Biggest US Cities (1776-2035)

[@KarenSieradski]

Wait, it's 2035? How long have we been in quarantine?

[@darter9000]

I thought it was just months passing me by...

[@cosmiccruise8372]

*We have been in quarantine for 15 years*

[@a2zstats604]

😆hahaha

[@herisuryadi6885]

@@a2zstats604 yep

[@kulecat9441]

About 20 yrs.

[@jamesyoung9311]

In 1833, Chicago had a population of about 200. By 1900, it was the 5th largest city on earth. That’s one of the most explosive growth rates of any city anywhere at anytime.

[@dougclendening5896]

I believe Detroit's was the biggest explosion in the least amount of time. And of course the biggest drop too.

[@irritablearchitect]

@@dougclendening5896 - Supposedly, it was, for a period of about 30 years, the richest city in the world, as I've been told. Not so hard to believe, with the explosive growth of the automobile and the post-war baby boom, the demand for cars was high and Detroit produced.

[@MegaBrokenstar]

Especially impressive considering it was near entirely burnt down in the 1870s

[@Snowboundless]

@@dougclendening5896 Live by the car, die by the car

[@mikerodgers7620]

@@dougclendening5896 Cleveland has.

[@tjr-007tt]

When Brooklyn merged with the rest of New York it was game over.

[@arnoldgarza1613]

You right about that.

[@2011Cape]

@@StephenKershaw1 From Wikipedia: Brooklyn was an independent incorporated city (and previously an authorized village and town within the provisions of the New York State Constitution) until January 1, 1898, when, after a long political campaign and public relations battle during the 1890s, according to the new Municipal Charter of "Greater New York", Brooklyn was consolidated with other cities, towns, and counties, to form the modern City of New York, surrounding the Upper New York Bay with five constituent boroughs.

[@johnboehmer6683]

I still remember at the start of Welcome Back Kotter, they would always show that sign, "welcome to Brooklyn, 4th largest city in America."

[@bezllama3325]

A few years before it was game over

[@dunkey7739]

@@micatxpaca44 no shit

[@Luke-zx4nx]

It’s pretty crazy to think that New York already had one million residents in 1872

[@hyzercreek]

Brooklyn had a million in 1898, now it has 2.7 million

[@parkedjeep96]

And 2 million by 1892 and 3 million by 1897

[@Redridge07]

@@hyzercreek Brooklyn is NYC

[@MCO18]

New York City and Brooklyn had a combined population of 1 million by 1860. Brooklyn wasn’t officially part of New York City until it was consolidated with the other boroughs in 1898.

[@Luke-zx4nx]

@@MCO18 Good to know!

[@pahtar7189]

This would be a bit better if you made it clear when cities combined: Northern Liberties, Southward, and Spring Garden are now part of Philadelphia. And of course Brooklyn is now part of New York.

[@dreadpirateread]

Thank you. I am a geography buff and I didn't know what Northern Liberties were!

[@choreomaniac]

Yes. It looks like the gains and losses were smoothed out. They should have disappeared and grown abruptly.

[@Nyx773]

Definitely smoothed over. Chicago should have shot up in 1889 when they annexed several towns

[@tricky92x]

Yup, and all are neighborhoods now in Philly so their tradition was kept alive. Pretty cool.

[@Dalt21]

dreadpirateread northern liberties is a really cool neighborhood in philly. Lot of young people moving in

[@jchang2210]

Is it just a coincidence that Philly ended up with a projected 1.776 million? 🤔😉

[@Swinefeld]

That’s the spirit!

[@maximilianrobespierre8365]

Oh hehw

[@EliasRoy]

Also they were the largest until 1784

[@hyzercreek]

@@EliasRoy And Boston was largest before Philly was

[@NickyCoswell]

WAIT THATS WILD

[@marsgal42]

You can see the first westward wave in the 19th century (Chicago, St. Louis), the decline of the rust belt (Detroit), then the enormous growth of the sun belt. Cars and air conditioning were helpful.

[@mikerodgers7620]

Buffalo, Cleveland, Toledo, Pittsburgh ect.

[@gars129]

1954 being the first year with more than one sun belt city makes so much sense. Also, it between 1953 and 1955 that rock and roll had it's big breakthrough.

[@thepaintingbanjo8894]

It's going to be something how cities deep in the desert like Phoenix will go on with climate change wrecking havoc on the waterways that stream out from the Rockies.

[@4l3x5andro]

UAW degenerou Detroit.

[@mikerodgers7620]

@@thepaintingbanjo8894 Climate change is a hoax led by left-wing groups pushing their agendas.

[@hughmungusbungusfungus4618]

I think it's funny that most of the older cities: NYC, Philadelphia, Chicago, etc. are shown to be shrinking until the current year and then they start growing again. Kinda shows the imprecision of future predictions

[@keeganbrown9967]

Great observation. It makes no sense. San Antonio should have passed Philly and left it in the dust and Houston should have caught and passed Chicago before 2030.

[@soggyfranko4631]

Yeah I thought it was a bit odd how Chicago was shrinking until it hit 2020

[@bluebugaboo3344]

@Luke Shaw's Daddy Yeah I agree I think by 2035 everyone will move out of New York City and either Miami or Houston will be the new number 1 because everyone from New York is either moving to Florida or Texas!

[@ID-lc6jm]

For sure. Chicago is a shit show and people are fleeing in droves.

[@robtyman4281]

Agree. Also I think cities like Atlanta, Miami, and Las Vegas will be in this list......in place of cities like Dallas, and San Jose.

[@mimicotom]

As a retired stats analyst, I find your data and graphs fascinating. Well done.

[@georgemeyer2884]

The music was well chosen also.

