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news? I mean where do you find the populations of cities, not just counties?
Oh they normally release it in the news room that I linked you too, like if you see the present news room right now they have Hawaii & Alabama's releases right there. They have a pretty screwed up user interface (figures for the government to be so cheap and make a horrendous navigational site) but you can search for the news release for Missouri at the search bar and it'll bring it up, I believe.
EDIT: It seems earlier I put the wrong city population statistics for Kansas City for the city, it was meant for another city. My bad about that, I was thinking up another city when I was looking at Hawaii's county's numbers.
Then, click on the state you want from the links below. For example, Alabama.
Now, look at the sidebar. The "Custom tables" link contains a summary file with demographic data about the state's 20 largest cities and counties. This file is in .XLS (Excel spreadsheet) format, but it can be read with free software such as Open Office's Calc utility, too.
For Alabama, we have a 19 megabyte file named "al2010.pl.zip."
This file contains population numbers by census tract for the entire state. The file actually just consists of text, and you could open it with any text editor, but you might want to use one specifically for large volume data analysis, since it is rather big and unwieldy.
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An update.
By City:
- Las Vegas: 583,756
- Kansas City: 459,787
- Saint Louis: 319,294
- Salt Lake City: 186,440
By MSA:
- Saint Louis MSA: 2,779,939
- Las Vegas MSA: 1,951,269
- Salt Lake City MSA: 1,124,197
- Honolulu MSA: 953,207
- Kansas City MSA: N/A (Only halfway complete since KS isn't out yet)
By CSA:
- Saint Louis CSA: 2,845,298
- Las Vegas CSA: 1,995,215
- Salt Lake City CSA: 1,744,886
- Kansas City CSA: N/A (Until Kansas comes out next week)
Saint Louis (city) had the Chicago effect, where the US Census Estimates stated that the city was growing again except more so than Chicago the US Census claimed that Saint Louis surpassed it's 2000 peak levels, but it came out to report a loss for the decade.
The results so far have been up in the air and highly unpredictable for cities regardless of what region they may be in, its really an anything can happen scenario because Saint Louis unlike Chicago is a more stable region in terms of gains or loss, Chicago has always been one to be highly unpredictable, gaining some years, losing others which is why Saint Louis altogether was a surprise here. It's interesting and I think kind of scary situation to those in cities that saw marginal loss and promised rebounds in population midway through the decade.
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How did vegas do relative to projections, was overall curious on that one
Actually its very weird that Las Vegas has the unhealthiest economy of any major city in the country but it saw gains from its 2009 estimates. It's 2009 estimates were at 567,610 for the city, and the official 2010 numbers came out at 583,756, seeing a pretty large population increase between just one year.
It's MSA was estimated in 2009 to be at 1,902,834 people and it came out at 1,951,269 people in its official 2010 population, and saw population gains through and through at both MSA & City levels. Which may not be such a good thing for an area seeing more population gains than job growth though.
It's CSA was estimated in 2009 to be at 1,944,086 people and it came out to be 1,995,215 people for it's official 2010 figures and saw a pretty large population gain from its 2009 estimates to its official 2010 population.
So it essentially saw large gains at City, County (Clark County, NV), MSA, & CSA levels from 2009 estimates to 2010 official numbers. The results of the US Census so far are truly up in the air, places you would expect to see continuous gains came short, places expected to reverse trends came in short, places you would expect stagnation continued onward despite severe economic conditions.
Actually its very weird that Las Vegas has the unhealthiest economy of any major city in the country but it saw gains from its 2009 estimates. It's 2009 estimates were at 567,610 for the city, and the official 2010 numbers came out at 583,756, seeing a pretty large population increase between just one year.
It's MSA was estimated in 2009 to be at 1,902,834 people and it came out at 1,951,269 people in its official 2010 population, and saw population gains through and through at both MSA & City levels. Which may not be such a good thing for an area seeing more population gains than job growth though.
It's CSA was estimated in 2009 to be at 1,944,086 people and it came out to be 1,995,215 people for it's official 2010 figures and saw a pretty large population gain from its 2009 estimates to its official 2010 population.
So it essentially saw large gains at City, County (Clark County, NV), MSA, & CSA levels from 2009 estimates to 2010 official numbers. The results of the US Census so far are truly up in the air, places you would expect to see continuous gains came short, places expected to reverse trends came in short, places you would expect stagnation continued onward despite economic conditions.
surprising with all the foreclosure stories, or maybe some of those there are stuck. I am sure a very tough situation for many of those personally involved
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Actually its very weird that Las Vegas has the unhealthiest economy of any major city in the country but it saw gains from its 2009 estimates. It's 2009 estimates were at 567,610 for the city, and the official 2010 numbers came out at 583,756, seeing a pretty large population increase between just one year.
It's MSA was estimated in 2009 to be at 1,902,834 people and it came out at 1,951,269 people in its official 2010 population, and saw population gains through and through at both MSA & City levels. Which may not be such a good thing for an area seeing more population gains than job growth though.
It's CSA was estimated in 2009 to be at 1,944,086 people and it came out to be 1,995,215 people for it's official 2010 figures and saw a pretty large population gain from its 2009 estimates to its official 2010 population.
So it essentially saw large gains at City, County (Clark County, NV), MSA, & CSA levels from 2009 estimates to 2010 official numbers. The results of the US Census so far are truly up in the air, places you would expect to see continuous gains came short, places expected to reverse trends came in short, places you would expect stagnation continued onward despite severe economic conditions.
Not so surprising when you consider that probably their biggest growth factor is births. Babies don't need jobs.
However, Vegas needs to get their economy back on track. It can't continue to be the way it is for very long before something very bad happens.
How did vegas do relative to projections, was overall curious on that one
Speaking of falling short of projections...the two big Missouri cities fell considerably short of 2009 estimates. St. Louis was thought to be growing slowly, but instead dropped about 8% over the decade.
KC
2010: 459,787
2009 est.: 482,299
2000: 441,545
St. Louis
2010: 319,294
2009 est.: 356,587
2000: 348,189
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