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« on: May 01, 2008, 12:35:35 PM »

SACRAMENTO— California's population topped 38 million as of January 2008, adding 490,000 residents over the past year, according to new population estimates released today by the state Department of Finance.

The report shows preliminary January 2008, as well as revised January 2007, population data for the cities. Highlights include:

• The City of Los Angeles, California's largest city, has a population of 4,045,873, which makes the city more than three times the size of the state's second largest city, San Diego, which now has an estimated 1,336,865 residents.

• San Jose, in Santa Clara County, the third largest city in California, is closing in on the one million population mark with an estimated 989,496 inhabitants on January 1, 2008. The city added 2,915 housing units and 17,306 additional residents since January 1, 2007.

• San Francisco has attained its highest population on record with a population of 824,525 as of January 1, 2008. This continues the significant upward trend in growth that began in 2006. The city grew by 1.5 percent this past year.

• San Joaquin in Fresno County was the state's fastest growing city, increasing by 17.4 percent. The next four fastest growth rates were in Beaumont in Riverside County (11.3 percent), California City in Kern County (9.6 percent), Imperial in Imperial County (8.3 percent), and Dublin in Alameda County (7.7 percent). All these cities added a large number of new housing units relative to their overall population sizes.

• The biggest numeric increases occurred in some of the state's largest cities – Los Angeles (49,803), San Diego (19,240), San Jose (17,306), San Francisco (12,284), and Sacramento (8,762). All cities in this group added a large number of newly constructed housing units.

• The 2008 report lists 478 California cities, of which 439 gained population, 2 experienced no change, and the remaining 37 lost population. Compared to last year's report, more cities gained population and fewer cities lost population.

• While California population as a whole grew at roughly the same rate in 2008 as it did in the previous year, the 10 fastest growing cities experienced a decline in their rate of growth, from an average of 13 percent in 2006-2007 to 8.5 percent in 2007-2008.

• There are now 67 cities in California with a population exceeding 100,000. Temecula (101,057) and Murrieta (100,173) both in Riverside County now exceed 100,000 in population.

• Since the April 1, 2000 census, the top four fastest growing California cities all have more than doubled in size, including Lincoln in Placer County (255 percent), Beaumont and Murrieta in Riverside County (177 and 126 percent respectively), and Brentwood in Contra Costa County (117 percent).

• Annexation activity for California cities has tapered off dramatically this past year with only 3,082 housing units being annexed statewide, versus 14,886 in 2006. In population-related developments, California's housing growth showed a marked decline in 2007 compared to recent years. This past year, the state added an estimated 131,107 housing units – the smallest change since 2001. The state's housing growth peaked in 2005 when it gained 197,229 housing units, and added 172,568 in 2006. The most notable decline occurred in single-family detached homes, with a decrease of 40 percent from 2006, and a 49-percent drop from 2005. There was a net increase of 131,788 single family detached homes in 2005, 111,481 in 2006, and only 67,266 last calendar year. However, apartment housing units grew by 17 percent over the gain in 2006 (40,514) and numbered 47,313, which was close to the 48,300 added in 2005.

http://www.dof.ca.gov/Research/Research.php
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« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2008, 07:55:41 PM »

• San Jose, in Santa Clara County, the third largest city in California, is closing in on the one million population mark with an estimated 989,496 inhabitants on January 1, 2008. The city added 2,915 housing units and 17,306 additional residents since January 1, 2007.

Yeah, 2007 was a good year. Haven't seen much construction this year, though.
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« Reply #2 on: May 01, 2008, 08:14:13 PM »


• San Francisco has attained its highest population on record with a population of 824,525 as of January 1, 2008. This continues the significant upward trend in growth that began in 2006. The city grew by 1.5 percent this past year.[/quote]

That is quite an upward trend, given that the Census (I know, apples and oranges) put the 2006 number at 744,000, down from 777,000 in 2000. Anyone know how often California appears to use a little extra sunshine in its numbers?
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« Reply #3 on: May 01, 2008, 11:10:30 PM »


• San Francisco has attained its highestb population on record with a population of 824,525 as of January 1, 2008. This continues the significant upward trend in growth that began in 2006. The city grew by 1.5 percent this past year.

That is quite an upward trend, given that the Census (I know, apples and oranges) put the 2006 number at 744,000, down from 777,000 in 2000. Anyone know how often California appears to use a little extra sunshine in its numbers?
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The last few years have been very good to San Francisco. Also lots of new construction going on in the city so I am not too surprised. I was a little surprised by Dublin though. It is the city right next to me and although they are building lots of new homes and condos, i did not think it would be one of the fastest growing. Thats good, building Mcnerney more of a liberal base.
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