[@matthewviramontes3131]

Judging by your profile picture you've really let yourself go

[@themaestro3034]

@@matthewviramontes3131 desk jobs will do that to a person haha

[@vivalabamremastered4127]

This is a random number generator.. Not based on any data... No decline in population for civil war.. etc.. Lol Tom.

[@Bajamba]

@@vivalabamremastered4127 Assuming it's based on the once-every-ten-year census, then the Civil War wouldn't really show up in the data. Besides, the number of deaths from the Civil War was ~1 million over the 4 years (i.e. 250,000 per year). US population was growing by ~700,000 per year that decade. This means the Civil War only slowed the growth but did not cause a decline. Without the Civil War, I suppose the US population would have been growing by ~950,000 per year.

[@justamaninTN]

I shed a tear for Detroit. My grandparents lived here in the 50’s and 60’s when it was one of the best cities in the US.

[@tonylipsmire5918]

I’m from St. Louis, we just fell under 300,000 people and it was over 800,000 in the 50’s. Now the entire northern half of the city is a wasteland and we have the highest per capita murder rate in the country. So basically just like Detroit

[@jout738]

Yes Detroit now became the old grumpy poor city of united states, when nobody had jobs left there anymore.

[@nathanielthomas2502]

Paris of the Midwest it was once called.

[@tonylipsmire5918]

@@nathanielthomas2502 they need to stop giving cities that nickname, Beirut used to be called the Paris of the Middle East and it’s not faring too well these days either

[@BossladySupreme313]

Me too. It's my hometown. I love my city. I hate things are the way they are now. I hope to see its renaissance before I leave this Earth

[@superbrownbrown]

*The only thing I don't like about the way this is depicted here is when Brooklyn (Kings) merged with New York (Manhattan) and also the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island (Richmond) in 1898. They made it seem like everyone was leaving Brooklyn like it was on fire with the numbers dwindling down on the chart. The people didn't go anywhere. Brooklyn just lost its autonomy as an independent city.*

[@samross-brown4445]

I was confused by this too

[@nick4506]

its just straight lines from each census. It not a live count would have just squashed to zero instantly but the bar has to go from its population from one census to zero by the next census so it does a slope.

[@guppy719]

this is true for some of the other places as well northern liberties and spring garden are now both part of philedlphia

[@superbrownbrown]

@Vizier de Alhambra *Yeah it was like everyone suddenly decided run to Coney Island and then jump into the ocean.*

[@superbrownbrown]

@@guppy719 *Nah they just jumped into the Delaware River and swam out to sea.*

[@antoinec822]

Wow, Baltimore was once bigger than Chicago and LA.

[@lukasbeier8338]

So was Marblehead

[@peteystrong3970]

Charleston too

[@XerxezsX]

LA didn't even exist

[@ducc764]

Yes amazing how it was in 1843...

[@private3146]

Now its a shithole they defunded the police so its an anarchy city!

[@brennocalderan2201]

6:04 You can see that New York's numbers were decreasing during the 70s, that's because of the Fiscal crisis. US economic stagnation hit the city particularly hard, amplified by a large movement of middle-class residents to the suburbs, which drained the city of tax revenue. In February 1975, New York entered a serious fiscal crisis and was $10 billion in debt.

[@TheStarswearee]

Yikes are anything much better now?

[@jrr6947]

@@TheStarswearee Trump's lawyer (Giuliani) was mayor in 1994-2001 and he got the city back on track. There was a decrease of homicides from 4000 a year to 10 under his leaderhsip and Times Square in the 70's was the sleaziest place until Guliani banned sex for money and sleazy motels were disbanned. The city was doing much better until the pandemic. I suspect that the population and its finances have taken a hit, more people working from home means that they don't have to live in such a crowded and overpriced city and they can go live somewhere else, taking away with them their tax money. Crime is also going up again due to more poverty, I suspect the people living in poverty have increased by a lot and those people don't have the priviledge of working from home as they may be the delivery truck drivers or they work in factories etc.

[@blacker5826]

@@jrr6947 commiefornia and new reich are going to plummet in population once they realize what really is going on, or if they ever do understand anyway

[@kidkique]

@@blacker5826 new reich?? You do realize the Nazis were fascists right? not communists... complete opposites. Extreme far left is communist. Extreme far right is Fascist. So if yr saying NY is a reich, yr calling it an extremely right wing conservative place. Basically, yr a flippin idiot.

[@jannieschluter9670]

Too bad they did not burn down the city

[@Karen-qz1io]

So how long do you want to stay on top for? New York: Yes

[@ssj2camaro21]

Well it was 1 of the original places in the US. So it would only seem natural and the "business" capital of the world. But thanks to 2020, people leaving just like crooked California

[@beezmemez9623]

Nashville’s gonna be up there by 2035… mark my words

[@janeentumbao8690]

NYC will always big the top dog in the fight for 1#! 😂🤣😂🤣

[@janeentumbao8690]

Pretty much! It's unofficially called the state of NYC!

[@lobecosc]

It's like New York is the Ric Flair of American cities. World champ for life.

[@MirzaAhmed89]

Brooklyn didn't lose population slowly like it shows in the video. It merged with New York in 1898. It should have shown Brooklyn falling of the chart and New York gaining about 800,000 people in 1898, not a slow loss for one and a slow increase for the other.

[@johnboehmer6683]

It should have shown the Brooklyn bar actually go up and merge with New York.

[@hyzercreek]

@@johnboehmer6683 It should have shown New york grow lips and teeth, and brooklyn jump into its mouth

[@johnboehmer6683]

...and then hurl it back out...then it would be a barf graph...🥁🤨

[@hyzercreek]

@@johnboehmer6683 LOL

[@jasonfoitek]

Chicago and Minneapolis are top 7 in 1776? That's pretty surprising, seeing as how they weren't founded until 1833 and 1850 respectively. Also surprising since the British would not allow Americans to settle west of the Appalachians. I'm thinking your beautiful data is off.

