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Caught a video on KOB about the new census data, and apparently Albuquerque metro cleared the 1 Million mark--doesn't seem to match any other data. Can anyone else confirm?
Census shows 2010 snapshot of New Mexico | KOB.com (http://www.KOB.com/article/stories/S2018091.shtml?cat=500 - broken link)
If you combine the entirety of Bernalillo, Sandoval, Valencia, Torrance, and Santa Fe Counties, you barely clear 1 million. Since many of the residents of those counties don't count as Albuquerque MSA, don't see how clearing 1 million is possible, though I'm sure the metro edged closer.
After adding up Bernalillo (662,564), Sandoval (131,561), Valencia (76,569), and Torrance (16,383) counties, the Albuquerque MSA is 887,077. That's a total increase of about 160,000 since 2000.
Okay, official census numbers are in, and Albuquerque MSA has 887,000. At this rate, or even at a slightly lower growth rate, Albuquerque most certainly will cross the 1,000,000 mark this decade.
Right, which is what I had thought. Any way I crunched the numbers, I could only get just shy of 900,000. I wonder where KOB came up with their information.
And keep in mind those census numbers are now almost a year old. Bizjournals has some calculator that now has Albuquerque at just over 900,000 I believe.
Obviously they are including Santa Fe's MSA in their numbers. The concept of the Albuquerque and Santa Fe MSAs constituting a larger urban whole has been advanced before both locally and nationally.
The Census Bureau could conceivably combine them into a CSA, but they have ways and means of determining a CSA and the two areas may not meet the criteria for a CSA. Certainly there is a considerable amount of commuting and economic activity between the two going on.
And Santa Fe's MSA includes areas in the East Mountains generally considered suburbs of Albuquerque, but by virtue of being in Santa Fe County they are not counted as part of Albuquerque's MSA.
Furthermore, the Journal last year had an article concerning thinking of the area from Belen to Espanola as one large urban corridor in New Mexico. If one would count those areas you would get close to 1.1 million people (1,089,443) in this urban corridor. More than half the state lives in this area along the Rio Grande - in the counties of Bernalillo, Santa Fe, Sandoval, Valencia, Los Alamos, Torrance and Rio Arriba.
Not to worry. The rate of teenage pregnancies (we're 1st in the nation) will help push us over the 1 million mark any day now. The pregnancy rate of Hispanic teens is 3 times that of white non-Hispanic teens.
We are still the most Hispanic state, going from 42% in 2000 to 46% Hispanic in 2010. An excellent recipe for population growth.
I'd like to point out that because we use a base 10 numbering
system, 1,000,000 is a "significant" number ( like Dow 10,000 )
that actually has no signifcance.
If we used a base 8 numbering system as we would if we had
alien hands with only three fingers and a thumb, the number
1,000,000 ( base 10 ) would be 3,641,100 people ( base 8 ).
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