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Nonmetro county population
change, 2000-05: Half grew, half declined
Calvin
Beale
In the first half of
the current decade, nonmetro America
was almost evenly split between counties
that grew in population (1,024) and
those that declined (1,027). Declining
counties contain only 34 percent of
all nonmetro residents, however, because
most are sparsely settled. Therefore,
despite declining population in so many
counties, total
nonmetro population grew by 1.1 million
from April 2000 to July 2005, to a
total of 49.9 million.
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