[@BS-vx8dg]

I'm assuming he's using estimates of Native Americans living in the area that is today known as those cities.

[@mysteriousDSF]

@@BS-vx8dg nah Jason is right, the graph is bs.

[@2legit2quit70]

@@BS-vx8dg yea the graph is off. 2035 hasn't even happened yet

[@BS-vx8dg]

@@2legit2quit70 2035 hasn't happened yet? Oh! So that must be why he wrote: " *The years after 2020 are estimations* . Duh.

[@lucase.2546]

Yeah this is WACK as hell

[@papalog08]

It’s crazy to me St. Louis was once the 4th largest city and at one point had 850k people. I think it’s probably in the 200ks now.

[@karenx3556]

Yes, it was the first U.S. city to host an Olympic games and at the beginning of the 20th century it was like Seattle is now, the popular up and coming city. Somewhere along the way it just fizzled out.

[@pheynx7573]

Not too far off 308k.

[@twilightman2816]

Not to nitpick, but technically, at this time ( 0:01 - 0:12 ) it was not even part of the U.S. (and the same goes for Minneapolis) We did not purchase the western part of the Mississippi until 1803.

[@rlong2555]

When you look at the most populated metro areas STL is top 25. Nobody lives in the city

[@75aces97]

I was surprised at this too. It made sense thst it grew so steadily all through the 19th century, but looks like it started shrinking beginning with great Depression, got a second wind after the war, then dropped off a cliff since the 1950s.

[@hughjass4380]

almost all big cities in the 1900s went to hell except nyc and philidelphia

[@LInkinPark4life]

I would say people were moving into the countryside

[@Moribus_Artibus]

@@LInkinPark4life No, they moved to different cities, especially in the south and west

[@candicoated2001]

@@LInkinPark4life Nope they were moving into more prominent urban areas for job opportunities.

[@RobloxianGaming]

What about LA

[@tyapnekadegaming7997]

wtf

[@firstnamelastname6926]

Lol a lot of the big cities at the start were just neighborhoods of Philly before they unified

[@blllllllllllllllllllrlrlrl7059]

And neighborhoods of NYC. Also, most of the top towns in the 1780s are just New England tourist villages today.

[@maxwellsings]

@@blllllllllllllllllllrlrlrl7059 like salem and plymouth

[@pollito7275]

Sad that 1950's Detroit would still be the 5th largest city today!

[@mikerodgers7620]

Not sad at all...

[@pacevoez1929]

it was once projected to be the biggest, really sad that it fell

[@mikerodgers7620]

@@pacevoez1929 Neighborhoods are in a state of decay. Fix those. Second, blue color jobs need to be much closer.

[@BarEscm]

So, New York is the undisputed US population champion since 1785

[@505rox]

That was just the rat count...

[@hyzercreek]

@@505rox They didn't count the cockroaches?

[@davidmassey9243]

Phoenix has grown so much and so fast. I imagine the water shortage will begin to impact the growth of LA/Phoenix/Vegas

[@josechacon2446]

Water desalination and conservation projects are thankfully becoming a bigger focus in Arizona Universities. Let’s hope this dirty bubble doesn’t pop.

[@МышонокСмешной2]

2:54-4:54 what the music?

[@Гвоздьпрограммы-у8л]

angel lover - the rising

[@fiercedevil6955]

It was sad seeing Detroit going down...

[@zwebackshyper]

same with st. louis we were the biggest city in the midwest at one point

[@aimxdy8680]

@@zwebackshyper same here in Indianapolis, we came from such a small start to a big Growth in the mid 2000s

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

@@zwebackshyper I remember st louis for harley race

[@MatthiasPowerbomb]

Detroit breaks my heart.

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

@Snake Plisken you're commenting again after 16 hours

[@Me3stR]

I like how once the predictions start, the bars no longer switch any places.

[@SquidProQuo80]

I thought that was odd too, but in reality San Antonio surpasses Philadelphia by 2023 and Austin joins the Top 10 in 2024 replacing San Jose at #10.

[@davidfreesefan23]

If it had gone to 2040, it seems like Houston would have overtaken Chicago for third place.

[@Burt1038]

@@davidfreesefan23 In reality Houston will probably overtake it long before then. If you look at Chicago they had mostly declined population throughout the 2010s but suddenly after 2021 it only grows from there; that optimism simply has no basis in reality.

[@simonmrnka3405]

Crazy to think that New York over a hundred years ago had a bigger population than my entire country today

[@christophershell7564]

The city of Rome two thousand years ago had around a million as well.

[@hyzercreek]

@@christophershell7564 The city of Mexico had 500,000 when the Spanish discovered it in 1521

[@cristinarisco9000]

the future is now XD

[@Anna-vr2em]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@WorldData-Comparison]

hahaha

[@Jeremiah_Auger]

Now

[@andrewdog-gonewaylon5915]

Yeah and now is 2035?!

[@Jeremiah_Auger]

@@andrewdog-gonewaylon5915 I'm in 2096

[@dinglemckringleberry9429]

We need to rethink how we define "cities" and think of population centers as DMAs. This would change a lot.

[@jakepalgon]

Can you make a new video of the same thing but take into account metropolitan populations, too?

[@just_jon96]

I think this would be cool too

[@Redridge07]

The Metro Video will show the same top 5

[@Flipdodge392]

@@Redridge07 Dallas metro is larger than Houstons.

[@kcprospect9296]

@@Redridge07 DFW instantly jumps into that top 5. Largest mass of people in the US that is landlocked.

