The total Swiss population remained the same in 2008 and the non-Swiss population decreased by 3 people.

Unemployment, which stood at 10.8 percent in June 1987, has dropped to 9.8 percent largely because the labor force decreased by nearly 10,000 people.

However, African American Atlantans have rapidly suburbanized in recent decades, and from 2000 to 2010, the city's black population decreased by 31,678 people, shrinking from 61.4% of the city's population in 2000 to 54.0% in 2010.

As production began to decline, the population decreased by almost 20,000 people until the start of the 21st century, when the city saw its population grow again by more than six thousand, mainly because of immigration from Asia, Eastern Europe and North Africa.

St. Cuthbert's records indicate a post-war depression from 1816-1830 as the population decreased by around 50 people and the number of marriages also decreased form 65 to 43.

The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 90 and the non-Swiss population decreased by 9 people.