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Patch.com, a micro-level online news source at the local/municipal level, contacted the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development for comments on their analysis and observations about the recent release of 2010 Census data for the Cleveland and Cuyahoga County areas. Center Co-director Rob Fischer made some observations about the data, some corrections about their use, and provided context that was used in three articles.

"Robert L. Fischer, Ph.D. and Co-Director of Case Western Reserve University's Center on Urban Poverty & Community Development, said that there is little doubt that foreclosures are a piece of Cuyahoga County's drop. Cuyahoga County has seen 14,000 foreclosures per year since 2006, and half of those have occurred in the city of Cleveland.

"The other matter that is well documented is that while Cleveland population has declined markedly (-17%) the population in Cuyahoga County has not dropped as much (-8.2%) and the region has remained relatively flat (-2%)," he wrote in an email.

"Partly this reflects the migration of families out of the urban center and the sprawl of the metropolitan area, that has been taking place since the 1950s. Certainly the shifts in the regional economy have also fueled these patterns as well," he added.

But Cleveland is not alone in this pattern: Fischer added that other major cities including Cincinnati, Toledo and Akron have seen similar population patterns."

Avon-Patch article.
Beechwood Patch article.
Cleveland Heights Patch article.
Mentor article.
Stow article.
Strongsville article.