It doesn't seem right but it is what it is. Perhaps with the resurgence of the east side there's been a significant uptick in students renting over there, or throughout the city for that matter. It doesn't take a huge chunk of 50k students to make up the kind of difference you'd otherwise expect to see.
I had a thought that the difference with the lower numbers may be related to right wing antigovernmental propaganda that was out there at the time which convinced some people not to respond to the census. I could see 16 hundred of those type of folks believing the lies about the census, it could also be some people just were lazy and did not take the time to answer the census.
The wild housing market here seems to say that people are moving here.
I am writing about this here because I don't know who to call or write about this. There has been a high pitched alarm sound going off in downtown E.L. 24/7 since the power went off after the storm the last week. It is so loud that I can not sit outside or have my windows open. I am pretty sure it is not coming from my building and it seems impossible to figure out where it is coming from. It seems like we will just have to wait until someone somewhere turns if off, I mean who would I call. It is such a bummer because the weather has cooled off and I would like to use my patio. Got any ideas?
"I don't believe the Lansing or East Lansing numbers.", well I think the student numbers will be depressed since MSU wasn't having on-campus classes during the census.
There has been a notable migration to the exurbs that can be seen by the growths in Meridian Township, Bath, and Potterville.
I really think some of these trends are attributed to students and young people in general keeping their "home" address at their parents house, mostly in order to keep their parents health insurance until 26. Sure, they could technically answer the census honestly and that data wouldn't be shared but I knew many students and recent graduates at my last workplace that kept everything as if they lived at their parents to keep things simple.
From my anecdotal experience many kids put their parents house as their address regardless, enough of the few people that I talked to about it did that to make me think it is a very, very common thing. Given this affects everywhere, but I'd expect it to affect a smaller metro with a higher ratio of out of town students much more. If you were to break down the numbers by age group you could probably get some idea if my theory holds, I'm assuming the detailed tract and block level data isn't out yet?
I saw Air Force One and the other aircraft that traveled with President Biden to Capital Region Airport fly right over my building in East Lansing. I could see that it was Air Force One by the colors [and it is a 747!] from my patio! The giant cargo plane also flew right over EL later in the afternoon. It was very cool to see and to know it was President Biden visiting us, a wonderful change from this time last year!
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Breakdown by community via Bridge Michigan
- Lansing 112,644 (-1,653) -1.4%
- Lansing Township 8,143 (17) 0.2%
- Dewitt 4,776 (269) 6%
- Dewitt Township 4,776 (269) 6%
- Bath Township 13,292 (1694) 14.6%
- East Lansing 47,741 (-838) -1.7%
- Meridian Township 43,916 (4,228) 10.7%
- Alaiedon Township 2,910 (16) 0.6%
- Mason 8,283 (31) 0.4%
- Delhi Township 27,710 (1,833) 7.1%
- Eaton Rapids 5,203 (-11) -0.2%
- Charlotte 9,299 (255) 2.5%
- Potterville 3,3055 (438) 16.7%
- Windsor Township 7,140 (302) 4.4%
- Delta Township 33,119 (711) 2.2%
- Grand Ledge 7,784 (-2) 0%
- Watertown Township 5,563 (727) 15%
Also NotablesThe wild housing market here seems to say that people are moving here.
There has been a notable migration to the exurbs that can be seen by the growths in Meridian Township, Bath, and Potterville.