Two of Alabama’s four largest cities are getting smaller, according to a report by the financial news publication 24/7 Wall Street.
The report, which utilized data published by the U.S. Census Bureau’s Population Estimates Program, ranks Mobile and Montgomery 39th and 27th respectively on a list of 50 American cities seeing the largest net depopulation due to migration.
Mobile saw 8,517 of its citizens leave between 2010 and 2017.
The state capital of Montgomery had 10,317 people leave during the same period.
Number 1 on the list is the Chicago metropolitan area, which saw a net decline of 296,320 people between 2010 and 2017.
Read the full report here.
