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The population boom in Philadelphia of young adults between the ages of 20 to 34 is temporary, according to a report by The Pew Charitable Trusts.

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The population boom in Philadelphia of young adults between the ages of 20 to 34 is temporary, according to a report by The Pew Charitable Trusts.

In the Pew poll, "half of the 20- to 34-year-olds questioned said they definitely or probably would not be living in Philadelphia five to 10 years from now, compared with about 3 in 10 for the rest of the city's adult population," reported Larry Eichel, project director of the Philadelphia research initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts.

Of those who did not plan to stay in Philadelphia, the primary reasons included career reasons, school and child raising concerns and crime or public safety.

The report found that the millennials in Philadelphia mainly live in Center City and surrounding neighborhoods, including University City and the two zip codes in the northern half of South Philadelphia. In addition, the young adults also have high concentrations in Manayunk, East Falls, Kensington/Fishtown, and Roxborough.

While 42 percent of Philadelphia's overall population is African-American, the report found that whites are the largest group of millennials, making up 40 percent of the total. "Asians represented a higher percentage of millennials in 2012 than they did in the rest of the city's population, 8 percent compared with 6 percent, while the share of the Hispanic population was about the same among both age groups at 13 percent," wrote Eichel.

 

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