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Bay Area growth pushes California population near 38M (still 2 senators despite 12%+ of US pop)
Last edited Fri May 3, 2013, 04:26 PM - Edit history (1)
FYI: over 12 percent of the US population with just 2 percent of the US Senate.
As a rapidly recovering job market attracts armies of young tech workers, Santa Clara County is now the fastest-growing county in California, new figures from the state Department of Finance show.
Most of the rest of the Bay Area also recorded strong population growth last year as the Golden State's population grew by almost 300,000 to nearly 38 million people. Four of the state's five most rapidly growing counties and several of its fastest-growing cities were in the region, according to the report released Wednesday.
"Who wouldn't want to live in the Bay Area now? Not only is there a great quality of life, but the job growth has been pretty outstanding," said Jim Wunderman, the Bay Area Council's president and CEO.
Wunderman, whose organization is made up of the region's 275 biggest employers, said the Bay Area is more than ever "seen as the place you have to be in order to be part of the innovation economy."
In Santa Clara County, the heart of Silicon Valley, the population grew 1.6 percent in 2012, up from 0.7 percent in 2011 and 1.1 percent in 2010, while San Francisco, Alameda and San Mateo counties all had growth rates exceeding 1 percent.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/breaking-news/ci_23151275/santa-clara-county-is-fastest-growing-county-population
