Whatcom County is the 10th fastest-growing county in Washington State. Bellingham's growth was 44% of those new people. These stats came from the Office of Financial Management. It is no wonder we are growing we keep ending up on everyone's "Best Places to Live" list and prices are still relatively low by Seattle standards .
Whatcom County's fastest growing city this past year was its smallest, Nooksack gained 71 people, giving it a total of 1,075 people this year. That's a 7.1 percent increase over 2006.
The state office uses changes in school enrollment, housing, voter registrations, driver's license applications and other indicators to comne up with it's data. The U.S. Census Bureau will be releasing 2006 population numbers this week, using somewhat different techniques, it will be interesting to see what the differences are.
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