U.S. Cities Which Have Cut their Population in Half

Name all U.S. cities over 50,000 people which have lost more than half of their peak population.

City proper populations.

Current populations are according to the 2021 population estimates.

Sources: citypopulation.de and Wikipedia

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Population	Pop. at peak	Year of peak	State	Answer
632,464	1,849,568	1950	Michigan	Detroit
367,991	914,808	1950	Ohio	Cleveland
300,431	676,806	1950	Pennsylvania	Pittsburgh
293,310	856,796	1950	Missouri	St. Louis
276,807	580,132	1950	New York	Buffalo
80,628	196,940	1960	Michigan	Flint
68,325	178,320	1960	Indiana	Gary
60,270	170,002	1930	Ohio	Youngstown