Official US 2010 Census Results

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Colorado, Oregon and Washington were just released.

El Paso County (Colorado Springs) is now the largest county in Colorado, surpassing Denver County and Jefferson Counties.  Jefferson County grew by an anemic 1.4%, and is now in fourth, behind those two and Arapahoe.

Colorado grew by 16.9%, with the non-Hispanic White population growing by 9.9%.

In Oregon, Deschutes County (Bend) was the fastest-growing, at 36.7%.  Multnomah County (Portland) grew at about the statewide average (11.3% vs. 12.0%); Portland-suburban Washington County grew faster than that, at 18.9%.  Redmond (94%), Grant's Pass (50%),  Bend (47%) and Hillsboro (31%) were the fastest-growing cities in the state.

Oregon's non-Hispanic White population grew by 5.2%.

In Washington, Franklin County (Pasco/Tri-Cities) grew the most - by 58.4%, followed by Clark (Portland Suburbs) at 23.2%, Benton (Richland/Kennewick/Tri-Cities) at 23.0%, Mason (north of Olympia) at 22.9% and Thurston (Olympia) at 21.7%.  King and Pierce Counties grew slightly less than the state as a whole (11.2 and 13.5% vs. 14.1%).

The city of Seattle grew by 8% - far less rapidly than suburban Seattle areas like Marysville (137%),  Renton (82%) and Auburn (78%) or interior cities like Pasco (86%), Kennewick (35%) and Yakima (27%).  Spokane (7%) and Tacoma (3%) grew even slower than Seattle.

The non-Hispanic white population grew by 4.8%.

Hawaii hasn't been released yet.  It might take an additional day to get in touch with their legislative leaders, given the time difference.

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Note that the fastest growing is of the 20 largest counties ranked by the census bureau.

Only two Washington counties lost population, both on the Oregon border - Pacific and Garfield.  Most counties in Eastern Oregon lost population, save a few on the Columbia River.  In Colorado, most counties bordering Kansas lost population, as did a few bordering New Mexico and Wyoming, as well as Lake and Clear Creek counties in the Rockies.

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far less rapidly than suburban Seattle areas like Marysville (137%)

I'm sorry, but I find that idea hilarious.

Which idea is hilarious?  Marysville is the fastest-growing city in the state in percentage terms.  Granted, its 2000 base population was much lower than most - but even so, it picked up more residents than any city except Seattle and Renton.  It jumped from the state's 36th largest city to its 15th.

Snohomish County (17.7%) grew at a faster rate than King, Pierce or the state as a whole.

You can classify a city that is 35 miles away from the metro's main city along its main highway and rail line in one of its major suburban counties as whatever you like - suburban, exurban, suburban Everett or whatever.  It's in the Seattle metro.

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far less rapidly than suburban Seattle areas like Marysville (137%)

I'm sorry, but I find that idea hilarious.

Which idea is hilarious?  Marysville is the fastest-growing city in the state in percentage terms.  Granted, its 2000 base population was much lower than most - but even so, it picked up more residents than any city except Seattle and Renton.  It jumped from the state's 36th largest city to its 15th.

Snohomish County (17.7%) grew at a faster rate than King, Pierce or the state as a whole.

No, no. I don’t doubt you. I’ve just lived in or near Marysville (about 15 minutes west of) for most of my life, and my dad used to work for the City of Marysville as their finance director once upon a time, and the notion that Marysville is a Seattle suburb is a strange one to me. If anything, it's a suburb (sorta, it's complicated) of Everett.

Also, on the population growth, a good chunk of that growth in Marysville was from annexations of surrounding suburban areas that were previously unincorporated. It did grow, and quite a bit, don’t get me wrong, it’s just a bit inflated.

Growth due to annexations is one thing that takes further analysis to unravel.  The census bureau does not differentiate between growth in the old city area or growth in annexed areas.

It does make sense that Marysville would have seen explosive growth in the past decade, as the Seattle-Tacoma metro area raced up the I-5 corridor.  Auburn is another area at the fringes of the highway system where one would have expected to see explosive growth, too.

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I think Alabama, Missouri, Nevada and Utah shipped to legislative leaders today.  We might get those states plus Hawaii tomorrow afternoon.

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Question for the northwesterners: why is Deschutes county (Bend, OR) growing so fast?

