Results tagged “censusbureau”

Good morning, Houston, and a happy Labor Day. We're abandoning our usual posting schedule today in favor of all-American grilled foods and the Jerry Lewis Telethon. We'll be back with our regular schedule tomorrow, but first, how about some Labor Day trivia? Labor Day began in the 1880s as annual street parades to show "the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations." In the early days, there was a movement...

Good morning, Houston. Speaking of problems you didn't know existed, we've got two words for you: Duck dumping. It means leaving domestic ducks in places where they shouldn't be — and it's happening at Hermann Park. People apparently decide their ducks would like to join their brethren at the park, particularly around Easter, but the domestic ducks don't mix with the wild ones that actually live in the park: The domestic ones roost on...

Good morning, Houston. In place of the usual Morning Roundup, we've decided to offer you some good, all-American July 4 information to begin your holiday. And ours — we're taking the day off to spend with our families and friends, as we hope you are (you may see a few posts today, but we'll get back to our usual schedule tomorrow). Before we head out, though, did you know: There are 30 places in...

Houston and four other Texas cities were among the big American cities that gained the largest number of new residents last year, according to estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau today. The estimates show that 26,600 people moved to Houston in 2006, bringing the city's population to 2.14 million — and we're sure every one of them is already joining the fray on the Katy Freeway. San Antonio and Fort Worth gained the second-...

Good morning, Houston. Do you feel more metropolitan? Or bigger, maybe? According to estimates released by the Census Bureau yesterday, the influx of hurricane evacuees has made the Houston metro area the country's sixth largest. The Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown metropolitan area now has an estimated 5,483,857 residents, which puts it ahead of Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Miami Beach but still behind the New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth and Philadelphia metro areas. Another population fact: Harris County...

One of the big topics around Houston last year — among people who care about such things, anyway — was that the flood of hurricane evacuees who came here in late 2005 would push the city's population over 2.1 million, which would trigger a provision in the city charter calling for the addition of two City Council districts. Officials were waiting on the results of a Census Bureau estimate released during the summer before they...

There's nothing like a story about declining wages for a midweek pick-me-up, is there? In that spirit, Houstonist brings you the news that, though Texas has had more job growth than the national average in the last few years, our median income is dropping. In fact, there's been a 6.2 percent drop in the median wage in Texas since 2002, and young and black workers are being hit particularly hard. The information comes from the...

Late last year, we discussed how routine population growth plus the flood of hurricane evacuees who have settled in Houston might mean the city has to redraw its City Council districts because of a provision in the city charter requiring two new council districts when Houston's population reaches 2.1 million. That process could begin soon, Mayor Bill White told councilmembers yesterday, depending on a population estimate expected to be released by the Census Bureau next week. And when it does begin, it could be messy.

San Antonio and Ft. Worth were the second- and third-fastest growing big cities in the U.S. in the year ending in July 2005, according to the Census Bureau's latest statistics — but that doesn't include the population shift from last fall's hurricanes, which hit a couple of months later. San Antonio and Ft. Worth both added about 21,000 people between July 2004 and July 2005, meaning San Antonio overtook San Diego as the seventh-largest American...

At Houstonist, there are few things we love more than getting wrapped up in pointless trivia. It helps us refine our witty cocktail party banter — or ensures we don’t get invited to any more cocktail parties — and, more important, spending half a day chasing useless facts across the Web means we only have to do our real job half as much. Score!