The US Census Bureau thread

[seaskyfan]

Local coverage in Seattle is focusing on increased diversity - both in the state and in South King County (south of Seattle).

Here's an overview article from the Seattle Times:

"Census: Hispanics Are State's Fastest Growing Group"

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...erview24m.html

One on increased diversity in South King County:

"Shifting Population Changes the Face of South King County"

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...thking24m.html

The second article talks about how minorities as a percentage of population has remained flat in Seattle while the suburban areas are booming in terms of increased minority population.

There's also a map that looks at changes in minority population across the metro area - you can see how southeast Seattle (Central District down through Beacon Hill and the Rainier Valley) is losing minority population as a % of the total. Those neighborhoods have all gotten a lot whiter over the past ten years.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABP...2014314438.pdf

[urbanactivist]

We don't have the full picture on KC without Kansas, but for starters...

http://www.kansascity.com/2011/02/24...s-largest.html

KC’s population up, but well short of estimates

By ERIC ADLER
The Kansas City Star


Kansas City remains the largest city in Missouri — but we’re not as big as we thought we were, according to 2010 Census figures released Thursday.

The city added more than 18,000 people, or 4.1 percent, from 2000 to 2010, to a total of 459,787.

But that’s far below the Census Bureau’s estimate from 2008 — 480,129 — which was based on building activity in the city.

Even so, Kansas City’s numbers were better than those of St. Louis, which lost almost 29,000 residents, or 8.3 percent, to 319,294.

Among the 20 largest cities in the state, St. Louis was the biggest loser. O’Fallon, near St. Louis, was the biggest gainer, up 72 percent.

[ChiSoxRox]

Alabama

Data for Alabama show that the five most populous incorporated places and their 2010 Census counts are Birmingham, 212,237; Montgomery, 205,764; Mobile, 195,111; Huntsville, 180,105; and Tuscaloosa, 90,468. Birmingham decreased by 12.6 percent since the 2000 Census. Montgomery grew by 2.1 percent, Mobile decreased by 1.9 percent, Huntsville grew by 13.8 percent, and Tuscaloosa grew by 16.1 percent.

The largest county is Jefferson, with a population of 658,466. Its population decreased by 0.5 percent since 2000. The other counties in the top five include Mobile, with a population of 412,992 (increase of 3.3 percent); Madison, 334,811 (increase of 21.0 percent); Montgomery, 229,363 (increase of 2.6 percent); and Shelby, 195,085 (increase of 36.1 percent).

Hawaii

Data for Hawaii show that the five most populous places and their 2010 Census counts are Urban Honolulu, 337,256; East Honolulu, 49,914; Pearl City, 47,698; Hilo, 43,263; and Kailua, 38,635. Pearl City grew by 54.0 percent since the 2000 Census. Hilo grew by 6.1 percent and Kailua grew by 5.8 percent. Percent change data are not available for Urban Honolulu and East Honolulu census designated places because they were established after the 2000 Census.

The largest county is Honolulu, with a population of 953,207. Its population grew by 8.8 percent since 2000. The state's other four counties include Hawaii, with a population of 185,079 (increase of 24.5 percent); Maui, 154,834 (increase of 20.9 percent); Kauai, 67,091 (increase of 14.8 percent); and Kalawao, 90 (decrease of 38.8 percent).

Missouri

Data for Missouri show that the five most populous incorporated places and their 2010 Census counts are Kansas City, 459,787; St. Louis, 319,294; Springfield, 159,498; Independence, 116,830; and Columbia, 108,500. Kansas City grew by 4.1 percent since the 2000 Census. St. Louis decreased by 8.3 percent, Springfield grew by 5.2 percent, Independence grew by 3.1 percent, and Columbia grew by 28.4 percent.

The largest county is St. Louis, with a population of 998,954. Its population decreased by 1.7 percent since 2000. The other counties in the top five include Jackson, with a population of 674,158 (increase of 2.9 percent); St. Charles, 360,485 (increase of 27.0 percent); Greene, 275,174 (increase of 14.5 percent); and Clay, 221,939 (increase of 20.6 percent).

Nevada

Data for Nevada show that the five most populous incorporated places and their 2010 Census counts are Las Vegas, 583,756; Henderson, 257,729; Reno, 225,221; North Las Vegas, 216,961; and Sparks, 90,264. Las Vegas grew by 22.0 percent since the 2000 Census. Henderson grew by 47.0 percent, Reno grew by 24.8 percent, North Las Vegas grew by 87.9 percent, and Sparks grew by 36.1 percent.

