Monday, December 11, 2006
Population growth in rural midwest areas
is primarily due to immigration, according to the USDA ERS, Rural America at a Glance.
"Nonmetro population growth since 2000 has been evenly divided between natural increase—an excess of births over deaths (541,000)—and net inmigration (545,000).
Three-fifths of the inmigration (322,000) is accounted for by immigrants from abroad. The rest (223,000) originated from metro areas, as more people have moved to rural and small-town places than away from them.
Between 2000 and 2005, population growth in the Midwest resulted entirely from international migration, because population growth from natural increase (births minus deaths) was completely offset by domestic outmigration of mostly young adults.
In addition, international migration contributed between 18 and 28 percent of total nonmetro population growth for the West, South, and Northeast.
Indiana, Oklahoma, Alabama, and New Mexico had the largest percentage gains in nonmetro population from international migration between 2000 and 2005.
The largest nonmetro population increases between 2000 and 2005 occurred in North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, and Texas. The fastest growth rates were in Delaware, Nevada, Florida, and Hawaii."
"Nonmetro population growth since 2000 has been evenly divided between natural increase—an excess of births over deaths (541,000)—and net inmigration (545,000).
Three-fifths of the inmigration (322,000) is accounted for by immigrants from abroad. The rest (223,000) originated from metro areas, as more people have moved to rural and small-town places than away from them.
Between 2000 and 2005, population growth in the Midwest resulted entirely from international migration, because population growth from natural increase (births minus deaths) was completely offset by domestic outmigration of mostly young adults.
In addition, international migration contributed between 18 and 28 percent of total nonmetro population growth for the West, South, and Northeast.
Indiana, Oklahoma, Alabama, and New Mexico had the largest percentage gains in nonmetro population from international migration between 2000 and 2005.
The largest nonmetro population increases between 2000 and 2005 occurred in North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, and Texas. The fastest growth rates were in Delaware, Nevada, Florida, and Hawaii."
# posted by Norma : 12/11/2006 11:36:00 AM