[@ssj2camaro21]

@@Flipdodge392 no its not. Houston is much bigger than Dallas. The only way that is remotely true is if you combine Dallas-Fort worth area.

[@johna5563]

My wife and I went to Chicago a couple years ago, probably the coolest city I’ve ever been too. Beautiful city. Amazing food. Very clean. And so so so much to do. All the time. I honestly wish I could go back.

[@joed5419]

It's a wonderful place as long as you don't look too closely

[@duckmercy11]

Ever been to NYC?

[@AngieDW]

@@duckmercy11Chicago is a mini NYC. So yes anyone who likes NYC will like Chicago. I loved my visit to Chicago

[@janeentumbao8690]

I've lived in the Chicagoland area for over 10 years. Loved it! It has alot of crime, but there's still way more good there than bad.

[@chrisreinhart6421]

Hard to believe pokey little Cincinnati was a top 10 city for most of the 19th century.

[@chrisburnett9905]

Cincinnati was once known as the Queen City of the West. In the early half of the 19th century it was a major migration center. People like my ancestors would land from Europe in Baltimore and then cross the Appalachians via the National Road (now U.S 40) then get on barges and sail down the Ohio River. They stopped in Cincinnati and made new lives there because the year-round climate was great, farming was excellent and new industries were multiplying in the area, including nearby Hamilton, Middletown and Dayton. For the rest of the 19th century it was a major political and cultural center. Four U.S. presidents, the two Harrisons, Grant and W.H. Taft, had ties to Cincinnati. Henry Clay was from nearby Lexington, KY. It was a center of the abolition movement, and the first professional baseball team, the Reds, started playing there in 1870.

[@janeentumbao8690]

I was shocked too! But it's by a major river and ships passed through there. Same reason why Cleveland was a major city. That and it's between NYC and Chicago and they passed/layover in Cleveland. I guess they were busy planting seeds and shipments too! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@Benadryl_Submarine]

@@chrisburnett9905 dope info for someone new to Cincy! Thanks!

[@sarysa]

I love how after all the swings, changes in lead, and contractions, the projection stage is just super safe. It's like watching two different charts.

[@drmodestoesq]

Northern Liberties is a neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Prior to its incorporation into Philadelphia in 1854, it was among the top 10 largest cities in the U.S. in every census from 1790 to 1850.

[@marcjohn9404]

Detroit used to be enormous, and is an example here where the city is smaller than it used to be in terms of population. In fact, I think it's somewhere close to half of it's former peak in the 1950s, where it was over 1.8M, now it's somewhere around 700k I believe as of the most recent census. People actually left Detroit in droves because it became so corrupt, overrun with crime and poverty all because the big automotive manufacturers moved their operations elsewhere so they could save some money, and the city of Detroit and State of Michigan were run by the auto companies so this was all allowed with basically nothing to compensate the families that were devastated. Absolute cruelty, and one of the most diabolical things that's really happened and nobody really ever talks about it. People talk about how bad Detroit is, but it's pretty rare to hear people who actually understand how it got that way and how prosperous it used to be.

[@SquidProQuo80]

The latest statistics show that Detroit has shrunk to just 1/3 of it's peak population as its current residents clock in around 624k and steadily lose about 8k a year.

[@jerryhorne7547]

The unions ruined Detroit

[@skygge1006]

Detroit metropolitan area population has risen slightly i think.

[@CogensFamilyTV]

No, complacency against what the public wanted in regards to quality and MPGs. The UAW would have cared about building one car over another. If GM had been more forward thinking, they could have owned the batter technology patents.

[@aowbsx]

Meanwhile, metro Detroit still has 3.5 million people there, they just don’t live in Detroit proper anymore. It still feel likes a huge city when you’re there.

[@bobsnow6242]

Chicago in 1890: "Your days are numbered, New York! Just a few more years and that top spot is mine!" New York: "This isn't even my final form."

[@SGlitz]

The Phoenix Metro Area is ridiculously large compared to when I moved here in 1987.

[@runninrebel1520]

Yeah unfortunately we have these sorry ass three-strikers that move here from Cali, breed with some nasty-ass hoochie, and bear mini thugs.

[@leventahmed82]

Loved it there in the nineties! But started to get too big

[@SGlitz]

@@leventahmed82 The Californiacation is out of control.

[@FactorySettings_]

Urban sprawl is a horrible thing. I hate how more modern American cities have been built. Purely around cars and nothing else.

[@vanadium5099]

@@FactorySettings_ I hate how more modern American cities have been b̶u̶i̶l̶t̶ destroyed for cars

[@stephenshaw7593]

D.C., the city built from a swamp to be the capital of the U.S.A. managed to crack the top 10 from 1941 to 1972.

[@AlexCab_49]

DC grew really fast in the last decade so it could once again pop into the top 10 again

[@kmvstudios9072]

From 5:27 to 5:57 there was a constant battle for who would be the 10th largest, also it was sad watching Detroit go from being the 4th largest in the country to off the chart in the 2000’s

[@campbellblock3061]

New Orleans almost being 2nd largest be like

[@johnboehmer6683]

Off the charts and bankrupt, tragically sad history.

[@29rca]

Domestic auto manufqcturing moved to South. the unions made it hard for Detroit to compete. less money was available to make good product and foreign auto gained market share. The tax thing is screwed up. I believe its like a 100% tax on us made vehicles sold in europe.

[@jupitervideos7702]

Detroit, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh, were rust belt cities. Meaning they produced a lot of steel, and were the highest in factory production, mostly due to making war machines for WWII and because that was where technologywas going. But after the war, and heading into the 1960's other cities were becoming more advanced, so cities like Detroit, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh, stopped being as important and cool, thus losing residents. However these cities are on the rise again. I think the Browns are actually a large reason Cleveland has not completely collapsed.

