[Vision2020] Selected regional population growth estimates

[Craine Kit]

Thanks for the info.

Kit

On Mar 20, 2009, at 10:01 PM, Kenneth Marcy wrote:

> On Friday 20 March 2009 20:31:43 Craine Kit wrote:
>> re: 25. Coeur d'Alene, ID -- population increase 3,264 from 134,211
>> to 137,475, a 2.4 percent increase
>>
>> Last time I passed the CDA city line (summer 2007), the population
>> was about 35,000. Where did the extra 100k come from?
>
> The items on the list to which I referred are what the U.S. Census  
> Bureau
> calls Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas, which include more  
> population
> than what is contained in just the city limits proper. In the case  
> of Coeur
> d'Alene, Idaho, the borders of its SMSA coincide with the Kootenai  
> County
> boundary, so what you're seeing is the Kootenai county population  
> estimate.
>
> So, the extra 96,000 or so people are those who live in Kootenai  
> County, but
> not in the City of Coeur d'Alene.
>
> From the Google article on Coeur d'Alene (which was faster to look  
> up than the
> Census spreadsheets), as of the 2000 census the population of Coeur  
> d'Alene
> was 34,514, and the Census Bureau's 2006 estimate is 41,328.
>
>
> Ken