The largest county is Clark, with a population of 1,951,269. Its population grew by 41.8 percent since 2000. The other counties in the top five include Washoe, with a population of 421,407 (increase of 24.1 percent); Lyon, 51,980 (increase of 50.7 percent); Elko, 48,818 (increase of 7.8 percent); and Douglas, 46,997 (increase of 13.9 percent)

Utah

Data for Utah show that the five most populous incorporated places and their 2010 Census counts are Salt Lake City, 186,440; West Valley City, 129,480; Provo, 112,488; West Jordan, 103,712; and Orem, 88,328. Salt Lake City grew by 2.6 percent since the 2000 Census. West Valley City grew by 18.9 percent, Provo grew by 7.0 percent, West Jordan grew by 51.8 percent, and Orem grew by 4.7 percent.

The largest county is Salt Lake, with a population of 1,029,655. Its population grew by 14.6 percent since 2000. The other counties in the top five include Utah, with a population of 516,564 (increase of 40.2 percent); Davis, 306,479 (increase of 28.2 percent); Weber, 231,236 (increase of 17.7 percent); and Washington, 138,115 (increase of 52.9 percent).

Next week brings Delaware, Kansas, Nebraska, North Carolina, and Wyoming.

[Urbanguy]

@ seaskyfan, I think Hispanics are probably the fastest growing group for most states now. They have also become the fastest growing group over the past decade way out in Hawaii too. Although, the state has had a fairly large Hispanic/Latino population for over 100 years (mainly Puerto Ricans, Spaniards) it totally surprised me this time around that the Hispanic/Latino population has become the fastest growing by percentage (+37.8% to 120,842) & in raw numbers (+33,143) beating out Asians (+21,210), Pacific Islanders (+21,883) & non-Hispanic Whites (+32,252)!

The thing that i've found most interesting & somewhat under the radar is the growing number of Pacific Islanders migrating to places further from Hawaii & the West Coast now. For example, Arkansas had a +251.5% increase or 4,195. I know that the majority of Pacific Islanders are Marshallese moving to AR but still fascinating that so many have been moving further eastward. Missouri (+97% or 3,083), Oklahoma (+84.2% or 1,997), Iowa (98.5% or 994), Texas (+50 or 7,222) also experienced relatively large increases for non-West Coast states.

A little closer to home, Washington & Oregon have also seen large increases in the Pacific Islander population -- Washington's increase by 69% or 16,522 (2nd fastest growing group in the state) & in Oregon 68.1% or 5,482 (the fastest growing group in the state).

Here's another updated list with cities over 100,000 (probably missing some from TX)...btw what's going on with Birmingham, AL?

