Philadelphia is a city on the
rise if you examine stats from a new Pew Charitable Trusts report. Building permits
are at their highest levels in a decade. Population is up. Homicides are
down.
Here are seven statistics to
chew on:
2,815: The number of
new residential units developers have received permits for. It's the
highest number in a decade.
$465 million: The estimated worth of
those newly developed units, the highest annual amount on record.
13,414: Sales of residential units
in Philadelphia, up 13.3 percent from 2011.
1,553,165: Philadelphia's population.
It's up for the seventh straight year. The population was 1.49 million in
2003.
247: Homicides in Philadelphia.
While still far too high, it's down 34 percent from 2012.
666,100: The number of jobs in
Philadelphia, up 2 percent from 2009.
26,662: Philadelphia city
employees, up 0.9 percent since 2010.
Source: Philadelphia
Business Journal
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