Selasa, 12 April 2011

2010 Census: The Great Plains Continues to Depopulate

Change in Population by County in Percent from 2000-2010The WSJ reports that about 46 percent of rural counties nationwide lost population between 2000 and 2010, including almost 60 percent of rural counties that aren't adjacent to a metro area. Those statistics are based on an analysis of Census data by Kenneth Johnson, a senior demographer at the Carsey Institute at the University of New