Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Census: Raleigh pop. is 403,892, up 46% since 2000
At 403,892, Raleigh is the state's second largest city, behind Charlotte (731,424), but it's also the fastest growing: Raleigh's population is up 46 percent since 2000, while Charlotte gained 35 percent ... according to official U.S. Census data released today.
So it isn't just your imagination that Raleigh's roads — essentially unchanged in a decade — are twice as crowded as they used to be.
Wake County, by the way, will soon overtake Mecklenburg as North Carolina's biggest. Wake's population was pegged at 900,993, slightly behind Meck's 919,628. But Wake grew 43 percent over the decade vs. Meck's 32 percent.
Durham ranks as the state's fifth largest city (after Greensboro and Winston-Salem), pop: 228,330, up 22 percent over the decade.
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Wrong! Raleigh's population grew by 46.3% since 2000, nothing close to the near 100% increase to make the title's claim of "almost 2X since 2000" accurate.
Look at it this way: Raleigh's population was 276.093 in 2000. Double that would be 552,186. No way that 403,892 could be considered anything near 552,186.
The mistake you are making is to assume, perhaps, that a 50% increase of something doubles it.
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