Population has continued to increase in Central Ohio unlike other Ohio cities but Columbus dropped from the 15th largest city in the US to the 16th.

Ohio's biggest city and the state capitol dropped from 15th to 16th thanks to Austin Texas growing faster...

Not just the City of Columbus is growing though... Central Ohio as a region has grown, according to the  Columbus Dispatch article about the census.  Where is Central Ohio growing?  Lithopolis (Fairfield County, not my market area), Powell,  New Albany are growing in addition to the City of Columbus...  The article in The Columbus Dispatch written by Erin Dostal   Census; Central Ohio keeps growing and this newspaper article is not about putting on weight in separate breaking yesterday Columbus is the 10th most obese city?  Or maybe it is merely overweight not obese....we moved up from 17th to 10th in a year?   That may be City of Columbus and the suburbs. Back to growth of the Central Ohio cities not their citizens...

Dostal wrote quoting Nancy Reger, a demographer for the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission.

"Natural population growth is likely the reason for the numbers in Lithopolis, Powell and New Albany, because people there tend to start families, she said.

Columbus, on the other hand, grows by attracting people from elsewhere. And unlike Ohio's other large cities, which either flat-lined or lost population in the past year, Columbus added people. The Census Bureau said the city had 754,885 residents through July 1, 2008, about 1 percent more than the year before."

Reger says people move to Columbus for jobs.  People in Powell, New Albany have babies... Generalization?  I know  people who have moved to Powell and New Albany from outside the region for jobs and people who live in the City of Columbus who have had babies....

People are moving to the region for jobs.

Maureen McCabe Real Living HER Worthington

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