Official US 2010 Census Results

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Maine
Maine grew at a 4.2% pace.  All but two of its 16 counties grew, both on Maine's eastern border with Canada.  Downeast Washington County, home to the easternmost point in the United States, lost 3.2% of its population.  Maine's hat, Aroostook County (Presque Isle) lost 2.8%.  

Coastal Waldo County (Belfast; +6.9%) grew fastest - though it's not immediately clear why.  The county is somewhat close to Bangor, but doesn't seem terribly suburban.  Bangor's Penobscot County (+6.2%) was next, followed by Porland's Cumberland County (+6.0%), which picked up the most new residents and remains the largest county in the state, and south coastal York County (+5.6%).  Oxford County (+5.6%) on the New Hampshire border, Hancock County (Bar Harbor/Arcadia National Park; +5.1%), Franklin County (+4.4%) in northeast Maine and the state capital of Augusta's Kennebec County (+4.3%) also grew faster than the state.  Coastal Knox County (Rockport; +0.3%) and Sagadahoc County (Bath; +0.2%) barely grew.

On the municipal level, the Portland suburb of Gorham (+15.8%) grew fastest among the top 20 municipalities and picked up the most new residents, 2,240.  It is near the University of Southern Maine.  Gorham was followed by another Portland suburb, Windham (+14.1%), the college town of Orono (+13.7%), near Bangor, and Portland-suburban Scarborough (+11.5%).  Other Portland suburbs, including Falmouth (+8.5%), Westbrook (+8.4%), South Portland (+7.2%) and Standish (+6.3%) also grew faster than the state.  Portland (+3.0%) lagged state growth, but picked up about 1,950 new residents.

The picture was more mixed in coastal York County on the New Hampshire border.  Saco (+9.9%) almost posted double-digit growth, while Kennebunk (+3.1%) and Saco's neighbor, Biddleford (+1.6%) lagged the state, inland Sanford was flat (-0.0%) and the town of York (-2.5%) lost population.  In the rest of the state, Steven King's Bangor (+5.0%) and the state capital of Augusta (+3.1%) grew, Waterville (+0.7%) was flat and Brunswick (-4.2%) and Auburn (-0.6%) lost population.

Maine's non-Hispanic white population increased by 2.0%.  Its non-Hispanic black population (+135.3%) more than doubled and its Hispanic population (+80.9%) almost doubled.  Non-Hispanic Asians increased by 49.1%.  Those last three figures may sound impressive, but each minority group makes up only a little over 1% of Maine's population.  Maine is still 94.4% non-Hispanic white.

New York
New York State and City both grew at a 2.1% clip.  Among the five boroughs of New York, Staten Island (Richmond County) grew the fastest, at a 5.6% clip, followed by the Bronx (+3.9%), which picked up the most new residents, Manhattan (New York County; +3.2%), Brooklyn (Kings County; +1.6%) and Queens (+0.1%).  Outside of NYC, the fastest growing of the top 20 counties were suburban/exurban.  Albany-suburban Saratoga County (+9.5%) lead the pack, followed by the usual suspects in the far NYC suburbs/exurbs: Orange County (+9.2%), Rockland County (+8.7%) and Dutchess County (+6.2%) in the northern suburbs and Suffolk County (+5.2%) on the east end of Long Island.  Suffolk picked up the most new residents of the state.  NYC's closer-in suburban counties, Westchester (+2.8%) and Nassau (+0.4) also grew.  

Upstate, many Western New York Counties lost population, including Buffalo's Erie County (-3.3%) and Niagara Falls' Niagara County (-1.5%).  Somewhat surprisingly, Rochester's Monroe County (+1.2%), Syracuse's Onaodaga County (+1.9%) and Binghamton's Broome County (+0.0%) all grew, even if their growth lagged the state's.  Albany County (+3.3%) and NYC uber-exurban Ulster County (+2.7%) grew faster than the state, while Utica's Oneida County (-0.3%) showed a slight decline.  

On the municipal level, Upstate Buffalo (-10.7%), Niagara Falls (-9.7%), Rochester (-4.2%), Rome (-3.5%), Syracuse (-1.5%) and Bighamton (-0.0%) lost population.  Utica (+2.6%) grew faster than the state.  The Albany-area cities of Schenectady (+7.0), Albany (+2.3%) and Troy (+2.0%) all grew.  The New York suburban picture was mixed with the city of Poughkeepsie (+9.6) growing fastest.  In north-suburban Westchester County, White Plains (+7.1%) and New Rochelle (+6.8%) grew while Mount Vernon (-1.6%) and Yonkers (-0.1%) posted slight declines.  On Long Island, the village of Valley Stream (+3.1%) grew while Long Beach (-6.2%),  Hempstead village (-4.7%) and  Freeport village (-2.1%) lost population.

New York State lost both non-Hispanic Whites (-3.9%) and non-Hispanic blacks (-1.0%).  Its Hispanic population grew by 19.2% - which might not sound high relative to other states.  But because New York was home to over 2.8 million Hispanics in 2000, it translates into a gain of almost 550,000 Hispanics, putting the Hispanic population at 3.4 million, 17.6% of the state's population.  New York's non-Hispanic Asian population increased by 35.7%.  It is now over 1.4 million.

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interactive racial map for NYC http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2011/mar/24/black-white-shift/

Interesting.  Harlem is getting less and less black.  Charlie Rangel will be representing a majority Hispanic district before long - if he isn't already.

