as the population figures show. the slight and based on approximate stats increase in population in 2007 is the first since 1950, since then cincinnati has been bleeding away people on a steady basis. at one time (like 150 years ago), cincinnati was the 4th largest city in the US, behind only NYC, boston and philadelphia in population. since then things have gone steadily downhill. cincy has been losing people at a fast rate since the 50's. the reason? the townships and busing. i grew up in a township that was 99.9% (or more) white. of the 370 people i graduated with, exactly 4 of them weren't white and only about 25% weren't catholic (this area has one of the highest concentrations of catholics in america). townships have their own school districts and are therefore exempt from busing and any kind of integration policies that rule in larger cities. not only that but the immense number of catholics, cincinnati has the 2d largest enrollment in private catholic schools of any city in the US (based on per capita), have led to a gradual but steady reduction in the actual population of the city and the total number of students in the cincy school district.
Historical populations
Census Pop. %±
1810 2,540
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1820 9,642 279.6%
1830 24,831 157.5%
1840 46,338 86.6%
1850 115,435 149.1%
1860 161,044 39.5%
1870 216,239 34.3%
1880 255,139 18.0%
1890 296,908 16.4%
1900 325,902 9.8%
1910 363,591 11.6%
1920 401,247 10.4%
1930 451,160 12.4%
1940 455,610 1.0%
1950 503,998 10.6%
1960 502,550 −0.3%
1970 452,524 −10.0%
1980 385,457 −14.8%
1990 364,040 −5.6%
2000 331,285 −9.0%
Est. 2007 332,458 0.4%
sorry, but i am bored and y'all are, basically, a captive audience. while i call cincy my "hometown" i actually grew up in an unincorporated township, anderson, that is about 15 miles from downtown cincy and is closer to the wasteland that is southern ohio. fuck me, and the immense number of people from ohio on this board should be able to attest to this: southern ohio, once you get beyond cincinnati and esp. new richmond or ripley is a fucking appalachian wasteland. there's hardly anything or anyone there and aside from portsmouth and athens (a college town - and why is it that every state has a town called athens?) there's fuck all down there.
does anyone else, north america or the UK, live in a place that is steadily bleeding people away? and if so, how is that effecting the locals?
then again, i live out in good ol' oxford, of which i am sure that shadowofthedead, redman, zombiekiller (who lives in hamilton  ), or even the long tenured strayrider (who lives in dayton which must in some way eat away at his conservative nature) among others could wax poetic about for several posts. i know i could. fucking life in a college town, 15,000 kids to 5,000 adults. that's a fucked up ratio for sure.
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