I think you're seeing the same type of thing that partially drove growth in places like Montrose, Grand Junction and Eagle County, Colorado.  Bend is an outdoorsy lifestyle town that attracts both retirees and outdoor enthusiasts.  Tourism is its number one industry.  (Grand Junction also had a bit of an oil and gas play, though).

Also, its 2000 base population isn't as high as someplace like Portland, which makes the percentage growth higher than it would otherwise be.  But the city did have the second-highest population increase after Portland, and the county the third-highest after the two largest Portland-area counties.

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I think Bend also experienced growth the same way Las Vegas and Phoenix did--it was a low-cost housing market of a certain size convenient to some wealthy, high-cost housing markets.

Well, Bend had, at one time, one of the most overvalued housing markets in the country, according to Forbes.  But home prices were probably still lower than comparable housing in denser West Coast urban areas.

If I were to liken Bend to any southern Mountain West town, it would be St. George, Utah in Utah's Dixie - another town that we're likely to see experienced extremely high growth when Utah's numbers are released this afternoon.  It's a desert town a few hours from a major city (Las Vegas) that is near recreational opportunities in the nearby mountains.  Retirees flocked there over the past decade, and others followed.  

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Alabama, Hawaii, Missouri, Nevada and Utah are now out.  The highlights, in reverse alphabetical order:

Utah
In Utah, growth was largely in the Salt Lake City area, particularly in the I-15 corridor from Salt Lake City to Provo.  The state's fastest-growing cities were Lehi (+149%),  Spanish Fork (+71%), South Jordan (+71%), Draper (+67%), Riverton (+55%), West Jordan (+52%) and St. George (+47%), all but the last of which are in that corridor.  Salt Lake City proper barely grew (+3%) and suburban Sandy lost population (-1%).

The fastest-growing counties were Wasatch (+55%), on the other side of the mountains for which it is named from Provo (perhaps exurban spillover in the Heber City area - but the population is still under 25k), Washington (+53%), on the state's southwest corner in Utah's dixie, home to the city of St. George, Tooele (+43%), immediately west of Salt Lake County, and Utah (+40%), home of Provo and BYU.   Salt Lake County grew slower than the state (14.6% vs. 23.8%), but still picked up more residents than all but Utah County - and more residents than live in all but the top 5 counties.

The state's non-Hispanic white population grew by 16.7%.

Nevada
As expected, the overwhelming majority of Nevada's growth was in Clark County (Las Vegas), which grew faster than the state as a whole (41.8% vs. 35.1%).  Only Lyon County, arguably exurban Reno, grew faster at 50.7% - but from a much lower base.  And the only other county to grow faster than the state was Nye (35.3%).  I suspect much of its growth was in the Pahrump area, arguably exurban Las Vegas.  Washoe County (Reno) grew at a respectable 24.1%, and picked up more residents than live in any other county but Clark.  Ultra-rural Lander (-0.3%), Mineral (-5.9%) and Esmeralda (-19.1%) counties lost population.  Esmeralda's population fell to just 783.

On the city level, the fastest-growers were Fernley in Lyon County (+127%), North Las Vegas (+88%), Mesquite, on I-15 at the Arizona border (+63%), Henderson (+47%) and Sparks, near Reno (+36%).  Las Vegas proper grew by 22%, but picked up more residents than any other city.  Reno proper grew by 25%, but picked up more residents than any cities but Las Vegas and North Las Vegas.   Rural West Wendover (-7%), Lovelock (-5%) and Wells (-4%) lost population.   Boulder City barely grew.

The state's non-Hispanic White population grew by 12.2%.

Missouri
St. Louis City (-8.3%) and County (-1.7%) both lost population, while Kansas City (+4.1%) and most other cities gained population.  The fastest-growing of the top-20 cities were O'Fallon (+71.8%) in St. Louis' St. Charles County suburbs, Lee's Summit (+29.2%) in the Kansas City suburbs, the college town of Columbia (+28.4%) and Joplin (+10.2%) in the southwest corner of the state.  No other of the top 20 cities grew by more than 10%.  University City (-5.5%), adjacent to St. Louis, Raytown (-2.8%), adjacent to Kansas City, and Ballwin (-2.8%) in St. Louis County lost population.

On the county level, St. Louis County's population fell below 1,000,000, while neighboring St. Charles County grew by 27%.  Other counties with rapid growth include Christian (+43%), south of Springfield,  Lincoln (+35%), north of St. Charles, Pulaski (+27%), which includes Fort Leonard Wood, Cass (+21%), Platte (+21%) and Clay (+20%), all in the Kansas City area, plus Boone County (+20%), home of Columbia.

