What was/is the population of your home town?

[benld74]

Mine had 1800

[AsahinaKimi]

1. 805,235

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San Franncisco (2011)


http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06/06075.html

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. 717099-Milwaukee, WI in 1970.

[Shrek]

3. Was 264,179, is 357,698 n/t

[BillStein]

4. 15,000

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08033, south Jersey... but it was really one continuous suburb from the Delaware River east, divided into smaller towns.

edited for clarity

[tabbycat31]

5. As of 2010 census 7019

[treestar]

6. Something like 80,000

Oddly, I've always thought it would be cool to live in a small town.

[cliffordu]

7. About 9500 full time residents.

(port townsend, Wa.)

[rrneck]

8. 1500. One stop light, three liquor stores. nt

[Son of Gob]

16. 2100. No stop lights, 5 bars. nt

[ceile]

9. 2 million, but add in the burbs and you get about 6 million.

And I don't care what anyone says, Houston is a great city.

[suninvited]

10. it was 250 when I was there

350 now, 32 years later

[bigwillq]

11. Around 15-20,000 (nt)

[fizzgig]

12. 150k, give or take

i still live in my hometown and it's more than doubled in population since we've been here

[Codeine]

13. We moved too much to have a real "home town."

From my birth to the time I was eleven or twelve we lived in places with populations ranging from ~600,000 (Phoenix AZ in the 1970s) down to a place with a population of well under 100 (Eden, Wyoming around 1980.)

The town I was born in has a bit over 23,000 people in it, but it probably had far fewer in 1970. It's part of a metro area of about 4.5 million people, and well over 17 million if you include the greater Los Angeles area which it ties into.

[hifiguy]

14. 382,578 peeps in Minneapolis

according to the 2010 census. 482,000 or so when I was born there.

Twin Cities Metro area is just under 3 million.

[kcass1954]

15. 25233 in 2009.

No idea what it was when I was born in the 50's. I haven't been back since we left in 1957.

[RebelOne]

17. Home town is now Woodstock, Georgia

with a population of 23,896. It is just northwest of Atlanta. Ny former hometown was Miami, FL, which I am sure is now in the millions.

[KamaAina]

18. Around 930,000 at the time

I was so hoping it would crack a million so that its actual city outline would be shown on the next edition of the map in my classroom, rather than the pentagon-shaped symbol used for cities from 500,000 to 1 million.

Sadly it never did. In fact, at 620,000 today, it's barely holding on to the pentagon!

[AsahinaKimi]

23. Amazing

that SJ's population is larger than SF now.

[KamaAina]

28. My home town is actually Baltimore

but yes, SJ does love to puff out its chest and say "We're the largest city in Northern California! Tenth largest in the country!" and so forth, though it has yet to find an answer to the question "You're going to San Jose? Really? Be sure and bring me back some _________!"

edit: If Gertrude Stein were alive today, "There's no there there" would likely be aimed at SJ. Similarly, "No one ever ran away from home to go to SJ."

[MiddleFingerMom]

19. Jackson, Michigan (1960 50,720 - 2010 33,534)

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A Michigan Historical Marker at what is now the northwest corner of Second and Franklin streets in Jackson commemorates an anti-slavery convention of men on July 6, 1854. Meeting outside to avoid a hot, over-crowded hall, the group ultimately selected a slate of candidates for state elections. The marker identifies this as the birth of the Republican Party.
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[madinmaryland]

20. About 5,500 (without the college students)

[baldguy]

21. 13000

In the last 30yrs it's tripled.

[Denninmi]

22. When I was born -- don't really know.

It was suburban/rural fringe in the 1960's. I'll take a stab and say about 10-15K. Massive waves of suburban sprawl rolled through from the early 1970s to the late 1990s. Current population is about 65K.

[femmocrat]

24. 20,000 now. It had over 50,000 when I lived there.

Once the mills closed, it was pretty much the beginning of the end.

[polly7]

25. It hovered around 200.

It was great though, everyone you knew was a good friend.

[Odin2005]

26. Ulen, MN: 532

[rurallib]

27. Iowa City, Iowa

When i was born there @ 20,000 and 35,000 in the county.
Today @70,000 with 150,000 in the county.
GI Bill and the VietNam War brought in truckloads of folks.

[Broken_Hero]

29. currently around 8k nt

[guitar man]

30. Davenport Oklahoma

881 at the 2000 census. It never changes much.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davenport,_Oklahoma#section_2

[av8rdave]

31. 31,146

It was about 45,000 when I lived there as a kid in the 60s.

Jamestown, NY. Hometown of Lucille Ball, Roger Tory Peterson and Natalie Merchant, and last stop on the road to nowhere.

[Chan790]

32. Depends which one we're talking about:

The one I was born in had 1900 in 1979 and 22K today.
I consider Manhattan to be my hometown, it's the only place I've ever felt at home. NYC has ~9M people.
I live in DC. W.DC has a population of a little over 600,000. If we were made a state, that would give us 2 House seats.

[libodem]

33. 1500

Tops.

[2on2u]

34. 'Bout 2000.... a long time ago.... almost double that today but I'm sure

there is still a single traffic light in town.

[Mendocino]

35. About 5500

But 450,000 in the metro area. Would like to be where the population is 2.

[rug]

36. Was 8,000,000, now 1,104.

[pokerfan]

37. The nearest town was 10 miles away

with a population of 178!



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