Despite our reputation for frigid weather, people continue to flock to Minnesota and the Twin Cities.
Advertisement
Individual community and demographic populations will be released by the U.S. Census in May. The city gained 55,211 residents in the one-year span, resulting in a July 2015 population of about 8.55 million, the Census Bureau said.
The population in Ontario County reached 109,561 a year ago, a 1.5 percent increase from 2010.
The nation’s capital became the sixth largest metropolitan area in the US, passing Philadelphia.
There’s no place like Texas and from the population growth over the previous year of the four largest metro areas; tens of thousands of people across America are embracing that very fact.
What’s leading to the growth?
Down the turnpike, the Oklahoma City metropolitan area grew by 20,833 people, or 1.6 percent to 1,358,452 people during the same one year period ending July 1, 2015.
The Twin Cities metro was the third fastest-growing region in the Midwest following Columbus and Indianapolis, according to the Met Council. Monroe County was the only one that saw gains. Sullivan County’s 1.18 percent drop from mid-2014 to mid-2015 was the sharpest decline in the state.
Adams County has reached a new population high based on census estimated released Thursday morning.
The county added about 360 residents in 2015, according to Census Bureau estimates, thanks primarily to natural growth – more births than deaths. Most of the region’s gains came from migration from somewhere else in the United States, which is “pretty unique” for a metro area, Brower told the St. Cloud Times.
A bright spot for both the city and the county was the number of immigrants moving in, though the overall migration flow for both was still negative. He specifically listed Dundy, Webster, Furnas and Jefferson counties, saying those areas tend to have a relatively old population compared to other parts of Nebraska. In each case, the drop was driven by people choosing to move to other areas within the U.S.
Brower told the paper that as Minnesota ages, the “impact of births will become less and less and migration will be [more important]”.
Advertisement
Clay – 1.7 percent growth.