Chicago city, IL: 2,695,598 (-200,418)
Houston city, TX: 2,099,451 (+145,820)
San Antonio city, TX: 1,327,407 (+182,761)
Dallas city, TX: 1,197,816 (+9,236)
Indianapolis city, IN: 829,718 (+37,792)
Austin city, TX: 790,390 (+133,828)
Fort Worth city, TX: 741,206 (+206,512)
El Paso city, TX: 649,121 (+85,459)
Baltimore city, MD: 620,961 (-30,193)
Seattle city, WA: 608,660 (+45,286)
Washington D.C.: 601,723 (+29,664)
Denver city, CO: 600,158 (+45,522)
Portland city, OR: 583,776 (+54,655)
Las Vegas city, NV: 583,756 (+105,322)
Oklahoma City city, OK: 579,999 (+73,867)
Kansas City city, MO: 459,787 (+18,242)
Virginia Beach city, VA: 437,994 (+12,737)
Colorado Springs city, CO: 416,427 (+55,537)
Tulsa city, OK: 391,906 (-1,143)
Honolulu CDP (incl. East Honolulu) 387,170 (+15,513)
Arlington city, TX: 365,438 (+32,469)
New Orleans city, LA: 343,829 (-140,845)
Aurora city, CO: 325,078 (+48,685)
St. Louis city, MO: 319,294 (-28,895)
Corpus Christi city, TX: 305,215 (+27,761)
Newark city, NJ: 277,140 (+3,594)
Plano city, TX: 259,841 (+37,811)
Henderson city, NV: 257,729 (+82,348)
Fort Wayne city, IN: 253,691 (+47,964)
Jersey City city, NJ: 247,597 (+7,542)
Norfolk city, VA: 242,803 (+8,400)
Laredo city, TX: 236,091 (+59,515)
Lubbock city, TX: 229,573 (+30,009)
Baton Rouge city, LA: 229,493 (+1,675)
Garland city, TX: 226,876 (+11,108)
Reno city, NV: 225,221 (+44,741)
Chesapeake city, VA: 222,209 (+23,025)
North Las Vegas city, NV: 216,961 (+101,473) *should this be included with Las Vegas here?
Irving city, TX: 216,290 (+24,675)
Birmingham city, AL: 212,237 (-30,583)
Spokane city, WA: 208,916 (+13,287)
Montgomery city, AL: 205,764 (+4,196)
Richmond city, VA: 204,214 (+6,424)
Des Moines city, IA: 203,433 (+4,751)
Shreveport city, LA: 199,311 (-834)
Tacoma city, WA: 198,397 (+4,841)
Aurora city, IL: 197,899 (+54,909)
Mobile city, AL: 195,111 (-3,804)
Little Rock city, AR: 193,524 (+10,391)
Amarillo city, TX: 190,695 (+17,068)
Salt Lake City city, UT: 186,440 (+4,697)
Newport News city, VA: 180,719 (+569)
Huntsville city, AL: 180,105 (+21,889)
Grand Prairie city, TX: 175,396 (+47,969)
Brownsville city, TX: 175,023 (+35,301)
Jackson city, MS: 173,514 (-10,742)
Vancouver city, WA: 161,791 (+18,231)
Springfield city, MO: 159,498 (+7,918)
Eugene city, OR: 156,185 (+18,292)
Salem city, OR: 154,637 (+17,713)
Sioux Falls city, SD: 153,888 (+29,913)
Rockford city, IL: 152,871 (+2,756)
Pasadena city, TX: 149,043 (+7,369)
Joliet city, IL: 147,433 (+41,212)
Paterson city, NJ: 146,199 (-3,023)
Fort Collins city, CO: 143,986 (+25,334)
Lakewood city, CO: 142,980 (-1,146)
Naperville city, IL: 141,853 (+13,495)
Alexandria city, VA: 139,966 (+11,683)
Mesquite city, TX: 139,824 (+15,301)
Hampton city, VA: 137,436 (-9,001)
McKinney city, TX: 131,117 (+76,748)
McAllen city, TX: 129,877 (+23,463)
West Valley City city, UT: 129,480 (+20,584)
Cedar Rapids city, IA: 126,326 (+5,568)
Elizabeth city, NJ: 124,969 (+4,401)
Bellevue city, WA: 122,363 (+12,794)
Lafayette city, LA: 120,623 (+10,366)
Thornton city, CO: 118,772 (+36,388)
Evansville city, IN: 117,429 (-4,153)
Independence city, MO: 116,830 (+3,542)
Springfield city, IL: 116,250 (+4,796)
Peoria city, IL: 115,007 (+2,071)
Provo city, UT: 112,488 (+7,322)
Norman city, OK: 110,925 (+15,231)
Columbia city, MO: 108,500 (+23,969)
Elgin city, IL: 108,188 (+13,701)
Pueblo city, CO: 106,595 (+4,474)
Arvada city, CO: 106,433 (+4,280)
Westminster city, CO: 106,114 (+5,174)
Gresham city, OR: 105,594 (+15,389)
West Jordan city, UT: 103,712 (+35,376)
Everett city, WA: 103,019 (+11,531)
South Bend city, IN: 101,168 (-6,621)
Centennial city, CO: 100,377 (n/a)

[Centropolis]

Originally Posted by Urbanguy

The thing that i've found most interesting & somewhat under the radar is the growing number of Pacific Islanders migrating to places further from Hawaii & the West Coast now. For example, Arkansas had a +251.5% increase or 4,195. I know that the majority of Pacific Islanders are Marshallese moving to AR but still fascinating that so many have been moving further eastward. Missouri (+97% or 3,083), Oklahoma (+84.2% or 1,997), Iowa (98.5% or 994), Texas (+50 or 7,222) also experienced relatively large increases for non-West Coast states.

I went to college with a seemingly high number of Samoans, there seems to be a small population in metro Kansas City.

[dktshb]

Wow, those Chicago numbers are crazy.

[bobdreamz]

Anybody know when the Florida numbers are due?

[tablemtn]

Birmingham had a long, absurd, drawn-out, and hugely expensive public works debacle involving a new sewage treatment system and a series of complex financial instruments used to fund it.

Several former city officials are in prison for their role in the affair, but the upshot was that sewage rates exploded for city homeowners.

The whole thing demonstrated a type of horrifying corrupt incompetence on the part of city officials that probably didn't help with population growth.

[urbanactivist]

I still can't get over Arlington, TX being "bigger" than New Orleans. It's just not right.

[fflint]

*Portland and Las Vegas have almost exactly the same population, but as it turns out they are very different kinds of places

*Reno grew faster than Vegas

*There's no way around it: for whatever reason, a lot of these city numbers are disappointing. Baltimore, Birmingham, Chicago--even Dallas didn't grow the way I suspect most of us thought it would

*Houston is America's fifth (or is it sixth?) city ever to reach the two million mark. Help me out here--New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles. Did Detroit ever officially hit 2m?

[Urbanguy]

Here are some metro numbers:

I only did the numbers for Northwest & Hawaii metros.

