The US Census Bureau thread

[muertecaza]

Strange feeling as a Zonie to get to complain about the census yearly estimates. These estimates have Phoenix and most of its inner suburbs with near zero yearly growth, and even have Mesa, the country's biggest suburb, losing a few hundred people. This is definitely not in keeping with my perception and experience living here. The only places showing substantial growth are exurbs like Queen Creek and Surprise.

With that said, I don't personally have a theory as to why they would be wrong, so I guess something to monitor. It could be that Phoenix is moving into its "mature" growth phase. Given the extreme housing inflation we've experienced, I guess it's not surprising that we would experience a slowdown in population increase. According to these estimates Maricopa County built housing units over this year period at Texas levels, 36,000, which does comport with my perception and experience. So hopefully that filters through to keep the housing inflation in check.