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Originally Posted by SmilingBob
Didn't realize that the IF metro was that far ahead of Pocatello metro:
Idaho
2000 2006
Boise 464,840 567,640 22.1%
Coeur d'Alene 108,685 131,507 21.0%
Idaho Falls 101,677 116,980 15.1%
Twin Falls 82,626 91,705 11.0%
Pocatello 83,103 86,357 3.9%
PS, IFguy your estimates were pretty close.
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Smiling Bob- Thanks man, after there was a little tiff about anothers estimates I decided to do some detailed investigation and that is what I came up with. I am still not 100% sure on IF's legal metro boundary as I have heard it contains Jefferson County, which makes sense, and Bingham County, whereas only the northern portion makes sense. If you include Shelley and those surrounding areas I think it would give mabye 5000 more to the metro.
As far as 2007 estimates, depending on what comes to be this year as far as developments of Snake River Landing and Taylor Crossing (condos), I would probably venture into the 120 K range and IF around 56K. After all these are US Census numbers and who really knows how accurate they are.
One thing is for sure as you pointed out though, Pocatello is really starting to lag behind, even Twin Falls has overtaken them. The only bright spot for Poky is the addition of Hoku, while everything else seems to be in a downturn right now while IF continues to grow and prosper. Funny to think that not too long ago, it was thought that Poky would be the next big city in Idaho, now it looks like CDA and IF are both going to make that leap long before Poky.