We Highlighted (Almost) Every Mention of Dallas in State of Metropolitan America Report

While Andrea was having an inexplicably good time at City Hall — where, apparently, it’s open bar during committee meetings now — I was been reading the Brookings Institution’s The State of Metropolitan America report released yesterday. It’s been getting lot of attention, for the most part, because the Associated Press honed in on one key finding: “White flight? Suburbs lose young whites to cities.” Which is just one part of the massive study’s findings.

So I’ve gone through and excerpted almost every mention of Dallas — or, as we’re referred to in the study, a so-called “Next Frontier” — and the city’s ever-shifting demographics. Though, if you’d like to read all 168 pages, well, feel free. Context is everything, after all. And I didn’t pull out all the charts and graphs and maps. Well, except the one at top. For Schutze. I swear I’ve got a cover story to get working on.

From the Population & Migration section:

• Among the seven additional metro areas with populations exceeding 5
  million, Atlanta, Dallas, and Houston increased their populations by
  more than one-fifth.
• Large metro areas in Texas, including Dallas, Houston, and Austin,
  exhibit an entirely different pattern. They experienced far greater net
  in-migration in the latter years of the decade, at the same time that
  the migration bubble popped in Florida metro areas. Those Texas areas
  did not experience the same run-up in home prices and speculative
  mortgage lending seen throughout most of Florida.
• Dallas and Houston showed steadily declining, though positive and
  significant, levels of migration from abroad. Unlike … other
  gateways, however, net domestic migration to these metro areas remained
  mostly positive throughout, and in recent years contributed more to
  these areas’ population gains than international migration.

From the Race & Ethnicity section:

• Fast-growing areas of the South like Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, and
  Washington, D.C. ranked among the largest gainers of Asian and Hispanic
  population from 2000 to 2008.
• Riverside [California] ranked first in total Hispanic gains from 2000
  to 2008, owing in part to its attraction of Hispanics from nearby Los
  Angeles. The Texas metro areas of Dallas and Houston follow Riverside
  in registering the largest Hispanic gains.
• As with Hispanics, the largest gateways have garnered a lower share of
  recent Asian gains. They drew less than half (44 percent) of Asian
  population gains from 2000 to 2008, compared with 53 percent in the
  1990s. Dallas and Riverside, two metro areas not among those with the
  most Asians, ranked 7th and 10th, respectively, among those gaining the
  most Asians this past decade.
• Washington, D.C., Atlanta, and Dallas rank sixth, ninth, and 25th,
  respectively, on the share of black adults with a bachelor’s degree,
  whereas Philadelphia and Detroit rank, respectively, 59th
  and 79th.
• Consequently, metropolitan areas among the nation’s 100 largest
  exhibited both significant gains and losses of white population during
  the 2000s. Those with the largest gains included metropolitan areas in
  the South and West, such as Phoenix, Atlanta, Dallas, Charlotte, and
  Raleigh.

From the Immigration section:

• Among
  the 15 metro areas with the largest number of immigrants, only four
  posted significant, positive growth in their foreign-born populations
  between 2007 and 2008 (Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, and Seattle).
• These
  metro areas, such as Phoenix and Las Vegas in the Intermountain West,
  saw many immigrant newcomers join the once burgeoning construction
  sector and associated industries only to witness a significant outflow
  in the past year. Other Sun Belt metro areas — such as Atlanta, Dallas,
  and Charlotte, also relatively new destinations — saw continued growth in
  immigration during the past year.

From the Age section:

• At the
  other extreme are states and metro areas with low senior population
  shares. These are usually areas that experienced recent rapid growth of
  seniors alongside continued growth in their younger populations. Thus
  Provo, Austin, Raleigh, Houston, Atlanta, and Dallas have senior shares
  below
  9 percent of population, even as they rank among the leaders in recent
  senior population growth.
• Due
  largely to “aging in place,” senior populations in major metropolitan
  areas such as New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Los Angeles are
  projected to grow by
  at least 10 percent over each five-year period from 2010 to 2030.
  Growth rates are projected to be higher still in booming Sun Belt
  markets like Houston, Dallas, and Atlanta.
• With
  boomer-dominated pre-senior populations now residing in Southern and
  Western metropolitan areas and suburbs in large numbers, relatively
  well-off older populations should emerge in areas like Charlotte,
  Dallas, and Atlanta — places heretofore known primarily for their
  youthful profile. These populations may create demands for new types of
  housing and cultural amenities, and may continue to fuel the economic
  and civic growth of these areas as they remain involved in the labor
  force.

From the Work section:

• Size also related to wage
  inequality, with New York, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco,
  Washington, Miami, and Dallas all ranking among the metro areas with
  the highest levels of wage inequality.

From the Income & Poverty section:

• Suburbs
  accounted for a majority of this middle-class decline in metropolitan
  areas in the 2000s. Led by metro areas like Denver, Minneapolis-St.
  Paul, Chicago, and Dallas, suburbs saw their middle-class share of
  households drop by 1.8 percentage points between 1999 and 2008,
  compared to a decline of 1.5 percentage points in primary cities.