Missouri's non-Hispanic white population grew by 3.5%, half as fast as the state as a whole (7.0%).

Hawaii
The Neighbor Islands grew faster than Oahu (+8.8%), with the big Island of Hawaii leading the way at 24.5%.  Maui County was next, growing at a 20.9% clip, followed by Kauai County at 14.8%.  Nevertheless, Honolulu County (Oahu) picked up more residents than all the other counties combined.  Kalawao County, comprising the former leper colony of Kalaupapa on the island of Molakai, lost 38.8% of its residents and is now down to 90 residents.  Loving County, Texas is still smaller, with 82 residents.

Hawaii's census geography is a bit strange because it doesn't have municipalities below the county level, and census designated place borders have changed since 2000, rendering comparisons impossible.  Of the CDPs with the same borders in 2000, the Ewa Gentry CDP, presumably on Oahu west of Pearl Harbor, grew by leaps and bounds (359%), as did Pearl City (54%).  Kahului and Kihei CDPs on Maui grew 31% and 25%, respectively.  Interior Oahu Miilani Town CDP (-3%) and Windward Oahu Kaneohe (-1.1%) lost population.

Hawaii's non-Hispanic white population grew by 11.6%, almost as fast as the state as a whole (12.3%).  Hawaii's non-Hispanic African-American population fell by 4.4%, while its non-Hispanic Asian population grew at a relatively slow 3.9%.  The non-Hispanic Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander population grew by 18.2%.   Non-Hispanics of two or more races increased by 20.7%, while Hispanics increased by 37.8%.

Alabama
The city of Birmingham lost over 30,000 residents in the past decade, 12.6% of its population. Despite only growing by 2.1%, the state capital of Montgomery ended up only about 6,500 residents away from passing Birmingham as the state's largest city.  

Birmingham's loss was its suburbs' gain - Vestavia Hills and Hoover in Jefferson County grew by 39.0% and 30.1%;  Alabaster in Shelby County by 34.2%.   But gains in suburban Jefferson County were not enough to offset population losses in Birmingham and Bessemer (-7.5%), causing the county as a whole to lose 0.5% of its residents over the past decade.  

Other cities with rapid growth include the Huntsville suburb of Madison (+46.4%), the Montgomery suburb of Prattville (+39.7%), Enterprise (+25.4%), near Fort Rucker in the southeast corner of the state, and the college town of Auburn (+24.2%).  The cities of Mobile (-1.9%) and Gadsen (-5.4%) both lost population.

On the county level, most counties in Western Alabama lost population.  The fastest-growing counties were generally in the Huntsville area, outer areas of the Birmingham metro, and Montgomery suburbs.  Shelby County, near Birmingham, led the pack with 36% growth, followed by Baldwin County on the Redneck Riviera across Mobile Bay from Mobile at 29%, Birmingham-area St. Clair County at 29%, Limestone County near Huntsville at 26%, Lee County (Auburn) at 22% Madison County (Huntsville) at 21%, and Elmore County north of Montgomery at 20%.  Madison, Shelby and Baldwin gained the most total population.
 
Alabama's non-Hispanic white population grew by 2.5%, one-third of the state's overall 7.5% growth.  The Hispanic population more than doubled (+144.8%).  Alabama's non-Hispanic black population grew slightly faster than the overall state population (+8.2%).

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Delaware, Kansas, Nebraska, North Carolina and Wyoming will be released next week.

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Surprising is that Salt Lake City could fall by the wayside as a state capital that is also the largest city in its state, while Montgomery could reclaim its claim.

Salt Lake City's still a long way off from being dethroned as the largest city in Utah.  Its population is about 186,500.  The next largest city, West Valley City, has about 57,000 fewer residents at about 129,500.   If West Valley City continues to grow at the same pace as 2000-2010, it would probably take 3 decades to pass Salt Lake City.    Same with fast-growing West Jordan - it's about 2 to 3 decades off from passing SLC, assuming current growth rates, which probably aren't sustainable.  Plus, Salt Lake City might have some land to grow out by the airport.

Montgomery, on the other hand...