[@mikeperry2141]

I knew that NY was biggest but didn't realize it was by that much.

[@mikerodgers7620]

You are amazing clueless.

[@jimthumerzs2301]

Understanding that the steep decline of Midwestern cities in the 1960's, planted the seeds of the current national political voting trends of the people of those areas of the country.

[@dougclendening5896]

Those areas were raped of their resources in the late 1800s then setup as singularly focused industrial zones. Not great foresight on the leader's behalf.

[@Bland-79]

Only becuase we don't want the 49% in New York and California to destroy our way of life. There's a reason we have the electoral college. Half the country would be controlled by one state and one city leading to a civil war that would split the country into pieces.

[@jacobbernard1393]

It's interesting to consider potential consequences of climate-change, with growth in booming southern cities possibly redirecting to more-temperate climates in Rust Belt cities like Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, etc. You can never be too sure about the future.

[@Bland-79]

@@jacobbernard1393 Climate change will not have the affect most of the alarmist are claiming. For decades they have been saying sea levels will rise in just a few years and it never happens. That's ignoring the fact these same alarmist where screaming ice age in the 80s.

[@asherbrackmann4144]

Austin’s supposed to pass San Jose THIS YEAR 😂😭

[@joemartin1253]

It already has.

[@christhomas4113]

Dallas, TX 9th Austin, TX 10th San Jose, CA 11th Fort Worth, TX 12th

[@johnboehmer6683]

Until California gets some sanity about it again, Texas cities and elsewhere are going to be passing Cali cities.

[@jeovannijuarez9518]

Crazy how san jose is irrelevant to us Californians since there really isnt much theres. Yet you guys are happy austin is comparable to san jose . Lmao this is so weird to me I dont get it I really dont

[@stanisse]

@@jeovannijuarez9518 there is over a million ppl so wdym lol

[@philwachel8308]

It's hard to believe that Buffalo was the 8th largest city in the U.S. at one time. Even harder to believe is that Salem was in the top 10.

[@seandelevan]

I think I saw that Buffalo actually experienced it’s first population growth in 70 years!

[@arnoldgarzajr1164]

Buffulo use to be considered a major city all they way into the 90's that's crazy because the other 24 cities stayed major and Buffulo got replaced with Phoenix and I think Buffulo downtown skyline is bigger that Phoenix downtown skyline.

[@jacobbernard1393]

This illustrates pretty vividly how neither meteoric growth nor steep decline last forever; there are alternating periods of prosperity and struggle, but long-term trends prove perennially difficult to accurately-predict. Washington, DC was once the nation's most-dangerous city, with residents spilling-out into the suburbs, but today, it's growing rapidly, with great wealth creation. The same could be said for other cities that were once down on their luck, and likewise, cities with booming populations today may slow in growth as living expenses rise and competition for housing and jobs increases. I'm very interested to think of which cities will grow the most between now and later this century, perhaps ending-up on the top 10 list; Austin, Jacksonville, Columbus, Indianapolis, Seattle, and Denver could all have over 1 million people in the near-future.

[@AllDay3004]

I think eventually a lot of people will end up moving to cities in the rust belt due to higher costs of living and those cities already having the infrastructure to support future industries.

[@joecommenter1332]

@@AllDay3004 and possibly even for better weather as global warming heats up the globe.

[@adad-ec6ht]

@@AllDay3004 I think younger generation prefers living in dense cities than suburbs. I for one, hate suburbs and the car and Walmart centric southern cities.

[@candicoated2001]

Industrial Revolution starts: American city population: *It's free real estate*

[@TheRamyEra]

As a Phoenix resident I have definitely known it to be a huge rise in population in the recent 6 years.

[@Francois424]

It's an extremely attractive spot if you hate the snow, but aren't looking for a coastal-ish town. I know that if Canada would become a US state, Phoenix is in my top 3 spots I would move to... The 2 others from the top 3 are Savannah, GA and somewhere in Texas (I don't know what I could afford, but Galveston or thereabouts is interesting). The only problem with Phoenix are it's torrid summers, but everything else I like. My parents would move to San Diego and my sister to Florida. Yeah we're all tired from the northern cold/snow ;-)

[@LPMBMLPM]

The suburbs are expanding like crazy

[@Iceify_]

@@Francois424 I am a savannah local. Whatever you do do not move to pooler. Yes the housing is affordable but traffic is hell and its a tourist spot.

[@shrayesraman5192]

@@Francois424 Cannot go wrong with San Diego!

[@Puff_Freckleburger]

What do the colors of the bars represent?

[@rfresa]

Looks like it's meant to represent the region: blue for the Northeast, pink for the South, orange for the Midwest, yellow for Washington DC and the West.

[@peaceful_chaos14]

@@rfresa Yup, basically.

[@cheyennewagner6415]

But Baltimore is in Maryland and that's pink?

[@ran4sh]

Yes, that is correct. According to the United States Census Bureau, Maryland is in the South.

[@ran4sh]

@@rfresa Or they just got Washington DC wrong (Washington *state* is in the West, not Washington DC)

[@MAR18012]

Didn't Houston already surpass Chicago? Or it's about to but in this video it shows 2035 and Houston hasn't even surpassed Chicago yet

[@jakeg3126]

No, crime rates didn’t scare enough people out of Chicago yet

[@MirzaAhmed89]

Yeah, when the census data comes out, I fully expect Houston to be #3 and Phoenix with more than 2 million people.

