Whether it is due to city planner acumen or borrowers being underwater on their mortgage, more families are deciding to raise their children downtown.
"The number of kids under age 5 living in downtown [Minneapolis] neighborhoods has tripled since 2000, according to newly released U.S. census figures. The 2010 census counted 444 small children in the area from the Mill District through downtown and along the Mississippi River to Plymouth Avenue.”
"For decades people have come to London to go to university or work, moving out again when their children require more space or education or when they retire. But a startling demographic change has drastically slowed the conveyor belt.Births in the capital each year have soared by 25% since 2002, as British women who delayed childbearing finally got down to it and London’s many immigrants produced in Stakhanovite quantities. London contributed fully 37% of England’s natural population increase (the surplus of births over deaths) between 2009 and 2010. Many parents are now staying put, thanks to a sticky mortgage market that makes it hard for buyers to get a loan and a sticky labour market that makes it hard for anyone to be sure of a job."
“The number of families living in downtown Baltimore has increased significantly over the past 10 years, according to Downtown Partnership of Baltimore Inc.Downtown Baltimore’s core area experienced the biggest population increase — 130 percent — since 2000, and the one-mile radius between Pratt and Light streets saw a 13.6 percent population increase during that time as well.Baltimore has the eighth highest number of families living in a downtown area [of US cities], with 5,485 families as of 2010, according to the partnership. In 2000, the area had 4,880 families. The U.S. Census Bureau defines a family as a group of two people or more related by birth, marriage or adoption and residing together."
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