St. Louis Population Recount

While some are concerned about a vote recount in the recent Presidential election, St. Louis is concerned its population count in the 2000 Census.

Reversing more than five decades of population loss, the city of St. Louis says it has won its challenge of Census Bureau estimates that its ranks declined by roughly 16,000 people since 2000.

Earlier this year, the Census Bureau put the city's population at 332,223, down 4.6 percent - or an estimated 15,966 residents - from the April 2000 head count. The distinction: America's one-time gateway of westward expansion lost residents at a larger percentage rate than any city with more than 100,000 people.

But St. Louis officials swiftly cried foul and appealed, arguing that the census estimates may not account for recent economic development, including ambitious downtown projects such as a new ballpark for baseball's Cardinals.

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