[@nobrang5146]

@@MirzaAhmed89 2019 statistics show that those cities are not even close

[@shazamdeal]

Not quite yet city proper - but just a matter of time ( probably in the next couple of years - very close ) definitely won’t be like in this video

[@semajreed3423]

@@MirzaAhmed89 yea it’s not even gonna happen Chicago is wayyyyy to big for Houston garbage weak ass😭😂🤣💁🏽‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️💯

[@allrankingdata635]

great video !!!! as usual. it was you who made me want to get started on youtube. I love doing this kind of ranking. you have a new competitor lol.

[@protorhinocerator142]

New York and Philadelphia: We've been here the whole time. You know you love us.

[@keiththomas3141]

I like pretzels with mustard in Pilly.

[@johngolden891]

Interesting dynamic of the changing composition of the top 10 US cities. I was surprised that Austin didn't overtake San Jose during between 2023 and 2035. You assumed a linear growth in population for each city between each census and this works well for most decades. However, for the great industrial centers and cities like Boston and Washington, DC had there been a census in 1945, those population figures might have been considerably larger those recorded in the 1950 census. It would be interesting to go back to the early colonial period, but there were likely few data points. Carl Bridenbaugh provides some info. Boston was the leading city up until the 1730s and the enterprising young Ben Franklin left Boston around this time for Philadelphia, one of the fastest growing US cities in the late colonial era. You have used the rankings as they were listed at the time of each census and this makes sense. An alternative might use present city boundaries and go in back in time. This is nearly impossible to accomplish, but one could approximate this by combining smaller cities among the top 100 at each census with the larger city into which they eventually were merged, So Spring Garden, Northern Liberties and Southwalk would be added to Philadelphia; Allegheny would be combined with Pittsburgh, and in the case of New York City, each of the five boroughs was listed, I believe, in each census. If not, a simple approximation would be to combine Brooklyn with New York. When people think of those cities that have lost a great deal of population since their peak, usually Detroit comes immediately to mind as it down nearly one a quarter million people from its 1.85 million in 1950. One must go back to 1910 to find a lower population figure for that city. However, in the case of St. Louis, one would have to go back to the 1860 census to find a lower figure than its present level.

[@spudwickthrockmorton2112]

You can now visibly see the effects of manufacturing outsourcing

[@ashwitmoro]

And illegal immigration.

[@Echo-pi9xh]

the very satisfying 2035 Philadelphia population of *1776*000

[@Pigman22769]

Underrated comment

[@Alsayid]

It's easy to think of cities as being as big (relatively speaking) and important in the past as they are now. That's pretty much true for New York, but you can see how a lot of other small-ish (nowadays) cities were leading cities in the past. Baltimore, Charleston, Cincinnati. And then you have some that are really big now, and were really big throughout the 20th century, that were nothing until the latter 1800's. Chicago, for example. Then cities that started booming even more recently, like L.A. or Detroit. It's crazy to think how Detroit didn't start booming until the early 1900's, and 50 years later it was already transforming into a hollowed out slum.

[@SquidProQuo80]

Detroit has slid to #30 and currently only houses 1/3 of it's peak population (624,000 is the 2022 estimate) having steadily lost around 7k every year.

[@dougclendening5896]

What a lesson to be learned.

[@justamaninTN]

It’s a garbage place to live. Detroit sucks. Metro Detroit on the other hand is a very underrated area in the country. Very affordable and a lot of good jobs.

[@SquidProQuo80]

@@saberswordsmen1 "People just moved to the suburbs" A gross over-simplification... no other American city has 60% of it's structures destroyed/razed and square miles of empty fields anywhere near their city centers. Detroit is singular in it's devastation and the metro area's decline reflects that people are leaving the entire region (30k people left in the past year according to this year's census numbers).

[@lovinglife5184]

How is Atlanta not up there... the traffic is so bad 😔

[@rubygooden5468]

Because they're going by the population within city limits. Most of Atlanta's population is suburban

[@KingAsa5]

Bad traffic doesnt mean you have a large city. Austin has terrible traffic and Austin has only 2million ppl by metro and 900k by city

[@timorean320]

"The future ain't what it use to be." Yogi Berra

[@kurtpunchesthings2411]

Rest In Peace a Yankee legend

[@DefensisIndus]

I love Yogi Bear and Boo Boo

[@popuppete]

2035 and Buffalo still hasn’t made its comeback - “what don’t stop yet. Just A few more years and it will be back in the top 10!”

[@joemartin1253]

Wrong everyone up north is moving to Texas lol.

[@stefanhensel8611]

Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo who buffaloed their way to Texas 😁

[@Dalt21]

Buffalo is an underrated city. Have had a lot of fun up there

[@icost4671]

Never knew Buffalo was that big , like this chart gives us a little history of this country. As if Buffalo is the last stop before going into Canada. 🤔

[@Dalt21]

iCost buffalo was a huge port due to the canals and hydroelectricity generated from the niagara River. There was a lot of factories and production. Back in the mid 1800s buffalo was the richest city in America. I recommend a visit if you like architecture, you can really see the former wealth in the old mansions and buildings

[@FunLone]

nicework

[@stunnasaad]

Love from Chicago guys

[@mrharsh1996]

So happy that Baltimore was there in the list for 2+ centuries! 💯 Also not to forget it topped the charts for many decades..

[@jacobbernard1393]

Love my city. Although a shadow of its former self, it still has much to offer, and I'm glad I came here from Los Angeles.

[@mrharsh1996]

@@jacobbernard1393 so true! It still has much to offer…

[@Waterfirerockair]

I live in the area but when I'm older imma move there cuz those housing prices are so good, idc if I live in the hood 😂

[@karlfoarile8056]

Why does it show Chicago as having a population of 5100 in 1776 when the city wasn't founded until 1833!!!!!

