100 fastest growing counties (in the U.S.)

Census Bureau ^ | 4/16/05

[LdSentinal]

Maricopa, Pinal counties rack up population

[Salvation]

And Kulongowski needs to know that property taxes in Oregon are keeping business and people away. This is maddening!

[Huck]

"I've watched these blue stater's move here by the droves over the decades." --poobear

They'll simply bring their idiotic trash with them. Sigh... is it too late for fences around the blue areas?" --Jokelahoma

Well, I live right on the very edge of blue state land. I'm in Sussex County, NJ. The county is 3-1 GOP. The local democrat party could meet in a phone booth. But of course the state is blue. We've still got some farms and open spaces up here. The folks who live up here are regular Americans. Nascar is big up here. Walmart is the big store. I call it the West Virginia of New Jersey. But then I hear tell of how towns just 20 miles away were farmland just 50 years ago. I just hate crowds. I like our little community, and I'm only on a half acre, but it's private and quiet and there's plenty of open space around. Who knows for how long. I'm like a marmot. I'll keep moving further away from people as needed. Just close enough to do business. And for me that means I'll drive an hour or more each way to make my money, and be happy to go back up a hill somewhere to lay my hat and have my supper.

[AlaskaErik]

Why is the Matsu-Su bourough growing so fast? Is it out-of-staters coming in? Is Anchorage-Eagle River-etc. out of space? Is Anchorage taxing everyone to death?

Mostly refugees from Los Anchorage. There are about 1000 lots left to build single family homes on. But Los Anchorage is also a pocket of liberalism in an otherwise conservative state and the mayor, King Mark, is doing everything in his power to get more taxes out of the people. I now live in the Mat-Su Borough and don't plan on living in Anchorage again, ever!

[MMcC]

"With 100 gaining counties there must be a near equal amount of losing counties - wonder what they are"

Most are in the neighboring more metro county. I'm in St. Johns Co. Florida and helped add to the list. Like most others here, I moved from Duval Co. Same for the GA counties… A lot of the growth is people moving further from metro Atlanta.

[Cowboy Bob]

Johnston County, NC placement on the list is probably mostly due to immigration, legal or otherwise.

What brings them to Johnson County?

[afnamvet]

Placer County, CA- the most republican county in California. Let's hope the "rats" don't move in on us!

Roger that!

[JoeV1]

"Don't pick any that are on this list - 130k wouldn't buy a parking spot."

Wrong! I just purchased a new Townhouse in Union County NC. It has 3 B/R (master B/R on first level), 2.5 baths, loft, eat in kitchen, gas fireplace, Corrianne counters, multi zone climate control, built in stereo, crown moldings throughout and more. This is an end unit and is approximately 2100 sq feet in size with an attached garage. The price was $149,990, taxes are $1100 annually and the association fees are $125 monthly. It is located in a beautiful community with ponds and fountains and wide open spaces.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

- "Of the 100 fastest-growing counties between 2003 and 2004, 60 were located in the South, 23 in the West and 17 in the Midwest. None were in the Northeast."

Only people in Maine consider Calvert County, MD to be in the South. Only people in Europe consider to be in the West.

[jetson]

this does tell alot

[Wormwood]

Attention America:
Florida is CLOSED
Please turn around and go home.

Thank you, Wormwood.

[Clara Lou]

Thanks for the info. We lived in Eagle River. The Mat-Su area is just beautiful. We bought a lot of produce there. Hate to see it get crowded.

[swordfish71]

Good point, indeed!

A case in point is Missoula County, Montana.

Montana was one the reddest of the red states....now Missoula is being referred to as "Moscow on the Clark Fork"

[SaveTheChief]

I noticed two Indy area counties on that list. Hendricks county has grown tremendously in the past decade as well.

[Ole Okie]

I counted 17 from Georgia.

A lot of these are Atlanta and environs. Beaucoup people are moving down this way from the Nawth. Atlanta right now is around 4 million in population, projections are that it will grow to 6 - 8 million by 2020 (IIRC).

[Grampa Dave]

Governor K and his fellow left wingers in the Oregon legislature are justing doing what their Watermelon Masters want for Oregon.

They want less people, less jobs and of course less evil ranchers, farmers, loggers, lumber mill workers, professional fishermen, and of course the really evil construction workers.

In the Portland area any evil corporation is pushed out or prevented from moving in. Ten years ago Oregon was a leader in construction of homes and heavy construction. Take out the construction in the Medford, Bend and Brookings area, construction is probably running at a negative rate ( not keeping up with what time does to old homes and business sites).

[Mark in the Old South]

I count 62 in the South but I included one in KY and one in West Virginia.

The census in 2010 should be very interesting. It is a pity massive population loss in Mass will not affect the Senate seats of the two distinguished gentlemen who hail from those parts.

[Mark in the Old South]

Re: "Fluvanna...that one I don't get, since it's kind of out in the middle of nowhere. Expansion from Charlottesville, maybe?"

Yes I know many who work in C-ville and commute from Fluvanna. I very pretty county I might add. C-ville is very liberal by Virginia standards but that would make it conservative by most. They do vote Democrat-lite.

Suffolk is a city in the Tidewater area SW of Norfolk but is a city in it's own right, sort of.

By the way I am in the Richmond area as well. Your point is a good one. If this area does not make the list there may be much more that the numbers above do not tell. It may be just the tip of the iceberg.

[Crawdad]

Please be advised that Cobb County, GA is closed. Thank-You. Move along.

[BlueNgold]

Placer County, CA- the most republican county in California. Let's hope the "rats" don't move in on us!

Roger that!


... Note that MUCH of that gowth between 2000 & 2004 was due to Del Webb retirement communities in Roseville and Lincoln. It was a huge concern among the (R) leadership at first, (lots of Roosevelt Democrats in the retiree crowd) but the balance of voting tenencies in Placer changed very little.