US Census Bureau reports: Populations Increasing in Many Downtowns A U.S. Census Bureau report released today shows that in many of the largest cities of the most-populous metro areas, downtown is becoming a place not only to work but also to live. Between the 2000 and 2010 censuses, metro areas with 5 million or more […]
The Numbers Don’t Lie: Inside America’s Economic Machine
[Source: U.S. Census Bureau] . From the US Census Bureau, in advance of the 2012 Economic Census: How Do We Know? Inside America’s Economic Machine The United States has the world’s largest economy, with a gross domestic product of $15 trillion, almost twice the size of China, the second largest economy. The U.S. Census Bureau’s […]
Uncle Sam Wants You… Farmers to Sign Up for Ag Census
[v=gpjP0OduRKY] Agricultural Leaders Ask Farmers to Sign Up and Be Counted in the 2012 Census of Agriculture Washington, June 7, 2012 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture is preparing to mail the 2012 Census of Agriculture to millions of U.S. farmers and ranchers in late December. The Census of Agriculture is a complete count of U.S. […]
Brain Gain in Greater Minnesota: A Continuing Rural Success Story
Migration from rural to urban is the story of America’s progress. In our just over 200-year history, we’ve moved from a nation of Jeffersonian farmers to a majority of urbanites. Bigger is better, of course. But not always is bigger better. And if America is anything, we’re a nation of rebels and rabble-rousers who relish […]
Population 2011: The More Things Change
While the bungled release of the historical 1940 Census records may have overshadowed this, the US Census Bureau this week also released population estimates for 2011. Among the 50 fastest-growing metro areas over the last decade, only 24 of them were also among the 50 fastest growing since the 2010 Census. This is according to […]
Leading the Aging Wave
I got to visit my friends at Kiwanis today and talk about Census 2010 results. Locally, our county seat town grew slightly from 2000, while our county contracted slightly as did the regional overall. The Micropolitan centers of Worthington and Marshall led growth in our area, both overall and in minority (particularly Hispanic) population growth. […]
Not Too Many, But Too Few
Joel Kotkin got it right. The Economist last week reported on increasing concern with the impending demographic disaster of China’s One-Child policy. While their 2010 census counted 1.34 billion people, the survey also reveals a “steep decline” in average annual growth rates. China’s fertility rate may be as low as 1.4 now, far below the […]
Census 2010 Redistricting Releases
IFRAMES not supported US Census 2010 redistricting data has been released this week for Montana, North Dakota, and Minnesota—Colorado came out last week. The rest of the states will be wrapped up soon as the decennial blood sport of redistricting goes public. (The Census Bureau website has a nifty little embedded Flash map for […]
The Census Results are coming! The Census Results are coming!
[v=RUCnb5_HZc0] The U.S. Census Bureau will release the first set of 2010 Census data at a news conference Tuesday, Dec. 21 at 11 a.m. EST at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The 2010 Census data to be released include the resident population for the nation and the states as well as the congressional […]
Drivers of US Census Participation
The 2010 edition of the US Census is coming in with some pretty good returns. “Slightly more than 72 percent of U.S. households believed to be occupied mailed back their 2010 Census forms, the same rate that was achieved in 2000,” according to the US Census Bureau. Minnesota is in 2nd place at 80%, just […]