How'd your area fare?

NWA is just under 550,000 as of last July. The two-county region of Benton and Washington counties is now up over 508,000 by itself.

Here you go, nerds: LINK

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Posted by Arksulli

Fayetteville

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Posted on 4/18/19 at 12:05 pm to Numberwang

The scary thing is that they expect the NW Arkansas population to at least double in the next twenty years.

There are a lot of quality growth ares in the SEC footprint.

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Posted by wmr

North of Dickson, South of Herman's

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Posted on 4/22/19 at 10:33 pm to Arksulli

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The scary thing is that they expect the NW Arkansas population to at least double in the next twenty years.

Surely not. I fricking hate the idea of that. The only upside to that possibility is that the majority of the growth will undoubtedly be in Benton County rather than Fayetteville/Springdale. On the other hand, Fayetteville set a single-year record for single family house permits in 2018. I'd expect the 2020 census to reflect a rather large jump over whatever it is estimated at for 2018. It seems like they can't build houses fast enough in Fayetteville right now. And it fricking sucks.

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Posted by wmr

North of Dickson, South of Herman's

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Posted on 4/22/19 at 10:52 pm to Numberwang

Here are the SEC hometown Metropolitan Statistical Area (and in the case of MS, "Micropolitan Statistical Areas") population estimates for July 1, 2018:

Nashville: 1,930,961 (14 counties)
Knoxville: 883,309 (5 counties)
Columbia: 832,666 (6 counties)
Baton Rouge: 831,310 (9 parishes)
Fayetteville/NWA: 549,128 (4 counties)
Lexington: 516,697 (6 counties)
Gainesville: 288,212 (2 counties)
College Station: 262,431 (3 counties)
Tuscaloosa: 243,575 (3 counties)
Athens: 211,306 (1 county)
CoMo: 180,005 (5 counties)
Auburn: 163,941 (1 county)
Oxford: 54,793 (1 county)
Starkville: 49,599 (1 county)

I added the number of counties included in the defined MSA for perspective. Some only consist of 1 county, while Nashville has 14 counties as a part of its MSA.

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