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Uploaded: Saturday, March 16, 2013, 2:33 PM
Santa Clara County grows, with international migration's help
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by Eric Van Susteren
Palo Alto Weekly Staff
Santa Clara County's population has grown 3.1 percent since 2010 and more than half that growth can be attributed to people who migrated to the county internationally, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Between April 2010 and July 2012, Santa Clara County had a net increase of 30,315 people who migrated to the county from a place other than the U.S. During the same time the county experienced a net loss of 7,029 residents who moved to another place within the U.S.
The remainder of the population increase came from 33,503 people who came the county's "natural increase," or its ratio of births to deaths. In total, the county grew by 55,862 people, from 1,781,642 to 1,837,504.
San Mateo County grew by 2.9 percent or 20,860, with just over half of the increase coming from combined international and domestic migration and the other half, some 10,156 people, coming from the county's natural increase.
San Mateo County's balance between domestic and international migration was much more modest than Santa Clara County's, with an increase of 7,364 internationally and 3,679 domestically.
The county grew from 720,105 to 739,311 people.
Neither county made the country's top-100 fastest-growing-counties list.
However, the San Francisco Metropolitan area, which includes San Francisco, Oakland and Hayward, experienced the ninth highest numeric population increase in the nation, with 58,642 people moving to the area.
The San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metropolitan area, which includes Palo Alto, grew by 26,404 people, placing it at No. 24 in numeric population increase.
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Posted by Resident, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood, on Mar 18, 2013 at 8:03 am I don't dispute any of this, it is what we all see here everyday in Palo Alto.
What I am wondering is how this information is collected. I can see how a census would collect this information, but how did they do this and know that this is happening since the last census?
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Posted by Too much too soon, a resident of the Southgate neighborhood, on Mar 18, 2013 at 12:16 pm So much of an increase in population in so short a time is going to impact the local economy in a bad way, especially if it continues into the future. It will lower everyone's standard of living even further: increased traffic, pollution, congestion, overcrowding in high-density living quarters, higher housing prices, higher cost of living, possibly lower salaries.
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Posted by Eric Van Susteren, online editor of Palo Alto Online, on Mar 18, 2013 at 1:40 pm
Eric Van Susteren is a member (registered user) of Palo Alto Online Hi resident,
The Census has a fairly detailed methodology report for the study posted on its website. You can check it out here: Web Link
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Posted by Too much too soon, a resident of the Southgate neighborhood, on Mar 18, 2013 at 4:38 pm We have no control over the effects of this much immigration, and that is a little unnerving.
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Posted by misleading title, a resident of the Downtown North neighborhood, on Mar 18, 2013 at 11:52 pm The title of this article "international migration" is very misleading. The article never says how much "international migration" is actually occurring, except to say that somewhere less than half of the population growth is due to "international migration".
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Posted by pat, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood, on Mar 19, 2013 at 9:29 am I agree with Too much too soon. These numbers provide more ammunition for ABAG to demand even more housing.
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Posted by Pete, a resident of the Barron Park neighborhood, on Mar 20, 2013 at 4:56 pm Fiddle while Rome burns. The Chinese are buying us out!
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