Sioux Falls area fast growing.

[jackmd]

More people = more potential SDSU fans.  Some of this growth reflects the shift from rural to urban.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...OE=click-refer

Two South Dakota counties in 10 fastest-growing
By Haya El Nasser, USA TODAY

There aren't many pockets of growth in the Great Plains, where 70% of rural counties have lost a third of their population in the past 20 years.
But two rural South Dakota counties are among the nation's 10 fastest-growing counties from 2003 to 2004: Lincoln County (pop. 31,437), south of Sioux Falls, and tiny Hanson County (pop. 3,786), 45 miles to the west.

Sioux Falls, site of Citibank's first credit card processing center, has attracted Internet and biotech companies. The number of jobs rose about 28% to 119,000 from 1994 to 2004, says Joel Kotkin, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, a research group.

The jobs are luring back young people who moved to big cities such as Chicago, he says. When they reach their 30s and have kids, "they feel they can't have good quality of life in those urban centers because of price. ... They're also coming back to a convenient thing called grandparents."

Now, "Sioux Falls is growing south into Lincoln County," says Jon Peters, an official with the county's planning department. "The sprawl is a concern. ... The urban needs to stay urban, and the rural needs to stay rural."

[MilwaukeeJacksAlum]

Re: Sioux Falls area fast growing.

One thing they fail to mention is the mass exodus from SD's smaller towns into Sioux Falls. If you're a 25-35 year old living in a town the size of Miller, SD you are probably going to find it hard to find a fellow citizen of similar age. A large percentage of the population growth into Sioux Falls is simply people moving away from small town SD.

Example: 15 years ago you would have found all but Bob Wilber (who was then coaching at Mount Marty) and his family living in Miller, SD. Today the only Wilber still residing in Miller is the original Miller Wilber, Grandpa C.J. The rest all live in Sioux Falls or Dell Rapids. That includes most of my generation of the Wilbers.

[jackmd]

Re: Sioux Falls area fast growing.

One thing they fail to mention is the mass exodus from SD's smaller towns into Sioux Falls.  If you're a 25-35 year old living in a town the size of Miller, SD you are probably going to find it hard to find a fellow citizen of similar age.  A large percentage of the population growth into Sioux Falls is simply people moving away from small town SD.

Example: 15 years ago you would have found all but Bob Wilber (who was then coaching at Mount Marty) and his family living in Miller, SD.  Today the only Wilber still residing in Miller is the original Miller Wilber, Grandpa C.J.  The rest all live in Sioux Falls or Dell Rapids.  That includes most of my generation of the Wilbers.

Exactly. Largely related to urban shift but also reflects others attracted by the "good life" in SD. When are you coming back MWJA?

[Rabbitlivinginverm]

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The Hanson county stats are a little misleading. There's a company called My Home, Inc or something like that that enables people that travel year round to claim a S.D. address so they can register their RV's and save some $. The Argus did a story on it today.

[MilwaukeeJacksAlum]

Re: Sioux Falls area fast growing.

Exactly.  Largely related to urban shift but also reflects others attracted by the "good life" in SD.  When are you coming back MWJA?

I'd love to move back to SD for several reasons. Mainly, all of my family is there. However, I'm pretty firmly rooted in Milwaukee for now. I'd have a hard time giving up all the trees and being able to see a professional baseball game whenever I feel the need. (well, as much as you can call the Brewers a professional ball team). And there's that pesky bar license thing. Plus, who's going to scout SE Wisconsin athletes for the Jacks if I don't live here?

[JackJD]

Re: Sioux Falls area fast growing.

Milwaukee: We'll let you in the bar if you pay your dues!

[Mike_H]

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Milwaukee:  We'll let you in the bar if you pay your dues!

I think that is called a "cover charge". Very few bars require that anymore.

[Rabbit74]

Re: Sioux Falls area fast growing.

If you add up the official US census population estimates of the counties in the official metropolitan area of Sioux Falls, the metro area has increased from 187,000 in 2000 to 198,300 in 2003 to 203,300 in 2004.

By comparison, the Fargo metro area has grown from 174,400 in 2000 to 178,900 in 2003 and 181,500 in 2004

[FargoBison]

Re: Sioux Falls area fast growing.

Rabbit74- The official census numbers had Sioux Falls metro population to be at 172,412 in 2000. And also the census has been undercounting FM's numbers for years according to the FM goverment. Here is a link to what they said.
http://www.ci.fargo.nd.us/Planning/H...dy.pdf#search=

The FM Council of Goverment put out population estimates/projections for the FM metro and they claim the population is now at 194,800 and they also calm that the metro will be at 210,000 by 2010. I don't know if these numbers are close to the truth or not. I asked a person who works with population and he projected the metros population to be at 195,000 for 2010 which seems closer to the the truth.

Here is a link to a report on all the metro area populations from the year 2000.

http://www.census.gov/population/cen...c-t3/tab03.pdf

[Rabbit74]

Re: Sioux Falls area fast growing.

Fargo Bison,

Actually two counties were added to the Sioux Falls metro area in 2003 by the census bureau  I have included them in the population base for 2000.  That is the difference between your data and mine.  Not including them in the 2000 census data would make the Sioux Falls growth look larger than it actually is.  

Every city, including Sioux Falls always thinks that it is growing faster than reported. But if you use the growth rate it has demonstrated for the last four years, an average of 4000 people year, and project to the year 2010, you would have a total of between 225,000 and 230,00 in 2010 which is the range of predictions I have seen diffrent places. There is also the possibility that two more counties will be added to the SF metro district by then. To be included in the metro area, at least 25% of the workers in a county must be employed in the central county(s). As of the last reported data, about 22-23 percent of the workers in another county in South Dakota and one county in Minnesota worked in the Minnehaha county where Sioux Falls is primarily located.

Here is a link to the current definitions of the metro areas and a link to data on county to county travel for employment.

http://www.census.gov/population/est...city/List1.txt

http://www.census.gov/population/www...commuting.html