US Population Redistribution: A Perspective on the Nonmetropolitan Turnaround

Abstract

A major demographic surprise emerged in the United States (and many other highly developed countries) in the 1970s when the nonmetropolitan population was observed to be growing faster than the metropolitan population. To analyze when and where the turnaround began and what has happened to it the article presents new data that extend comparisons back to 1900 and monitors change annually after 1970. The turnaround in growth rates began earlier than previously thought and reversed around 1980 with subsequent growth increasingly favoring the metropolitan sector. It was found that metropolitanization has not necessarily implied increasing concentration of population across all spatial units. (SUMMARY IN FRE AND SPA) (EXCERPT)

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