[@jacobbernard1393]

1833 was its date of formal incorporation, it had originally been settled around 1780, but the dates aren't very concrete.

[@jeremybanana]

New York City: I don't wanna come back down from this cloud.

[@johnboehmer6683]

Cloud of smog?

[@amazingfireboy1848]

6:04 Holy frick what happened to New York in 1970?

[@DBCBoy618]

We went bankrupt, and combined with spikes in street crimes and the ‘73-‘75 recession, the city lost its appeal to many.

[@amazingfireboy1848]

@@DBCBoy618 That's unfortunate.

[@DBCBoy618]

@@amazingfireboy1848 Yeah, it was. Luckily we’ve come back with a bang since then!

[@sidecar7714]

Bigger in 1939 than 1989.

[@AntonioDiaz-dd6jp]

White flight to suburbs

[@gabrielforeman1675]

Houston almost about become the 3rd largest city in the U.S.

[@513hook513]

Why are these so satisfying to watch?

[@janeentumbao8690]

Cuz they are! And the music adds the spice! 😁

[@Utteeya]

How did you get the future data??

[@maunohorttanainen5450]

Can you also make a video about biggest Finnish cities? :D

[@RenegadeShepard69]

That would be interesting yeah! I'm curious for one thing, if you can help me understand, I recently saw a map that showed that Oulu and the region near it (sorry, don't know the region names of finland) had some of the younger population in the country. Would you say that a lot of younger people are moving north of your country? I expected it'd be like most countries, and that younger people would move to the coast, helsinki etc. or just out of the country really. Is Oulu a growing city or something like that?

[@Valesokkeli106]

@@RenegadeShepard69 Yes Oulu region (North ostrobothnia) has youngest people in finland, For example in Town called Liminka 40% of the people are under 18 years old. One reason for the young population is Laestadianism. Laestadians make lot of children. Because they think child is a present from god. Almost all laestadians in Finland live in Central and North Ostrobothnia

[@RenegadeShepard69]

@@Valesokkeli106 Wow thank you for that explanation. I didn't even know about this religion movement. It's an interesting fact I suppose about the Sámi cultures in there? But also Finnic peoples can adhere to that religion I suppose. Well, I'll try to read more about it, I would've never know how to find about it without this comment. Thanks from Brasil, I enjoy reading about your country a lot!

[@tommytrinder.1226]

Both of them?

[@Darwaxion]

Was Brooklyn a separate city?

[@Allthingshiphop2532]

Yeah

[@mr-wx3lv]

Look at the rise and fall of Detroit...

[@johnboehmer6683]

Horrible, ain't it? But an extremely telling lesson of what greed, corruption, and the wickedness of man can do to undo blessing, hard work, ingenuity, and success.

[@justamaninTN]

That’s what greed, corruption and an undiversified economy get you!

[@keiththomas3141]

Shipping jobs overseas ruined Detroit.

[@andrewdiamond2697]

So, what in the heck is Northern Liberties and Spring Garden? Aren't those neighborhoods in Philadelphia?

[@randomguy3814]

They used to be cities until they got annexed by Philadelphia

[@aguywithabowandarrow2865]

Pls do the best selling guitars of all time

[@TheCrazierz]

I honestly curious about some of these growth spurs. Why was Philadelphia stagnant for a while and then got a big jump in the 1850s. And what happened in Chicago that made it grow so fast?

[@joshholmes1372]

Some of it you chalk it up to industrialization and ramping up to civil war (and relating factors). But likely the biggest reason it jumps so much on this chart is that it goes by census data which is every 10 years and creates a slope between census. In 1854 Philadelphia basically redistricted to include a lot of surrounding area and lumped it all into Philly. Naturally representing a big population growth.

[@W81Researcher]

Cubs, Media Outlets, Oprah.

[@dsr294]

Sad to see the midwest’s industrial decline and ultimate depopulation of what were once thriving metropolises in the riverine heartland of the US.

[@vyros.3234]

There is still a lot of people out there, just not super large cities

[@rustyheyman1521]

It would be interesting to see an overlay of technologies onto this graph. Specifically skyscraper/elevator, automobile, Air Conditioning and internet boom.

[@MaxLovesNascarOfficial]

It’s crazy how the city I live right next to, Philadelphia (and visit every month or two) had a population of 22,000 when the country gained independence, but today it has over one million people! It’s crazy how much it grew. And, in 2035, It’ll have 1.7M people!

[@wm.g6664]

It had over 2 million at one point

[@davidmatheny1993]

If this was a graph of metro area growth vs. population within city limits, Atlanta would explode onto the scene in the 90s through now. While the actual city population is "only" over 500,000 the entire metro area has now passed 6 Million people. In terms of metro area, Atlanta is now Top 8 in the country after having "only" 2 million in the region in 1988.

[@hubertcumberdale2651]

Exactly, by sheer demographics metro Atlanta has far more people than Phoenix or San Diego which this video wants to make you believe are "bigger".

[@amyfisher6380]

**Waiting impatiently for Los Angeles to make the list** **1916** Thar she blows!

[@janeentumbao8690]

And blew, she did! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@thedudeabides2531]

Crazy how Los Angeles didn't even register in the list until like 1917.

[@cowser67]

Houston and LA population has grown so much because they keep expanding the city limits by annexing neighboring towns. Chicago and New York would be even larger in this case they just can’t expand to do it.

[@davea5794]

Houston has only annexed 2 tiny pieces of land in the last 20 years. All of it's physical growth happened in the 20th century.

[@matthewthesecond]

New York was originally just Manhattan until it annexed the other four boroughs though. So its population would technically be 1.7M if the boroughs remained separate cities.

