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Monday, January 16, 2012

E-town's population drops 2.8%

Did you know Elizabethtown's population dropped 2.8 percent, according to the last U.S. Census? In 1990, the Census counted 11,879 residents in the borough, but two years ago it counted 11,545. It was the first drop in the borough's population since 1960, when Elizabethtown had 6,780 residents.

I have to thank a neighbor, Mike Schwartz, with compiling these numbers and putting them into a nice readable format online. If you're interested, I also created a Google Documents spreadsheet. In both cases, you can see how Elizabethtown compares with the state, Lancaster County and the rest of the country.

I could spend time speculating and surmising what the numbers mean. But I'm not sure that would be very enlightening, meaningful or helpful. If you have any thoughts, please share them in the comments.
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 28, 2012 at 11:46 AM

    Why do you think that it had dropped that low?

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    1. Jeff McCloudNovember 28, 2012 at 12:54 PM

      I think it's the nature of boroughs and cities. People want large homes and larger plots of land to build new homes. Boroughs don't necessarily have that space.

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