re: SEC Town Growth Rates this decade

B/CS is going to pass Gainesville very soon, but it will be a while before it catches Lexington.

We Mexicans are taking over, ese.

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If Starkville and Tuscaloosa are so close, do their students party together

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Everybody used to get together and party in Reform but with the enrollment increases the gas station couldn’t cook enough tater logs to keep up so all that ended.

Of the 65 Power 5 institutions, they are located in 63 separate Metro/Micro Areas.... Los Angeles has two (USC & UCLA) while Durham, NC also has two (Duke & UNC).

*23 of the 65 are located in major metropolitan areas of 1 Million+ population.

*Four others are located in large metropolitan areas between 750,000 and 1 million population (Clemson, Tennessee, LSU, and South Carolina).

*The other 38 are located in what I would consider a "College Town" somewhere between about 50,000 and 750,000 population.

If you take these 37 towns (again Durham has two), the top 4 fastest growing are all SEC towns:

1. Fayetteville- +16.0%
2. Auburn- +15.2%
3. Oxford- +14.8%
4. College Station- +12.9%

The next fastest growing are these:

5. Durham-Chapel Hill, NC- _12.5% (Duke & UNC)
6. Iowa City, IA- +12.4% (Iowa)
7. Lincoln, NE- +9.7% (Nebraska)
8. Columbia, MO- +9.6% (Missouri)
9. Pullman, WA- +9.5% (Washington St.)
10. Boulder, CO- +9.5% (Colorado)

The College Town with the slowest growth is Syracuse, NY... -1.2%. It's also the only one with negative growth since 2010.

Next slowest is South Bend, IN (Notre Dame) at 0.8% growth, followed by Blacksburg, VA (Virginia Tech) at 2.7% growth.

***As for the smallest college town in the entire Power 5, it is Pullman, WA (Washington State) at 49,046..... just a few hundred smaller than Starkville. But its growing at double the rate, so likely within 2-3 years, Starkville will becomes the smallest college town in the Power 5.

Oxford, MS is the 3rd smallest while Stillwater, OK (Oklahoma St.) and Corvallis, OR (Oregon St.) round out the five smallest P5 college towns.

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And most people go 80MPH. So in an hour and 20 minutes you have gone 107 miles

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Wow,so no traffic lights,traffic or going through neighborhoods to get to 85?Freakin amazing...I made the commute from Lake Harding to Atlanta for about
a month so even on 85 alone to the Valley exit it was rarely under 1 hour and 10 mins...let me guess,you're one of those guys who makes it to Destin in 4 1/2 hours

So tell me again about how everybody gets free tuition at UGA

Most of the housing for people around Starkville is located in West Point and Columbus and the area outside Starkville city limits. Mississippi State is not located inside the Starkville city limits. Starkville proper is pretty much all businesses and student housing and condos. So, frick your stats.

You know the town fathers screwed up back in the late 70’s when they expanded the city limits and they mistakenly included frat row in Starkvegas. Well all the students that lived there registered to vote and helped the beer sales legalization to pass in Starkvegas around 1980 or so.
Prior to then, hard liquor and wine was legal but not beer.
Another funny thing is, beer could not be sold cold or individually, so Kroger/WD etc. stacked their beer on pallets on the floor in the middle of the cold / frozen section.
That pretty much took care of the beer being hot.

Didn’t the alderman own the ice plant? He didn’t want stores selling cold beer because it would cut into his business.

I really hope Walt Maddox doesn’t become governor. He has done wonders for Tuscaloosa since 2005. He will make Tuscaloosa a real gem with another 15 years running things.

Tuscaloosa will continue to grow, but it obviously has its limits being so close to Birmingham.