Official US 2010 Census Results

[RBH]

Majority Hispanic Cities in Nebraska

Schuyler: 65.4% (up from 45.1%)
Lexington: 60.4% (up from 51.15%)

Between 45-50%
Madison: 48.8% (up from 33.9%)
South Sioux City: 45.3% (up from 24.8%)

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Delaware and (more interestingly) North Carolina shipped today.

So Kansas and Wyoming tomorrow or just sometime this week?

[cinyc]

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.

[jimrtex]

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.

[cinyc]

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.

[cinyc]

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.

[cinyc]

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.

[RBH]

NC towns with the highest Hispanic percentages

1,000-9,999:
Robbins- 50.3% (up from 48.4%)
Siler City- 49.8% (up from 39.3%)

10,000-99,999:
Monroe- 29.4% (up from 21.4%, Jesse Helms must be thrilled)
Asheboro- 26.9% (up from 19.9%)

And Morrisville's Asian population goes from 9.06% to 27.23% in 10 years. The town has grown from 5208 to 18576 in that time. Which means the town had 472 Asians in 2000 and 5058 in 2010.

In the 2000 data, half of Morrisville's Asian population then was Indian-American.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

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.

[RBH]

next week:

Arizona, California, Connecticut, Idaho, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin

Sorry South Carolina!

[danny]

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.

It doesn't matter if you change the number of representatives because all the states have to change the boundaries anyway (even single district states have local elections).

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

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.

It doesn't matter if you change the number of representatives because all the states have to change the boundaries anyway (even single district states have local elections).

Yes and no.  If you lose one or more seats, you have to decide which incumbents you want force together or encourage to retire.  If you gain one or more seats, you have to decide which districts you want to take the brunt of the dislocations,creating a new seat causes.  Those things take more time than simply shifting district boundaries around.

Not only that South Carolina is likely to have to worry about whether they will need to create one or two minority-majority districts.  The GOP will want only one, but there will inevitably be a lawsuit when it passes such a plan.  Ideally, to have time to deal with the repercussions of any lawsuits, they'd get the data in time to pass a plan this session (which ends at the beginning of June), instead of having to wait until next January.  In order for there to be no delays in South Carolina, everything need to be in place no later than March 2, 2012 (one year from today as a matter of fact).  That the first deadline on our political calendar, as the party county chairmen have to place advertisements detailing where party candidates for offices in that county may file, and which offices they may file for.  The clock is ticking here and we have just one year.

[cinyc]

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.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

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.

Depends on what you mean by "regular".  Elections for county and state offices are all held on the usual biennial dates, but municipalities and school boards get to pick their own election dates, which may or may not be the Tuesday after the first Monday of November.  Slightly under half will use the traditional election day, but there are regularly scheduled local elections every month except January and August someplace in South Carolina this year.  At least they are largely non-partisan.

For example, most of the smaller municipalities in Charleston county will hold elections on the regular election day of November 8 this year, but Charleston itself will hold its municipal election on November 1, and North Charleston on November 2.  The municipal elections in the cities of Charleston and Spartanburg and the Spartanburg County school board elections appear to be the biggest elections this November.

The only two partisan local elections (i.e., with primaries) scheduled this year according to the State Election Commission are those in the cities of Aiken and Georgetown.

As I said earlier when I complained, I can understand why South Carolina wasn't one of the first, but given the realities of when the Legislature will leave Columbia, we do need to not be one of the last.

For those who want to get an idea of the insanity of South Carolina local elections, here's a link to the schedule the State Election Commission has.

http://www.scvotes.org/files/2011-03-02%20Election%20Calendar.pdf

Even before any special elections are added to the mix, it is a total of twenty-two different election days.

[cinyc]

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.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The timing for those states is much more critical than a state that just needs to have something done by this time next year.

Problem is, unless DOJ preclearance and the inevitable VRA lawsuits are taken care of more quickly than I expect, the General Assembly needs to pass a plan this session, not at the start of the next session to have things done by this time next year. This session is scheduled to end, as does every regular session, on the first Thursday of June. June 2.  There are provisions for extending the session if the budget is delayed, but non-budget matters require a 2/3 vote of each house after June 2.  The GOP is in control, but it doesn't have a 2/3 majority in either House.  A partisan redistricting plan will not pass during an extended session.

[minionofmidas]

I suggest South Carolina census results be embargoed until June 2nd, then.

[cinyc]

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.

[ndcohn]

Auburn's population growth is also due to annexation.

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.

[cinyc]

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.

[Dgov]

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

[JohnnyLongtorso]

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

They're going to release everything by April 1.

[cinyc]

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.

[cinyc]

California has been released.

San Diego County jumped Orange to become the second-largest in the state.  The fastest-growing of the top 20 counties was Riverside (+41.7%), followed by Kern (Bakersfield) (+26.9%), San Joaquin (Stockton/Tracy) (+21.6%) and Tulare (Visalia) (+20.2%).  Basically, Inland Empire and Central Valley counties.  Riverside picked up the most new residents - over 640,000, followed by San Bernadino (+19.1%; 325,000), Los Angeles (+3.1%; almost 300,000) and San Diego (+10.0%; 280,000).   Orange County grew by 5.8%, Santa Clara by 5.9%, Alameda by 4.6%, Sacramento by 16.0%, Contra Costa by 10.6%, San Francisco by 3.7% and San Mateo by a paltry 1.6%.

Los Angeles remains by far the largest city in the state with almost 3.8 million residents (+2.6%).  San Diego (+6.9%) cracked 1.3 million.  The fastest-growing of the top 20 cities in the state is Fontana (+52.1%) in San Bernadino County.  Irvine, Orange County was next (+48.4%), followed by Bakersfield (+40.6%), Chula Vista, San Diego County (+40.5%), Stockton (+19.7%) and Riverside (+19.1%).  Santa Ana (-4.0%) and Oakland (-2.2%) lost population.  Long Beach barely grew (+0.2%).

California grew by 10.0%.  Its non-Hispanic White population fell by 5.4% from 2000.  Non-Hispanic whites now comprise 40.1% of California's population, Latinos 37.6%, non-Hispanic Asians 12.8% and non-Hispanic blacks 5.8%.  California's non-Hispanic Black (-0.8%) and non-Hispanic American Indian (-9.3%) also fell from 2000.

[minionofmidas]

Its Indian population fell? Lol. What's going on here?

California has a huge number of reservations but most of them are tiny. It also has a lot of people of (often part) native Californian descent who are not members of any recognized sovereign nation and who usually pass as Chicanos for most of their daily lives - a lot of them identify as Native American on Census records though, or at least did in 2000. Actually, quite a few offrez-residing recognized California natives do the same thing.
And needless to say, it has huge numbers of whites with a part Indian great-grandparent, or Whites with an Indian grandparent who're actually registered members of an Indian nation, or Whites with a false family tradition of Indian ancestry somewhere deep in the recesses of the 19th or 18th century. A lot of whom report as Native or more commonly as White and Native. But if those reporting practices were changing, we would have seen that in stats for other states as well, wouldn't we?