Downtown Cleveland, Inc. slots the center city population at
. Bedrock gloats its ”
.” Point2Homes says it’s a
. And a CBRE advertisement for the old Taco Bell space on Public Square notes “now with
over 15,000 residents in a one-mile radius
.”
So, as this publication
asked with hands raised back in 2021
, what is the true, verifiable population of Downtown Cleveland?
Last week, for the first time in three years, the Center for Community Solutions, a think tank based in the AECOM Building, released a report detailing the headcount for every one of Cleveland’s 34 neighborhoods.
And the numbers once again were at loggerheads with those propagated by city boosters:
12,797 people live downtown, including 79 minors, 110 infants and 961 seniors.
Nine in ten rent. Most are white. Most make over $80,000 a year.
You don’t even have to bust out a calculator: CCS’ data is
very
different than what Downtown Cleveland, Inc. has in its 2023 recap report.