City of Portland population growth rate drops to 1.08% (Jack Bog's Blog)

New population estimates for Oregon and its cities and counties have been released by the head-counting gurus at Portland State. They say that the City of Portland's population as of July 1, 2009 was 582,130 -- just 1.08% higher than the 575,930 PSU estimate for the same date a year before.

Over a three-year period, population growth within the city limits has slowed to a compound annual rate of under 1.28%, down slightly from the more than 1.29% three-year rate computed a year ago. Over the last five years, the city's population (as estimated by PSU) has grown at a compound annual rate of only 1.12%. At that rate, the city's population will double in 63 years -- in the year 2072 -- not at the much earlier time that the city's planning cabal will tell you whenever it suits the pushers of the latest real estate swindles.

As we have noted here before, the U.S. Census Bureau does not necessarily buy the Portland State numbers. Census estimates of the city's population are lower. For example, the Census' July 1, 2008 number for Portland was 557,706 -- 18,224 fewer people, or 3.16% lower, than PSU's figure on the same date.

We've tweaked our City of Portland debt-o-meter, in our left sidebar, according to the new PSU number and the latest resulting three-year compound annual growth rate. [Via the O.]

Comments (7)

Hang on...I'm coming!

Posted by Chris Snethen | November 18, 2009 12:50 PM

This still won't put to rest Sam the Scam's canard that Portland is soooo fabulous that people want to live here even if there are no jobs.

Posted by Garage Wine | November 18, 2009 1:00 PM

The great Barista influx is waning.

Posted by Bob | November 18, 2009 5:40 PM

These numbers are clearly wrong, because a twenty-five year old planner at Metro told me that we're going to have one bozillion people here next year, and so we all have to start living in bunk beds and riding unicycles to work to lower our footprints. Also, we have to stop farting, or alternatively capture our farts and convert them to some sort of biofuel.

This planner had a shiny liberal-arts degree and just moved here from Denver, so she knew what she was talking about.

Posted by Snards | November 18, 2009 7:24 PM

As the empty trolleys and city buses sit stalled in 6" of snow for a week this winter, as the city drains its coffers to embed more steel rails made useless at the first seismic tremble, I will be driving the piss out of my chained up Hybrid SUV up the stairs of City Hall with a flagon of something dark and park it up the arse of Sam Adams.

Posted by Skeezus | November 18, 2009 10:27 PM

What Snards said....

Posted by Mike H | November 18, 2009 10:27 PM

Like the hacks who could not make tenure at universities who are therefore are working at think tanks, those Portland planners are putting out numbers in line with the Man funding them and their organization.

If they were putting their PhD to use working for Weyerhauser, then they would be called industry hacks.

Putting a PhD to work for the Public Sector makes one a "insert derogatory epithet here."

Let me think about the epithets because liberal intelligentsia seems more inclined to be levied against a member of academia, not some city bureau.

Posted by RyanLeo | November 19, 2009 2:02 AM

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City of Portland population growth rate drops to 1.08%

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