Clark County doesn't quite have enough population for 3 of Nevada's 4 CD.  It is 74,000 short.  You can either go along the Utah border to Idaho, or take the entire pointed lower pointed part of the state to get enough population.  So now the cow counties are not only overwhelmed by Reno and Las Vegas they will be divided up.

I think you almost have to put Nye with the Clark County district, given it is pretty much exurban Las Vegas now that its population is centered in Pahrump instead of Tonopah.  After that, you'd need to find another 30,200 residents - most logically first from Lincoln, Esmeralda and Mineral Counties, and then either going up to White Pine and environs or across to take in southern Lyon and Douglas.  I'd probably do the former to keep as much of the Reno/Lake Tahoe/Carson City area together as possible.

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That majority black MO-01 may be possible after all. The 2005-2009 ACS estimate for Bellefontaine Neighbors was 50.3% black, 48.4% white, so I guess the ACS did not pick up on white flight in North STL County very well. Had Riverview Village as 59.5% black, too (although was much closer for Spanish Lake, estimating 73.9% black).

It's still going to be very difficult to do.  By my math, the average Missouri CD will have about 748,000 residents.  A majority would be about 374,000.  There are about 390,000 African Americans in St. Louis city and county combined - before taking into account Hispanic status.   I doubt you'd be able to draw a district that captures 95% of St. Louis City and County's African-Americans - and that's before deciding whether black Hispanics should qualify under whatever race-based standard you are applying.

I'm not sure why creating such a district is necessary, since any district centered on St. Louis city will likely vote for the Democrat, anyway, similar to how the African-American population would vote.

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That majority black MO-01 may be possible after all. The 2005-2009 ACS estimate for Bellefontaine Neighbors was 50.3% black, 48.4% white, so I guess the ACS did not pick up on white flight in North STL County very well. Had Riverview Village as 59.5% black, too (although was much closer for Spanish Lake, estimating 73.9% black).

It's still going to be very difficult to do.  By my math, the average Missouri CD will have about 748,000 residents.  A majority would be about 374,000.  There are about 390,000 African Americans in St. Louis city and county combined - before taking into account Hispanic status.   I doubt you'd be able to draw a district that captures 95% of St. Louis City and County's African-Americans - and that's before deciding whether black Hispanics should qualify under whatever race-based standard you are applying.

I'm not sure why creating such a district is necessary, since any district centered on St. Louis city will likely vote for the Democrat, anyway, similar to how the African-American population would vote.

It's not only about the party preferred by the black population, but by the candidates preferred by the minority group. If there is a clear difference in voting preference between blacks and whites, even in the primary, and it is possible to create a >50% VAP black district, then failure to do so can be the basis for a federal VRA challenge.

Yes.  But could a district that is at most 52% African-American still vote against the candidate the minority supposedly wants, anyway - and that's before doing whatever the VRA requires to be done with non-Hispanic blacks or even trying to figure out if a district that is majority VAP black is possible in the St. Louis area.  My guess is that it can't be drawn and even if it is, it won't matter because the incumbent black Democrat, William Clay, will win MO-01 regardless of how it is drawn as long as it includes most of St. Louis City.

This racial stuff is overrated and unnecessary in a country that has elected a black President.  I hope the Supreme Court strikes down the VRA when states overreach this cycle.

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Alabama, Hawaii, Missouri, Nevada and Utah are now out.  The highlights, in reverse alphabetical order:

Utah
In Utah, growth was largely in the Salt Lake City area, particularly in the I-15 corridor from Salt Lake City to Provo.  The state's fastest-growing cities were Lehi (+149%),  Spanish Fork (+71%), South Jordan (+71%), Draper (+67%), Riverton (+55%), West Jordan (+52%) and St. George (+47%), all but the last of which are in that corridor.  Salt Lake City proper barely grew (+3%) and suburban Sandy lost population (-1%).

The fastest-growing counties were Wasatch (+55%), on the other side of the mountains for which it is named from Provo (perhaps exurban spillover in the Heber City area - but the population is still under 25k), Washington (+53%), on the state's southwest corner in Utah's dixie, home to the city of St. George, Tooele (+43%), immediately west of Salt Lake County, and Utah (+40%), home of Provo and BYU.   Salt Lake County grew slower than the state (14.6% vs. 23.8%), but still picked up more residents than all but Utah County - and more residents than live in all but the top 5 counties.

Where are you getting the tabular form for data like this? The website is hard to navigate.

What jimrtex said, plus looking at the county population change jpeg maps that come with the press release announcing the data for each state.   The press releases are usually first put here.

