March 26, 2015

Census: Deaths up, births down, moving back to suburbia

Al Jazeera America - New U.S. Census Bureau population estimates show a record number of deaths in the previous year, reflecting the aging of the U.S. population. By the smallest margin in 35 years, births barely outnumbered deaths.

“With few births and many deaths, more than 1,000 U.S. counties [out of 3,144] had more people die in them than be born,” said Kenneth Johnson, the senior demographer at the University of New Hampshire’s Carsey Institute.

Migration trends are starting to revert to pre-recession norms, with more people leaving cities for suburban counties — a pattern that came to a halt after the housing bust in the latter half of the last decade. Still, large urban cores are losing fewer people to the suburbs than at the peak of the pre-2007 economic boom or during the heyday of suburban expansion.

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