| #1EscherEnigmaDec 21, 2010 17:34:13 | The first 2010 census results are cropping up. Can't find a good one-stop-shop for data, so here's the census bureau's homepage: [link]
Some results:
- As a whole the country's population increased 9.7% from 2000, hovering around 308 (almost 309) million people. (2000 was about 281 million)
- Michigan, alone among the states, lost people. From 9.9 million in 2000 to 9.8 million in 2010.
- Texas is picking up four house seats
- Florida picks up two
- Washington, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Georgia and South Carolina all picked up one seat.
- Iowa, Illioniois, Missouri, Louisianna, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Jerssey and Massachusets all lost one seat
- Ohio and New York lost two.
- The rest are unchanged.
- the US average for people/square mile is 87.4 (up from 79.7 in 2000)
- the New Mexico (where I live) average for people/square mile is 15 (47th in nation)
- The Maryland (where I hope to move in early 2011) average is 545.6 (7th in nation)
- the Washigton DC average is 9370.6 (1st in nation, but it's all city, no rural, so that's understandable)
- Nevada saw a 35.1% increase in it's population since 2000, the largest percentage increase seen in the states.
- The census cost $1.87 billion less then expected.
- Using a far-too-simple-and-ignoring-lots-of-important-details calculation, it looks like at the current population growth we'll hit 710 million people by the end of the century, more then doubling in size from our 281 million that we started the century with.
Anyway, that's just a few highlights that I noticed. |
| #2Mad_JackDec 21, 2010 23:04:07 |
And every Census, eight to ten Census workers are physically or verbally harrassed, attacked or even killed while performing their jobs in the field.
And for every Census worker, at least 5.03% of their field interviews will come to the door in either pajamas, underwear, or similarly less-than-dressed. 94% of those will be over the age of 62.
Only the second statistic was made up. The first one was one of the first things they tell you in Non-Response Follow-Up Enumerator training.
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