends to be a pretty dry state already, so I do wonder at what point that starts showing up in some of those populations.”Since 2020, most big cities have lost residents, with those declines being attributed largely to the impact of the pandemic on how people live and work.
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