I've been doing the summaries shortly after the press release at about 3PM.  Additional data may or may not have been put up on American Factfinder since then.  And yes, the new American Factfinder is a bit confusing when you first try to use it.

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Nebraska shipped to legislators today, and is expected to be released to the public around 3PM tomorrow.

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Nebraska was just released.

The fastest-growing of the top 20 counties was Sarpy (+29.6%), in Omaha's south suburbs.  That was followed by Lancaster (+14.0%), home of the state capital of Lincoln, and Douglas (+11.5%), home of Omaha and its western suburbs.  No other of the top 20 counties grew by more than 10%, though Hall (+9.5%), Buffalo (+9.1%) and Washington (+7.7%) did grow faster than the state (+6.7%).   Hall and Buffalo are home to the market towns of Grand Island and Kearney, in central Nebraska; Washington is immediately north of Omaha.  Gage (-3.0%), Madison (-1.0%) and Dawson (-0.2%) counties lost population - as did most smaller counties in the state.  Those three counties are home to smaller market towns that also likely lost population.

Omaha is still the state's largest city, growing 4.9% since 2000.  Its population is over 400,000.  The two fastest-growing cities in the state were LaVista (+34.7%) and Papillion (+15.5%), both Omaha suburbs in Sarpy County.   Lincoln was next, growing at a 14.5% clip, followed by the Omaha suburb of Bellevue (+13.0%), Grand Island (+13.0%), Kearney (+12.2%) and South Sioux City (+12.0%).   South Sioux City is across the Missouri River from its Iowa namesake.  Alliance (-5.2%), in Western Nebraska, York (-3.9%), east of Grand Island, and Beatrice (-0.3%), in Southeast Nebraska, lost population.

Nebraska's non-Hispanic white population grew by just 0.4%.  The Hispanic population grew by 77%, non-Hispanic Asians by 47% and non-Hispanic Blacks by 20%.   Omaha has about as many Hispanics as African Americans (before taking into account whether those blacks are Hispanic or not Hispanic).  Lexington, west of Kearney on I-80, is majority Hispanic.  South Sioux City is almost half Hispanic.

Census hasn't said whether it shipped any of the 4 remaining states promised this week to legislators today.

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Lexington was majority Hispanic in 2000, too. What's the percentage now?

Also, with Douglas and Sarpy Counties both growing faster than the state, what will they do with NE-02?

60.4%.

Douglas plus Sarpy has about 67,000 more residents than required for one CD (about 609,000).  They are now about 11% over the population required for one district, versus about 3% over in 2000.   I'm not sure much would need to change except which portions of Sarpy are included with Douglas.  But that doesn't necessarily mean the legislature or whomever is drawing the lines might not want to do something else, like split Douglas.

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For whatever reason, the 2009 census estimate for Omaha was way off - 454,731 versus an actual Census 2010 population of 408,958.  The estimate for Douglas County as a whole, though, was accurate - 510,199 versus 517,110.   About 10,000 of Omaha's 18,951 new residents were gained in the annexation of the former city of Elkhorn, per the Omaha World-Herald.

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Delaware and (more interestingly) North Carolina shipped today.

So Kansas and Wyoming tomorrow or just sometime this week?

Later this week.  My guess is Thursday, but we'll see.

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Delaware and (more interestingly) North Carolina shipped today.

So Kansas and Wyoming tomorrow or just sometime this week?

The schedule is that they ship sometime between Monday and Thursday; are received between Tuesday and Friday; and all the data is is available on the census bureau web site between Wednesday and Saturday.

And they've usually been released around 3PM Eastern - but Delaware and North Carolina are expected to be released at 2PM Eastern tomorrow.

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North Carolina and Delaware have been released.

North Carolina
Every major North Carolina county grew - but among the top 20, no county faster than Union County (+62.8%), Charlotte's southeast suburbs/exurbs.  Mecklenburg (Charlotte) is still the largest county in the state, just barely edging out Wake County (Raleigh) by under 20,000 residents.   Wake grew at a 43.5% clip, picking up more residents than live in all but the top 5 North Carolina counties.  Johnston County, Raleigh's southeast suburbs, was next fastest growing, at 38.5%, followed by Cabbarus County, in Charlotte's northeast suburbs/exurbs at 35.8%, Mecklenburg at 32.2%, Iredell, in Charlotte's northern suburbs/exurbs, at 30.0%, New Hanover (Wilmington) at 26.4% and Pitt (Greenville) at 25.7%.  

Overall, only 7 of North Carolina's 100 counties lost population - Mitchell, in the mountains, and Halifax, Martin, Washington, Hyde, Lenoir and Jones in the tidewater.

The town of Huntersville, a north Charlotte suburb, was the fastest-growing of the state's top 20 municipalities, growing by 87.4%.  Raleigh was next, growing at a 46.3% pace, followed by Cary (west of Raleigh) at 43.1%, Concord (NE of Charlotte) at 41.2%, Wilmington at 40.4%, Greenville at 39.8% and Charlotte at 35.2%.   Charlotte grew by about 190,000 residents, and has just about as many residents as will be required for one Congressional district.

North Carolina's non-Hispanic white population grew by 10.2%, less than the statewide growth of 18.5%.   North Carolina's Hispanic population more than doubled (+111.1%), and its non-Hispanic Asian population almost did (+83.8%).  Its non-Hispanic black population grew slightly lower than the state (+17.2%).

Delaware
All three of Delaware's counties grew.  Kent County (Dover) grew the fastest at 28.1%, while Sussex County (Georgetown & beach communities) picked up the most new residents.  Sussex grew at an impressive 25.9% clip.  New Castle County (Wilmington) lagged the other two counties, growing at 7.6%.  Nevertheless, New Castle County picked up a few thousand more residents than Kent County.  All three counties picked up somewhere between 35,000 to 41,000 residents.

On the municipal level, Wilmington, Delaware's largest city, lost 2.5% of its population.  New Castle County more than offset Wilmington's population loss with explosive growth in two towns south of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal - Townsend grew by 492% and  Middletown by 206%.  In northern Kent County, Clayton grew by 129% and Smyrna by 76.5%.  Other towns with very fast growth included Camden, Kent County (+65.0%), Millsboro, Sussex County (+64.3%), Milton, Sussex County (+55.5%), Bridgeville, Sussex County (+42.6%) and Milford, Sussex County (+42.0%).   Lewes, a Sussex County city on Delaware Bay with a direct ferry to New Jersey, lost 6.3% of its population.  The capital city of Dover (+12.2%) and Wilmington-suburban Newark (+10.2%), home of the University of Delaware, both grew, but more slowly than the state as a whole (+14.6%).

Delaware's non-Hispanic white population grew by 3.3%.  Its Hispanic (+96.4%) and non-Hispanic Asian (+75.7%) populations almost doubled, while its non-Hispanic black population (25.8%) grew faster than the state.  Georgetown, Sussex County, is almost half Hispanic.

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Kansas and Wyoming shipped to legislators today and are expected to be released to the public at 3PM Eastern tomorrow.

Next week, we will get Arizona, California, Connecticut, Idaho, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.  It should be a very interesting week.

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Why are they taking so effing long to ship South Carolina?  I can understand why they didn't give us the earliest priority, but I would have thought that they would have wanted to give a leg up to the States that have a change in the number of U.S. Representatives.

Does South Carolina have ANY regularly scheduled elections in 2011 - major county, local or whatever?  If not, Census should wait to release it last behind states who have at least some elections this year, but before those who do not require DOJ preclearance.

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Thanks.  The problem for South Carolina is that there are states left that hold major county and city elections in 2011 - and the county legislative district boundaries need to be adjusted for population shifts in the next few months.  New York is one example of this - and we haven't gotten our 2010 census data, either.  The timing for those states is much more critical than a state that just needs to have something done by this time next year.

After tomorrow, the Census will be halfway done with the 2010 census release - 26 of the 50 states will have been released.  We will be up to 33 of 50 (or 51, if DC counts) after next week.  That leaves 17 states plus DC (if it counts) to be released over the last three weeks of March.  They're on schedule.

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Kansas and Wyoming have been released.

Kansas
Geary County was the fastest-growing of Kansas' top 20 counties, growing at a 23.0% clip.  It is home to part of Fort Riley, and near the university town of Manhattan.  The next-fastest growing counties were Johnson (+20.6%), home to Kansas City's southern suburbs, Miami (+15.6%), immediately south of Johnson - which is still small, but is the most logical place for further KC exurbanization as it spreads down the US 69 corridor, Riley (+13.2%), home to Manhattan and the rest of Fort Riley, Leavenworth (+11.0%), due west of KC, Douglas (+10.9%), home of the University of Kansas in Lawrence,  Butler (+10.8%), home of some eastern Wichita suburbs, and Wichita's county, Sedgwick (+10.0%).  

