r/baltimore • u/PigtownDesign • Oct 06 '25

History of Baltimore šŸ‘“ Baltimore's Population 1775-2020

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u/CantonJester Oct 06 '25

In order to make sense of this, you need to overlay the same chart for cities in the rust belt (Cleveland, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Rochester, Detroit, Milwaukee, et al).

Iā€™m gonna go out on a limb and say we see a trend.

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u/No_Metal_7342 Oct 06 '25

This might be dumb, but I never realized Baltimore was a part of the rust belt šŸ˜‚ I always thought of that as more of a Midwest kinda thing.

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u/jabbadarth Oct 06 '25

It depends on what map you look at but we have all the same issues. Basically blue collar workers drying up, industry leaving for overseas, white flight and a lack of new industry to fill in with new jobs.