Seattle-Tacoma-Olympia, WA CSA: 4,199,312 (+492,168)
Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, OR-WA MSA: 2,226,009 (+298,128)
Honolulu, HI MSA: 953,207 (+77,051)
Spokane, WA MSA: 471,221 (+53,282)
Salem, OR MSA: 390,738 (+43,524)
Eugene-Springfield, OR MSA: 351,715 (+28,756)

*Note: The numerical growth for Seattle & Portland are based on the counties that make up each metro area as they are defined now. So in the case of Seattle the population growth is not based on the old CMSA & for Portland -- I excluded Marion county (Salem) since it's not considered part of the metro as it did in 2000 by the Census. These are my calculations so please feel free to double check.

The counties I used for Portland's MSA: Clackamas , Columbia, Multnomah, Washington, Yamhill, Clark, Washington & Skamania, Washington

Counties used for Seattle's CSA: Island, King, Kitsap, Mason, Pierce, Skagit, Snohomish & Thurston

[rds70]

Colorado data:

Metro area populations:

Denver-Boulder-Greeley CSA: 3,090,874
Colo. Springs MSA: 645,613
Ft. Collins-Loveland MSA: 299,630
Pueblo MSA: 159,063
Grand Jct MSA: 146,723

Change from 2000:

Denver-Boulder-Greeley: 460,894
Colo. Springs: 108,129
Ft. Collins-Loveland: 48,136
Pueblo: 17,591
Grand Jct: 30,468

[Urbanguy]

Wow, Denver has sure grown! I think that the metro was still under or just barely over 2 million when i lived there in 92 & 93.

[rds70]

Utah data:

Salt Lake City-Clearfield-Ogden CSA: 1,744,886
Provo-Orem MSA: 516,564
St. George MSA: 138,115

Change since 2000:

Salt Lake City-Clearfield-Ogden: 275,412
Provo-Orem: 139,790
St. George: 47,761

[Gordo]

Originally Posted by fflint

*Reno grew faster than Vegas

The reason for this is that a huge portion of the population growth in the Las Vegas Valley occurred in unincorporated Clark County (the Strip itself is not in Las Vegas, but in unincorporated Clark County). The growth in the city of Las Vegas is almost entirely on the north side of the valley, where the south is split up between the city of Henderson and unincorporated areas. Clark County grew about twice as fast as Washoe County (Reno's county).

However, things like the fire department and police department are handled at the "metro" level, which is basically the city of Las Vegas + the unincorporated areas, but not including Henderson, which has its own police. It's kind of a weird setup.

[BevoLJ]

Originally Posted by fflint

*Houston is America's fifth (or is it sixth?) city ever to reach the two million mark. Help me out here--New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles. Did Detroit ever officially hit 2m?

Detroit got up to 1.8 million in the 50's but that is the highest I think it ever got. I guess Phoenix would be the next to likely join that group? Philly has fallen down to about 1.5 million but they could get back up there.

[Centropolis]

Originally Posted by urbanactivist

I still can't get over Arlington, TX being "bigger" than New Orleans. It's just not right.

There's a lot that ain't right;

[plinko]

Originally Posted by fflint

*Portland and Las Vegas have almost exactly the same population, but as it turns out they are very different kinds of places

*Reno grew faster than Vegas

*There's no way around it: for whatever reason, a lot of these city numbers are disappointing. Baltimore, Birmingham, Chicago--even Dallas didn't grow the way I suspect most of us thought it would

*Houston is America's fifth (or is it sixth?) city ever to reach the two million mark. Help me out here--New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles. Did Detroit ever officially hit 2m?

No kidding. Remember how exciting it was around these parts 10 years ago when basically every US core city had been vastly under-estimated? I've been pretty much underwhelmed by all of these results so far.

FYI, Detroit never officially was tallied over 2M+. It hit 1.895M (IIRC) in 1950. I have a Rand McNally atlas from 1956 that estimates the city population at just over 2M, but by the 1960 census it had started losing people officially.

It's going to be absolutely shocking if the NY numbers come out and NYC basically stayed flat. Same for LA, which the CADoF estimates passed 4M about 3 years ago, but will probably come up short in the census results.

[Xing]

The cities that lost population have increased population, and growth, in their city centers. I think, to remain positive, that these cities are setting themselves up for growth. I don't expect magic to happen in one decade. What was said earlier about family sizes of those moving in, and of those moving out, is an excellent argument. The negativity some feel, imho, is similar to that of a person who just planted a seed, and was disappointed that no plant emerged the next day. People have to be patient, and continue what has been encouraged.

[HurricaneHugo]

It's surprising to me that Chula Vista (pop 227,000), a suburb of San Diego, is larger than Salt Lake City despite being half the size...