The mean population center of the US is 2.7 miles northeast of Plato, Missouri, at 37.517534 N, 92.173096 W.  It is 23.4 miles SSW of last decade's mean population center near Edgar Springs, Missouri.

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WNYC's interactive plurality-racial map: http://project.wnyc.org/census-maps/2010pop.html?lat=40.7785&lon=-73.9644&zoom=12&sel=6

It's bizarre that their map includes Sussex County, NJ, but not Suffolk County.

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WNYC's interactive plurality-racial map: http://project.wnyc.org/census-maps/2010pop.html?lat=40.7785&lon=-73.9644&zoom=12&sel=6

It's bizarre that their map includes Sussex County, NJ, but not Suffolk County.

It's a radio program, might just be wherever they're on the air?

I doubt their signal makes it all the way out to High Point, NJ but not to West Babylon.

It's probably just random.  One set of maps includes Orange and Putnam counties.  The other doesn't.  Neither include Suffolk.

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Where do I find out the stats for Oklahoma?  I can't find it on census.gov, yet.

They should be in the new American Factfinder:
http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml

The old American Factfinder was much more intuitive.

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Where do I find out the stats for Oklahoma?  I can't find it on census.gov, yet.

They should be in the new American Factfinder:
http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml

The old American Factfinder was much more intuitive.

I find Oklahoma City and the top 20 cities in Oklahoma, but I don't find the smaller towns.  Are they not released, yet?

As of 2PM this afternoon, redistricting data for every state has been released.  Oklahoma's data should have been put in the new American Factfinder within 24 hours of release a few weeks ago.  If it is not,  You could always download the Oklahoma file from census' redistricting FTP site.

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Interesting.  Harlem is getting less and less black.  Charlie Rangel will be representing a majority Hispanic district before long - if he isn't already.

Rangel's district actually became less Hispanic in the last 10 years it was 48% Hispanic in 2000 and 46% in 2010, while blacks went from 30% to 26%. It's whites that gained going from 16% to 21%.

Rangel's district will need to pick up about 77,000 new residents.  Moving it into the Bronx will inevitably pick up more Hispanics than blacks.  The black sections of the South Bronx are more Hispanic than black now.  Getting it up to the more heavily African-American areas of the North Bronx would be a strange Gerrymander.  Moving it South into the Upper West Side or east into Queens would pick up more Whites.

Jerrold Nadler's NY-08 is the closest to the ideal population, needing only about 4,000 new residents.  NY-01 in Suffolk County is also pretty close, just over 12,000.  Ever other district needs to find more than 17,000 residents.

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Rangel has no problem representing Hispanics. Or had, anyways, before his ethic troubles hit. No idea who still supported him in the 2010 primary - though his stronger challengers were Black too IIRC.
Also, Harlem has probably the most Hispanic Blacks in the nation (huge DomRep immigrant population.) These figures are for non-Hispanic Blacks.

I never said he'd have trouble with it.  I just made the observation that Harlem is becoming more white as non-Hispanic blacks leave Harlem and, in many cases, New York City.  They might try to stretch Rangel's district into the North Bronx to pick up more non-Hispanic blacks.  But his new district otherwise might end up being majority Hispanic instead of plurality so - unless it moves south into the Upper West Side or east into Astoria.

NYC's Dominican population in more in Washington Heights than Harlem (also in Rangel's district, IIRC). 

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Arabs and Persians are counted as Asians?

They're supposed to report as White. Some (Muslim) ones identify as Other or even Asian. Might be worth taking a look at Dearborn to see if there's any changes to that.

Dearborn reported as just under 87% non-Hispanic White and just 2% Asian in the last census.  The Non-Hispanic White share of population actually increased by about 2 points from 2000, most likely at the expense of multiracial or other - though I only copied NH-White/Black/American Indian/Asian/Hispanic to my worksheet and would have to go back to the original dataset to see whether Dearborn had more multi-racials or others.  Per Wikipedia, it was multiracials in 2000.  The percentage of Dearborn residents reporting as one of the 5 listed categories increased from about 91% to about 95% over the past decade.

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Can anyone find high (over 40%) Asian tracts outside the West Coast and the urban areas? I find one 54% outside Philly and several over 40%, up to 49%, in MontCo, MD.

I suppose that depends on how one defines "urban" and "west coast".  There's a 70% Asian census tract in Edison, NJ.  Central NJ has a lot of Asians.

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There's a 70% Asian tract on the campus of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.  And there are 40-55% Asian tracts that include part of or are very near to the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison and the big universities in Champaign, Illinois, Ann Arbor and Lansing, Michigan.

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I guess I never knew this part of the background to this whole Lou Barletta thing, but Hazleton PA had an incredibly high influx of Hispanics over the decade, way more than the other ex-coal towns in the region - the % Hispanic for the city went from 5% in 2000 to 37% in 2010 and on the NY Times map the Hispanic increases for all the tracts within the city are 858%, 1,347%, 1,779%, 1,062%, 374%, 685%, 344% and 1043%. Does anyone know why this is?

Probably because that's where the low-paying jobs and cheap housing are.  Hazleton is at the crossroads of I-81 and I-80.  As a result, the area has a number of distribution centers and some manufacturing.  The Hispanic population also increased in other Northeastern Pennsylvania cities.

Of course, Barletta wasn't acting in a vacuum when he tried to attack his city's illegal immigration problem.

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The North Dakota oil boom town of Williston was the fastest-growing city of 10,000 or more in the past year, followed by Saratoga Springs, UT (west of Provo) and Prosper, TX (north of Dallas).