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"Wake County is on pace to reach 1 million residents this week, and the county commissioners will celebrate that milestone Monday at their meeting.
Wake County has long been one of the fastest-growing counties nationwide. In the last census, in 2010, the population was estimated at about 901,000. Now the county is poised to add another digit.
Commissioners estimated that Wake gets 25,000 new residents every year or 62 per day".
Most interesting comment is the expectation that the population will double to 2 million by 2054
The article claims that about one half of Wake County residents lives in either Raleigh or Cary. That percentage is way off. In 2013, Raleigh was estimated at nearly 432,000 with Cary at just over 151,000 while Wake County was ~974,000. This put the two cities at a hair under 60% of the county total.
Yep, I heard this on the radio. They said it breaks down to 22 new babies/day, 9/day from other parts of NC, 9/day from other Countries, and 22/day from other states.
Fortunately more of the growth is going into downtown Raleigh than before. Still too much of it is subdivisions and strip malls, but some places of character are also being made.
Well, I wouldn't say 60% v about half to be "way off". Heck, for a newspaper, that s a bullseye!
Especially since some of the surrounding areas are probably growing as well which could bring it close to 50%.
I know Morrisville is considering doing a special Census again as the population here is well above the 2010 numbers.
It's off by 20%. I'd say that that's way off.
There's no way that it's close to 50% after one year. Even if Raleigh and Cary didn't add a single new resident in the last year, the two would still represent 58.3% of the one million. Alas, we know that the two cities didn't just stand still in the last year. In fact, in sheer numbers, Raleigh and Cary add the most residents year over year.
... and even more-so, considering some of Cary is not in Wake County.
They would have to have 100,000 in Chatham to bring it down to 50%. The fact of the matter is that the data used for the reporting was way off.
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