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Never Can Tell What the Census Can Tell You!

Neat Census facts released in March, 2002

• U.S. Census records suggest that young women are now more educated than young men, and . . .
• That the majority of U.S. children now have access to a computer both at home and at school?
• People who move long distances are five times more likely to do so for a work-related reason than those who move short distances?
• The 33 million people added to the U.S. population between 1990 and 2000 is the largest census-to-census increase ever.
• The 1990s was also the only decade of the 20th century when every state gained population.
• Between 1999 and 2000, 1.7 million people moved into the United States from abroad; two-thirds of these movers were foreign-born and not U.S. citizens.
• In 2000, only 11 percent of women at the end of their childbearing years had four or more children, compared with more than three times that percentage in 1976.
• After five consecutive years of annual increases, real median household income did not change significantly between 1999 and 2000.
• The number of students enrolled in elementary school and high school in 2000 (49 million) matched the previous record set in 1970 when "baby boom" children attended school.
• For the first time ever, computers in 2000 were found in a majority of the country's homes (51 percent).
• In 1998, the rate was 42 percent.
• In the three years, from 1997-2000, the proportion of households with Internet access more than doubled, from 18 percent to 42 percent. (Hey — you and I are here, aren't we?)

More Skinny on the Pops
          The nation has grown by 3.4 million people since April 1, 2000, increasing from 281.4 million counted in Census 2000 to 284.8 million as of July 1, 2001, according to estimates released on 12/28 by the Commerce Department's Census Bureau. What area is feeling the most pressure from all these new pops? The release says almost One-Fifth of Growth in California. Hello sunshine!
          These numbers are especially up-to-date as these are the first population estimates that use Census 2000 data as a benchmark.