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Arizona ends Nevada's 19-year reign as fastest-growing state
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| Last Edited | Imperator Dec 21, 2006 09:29pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Tucson Citizen |
| News Date | Friday, December 22, 2006 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | WASHINGTON - Arizona has ended Nevada's 19-year reign as the nation's fastest-growing state, fueled by immigrants and Americans moving from other states, according to population estimates released today by the Census Bureau.
Arizona led the nation with a population growth rate of 3.6 percent in the past year, followed by Nevada, Idaho, Georgia and Texas. Pima County's population grew at the same rate, topping 1 million people in November, said David Taylor, administrator in Tucson's city planning department.
Tayor said, "26,500 jobs were added in Pima County in one year. That's more than the population growth. We are steaming."
But Taylor, like many Tucsonans, has ambivalence about Arizona's continuing population surge.
"First is the concern that we have the whereforall to handle it," said Taylor, Tucson's acknowledged population statistics guru. "Do we have the infrastructure, the schools, the roads, the political leadership?"
In some ways, Arizona has grown faster than Nevada for years. In the 2000 Census, all Arizona counties had double-digit population growth except Greenlee County, which was still twice the national average. Nevada had three counties that lost population.
Arizona added about 32,000 immigrants in the past year. It added four times that many people who were relocating from other states. The biggest donor state: California.
"It used to be merely a retirement magnet for Midwest seniors," said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. "Now it's also a front door for immigrants from Mexico and an escape hatch for Californians seeking affordable housing." |
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