COVID-19 turned college towns into ghost towns and now businesses are struggling to survive.
“It’s only going to get worse because nobody, not even really the school, knows how many students will come back to school,” Weinzweig said.
Because there isn’t a way to get an accurate headcount of returning students, it’s uncertain how universities and college towns alike will compensate for their losses this fall. But for schools, towns and businesses, one thing remains clear: None of them expect to fully recover any time soon. In Athens, Ohio, students at Ohio University make up three quarters of the population. A census without this population could slash the official headcount from 24,000 down to 6,000 people. For Ithaca, a remote college town, half of the population consists of students — meaning the population count minus students could shrink from 31,000 to as few as 15,500.
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