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Originally Posted by SteveD
What you posted and what I posted are not incompatible. Your post is a projection out to 2040. I have no trouble believing that a county with a smaller population base can double over that distant time frame. It's not incompatible with the census facts I published about raw numerical growth over the past 7 years.
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At least in my posts, I was referring to the rate of growth, not raw population numbers.
Forsyth County has consistently been the fastest growing metro county in term of percentage of total population. This is followed by Cherokee, Henry, Paulding and Coweta counties (all outer suburban / exurban counties) and will remain so according to future projections.
To be clear, none of what I'm saying is meant to imply impressive growth isn't happening in urban cores. But I also think it's important to not dismiss the concurrently impressive outer suburban / exurban growth is also still occurring (it's not like that just suddenly dried up). Even in the aforementioned core counties you mentioned, the lion's share of that growth in the past 7 years has been in the suburban portions of them (not the urban core of Atlanta).
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