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(Washington Examiner) — The District recorded its first population increase in more than half a century and topped 600,000 residents for the first time in 20 years, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2010 population counts released Tuesday. And while Virginia posted double-digit growth, its and Maryland’s population growth rate slowed during the past decade, […]
(Washington Examiner) — In the last century, Maryland and Virginia residents have had to share their congressmen with more and more people as the states’ populations have jumped but their number of U.S. representatives has not. And with the national population shifts, neither state appears to be in line for more U.S. representatives, although Maryland’s […]
(The Network Journal) — The 2010 census report coming out Tuesday will include a boatload of good political news for Republicans and grim data for Democrats hoping to re-elect President Barack Obama and rebound from last month’s devastating elections. The population continues to shift from Democratic-leaning Rust Belt states to Republican-leaning Sun Belt states, a […]
(AJC) — Metro Atlanta continues to draw new foreign born residents despite the economic downturn, which sets it apart from many other regions around the country. Atlanta’s immigrant population grew by 42,000 people, or 6 percent, from 2007 to 2009. That steady increase was felt in many ways, both good and bad: providing low-cost labor […]
(Atlanta Business Chronicle) — Atlanta had the eighth-highest population boom from 2000 to 2009, according to revised population figures released Friday by the U.S. Census Bureau. The Big Peach added 122,099 residents — a 29.2 percent jump — in the nine-year period for a population of 540,922 in 2009. That growth ranked Atlanta 33rd among […]
(AJC) — Metro Atlanta’s population is still growing, but the rate in the last two years is the lowest since the 1950s, according to the Atlanta Regional Commission. The 10-county region added only 56,000 new residents in the two-year period ending April 1, the organization estimates. Compare that to 2000 to 2007, when the region […]