2010 Census Redistricting Data Released

On March 17 the Census Bureau released the 2010 Census Redistricting Data for Kentucky. You can read the press release and access the Bureau's data at this news release site.

 Looking at the data in the County and Cities files put together by the KSDC, you may find some  interesting details about change among Kentucky's cities and counties over the past ten years.

1)  Six cities lost over 1,000 population since 2000; Covington (-2,730), Wilmore (-2,219), Frankfort (-2,214), Newport (-1,775), Campbellsville (-1,390) and Paducah (-1,283).

2)  Two cities have grown over 100 percent in total population in this period, with Coal Run Village (Pike County) leading all cities in the Commonwealth by increasing 195.7%, from 577 to 1,706 people. Crestwood  (Oldham County) had a population increase of 126.7%.

3)  Two cities saw a population decrease of over 50%. Blaine decreased from 245 to 47 people (80.8%) and South Park View declined from 196 to 7 people (96.4%).

4)  South Park View's seven people also means that it has the smallest population of all 422 cities.  Dycusburg was next with 26 people in 2010. In all, there were eleven cities with fewer than 100 people.

5)  Foster and Heritage Creek were not incorporated as cities in 2000 and are the only new cities on the list.

We'll be updating this blog and the KSDC web site with more information from this data release in the coming days as we have more time to analyze it.