Official US 2010 Census Results

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Texas data is out.

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Texas data is out.

Houston population is 2,099,451

The Houston city charter has a provision to increase the number of district members from 9 to 11 if the population exceeds 2,100,000.  This was put in place as a sort of a compromise when district elections were imposed in response to the VRA.

A couple of years ago Houston was sued to have the two additional districts created, but the city argued that there was not accurate enough data to draw district boundaries.

But the census determined that the trigger was not reached (by 549 persons, or 0.026%).

There is also a trigger related to composition of the Metro (mass transit) board.  Currently the mayor appoints 5 of the 9 members, and has effective control of Metro.  But the trigger would switch control to members appointed by county commissioners and city councils of smaller cities.

Heh Im guessing the numbers will be challenged.
Looks like a big western dump of states next week which should be good. Though I of course want see Wisconsin.

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Results for Minnesota are out now. Looks like blacks and asians both gained about 60%... and hispanics 70%. Highest overall population growth was in the western Minneapolis suburbs. Some of the northern counties held up better than I thought they would too. I'll wait on someone else to do a detailed analysis but those are some interesting figures.

Yeah St Louis county lost around 3k less than the 09 estimate had predicted.

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Something quite weird happened with the city of Atlanta - the estimated growth for the decade is so wildly off it makes me wonder: was there a secession to form a new municipality in the last couple of years?

2000 census - 416,474

2001 estimate - 430,684
2002 estimate - 442,538
2003 estimate - 456,919
2004 estimate - 468,725
2005 estimate - 483,108
2006 estimate - 498,496
2007 estimate - 520,368
2008 estimate - 537,958

2010 census - 420,003

Over estimating by a 100k in a city the size of atlanta does seem a bit much.

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They just came out with a new explorer tool.
http://www.census.gov/censusexplorer/censusexplorer.html

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County and metro estimates are out tomorrow.