Six of the state's top 20 counties lost population, most notably, Wyandotte (-0.2%), which includes Kansas City, Kansas and a few small suburbs.  The other population losers of the top 20 were counties with small-to-medium-sized market towns: Finney (Garden City; -9.2%), Lyon (Emporia; -6.2%), Montgomery (Independence/Coffeyville; -2.2%), McPherson (McPherson; -1.3%) and Reno (Hutchinson; -0.4%).  And most smaller counties in the rest of the state also lost population.

On the other hand, many of Kansas' cities gained population.  Kansas City's suburbs like Olathe (+35.4%), Shawnee (+29.6%), Lenexa (+19.8%), Overland Park (+16.3%) and Leawood (+15.2%) generally grew fastest, along with the Wichita suburb of Derby (+24.4%) and Junction City (+23.7%), near Fort Riley.  Kansas City, Kansas lost about 1,000 people (-0.7%), while Manhattan (+16.6%), Wichita (+11.1%), Lawrence (+9.4%) and Topeka (+4.9%) gained population.  The mid-sized market cities of Emporia (-6.9%) and Garden City (-6.3%) were net losers, while some other similar-sized market cities like Dodge City (+8.6%), Liberal (+4.4%), Salina (+4.4%) and Hutchinson (+3.2%) gained population.  The Wichita suburb of Prairie Village (-2.8%) somehow managed to lose population, as did Leavenworth (-0.5%).

Kansas' non-Hispanic white population fell by 0.2%.  Its Hispanic population increased by almost 60% and its non-Hispanic Asian population by almost 45%.  Kansas' non-Hispanic Black population grew by 7.5%, slightly faster than the state as a whole (6.1%).

Dodge City and Liberal are majority Hispanic.  Garden City is almost majority Hispanic.  Kansas City and Wichita have more Hispanic residents than African Americans.

Wyoming
Wyoming's fastest-growing county by far was Sublette, an oil and gas boomtown in Western Wyoming.  It grew by 73.1%, but due to its small 2000 population, only picked up about 4,300 residents.  Campbell County (+36.9%) was next, picking up the most new residents - it is home to the city of Gillette and also has seen a lot of growth in the mineral extraction industry.  Sublette's neighbor, Lincoln County (+24.2%) and Campbell's neighbor, Johnson County (+21.1%) followed.  Teton County (Jackson Hole; +16.7%), Sweetwater County (Green River/Rock Springs; +16.5%) and Converse County (west of Casper; +14.8%) grew faster than the state (+14.1%).  Rural Platte (-1.6%) and Hot Springs counties lost population.

Of the state's top 20 municipalities, Gillette (+48.1%) grew the fastest and picked up the most residents.  Rock Springs (+23.1%) grew the next-fastest, followed by the very small communities of Buffalo (+17.6%), Powell (+17.5%), Douglas (+15.7%) and Newcastle (+15.2%).  The state capital of Cheyenne remained the state's largest city, growing by 12.2% and widening its lead over Casper (+11.4%) by about 750 to 4,150 residents.  The college town of Laramie grew by 13.3%.  Riverton grew by 14.0%, putting its population over 10,000 and giving the state 9 cities with a population of 10,000 or more.

Wyoming's non-Hispanic White population grew by 10.3%.  Its non-Hispanic Asian population (+60.3%) grew faster than its Hispanic population (+58.6%) - though from much smaller base.   Wyoming's non-Hispanic black population was up 24.2% and non-Hispanic American Indian population increased by 15.1%.  There are now almost as many non-Hispanic Asians as non-Hispanic blacks in Wyoming.  Both groups comprise 0.8% of the state's population.

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Auburn's population growth is also due to annexation.

All of it or just some of it - and how much of that growth was in the old area of town or new area after annexation versus just caused by annexation?

Census makes it difficult to answer those questions without looking deeper at tract and block-level results.

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Anyone know when new Mexico is going to come out?  I want to know how close to majority-Hispanic the State is.

If the past is any indication, on a Tuesday-Friday between March 15 and March 31.  Possibly on a Saturday, but usually not.  It will not be this week.

California will be released around 3:30PM Eastern tomorrow.