Census Reports Record Growth in North Carolina

12:01 A.M. EDT, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2008
Robert Bernstein, Public Information Office

The Charlotte, NC area included one of the nation’s fastest-growing counties in 2007, according to population estimates released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Union, N.C. (near Charlotte) ranked seventh in growth at 7.2 percent.

The county and municipal population estimates are calculated using administrative records to estimate components of population change, such as births, deaths, internal and international migration. The estimates reflect changes to the Census 2000 population resulting from legal boundary updates as of Jan. 1 of the estimates year, other geographic program changes and Count Question Resolution (CQR) actions. (The CQR Program was an administrative review program that handled external challenges to particular official Census 2000 counts.)