America's fastest growing small towns
 

America's Fastest-Growing Small Towns - Yahoo! Real Estate

Bill :)

I'm confused... Isn't this negative growth ???

#2 on the list...

Pecos, TX
2010 Population: 11,183
2007 Population: 13,783
Growth: 23.2

There are other cities with negative growth numbers.

I guess I just don't understand the real estate business... :undecided:

Good catch(es)! :D

I suspect they didn't have their best editors (or perhaps math whizzes) on it when the article was getting put together!

Bill :)

I'm probably nit picking here (and too much time on my hands), but to me a population of 90,000 isn't a "small town". More like a small-medium sized city. I didn't see their criteria for a small town.

chalk up a big DUH on that one :laugh:

From the article:

"To determine which smaller cities are growing fastest, we used census data to calculate the population growth rate between 2007 and 2010 for every Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) with fewer than 100,000 people. These statistical areas are geographic entities defined by the U.S. government that usually encompass a core municipality and its suburbs. The truly smallest towns in America were excluded from our ranking, as micropolitan areas must have populations of at least 10,000. And though the data from 2007 and 2010 is not ideally comparable—the 2007 populations are official estimates based on the 2000 Census, while the 2010 numbers are actual counts—it still provides a good snapshot of how these areas have grown."

Bill :)

Lets keep this a secret until us wannabees get there. :jester:

Thank for posting this Bill. :)

Well, I sure am glad to live in The Villages instead of Fort Leonard Wood, MO or Pecos, TX.

Yeah, but if you qualify the government will provide you free room and board at Fort Leonard Wood.

Sorry..................It's tooooooooooooooooo late.Can you imagine what the growth would have been if our country wasn't going through the worse economy since the Great Depression?:confused:

Point well taken :(

One can always hope. :)