The farm town in northwestern Illinois where I live, we are losing people and that's a good thing.

Historical population
Census	Pop.		%±
1880	2,704		—
1890	4,569		69.0%
1900	8,382		83.5%
1910	9,307		11.0%
1920	16,026		72.2%
1930	17,093		6.7%
1940	16,901		−1.1%
1950	16,821		−0.5%
1960	16,324		−3.0%
1970	15,762		−3.4%
1980	14,508		−8.0%
1990	12,969		−10.6%
2000	12,944		−0.2%
2010	12,916		−0.2%
2019 (est.)	12,339	[3]	−4.5%
U.S. Decennial Census[6]