Components of Population Change 1990-2000
Missouri DED Regions
Trends in Overall Population Change
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While all but one of the Missouri Department of Economic Development (DED) regions experienced positive population growth during the 1990s, the extent of growth and components of change comprising growth, varied by region.
- DED’s most rural regions experienced the least change in population between the 1990 and 2000 census.
- The North Central region decreased in population by slightly less than 1 percent.
- The Bootheel, Northeast, and Northwest regions each increased modestly in population, by less than 4 percent.
- Moderate overall population growth occurred in the urbanized areas of the St. Louis and Kansas City MSAs (5-10 percent increases).
- The Lower East Central region, anchored by Cape Girardeau, grew at a healthy pace of nearly 11 percent. Similarly, the South Central and West Central districts each increased in population by approximately 11 percent to 12 percent.
- The Central, Lake Ozark-Rolla, and Southwest regions grew at more rapid rates, each increasing by 15 percent to nearly 17 percent during the 1990s.
- The Springfield-Branson region experienced very strong population growth of over 27 percent.
- When the DED regions considered in the previous two bullets are considered together, they represent an interesting nexus of regional trade centers strengthened by their proximity to inter-state corridors and natural and recreation amenities.
Trends in Natural Increase
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Within each region, attention to the components of population change, natural increase (births compared to deaths) and net migration (in-migration compared to out-migration), provides a more detailed picture of today’s population.
- Analysis of natural increase in DED’s regions reveals an aging rural population with the North Central region experiencing more deaths than births (a natural increase rate of -2.8).
- Similarly, the Northeast, Northwest, South Central, West Central, and Bootheel regions each experienced natural increase rates of less than two percent.
Trends in Net Migration
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- While all DED regions experienced positive rates of net migration, there was little in-migration in the Bootheel and St. Louis MSA, approximately one percent.
- The Kansas City, Northeast, Northwest, and North Central regions experienced modest rates of net in-migration (ranging from 2.6 percent to 4.1 percent), generally on pace with the state-wide rate of 5.1 percent.
- The DED regions experiencing the strongest rates of net migration (range from nearly 10 percent to 25 percent), Lower East Central, West Central, Central, Lake Ozark/Rolla, South Central, Southwest, and Springfield/Branson regions, reflect the importance of regional trade centers, transportation, and amenities described above as well as Missouri’s consistency with the general US pattern of continued suburban and exurban growth.
DED Regions' Components of Population Change 1990-2000
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Missouri Population and Components of Change, 1990-2000 By County Within DED Region |
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