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Wyoming Town's Population Quadruples (From 1 to 4) Thanks to Census
By not in system - AOL NewsLOST SPRINGS, Wyo. -- The Wyoming town of Lost Springs can finally count on the Census to get its population correct: Four, not one. The Casper Star-Tribune reports that the Census Bureau somehow missed four other residents of the town when it counted only one person in 2000. wikimedia.org Lost Springs road sign on SR 20, Wyoming. The cause of that mistake wasn't clear. Leda Price, who lives on the west side of the 1-block Main Street, jokes that officials must have counted only her side of town. The 2010 Census, however, got it right this time when it found and counted all four ...
Race in America: 5 Take-Aways From the 2010 Census
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsThe Census Bureau has released its final figures for the 2010 count, revealing new details about the makeup of the 308.7 million people in the United States and how they live. Here are five insights about America's racial mix that emerge from the report: 1. The geography of race The minority population, driven by a 43 percent increase in Hispanics, grew in all four regions of the country. But it grew most in the West. Nearly half of the West's population of 33.9 million is now minority. That is largely due to California, which also has the largest minority population of any state: 22.3 ...
Hispanic Population Passes 50 Million in US but Raises Question
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The Hispanic population topped 50 million for the first time, new census data shows, as Latinos became the second-largest population group in the United States. The Census Bureau today released its final numbers for the 2010 census, which show how rapid growth of the Asian and Hispanic population dramatically transformed the U.S. into a more ethnically diverse country than it was 10 years ago. The swelling Hispanic population made up more than half the 27.3 million increase in population in the U.S. since 2000. While the nation's population grew by 9.7 percent in the past ...
Can Anything Be Done to Help Cities Like Detroit?
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsEven for those who watched the long, slow decline of Detroit, the new census count stunned: The one-time powerhouse of the industrial Midwest lost 25 percent of its population in the past 10 years, falling below 715,000 residents. Detroit Mayor Dave Bing moved swiftly to announce the city would challenge the accuracy of the official count and focus like a laser on luring new residents and new business. "We must confront reality ... and commit to doing things differently," Bing said at a news conference. "If we don't change, the population drain will continue." But Bing -- and his successors ...
US 'Heartland' Near Historic Shift From Midwest
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- America's population center is edging away from the Midwest, pulled by Hispanic growth in the Southwest, according to census figures. The historic shift is changing the nation's politics and even the traditional notion of the country's heartland -- long the symbol of mainstream American beliefs and culture. The West is now home to the four fastest-growing states -- Nevada, Arizona, Utah and Idaho -- and has surpassed the Midwest in population, according to 2010 figures. California and Texas added to the southwestern population tilt, making up more than one-fourth of the nation's ...
Hard Census Count Helps New Orleans Move Forward
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsThe changes to New Orleans became visible almost as soon as the floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina receded in 2005, but having a real count today from the release of 2010 census data will enable the city's leaders to know what's actually going on in the post-Katrina world for the first time. New Orleans lost 140,845 residents in the past decade, new census data shows. The city's population now stands at 343,829, down 29 percent from 484,647 residents counted in the 2000 census. The city has lost 54,188 children, a drop of 47 percent. That means that the Crescent City is smaller by almost a ...
Census Estimates Show Big Gains for US Minorities
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- U.S. racial minorities accounted for roughly 85 percent of the nation's population growth over the last decade - one of the largest shares ever - with Hispanics accounting for much of the gain in many of the states picking up new House seats. Preliminary census estimates also suggest the number of multiracial Americans jumped roughly 20 percent since 2000, to over 5 million. The findings, based on fresh government survey data, offer a glimpse into 2010 census results that are being released on a state-by-state basis beginning this week. New Jersey, Mississippi, Virginia and ...
Census: We'll Have 100 Billion Bits of Data by 2013
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsBy the time the Census Bureau is finished reporting all the ways it will digest the 2010 population count, demographers will have released 100 billion bits of data. The bureau plans to release the data in a series of reports that will be rolled out through September 2013. The scope of the detail to be made available promises to be broader and more inclusive than ever before and will include a wide variety of information, such as housing vacancy rates and the number of same-sex households, Census Director Robert Groves said. "When we are through with the census, we would have given back to ...
Florida Growth Not So Slow After All
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsA year ago, the news in Florida couldn't have been more dire. On top of the housing bust and an unemployment rate topping 12 percent came the news that Florida's great economic engine -- growth -- had ground to a halt. For the first time since the end of World War II, Florida lost population -- some 50,000 people, estimates showed. "We've got rooftops to spare. We just don't have the bodies to put in them," said Sean Snaith, an economist at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, at the time. It turns out that Florida's future may not be so bleak. It remained one of the fastest-growing ...
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