Vegas Hits 2-Million People?
December 21st, 2007That’s what our government reported a week or so back.
Clark County’s two millionth resident simply showed up sometime in the last three months, and no one — not even the milestone newcomer — noticed the difference.
However, a sidebar for the story revealed the methodology that government uses to forecast population:
The county’s annual population estimate is rooted in a simple formula: the total number of housing units times the occupancy rate (generally around 95 percent) times the number of people per household (about 2.5).
To get a better sense of how much housing is out there, eight members of Wardlaw’s staff spend several weeks each year counting rooftops in recent aerial photographs of developing portions of the valley.
We know that our occupancy rate is very low right now - that’s the mortgage crisis you hear about. We know school enrollments are less than projected, university enrollments are less than projected, unemployment is higher than the national average (and, thanks to making a cell phone a primary phone, a transient working family can move back home and still field those phone calls to keep the unemployment checks coming) and tax collections are down the sharpest in revenue streams relating to spending that accompanies moving into a home.
All that makes me think that working families have been the first to leave town in the wake of our economic downturn… rather than retired families. This would tend to drive down the “number of people per household” as homes with more people go vacant faster than homes with only one or two people.
Perhaps we haven’t hit the 2-million mark?
December 22nd, 2007 at 7:29 am
Well, the liberals have done it. Nevada now has more registered democrats than republicans. It’s a sad day for Nevada when the tax and spenders have outpaced the conservatives.
What do you expect when they leave the states they have destroyed with their liberal ideals and now are doing the same thing here.
We are now fortunate to have a New York liberal representing a large portion of Nevadans in Congress. Does she, as many of our new residents, even pronounce Nevada correctly?
December 22nd, 2007 at 11:20 am
“and, thanks to making a cell phone a primary phone, a transient working family can move back home and still field those phone calls to keep the unemployment checks coming”
Bob, I haven’t heard of this before. Is it really happening? And on what scale does the evidence say it’s happening? It sounds like an example of something that COULD happpen, but nobody really knows whether or not it is. I’m curious if you have anything that can back it up.
December 23rd, 2007 at 9:44 pm
There are a major questions to be asked here! Where will we get the water for all of the new residents? Well the developers continue to be allowed to dictate building codes? Will ‘high density’ (low cost) housing zone continue to exist immediately next to ‘low density (high cost)’ housing tracts? Will the Secular Progressive Liberals be allowed to dictate to those of us that have common sense simply because they have ‘ignorant lackeys’ that they appeal to with lies and innuendo?
I think there may be more to ask but until answers are provided to those posed here I will wait to pose others.
December 23rd, 2007 at 11:01 pm
CONSTITUTIONALLY SPEAKING, WHAT IS THE CONSTITUTION? WELL, IT IS NOT THE RIGHT OF A CITY MAYOR (OF A CITY THAT IS MANAGER RUN) TO ASK THE COUNCIL TO VOTE DURING A FORUM MEETING TO HAVE “HOME RULE” FOR THIS CITY! When reminded that the council cannot vote during such a meeting, he says, “then I want them to vote that “IT’S A DARN GOOD IDEA FOR THE CITY TO HAVE HOME RULE”. When is voting not voting? When one gets what one wants, legally or not!