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Tallahassee is known by everyone as the state capital, as are Bismarck and Montpelier. Some people (not very many) also know that Tallahassee also hat three really big colleges and a six smaller ones, and probably has the highest student ratio of any city., at about 50%
Vermillion, South Dakota, has a census population of 11,000, and USD has 10,000 enrolled students.
Most of the time, full time students don't factor in to census counts as most of them are still considered residents of their hometown.
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Most of the time, full time students don't factor in to census counts as most of them are still considered residents of their hometown.
That is not true. They are supposed to be counted where they live on April 1. And in most cases, that would be at college. College towns (I live in one) depend on students being counted so they get needed resources that students use.
Curious what the third "larger" college is in Tallahassee and I have no idea what six "smaller" ones you are talking about. On a search I just get FSU, Florida A&M and Flagler College-Tallahassee.
And as far as student ratios. Are you just dividing the number of students by the number of residents or are you saying that 50% of the residents are students?
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24,000 students at Tallaassee Community College. Aldo
The census is self-declared, and respondents are asked for what they consider to be their place or residence, No student goes and stands in line every spring and fall at the DMV to change their address.
That is not true. They are supposed to be counted where they live on April 1. And in most cases, that would be at college. College towns (I live in one) depend on students being counted so they get needed resources that students use.
Boulder, CO has a life of its own, but it's mostly wealthy aging faux hippies.
Bellingham, WA apparently has a good post-college scene.
Urbana-Champaign, IL is big enough that it has a community outside the university.
Austin, TX is a good one. Definitely not dominated by the university.
Not really. Few jobs unless you become an entrepreneur or work in the service industries. With the median price of homes sold last spring at $540,000, college graduates leave for cheaper pastures unless they find a rabbit warren rental that won’t overwhelm their paycheck.
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Many colleges were shut down on April 1 due to COVID-19 with a bunch of students left town, so many college towns got under undercounted.
They did get undercounted, but that doesn't change how the students are supposed to fill out the Census (even in 2020), which is what I responding to.
From my link above:
"In general, students in colleges and universities temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 virus will still be counted as part of this process. Even if they are home on census day, April 1, they should be counted according to the residence criteria which states they should be counted where they live and sleep most of the time. We are asking schools to contact their students and remind them to respond.
Per the Census Bureau’s residence criteria, in most cases students living away from home at school should be counted at school, even if they are temporarily elsewhere due to the COVID-19 pandemic."
Obvious city for this is Boston. Thousands and thousands of students there, several big name schools like BU, Northeastern, Emerson, Suffolk, Simmons, Berklee, with more students streaming through from Harvard, MIT, BC, plus the local community colleges. And there is so much going it's easy to not see Boston as a college town despite its Athens of America rep.
A 2016 post but yep. The parts of the city most people use aren't dominated by college students. It's transformed even more recently. Kendall Square used to feel totally MIT. Now, it feels office tower tech/biotech. There isn't any sense of college students at all in the new Seaport District. You do get a sense of college students where there's inexpensive dining. Pizza in the North End. Dim Sum lunch in Chinatown.
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