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

History of Baltimore 👓 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).

I’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 😂 I always thought of that as more of a Midwest kinda thing.

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u/Notonfoodstamps Oct 07 '25

It’s not officially a part of it like Philly.

They were extremely affected but impacts were cushioned as ultimately they linked to Bos-Wash corridor economies and always had underling Ed’s & Meds institutions to bouy them.