[Vision2020] Idaho is Nation’s Fastest-Growing State, Census Bureau Reports

[Ron Force]

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Ron Force
Moscow Idaho USA

On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 9:03 AM, Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at frontier.com> wrote:

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> Idaho is Nation’s Fastest-Growing State, Census Bureau Reports
>
> https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2017/estimates-idaho.html
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>
> *DEC. 20, 2017 *— Idaho was the nation’s fastest-growing state over the
> last year. Its population increased 2.2 percent to 1.7 million from July 1,
> 2016, to July 1, 2017, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s national and
> state population estimates
> <https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest.html> released today.
>
> Following Idaho for the largest percentage increases in population
> <https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/tables/2010-2017/state/totals/nst-est2017-03.xlsx>
> were: Nevada (2.0 percent), Utah (1.9 percent), Washington (1.7 percent),
> and Florida along with Arizona (1.6 percent).
>
> “Domestic migration drove change in the two fastest-growing states, Idaho
> and Nevada, while an excess of births over deaths played a major part in
> the growth of the third fastest-growing state, Utah,” said Luke Rogers,
> Chief of the Population Estimates Branch.
>
> The U.S. population grew by 2.3 million between July 1, 2016, and July 1,
> 2017, representing a 0.72 percent increase to 325.7 million. Furthermore,
> the population of voting-age residents (adults age 18 and over) grew to
> 252.1 million (77.4 percent of the 2017 total population), an increase of
> 0.93 percent from 2016 (249.5 million). Net international migration
> decreased 1.8 percent between 2016 and 2017, making it the first drop since
> 2012-2013. However, net international migration continues to be a
> significant factor in the population growth of the United States, adding
> just over 1.1 million people in the last year.
>
> Eight states lost population between July 1, 2016, and July 1, 2017.
> Illinois had the largest numeric decline, losing 33,703 people (this was a
> relatively small percentage change compared to its population of 12.8
> million). Wyoming had the largest percentage decline (1.0 percent). Three
> states that had been losing population in the previous year, Pennsylvania,
> Connecticut and Vermont, saw slight increases.
>
> States in the South and West continued to lead in population growth. In
> 2017, 38.0 percent of the nation’s population lived in the South and 23.8
> percent lived in the West.
>
> In addition to the population estimates for the 50 states and the District
> of Columbia, the new estimates show that Puerto Rico had an estimated
> population of 3.3 million, a decline from 3.4 million in 2016.
>
> The estimates for Puerto Rico are as of July 1, 2017, and therefore do not
> reflect the effects of Hurricanes Irma and Maria in September 2017. The
> estimates for Gulf states affected by Hurricane Harvey in August 2017 and
> Hurricane Irma in September 2017 are also not reflected in the July 1,
> 2017, estimates.
>
> Also released today were national-and state-level estimates of the
> components of population change
> <https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/tables/2010-2017/state/totals/nst-est2017-05.xlsx>,
> which include tables on births, deaths and migration.
>
>
> See URLs for numerical charts.
>
>
> https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2017/estimates-idaho.html
>
>
>
> Ken
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