The Big Hair, southern accents, cowboy jeans, and down home cooking’; think what you want about Texas, but odds are you know some one who wouldn’t mind moving there.

The statistics are in and not one but two cities in the U.S.’s largest State saw the biggest increase in population in 2009. Experts in demographics are sure this move to the Lone Star State is mainly due to following; Texas has a diversified economy, smaller run-ups in housing prices, and fewer foreclosures.

To look at the big picture, the population of the United States has increased over 9% since the 2000 census, making the population somewhere around 307 million people. Then again that figure is an approximation on where experts believe that the 2010 census will reach. This is influential because, like we’ve all seen on the commercials, the census determines the number of people and their ages that are living in a certain area, that information translates to more federal funding and representatives in congress.

In the past 10 years the city of Dallas, Texas has had a population increase of almost 1.3 million people, more than any other city in the US. Because of these figures, the city stands to get a big increase in federal funds, much more than the $4 billion they received in 2008. And also, due to this increase, Texas stands to get three more seats in Congress, totaling 25 house seats for the lone star state.

Now that we’ve talked about the places where the population is booming, who is on the flip side of this picture, who is dealing with less and less residents on their streets.

Over the past 10 years, New Orleans, Louisiana has been hit hardest. When Hurricane Katrina came and went in 2005, New Orleans lost more than 300,000 residents within a year, people chose to leave rather than rebuild. And, since the 2000 census New Orleans has posted a net loss of more than 126,000 people, that is a staggering 9.6% of it’s population. With these figures in mind, the big easy could see its federal funding come down from the $1.8 billion it received in 2008, and it could loose one of its seven congressional seats.

Another city facing a bit of a struggle is Detroit, Michigan. The motor city was pummeled with the collapse of the motor vehicle industry and that fact took a hard toll on the residents of the area, quite quickly the city faced upwards of 15.6% unemployment. When people could no longer find work to keep up their mortgages and feed their families they moved, and in 2009 it is estimated that the Motor City lost more than 20,000 of its residents, which is a staggering .05% of the population.

Last week, more than 120 Million census forms were mailed to residential addresses across the nation, and census workers will continue to deliver another 12 Million more. The nation will use these questionnaires and door-to-door visits to get an accurate headcount of the nation so that they can hammer down fair and accurate funding, state and federal representation and other necessary aspects of the American picture. In fact, Uncle Sam is pushing so hard for this, the Census Bureau is putting $133 million to increase participation, now that is the government working for you.

Author Bio: “Your” Money Matters, by Carl Hampton From the Author of “From Credit Despair To Credit Millionaire.” Http://www.CarlHampton.com

Category: Society
Keywords: