[LdSentinal]

- "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."

- "Joining Florida in having at least 10 counties among the 100 fastest-growing were Georgia and Texas (12 each) and Virginia (10)."

- "California and Texas each had three counties among the top-10 numerical gainers. Only one county on this list — Will, Ill., near Chicago — was located outside the South or West."

- "Of the 100 most populous counties in 2004, 32 were located in the South, 27 in the Northeast, 25 in the West and 16 in the Midwest."

[keithtoo]

That's Red State Bush country baby!!!

[RightWhale]

The Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK, the Mat-Su Borough is not a county. It is crazy down there, though.

[TexasAg1996]

I count 13 from Texas.

[TWfromTEXAS]

ping for 19th

[TC Rider]

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

[SoCal Pubbie]

If you look at the raw number, not percentage, Riverside County leads the way, followed closely by Clark County in Nevada. Nowhere else comes close.

[SengirV]

Freeper from the #1 fastest growing county checking in. They FINALLY started raids of illegal flop houses here. The 1st one(widely known as a flop house due to the massive amount of cars parked in the driveway, on the street, on the lawn, etc..) had sleeping for 20 people in a 2 bedroom house. So I'd imagine the population is growning faster than even this indicates.

[RogerRabbit]

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

[SouthernFreebird]

Unfortunately that's just the illegals...

[LdSentinal]

If anybody wants you can compare this to the 2004 presidential election results.

Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections

[RogerRabbit]

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

[Andy from Beaverton]

I may be wrong on this but is Loudoun County, VA the fastest growing because it's close to Washington DC and are government is growing out of control???

[patton]

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

[Cowman]

I'd like to see a correlation between the counties with the strongest economies and the per capita taxes in those counties.


Wanna bet it's inversely proportional?

[notaliberal]

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

[twas]

What I see is people fleeing multicultural urban centers.

[clyde asbury]

bttt

[Dan from Michigan]

I saw this list at a political meeting. Almost all of these counties are exurbs, and only two of them went for Kerry. Forgot the two.

Those areas must be insanely building up. I live in the fastest growing county in Michigan(12%), and it didn't make the list, and it's booming here.

[Moose4]

Every single one of those Virginia counties except for Fluvanna are getting the expansion from the Washington metropolitan area. Loudoun is about, oh, 30-40 miles west of DC along Highway 7 and has been the crazy growth spot up there for some time now. Prince William, Stafford and Spotsylvania are down the I-95 corridor from DC to Fredericksburg, a good 55 miles south of the District.

The only Virginia county on there that's not around DC is Fluvanna...that one I don't get, since it's kind of out in the middle of nowhere. Expansion from Charlottesville, maybe?

I'm surprised at some counties that aren't on that list...Henrico or Goochland, Virginia (western suburbs of Richmond), and Lexington, South Carolina (western suburbs of Columbia). Real estate values out here in western Henrico/eastern Goochland have gone insane with all the economic expansion in the far western suburbs of Richmond.

}:-)4

[TomGuy]

Benton County, AR 179,756 153,406 26,350 17.2

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