Strongsville is Now Losing Population, Census Says
New estimates show the number of residents is declining
Strongsville is getting smaller, a newly released estimate from the U.S. Census Bureau shows.
While the official 2010 census count put the city at 44,750 residents, that figure dropped to 44,400 in 2011, the estimate says -- a loss of 350 people in one year.
City officials weren't happy with the 2010 census figures, which showed Strongsville grew by only 852 people in the last decade and conflicted with their own projections.
City Planner Bob Hill said he had been keeping track of population based on new home building statistics and had estimated Strongsville would be 46,000 people strong by 2010.
The estimates are based on interviews with almost 2 million housing units each year from 2007 through 2011.
By pooling several years of survey responses, the American Community Survey can generate detailed statistical portraits for small areas. Groupings of five-year estimates are released annually.
School enrollment in Strongsville has been declining in recent years and is projected to keeping dropping, a study commissioned by the school district shows.
The census figures also showed Strongsville got significantly more diverse in the last decade, and also got older, with the median age rising.
sportsman
5:56 pm on Monday, December 10, 2012
keep raisen taxes more will leave
rick b
5:14 pm on Sunday, December 16, 2012
As long as our local Strongsville government keeps stressing business and industrial development at the expense of our quality of living, then Strongsville will continue to be a less desirable place to move into. I am already way less happy with Strongsville than when I chose to buy a house here 8 years ago. Strongsville has lost a lot of its charm with the new development and its traffic jams now rival big city ones.