Greensboro may feel its age, census reveals
Friday, September 29th, 2006
By Chris Fitzsimon
By Lex Alexander
Staff Writer GREENSBORO — Is Greensboro getting older, faster? That’s what recently released census data suggest.
The city’s median age increased from 33.0 in 2000 to 35.8 in 2005, according to a comparison of 2000 census data with information in the 2005 American Community Survey, released in August by the Census Bureau. A median age means that half the people in a given place are older and half are younger.
That increase of 2.8 years compares with increases of 1.7 years in Raleigh and 1.5 years in Durham. The median ages in High Point and Winston-Salem decreased during the same period.
The heart of Greensboro’s apparently rapid aging can be found in the Census Bureau’s counts of people in the young-adult age brackets , says Martha Lang, a visiting assistant professor of sociology/anthropology at Guilford College.
Those brackets — ages 15-19, 20-24 and 25-34 — showed decreases of roughly 32 percent, 26 percent and 15 percent, respectively. The other large North Carolina cities surveyed showed either gains or much smaller losses in those groups.
"Looking at this as compared to other cities, I think the biggest concern is that Greensboro is losing its working-age population," Lang said, "because it’s a significant contributor to the tax base. " (more…)
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