Omaha Continues to Grow

Omaha Continues to Grow Omaha being the only place I have every lived it’s hard for me to think that this place could get any bigger. I've watched cornfields get turn into shopping areas, old abandoned buildings sit for years empty until someone took a chance and turn it into something beautiful. With the population of the Omaha Metropolitan Area sitting around 865,350 it doesn’t shock me too much to realize that it’s only growing bigger , more fields will get built up to great housing areas, schools, shopping centers, parks and whatever else they can think of. With the Omaha Metro Area consisting of eight counties Cass, Douglas, Sarpy, Saunders and Washington in Nebraska and Pottawattamie, Harrison and Mills counties in Iowa. The greater Omaha area grew by 12.8% from 2000 to 2010 with a projected growth rate for 2015 to be another 5.5% making Omaha hit over 900,000 in population. The employment rate to me is pretty darn good too with only a 5.1% rate of unemployment that makes it very appealing to families moving to Omaha to start over, with a 2010 estimate showing that over 481,000 people the ages 16 or older working in Omaha. In 2010 there were 543,262 employees in the Omaha Metro Area and there were 32,036 businesses established. With their being over 360,000 housing units with 62.6% being owner occupied and more than 100,000 rental units, and an education rate of more than 91%of adults 25 and older with a high school diploma and 32.7% of adults with a college degree makes the Omaha Metro area a pretty stable place to live.