Hatching Future Hipsters: Millennials A Tough Act to Follow
U.S. metros vie for a smaller youth population; will millennials ever marry and have kids?
The post-millennial generation — the nation's youngest — is smaller than its predecessor, leaving most of the nation's large metros with a shrinking population under age 20. The Bay Area's youngest cohort is growing but not fast.
By Sharon Simonson
The post-millennial generation is less numerous than the millennials. Even with immigration, in coming years, U.S. metropolitan areas will share a smaller youth-pie, according to research by demographer William Frey of the Brookings Institute: "There are places that will have growth in younger populations, but they will be not the norm," Frey said.
Fifty-nine of the country's100 largest metropolitan areas saw a shrinking number of children fr...