Nearly half of US cities will see population decline by 2100
- UIC researchers used population projections to conduct a study
- They found thousands of cities could lose as much as 23% of population
- Expert says cities have already been losing people for some time
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(NewsNation) — Nearly half of the cities in the United States could see declines in their populations by the year 2100, leading to some grim consequences, a new study shows.
University of Illinois Chicago researchers, using population projections, found that some cities could see a depopulation of as much as 12 to 23%.
Such a decline could bring unprecedented challenges to communities when they try to provide or maintain basic services like transit, electricity and even clean water.
Ellen Dunham-Jones, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, says this issue isn’t new: Many cities, especially smaller towns in rural areas, are losing people.
What’s happening is a migration out of rural areas toward the suburbs, where Dunham-Jones says many jobs are.
“When you have a declining population, that means you have less tax base to support all of the infrastructure,” Dunham-Jones said.
