Higher death rates, a shorter life expectancy and a drop in college enrollment were some of the findings of Metroplan s annual "metrotrends" survey released Wednesday by the area s long-range planning organization.
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Based on this year s trends, deaths in 2022 will come in lower than in 2021. Regional population will continue growing, but more slowly than in the past.
In 2020, for the second decade in a row, central Arkansas cities slightly grew in urban density, or people per square mile, according to Metroplan, the area s planning agency.
Like the rest of the United States, the ethnic mix in the Little Rock metropolitan statistical area saw substantial change between 2010 and 2020, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.