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RSSVermont Population Growth Is Slowing
Wednesday, 12/22/10 12:44pm
Jane Lindholm, Produced by Ric Cengeri
Will Sawyer, Manager of the Vermont State Data Center at the Center for Rural Studies, digested the just-released 2010 census figures. He reports that Vermont's growth rate between 2000 and 2010 has fallen to 2.8%. That's down from 8.2% from 1990 to 2000.
Sawyer also notes that in the three previous decades before 1990, the state's growth rate averaged 14.8%.
While the census numbers can effect the number of Congressional seats awarded to a state, with Vermont's small population, the state will still only have one U.S. Representative. But the numbers will be important for the upcoming state-wide reapportionment.
Listen to Jane Lindholm's interview with Will Sawyer.
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