If only the city streets were safer
According to the latest census numbers, Dayton, Ohio lost 6,000 people in the period from April 2000 to July of 2004.
What's amazing is that the drop wasn't bigger considering all the traffic deaths that occur there.
Oddly enough, I've lived in two of the cities with the biggest population decline (Evansville, IN) being the other. Makes perfect sense to me.