Columbia top 20 fastest growing CSA (Charleston, Greenville: sales, real estate market, house)

[Akhenaton06]

^The latest figures still show Myrtle Beach's rate of growth outpacing those of other metro areas. The construction industry has slowed down there considerably, but until the 2008 figures are released, we won't know how that has impacted population growth. Again, the figures speak for themselves. Just go look at the link I provided. The Myrtle Beach MSA and CSA's growth rate is the highest in SC for 2000-2007. It's really just basic math. That's just the bottom line.

[Ceezer]

Originally Posted by motonenterprises

Raw numbers tell a bigger picture than your percentages. If the trend stays this way the smaller metros will never catch up. You can't outgrow a place if your raw numbers are lower than theirs.

Are you serious? If a town of 100k people is growing at the rate of 22% per year (since you're having trouble with numbers, that's an increase of 22,000 people) and a town of 500k is growing at the rate of 8% per year (that's 40,000 people, a higher raw number than 22,000), it will take 15 years for the smaller town to surpass the larger town (1,618,220 vs 1,468,597).

I'm no math expert, either, but I'm pretty sure rate of growth is pretty much always measured as a percentage, since that's the true way to measure a rate.

[Akhenaton06]

Originally Posted by Ceezer

Are you serious? If a town of 100k people is growing at the rate of 22% per year (since you're having trouble with numbers, that's an increase of 22,000 people) and a town of 500k is growing at the rate of 8% per year (that's 40,000 people, a higher raw number than 22,000), it will take 15 years for the smaller town to surpass the larger town (1,618,220 vs 1,468,597).

Well, at least he did admit that he's no math major, LOL. The mistake he's making is in thinking that the raw numbers are going to be static year after year. Cities/metro areas tend to maintain growth rates, not raw numbers--at least until they reach a leveling point or something drastic happens. None of SC's metros are a leveling point yet by far.

[gsupstate]

Originally Posted by waccamatt

I saw a chart of fastest growing MSA's from 2000-2006 and Charleston was 68th, Columbia was 81st and Greenville was 119th. The highest percentage growth in SC was MB at 24th.

Fastest Growing US Metropolitan Areas 2000-2006

Keep in mind that much of that numerical jump wasn't true growth.....it was simply the addition of counties to the metro:

In Census 2000, the population for the then two-county metropolitan area (Richland and Lexington) was 536,691, of which about 78% was within the Columbia urbanized area proper (2000 pop.: 420,537). In June 2003, the United States Census Bureau added four more counties — Fairfield, Calhoun, Kershaw, and Saluda — to Columbia's standard metropolitan statistical area, giving its total population a significant boost. It now ranks as the largest in South Carolina

[motonenterprises]

Originally Posted by Akhenaton06

Well, at least he did admit that he's no math major, LOL. The mistake he's making is in thinking that the raw numbers are going to be static year after year. Cities/metro areas tend to maintain growth rates, not raw numbers--at least until they reach a leveling point or something drastic happens. None of SC's metros are a leveling point yet by far.

As far as I'm concerned you can go jump in the lake when it comes to insulting my intelligence. I'm doing very good in life. Lifestyle some know it alls can only dream of. Too good for you to insult me know it all.

[Akhenaton06]

^I don't think you're a dumb guy, but your homerism is clearly blinding you to facts.

[g-man430]

The fact is that Greenville is the largest CSA and Myrtle Beach will never catch up to it.

[Akhenaton06]

Originally Posted by gsupstate

Keep in mind that much of that numerical jump wasn't true growth.....it was simply the addition of counties to the metro:

In Census 2000, the population for the then two-county metropolitan area (Richland and Lexington) was 536,691, of which about 78% was within the Columbia urbanized area proper (2000 pop.: 420,537). In June 2003, the United States Census Bureau added four more counties — Fairfield, Calhoun, Kershaw, and Saluda — to Columbia's standard metropolitan statistical area, giving its total population a significant boost. It now ranks as the largest in South Carolina

Those figures use the current MSA/CSA setups for the 2000 figures so as to have an apples-to-apples comparison for the entire time period. Otherwise, Greenville would have registered a negative growth rate for the period since the old Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson MSA was broken up into three separate MSAs and thus would have statistically experienced population loss.

[motonenterprises]

Originally Posted by Akhenaton06

^I don't think you're a dumb guy, but your homerism is clearly blinding you to facts.

Look Akhenaton06. I have engineering background and I look at things in raw numbers. If a place gained more people to me that place is growing faster despite relevance of size. But just to make you guys happy MB is the fastest growing and will pass all even though its way smaller and has less raw numbers.

[Akhenaton06]

Originally Posted by g-man430

The fact is that Greenville is the largest CSA and Myrtle Beach will never catch up to it.

You can't predict the future so you don't know that. I doubt that it will, but that's nothing that anyone can say definitively. Furthermore, the thread isn't about who's the largest, but about who's growing fastest.