Urban Areas in the Transformation of the South: A Review of Modern History

Table 4

Urban economic/social indicators: 1970–2000.

	18 Southern metro areas	16 Northern metro areas
Population growth	118%	15.4%
Employment growth	135%	40.6%
Median family income (real increase)	27.1%	14.3%
Poverty rate
1970	16.5%	9.3%
2000	12.3%	9.7%
Manufacturing employment
1970	20.1%	26.8%
2000	12.3%	15.0%

Source: Wright [14].