Wednesday, April 11, 2001
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Wednesday, April 11, 2001 |
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F'ville grows 91%, PTC 66% during '90s By JOHN MUNFORD
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to determine that Fayette County is not the shrinking violet of metropolitan Atlanta. According to results of the 2000 U.S. Census, Fayette's population grew 46 percent in the past 10 years, reaching a grand total of 91,263 people. While Peachtree City's addition of 12,553 residents accounted for much of the increase, it was outpaced percentage-wise by Fayetteville, which grew by 91 percent compared to Peachtree City's 66 percent. Fayetteville's actual growth of 5,321 people, however, was less than half of Peachtree City's increase of 12,553. Peachtree City still remains the largest municipality, at 31,580 people compared to Fayetteville's 11,148. The county's smaller towns grew at a pace closer to the overall county growth average than those of Peachtree City and Fayetteville. Tyrone grew by 44 percent with 1,192 more residents, while Brooks grew 40 percent with 225 more people and Woolsey grew 46 percent with 55 additional persons. The census numbers are crucial since many grants and other state and federal funds rely on census numbers to determine how much funds to distribute for various programs, grants and initiatives. As of Tuesday morning, little other data from the 2000 Census has been released. To view the released data, along with other Census info, visit the department's site at www.census.gov. From there, click on the link for American FactFinder and use the pull-down menus to navigate. If you seek information on a city or town, choose "a place" in the pull-down menu; you can also use that pull-down menu to search information by the county name.
After you make that choice, the screen will "roll over." Then you can choose which state you wish to search, causing the screen to roll over again. After that, you can use another pull-down menu to look up the desired town, city or county.
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