AFTERNOONS WITH AMOS ANALYSIS Despite having stronger population growth this decade compared to last, Indianapolis faces being outranked as a top American city by faster growing big cities in the south and west. That’s one of the results of the release Thursday (May 21st) of 2014 population estimates for American cities by the Census Bureau. The 2014 […]

After a couple of years where more people moved into Indianapolis/Marion County than left, 2014 Population Estimates released Today (March 26th) by the Census Bureau show that Indianapolis continues to lose population to other parts of the state and the nation. BUT, that decline has been offset by continued growth from international residents and minorities […]

The economic condition of African-Americans in America’s 11th largest city stagnated last year, with Black unemployment reaching near crisis levels! That’s according to new data released by the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS). Unemployment in the Indianapolis African-American community continued at crisis levels accruing the 2012 Census ACS. In 2011, Black unemployment in Indianapolis/Marion […]

              The Indianapolis African-American community has reached a new population milestone. Population estimates released by the Census Bureau Thursday reported that the African-American population of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Area now exceeds the 300,000 mark. The Census estimates that the 2012 African-American population of the new eleven county Indianapolis/Carmel/Anderson Metropolitan Area is 312,613; an increase of […]

Unemployment in Indianapolis’ African-American community declined last year while Black household incomes remained stagnant and the number of Blacks living in poverty increased. Those are some of the initial findings in the initial release of 2011 data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS).  The annual survey of demographic trends for the country’s population. […]