Dying Municipality

AKA: Once-Thriving City.
Context:
- It can (typically) have Low-Paying Jobs.
Example(s):
- Farmington, NM, 2015.
- Pine Bluff, AR, 2015.
- Flint, Michigan, 2014, 2010 population: 102,400 => 2014 population: 99,002
- Detroit, Michigan, 2014, 2010 population: 713,862 => 2014 population: 680,250
See: Thriving Municipality.

References

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2016/04/08/24-7-wallst-america-shrinking-cities-population-migration/82740600/
- QUOTE: Jobs are perhaps the single most important driver of urban expansion. … The unemployment rate in every one of these areas exceeds the national jobless of 5% in January 2016. The average income is also lower than the national per capita income of $47,615 in all 20 metros. … Of the 20 fastest shrinking metro areas, half are in the rust belt — the central U.S. region characterized by its decaying industrial base and population loss. Many of these urban areas are still heavily dependent on manufacturing. …

http://www.cheatsheet.com/business/dying-cities-10-american-cities-that-seem-to-be-shrinking.html/?a=viewall
- QUOTE: In contrast to these sunbelt boom towns, a number of once-thriving cities have experienced falling populations in recent years. Nearly 70 of the more than 700 U.S. cities with more than 50,000 people lost population in recent years. In some cases, the number of residents dropped by 5,000 people or more.
  Almost all of the 10 cities that had the biggest percentage drop in population from 2010 to 2014 were located in the Midwest, many of them former manufacturing centers that have struggled to adapt to a new economy.