Population Shift

“Caracas is a place I was born and raised, and it is my first home. St. Louis is my second one. The Arch now has become a symbol for home to me,” said one Latina resident who moved to St. Louis in the past decade.

More people are dying than being born in Missouri — what experts refer to as a “demographic winter.” St. Louis University professor Ness Sandoval explains where we are and what it will take to reverse course.

Asian, Hispanic and multiracial populations are growing throughout the St. Louis area.

St. Louis and St. Louis County saw the largest population decreases while St. Charles, Jefferson and Lincoln counties had the largest gains.

In 1990, the population of the Spanish Lake community in north St. Louis County was 80 percent white and 20 percent black. By 2010, the population was…

The population trends in the St. Louis metropolitan area continued in 2013, according to numbers released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.The census…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, March 14, 2011 - In Wentzville, the city staff had some bets going about how they'd fare in the 2010…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Feb. 24, 2011 - For the first time, St. Charles County has surpassed the city of St. Louis in…