Lakewood: The incredible shrinking city?
The Plain Dealer posted a story about the latest Cleveland-area population statistics released by the U.S. Census Bureau. The numbers can be sliced, diced and explained a half-dozen different ways.
Bottom line — and this is no great surprise — Lakewood is on course to drop below 50,000, which will make it harder to access certain federal funds reserved for cities 50K and larger. You can bet city officials will be scurrying around trying pump up the population numbers for the next official federal census in 2010.
2000 56,647
2001 55,812
2002 55,072
2003 54,277
2004 53,639
2005 52,835
2006 51,919
2007 51,255
2008 50,704
Change 2000-08 - 5,943
Percent change -10.5%
U.S. rank (size) 685
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