Columbia top 20 fastest growing CSA

[Akhenaton06]

Originally Posted by motonenterprises

Ahhh. How is that pure growth? GSA was dissected during the same time right?

Whenever an MSA is reconfigured, in order to compare apples to apples within a particular time period, the Census Bureau will use the new configuration for each year within that time period in order to give a more accurate picture of growth. For instance, in 2003, the Bureau added Kershaw, Fairfield, Calhoun, and Saluda counties to the Columbia MSA, which formerly consisted of just Richland and Lexington counties. However, when citing population growth statistics, it uses the new MSA configuration that includes those four additional counties for every year between 2000-2007 to avoid giving falsely inflated figures. When an MSA gets counties taken away from it, as in the case of Greenville, it does the same thing: it uses the MSA configuration of Greenville, Laurens, and Pickens counties for every year between 2000-2007 when citing population growth statistics to avoid giving falsely deflated figures.

Being that the four additional counties that were added to Columbia's MSA are rather slow-growing to begin with, they really don't add much in terms of growth right now. Using the old Richland-Lexington MSA configuration, the Columbia MSA added 64,313 people from 2000-2007, which is only about 4,000 less than the new configuration that includes the four extra counties. The Greenville MSA as it is now configured (Greenville, Laurens, Pickens counties) added 53,888 people from 2000-2007.

The source for my numbers came from census.gov.

[motonenterprises]

Originally Posted by Akhenaton06

Whenever an MSA is reconfigured, in order to compare apples to apples within a particular time period, the Census Bureau will use the new configuration for each year within that time period in order to give a more accurate picture of growth. For instance, in 2003, the Bureau added Kershaw, Fairfield, Calhoun, and Saluda counties to the Columbia MSA, which formerly consisted of just Richland and Lexington counties. However, when citing population growth statistics, it uses the new MSA configuration that includes those four additional counties for every year between 2000-2007 to avoid giving falsely inflated figures. When an MSA gets counties taken away from it, as in the case of Greenville, it does the same thing: it uses the MSA configuration of Greenville, Laurens, and Pickens counties for every year between 2000-2007 when citing population growth statistics to avoid giving falsely deflated figures.

Being that the four additional counties that were added to Columbia's MSA are rather slow-growing to begin with, they really don't add much in terms of growth right now. Using the old Richland-Lexington MSA configuration, the Columbia MSA added 64,313 people from 2000-2007, which is only about 4,000 less than the new configuration that includes the four extra counties. The Greenville MSA as it is now configured (Greenville, Laurens, Pickens counties) added 53,888 people from 2000-2007.

The source for my numbers came from census.gov.

Ok now. The original metro for Greenville was GSA(Greenville, Spartanburg, Anderson), so if you look at it the way you did Columbia how much did the metro grow? Around 90k? And also the stats from 06-07 show Greenville msa growing faster by numbers and percentage, so did the trend shift in 2006?

[Akhenaton06]

Originally Posted by motonenterprises

Ok now. The original metro for Greenville was GSA(Greenville, Spartanburg, Anderson), so if you look at it the way you did Columbia how much did the metro grow? Around 90k? And also the stats from 06-07 show Greenville msa growing faster by numbers and percentage, so did the trend shift in 2006?

Well if we're going to look at the way both metros were configured in 2000, of course the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson MSA (at that time) would have outgrown the Columbia MSA (only consisting of Richland and Lexington counties); there would be no question about that. And I do believe the figure would be around 90K.

A trend has to be sustained over a certain period of time to truly be called a "trend." Columbia's and Greenville's MSAs have been growing at similar rates for several years now; the difference in raw numbers has usually been just a few thousand. None has broken away from the other in terms of rates of growth, at least not yet.

[motonenterprises]

I understand. Thanks for the info bro.

[Akhenaton06]

No prob.