Official US 2010 Census Results

[Brittain33]

Wow, they are milking the nation's attention for all it is worth. Locke is lashing out at people who predicted budget overruns and failure by boasting of what a good job they did.

I'll post numbers as he says them.

Blah blah we are so awesome at censusing blah blah

[Brittain33]

He just thanked all of us. You're welcome!

[Brittain33]

Data geeks all over the country are going Showtime at the Apollo on Gary Locke. "Boooo... get off the stage!!"

[Brittain33]

So ?

I'll post info as soon as they release it. So far it is all congratulations, thanks, and Why the Census Matters.

[Brittain33]

http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN3/

[Brittain33]

Yes, Sam, you're very smart.

[Brittain33]

308,745,538

[Brittain33]

9.7% growth

[Brittain33]

How does this compare with estimates?

[Brittain33]

NV: 35.1% growth.
MI: decline of 0.6%

[Brittain33]

Regions. NY. 2.1%. MN 7.8%! 8 seats I assume.

[Brittain33]

AZ 1
FL 2
GA 1
NV 1
SC 1
TX 4
UT 1
WA 1

[Brittain33]

IL 1
IA 1
LA 1
MA 1
MI 1
MI 1
NJ 1
NY 2 !!!!!
OH 2
PA 1

[Brittain33]

Ok, turning off the tv.

[Brittain33]

OH -1 or -2? I thought it was -2.

[Brittain33]

OHIO LOST 2

[Brittain33]

Check out the data: http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/

Brutal!

Gotta get lunch, then I'll try to get some apportionment order and other info for y'all.

Are you seeing 2010 data there? It still looks like it hasn't been loaded.

[Brittain33]

Whoa, Mass. still has more people than Arizona. I think AZ had passed Mass. or come close to it in estimates recently.

[Brittain33]

So who is the biggest loser of today's numbers?  I nominate Russ Carnahan. 

Some NYC area Dem rep is also royally f-ed today.  Which one do you think it will be?  Most likely Ackerman, Maloney or Crowley, based on previous talk.

Yes; my vote's on Ackerman.

[Brittain33]

Strong showing by the income tax free states. 

Difficult to declare whether it is a symptom or a cause though.

The slowest growing income tax free states were the fastest growing states in their respective regions.   Slow growth states should consider dumping the income tax to attract growth and investment.

Massachusetts's economy is among the strongest in the country. We just don't have the land, or the willingness to build with density on that land, to accommodate population growth.

[Brittain33]

The numbers for the first 4 states are out, but, of course they released the data in some horrible format I couldn't figure out how to use, so I'm looking here: http://twitter.com/Redistrict for important news. Some interesting stuff so far.

2010 Census News

If you click on a news release for a state, it includes links to thematic maps for population and population change per county, and an Excel file with some highlight data, including top 20 counties and cities.

Thanks, I was stuck with those FTP's.

Lakewood really sticks out, all the other 20 biggest cities and townships grow between -8% to +8% while Lakewood grew 53.8%.

Lakewood is an Orthodox Jewish stronghold.

The Star-Ledger credits a lot of the growth to new senior communities, plus the Hispanic population has increased a great deal. Natural increase among Hasidic Jews may be part of it but no population reproduces that quickly from such a high base.

[Brittain33]

Most of which are self-explanatory (inner cities, black belt, plains, rust belt), but I was somewhat surprised at IL-6, VA-2, and FL-10.

FL-10 is completely built out and densely populated. There's no room for expansion.

[Brittain33]

I'm thinking of all the careful effort people put into drawing three 50% African-American districts for IL-1, IL-2, and IL-7, and how that didn't survive contact with real data.

[Brittain33]

El Paso's by about 6%,

That's an additional 40,000 or 50,000 voters going into the new TX-23 then, right?

[Brittain33]

That's about 40,000-50,000 additional El Paso County residents compared to the 2009 estimates, not necessarily that many voters. 

Right. Dumbass mistake.