Population loss
A lone car drives down Collinsville Road as the sunset glows red outlining the St. Louis skyline on Wednesday, March 2, 2022, as photographed from Monks Mound in Collinsville, ILL. The St. Louis metropolitan area, growing just 1.2% in population over the past decade, has now dropped out of the top 20 metropolitan areas in the country, according to the newest figures released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.