The South Dakota Board of Regents boasts that South Dakota has reversed "brain drain." This new Regents' study on net migration of new high school grads finds that while 1,564 of South Dakota's 9,142 2008 HS graduates (17%) went out…
Posts tagged as “population”
The Thanksgiving break is coming up; half of the office is already acting like they're on vacation; why not spend your day messing around with this awesome map of American migration! Forbes grinds up IRS data into an interactive map…
...and demographic musing! Mr. Ehrisman posts the results of a new Nielson Brothers poll on the upcoming Sioux Falls event center vote. The voting public remains evenly split, 42% in favor, 41% opposed, and a whole bunch of votes still…
I attended the first formal public conversation on Madison's retail future, a meeting called by concerned citizen Ashley Kenneth Allen. A dozen of us gathered at the library to start figuring out why Madison's retail sector is in decline and…
There are 1123 people in Madison who are not in Madison. Roll with me on this local illusion. During last week's school board election, I noticed an odd bump in the voter registration numbers: Ward 1, northeast Madison: 3211 registered…
The Census Bureau's "Population Distribution and Change: 2000 to 2010" brief offers some nummy numerical nuggets: South Dakota's 7.9% population growth during the first decade of this millennium was the highest growth rate among all Midwestern states. Minnesota had been…
I'm paging through more of the Census 2010 data. You can go to the Census website and run numbers yourself, but be forewarned: the interface isn't immediately user-friendly. I noted earlier that Madison was a loser in the 2010 Census,…
The Rapid City Journal offers an interactive map of the newly released Census 2010 data for South Dakota. Our fair state's population grew 7.9% over the past decade, to 814,180. Unfortunately, Lake County didn't share in that growth: our official…