Politics & Government

Census—San Diego County Population Up by 10 Percent

California grew by 4 miliion residents from 2000 to 2010, the US census reports.

According to Census Bureau figures released Tuesday, California's population rose 10 percent from April 2000 to April 2010.

 The Golden State grew from 33.8 million residents to 37.2 million resident during that decade, the census reported.

 Most of that growth appears to have come in the counties that span the middle of the state.

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Riverside County had the biggest jump, increasing 41 percent from 2000 to 2010. Beaumont in that county leaped 224 percent from 11,384 to 36,887 people.

Next was Placer County with a 40 percent jump. The city of Lincoln skyrocketed 282 percent from 11,205 to 42,819 people.

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Other counties that grew more than 20 percent included Imperial, Kern, Madera, Merced and Tulare.

San Diego County jumped 10 percent.

Los Angeles County’s population edged up 3 percent.  San Francisco County’s population also rose 3 percent.

The only counties that saw population decreases were three small regions in the Sierra Nevada. They were Alpine County (down 3 percent), Plumas County (down 4 percent) and Sierra County (down 9 percent).

To review census results online, visit this website: http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml

Associate Regional Patch Editor David Mills contributed to this story.


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