[@vj5225]

One thing I noticed is clearly by 1906 the San Francisco earthquake took away the city's dominance from being the top city of the west. 10 years later Los Angeles is the new leader showing where trade was changed. Cool to watch how an earthquake can change the Dynamics in history.

[@flopsiejmcardle]

A minor point, but Brooklyn should have just disappeared in 1896 when it was incorporated into Greater New York.

[@michaelguzman361]

Houston was gaining on Chicago towards the end. Looks like it will be more popular in the future?

[@groth6102]

Can we all salute to our fallen compact cities in the 1950s?

[@nikolaskous712]

Please do most famous greek celebrities (2008-2020) Please please please. I ❤ your videos.

[@scottierobinson7280]

My city Milwaukee made it on here 1961-63 🙌

[@sidecar7714]

It shows when you visit. A city lost in time.

[@arnoldgarza1613]

Milwaukee is a pretty big city.To consider it a US major city yeah it definitely qualifies.It dont surprise me that is was there in 61-63.I bet it is bad ass there in that city.I will visit one day.

[@JohnathenSweeney]

The fact Cincinnati was in the top 10 largest cities for so long is very fascinating

[@joellahrman4557]

Back when the Ohio River was the only way to get stuff west.

[@Rhymethyme33]

Nice to see Milwaukee briefly made the list

[@roybatty-]

It's crazy to think that New York is the champion when you consider that Manhattan and Staten Island are islands with no additional land for growth unlike, for example, Los Angeles. Manhattan can only grow upwards in the form of skyscrapers. The most significant population growth spikes must have occurred in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx. Although technically Brooklyn and Queens are on an island also, just a much larger island, Long Island.

[@hyzercreek]

Manhattan is on an island because the Indians thought it was worthless land, since game animals like deer never go onto Hudson River islands and the Indians wanted the mainland. There are many islands in the Hudson, they are all worthless for hunting. Check out Constitution Island and Schodack Island, they are uninhabited by humans and there are no animals

[@RobloxianGaming]

It’s sad to see Philadelphia’s downfall

[@vid58lol]

How did it die?

[@RobloxianGaming]

Did you notice it went from 2 million to 1.5 million

[@scotthoffman7071]

Its probably because its a rust belt city but ive hurd that cities like Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Columbus, and even Detroit were recovering or about to in 2019. The pandemic delayed it but with things opening up in the states im sure i will resume its recovery in 2022.

[@Dalt21]

Phillys population has been rising of late...I recommend a visit, it’s a very cool city. Lot of fun bars, museums and history. Also had a cool hip vibe

[@justamaninTN]

Detroit much worse.

[@LunaticTheCat]

I would be more interested in seeing the largest city metropolitan areas.

[@jconcordia]

Yep. Cities like Atlanta would be in the top 10.

[@christianhyers9385]

I'm surprised Baltimore was on this list for over 200 years.

[@28hotrods]

Does the first 2:48 of this includes Slaves?

[@CArchivist]

It is a shame this didn't take into account census bureau estimates in between census years, for if you did you would have noted that the Census estimated Detroit briefly hit the 2 million mark in the early 1950s before the rise of the post-war suburbs began to draw away in earnest people the new homes being built there. The decline to the 1960s census number didn't happen to around 1954, not 1950 as this chart says.

[@mikerodgers7620]

Detroit had 1.9 million people in 1955. I work at a University. They have all the stats including centers of employment.

[@MrEOM41]

I never knew Detroit had that large of a population 😮 1M+

[@elkensteyin]

As a Philadelphia native, glad to see the city get some love. That being said, what's the difference between blue and pink?

[@bobsnow6242]

The color coding seems to be broadly geographical. Blue = Northeast, Pink = South, Orange = Midwest, Yellow = West I know most Baltimoreans (Baltimorites?) would find it odd to be considered a "Southern" city these days when the Northeast has more or less culturally and politically gobbled up Maryland (and even Virginia lately), but for most of its history Baltimore was generally recognized as the start of the South. Maryland was a slave state and had to be kept in the Union by sheer force and martial law, and they had segregation on the books with the rest of the Southern states right up until the 1960s.

[@joshholmes1372]

@@bobsnow6242 Maryland was a buffer state and even within Maryland their was a microcosm of north vs south. Baltimore was never really a "southern" city, but southern Maryland sure was and remains that way to this day if you can believe it. Baltimore had many free blacks living there and served as the first real "safe" city for escaped slaves to live, but many continued heading north to cities further away from the south. Strictly speaking,Maryland is below the Mason-Dixon line and this could be considered a southern State and had slaves/tobacco industry in southern Maryland. My parents live on an old tobacco plantation in Southern MD lol. Virginia as a whole is still pretty southern. Northern Virginia however, is an outlier for sure.

[@russc.9618]

As a lifelong Dallas Texan I was shocked to see San Antonio was more populated than Dallas. I knew Houston was but had no clue about San Antonio. Learn something new every day 🤔

[@undie3x7]

We've been bigger than ya'll for a long time. It's just when you put Dallas and Fort worth together that ya'll are bigger. I think our not even close to as impressive skyline makes people think we're not as big as we are.

[@The_Brickster]

So proud of Minnesota for managing to get Minneapolis on the chart for approximately the first 3 seconds!

[@mikerodgers7620]

After the anti police riots, people have been leaving.

[@BS-vx8dg]

I'm trying to figure out the color code. At first (when I saw Minneapolis included in the top ten many years prior to its incorporation) I thought it was perhaps by the largest racial/ethnic group. But then it seemed to be based on the region of the country. But then, seeing Washington DC with the same color as San Francisco, that explanation didn't hold water, either. So what is it?

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

Wow nothing really changes next 15 years

[@texasfrog17]

It will

[@EddelTube]

Music at 4:55 ????

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