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Originally Posted by delts145
Wasatch Front - Real growth is eclipsing U.S. census estimates
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700242627,00.html
With an average household size of 4.1 in April 2007, the northwestern Utah County community apparently grew by some 2,700 people during that year.
Yet recent census estimates show Eagle Mountain growing by only 441 people from July 1, 2006, to July 1, 2007.
Eagle Mountain isn't alone in its discrepancy with the U.S. Census Bureau. Utah's population trackers have long contested the census population estimates.
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Delts: I don't remember who posted the census link, but the link provided some very interesting information. So thanks to whomever it was.
I looked at the estimates for Georgia and saw my hometown grew by almost exactly 25% from 2000 thru 2007, from around 48K to a little over 60K people. I was at a social gathering this evening and was talking with one of the city council members. I mention the pop. data and the councilman told me that was exactly what the city was expecting, based on the number of water hookups et cetera. So at least somewhere the estimates seem to be pretty accurate, even in a high-growth area like ours.
Speaking of growth, Atlanta, per the census estimates, grew by a whopping 20%, most of the growth driven by urban housing. Interestingly, I have read several times in the local press that our giant fish tank, the Georgia Aquarium, directly across from Olympic Park, has spawned so much development downtown that whatever the City's and State's contributions were to building the tank, they have already returned that investment several times over in increased property taxes in the few short years the aquarium has been open. Who would have thought that fish could have such an impact on the local economy?
Maybe Salt Lake could replicate the example...not with saltwater fish, because those creatures don't have much connection to the local environment. But possibly with other strange and wonderful creatures, who are spotted occasionally in the area. Salt Lake could build somewhere downtown a liberarium, where all different sorts of liberals are encased in glass enclosures (where they can't hurt any one) that replicate their natural environments. One tank could be a jazz club, dense with cigarette smoke. Another could be a used book store. Another, a union hall. One could even be what the local Democratic Party Headquarters would look like, if there were a Democratic Party in Utah.
I'm sure the oddity of these creatures and their habitats would attract some visitors, people who would be mesmerized by the sights and sounds of creatures they had only read about but never seen before.
(Sorry, I couldn't resist)
