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New Orleans wins another census challenge

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The Census Bureau has adjusted the 2008 estimate for the city of New Orleans up by around 25,000 people. This is the second challenge won in the past two years. The old estimate was 311,853, and the new estimate is 336,644. This bumps the city up from 59th to 55th largest in the country. Current estimates by local demographers have the population somewhere between 355,000 and 365,000 people.

Article link…http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2…n_estimat.html

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New Orleans’ population estimate was low by 25,000, Census says
By Times-Picayune Staff
January 07, 2010, 1:58PM

After a challenge from the city, The U.S. Census Bureau has increased by nearly 25,000 its estimate of New Orleans’ 2008 population. Since Hurricane Katrina scattered New Orleanians across the country, the city’s population has been a matter of hot debate.

The bureau revised its 2008 estimate of the city’s population from 311,853 to 336,644, according to a news release from Mayor Ray Nagin’s administration. The number represents the agency’s best estimate of the city population on July 1, 2008.

The adjustment marks the second time the Census Bureau has bumped up its figure after a challenge from the city. In January, the Census Bureau accepted New Orleans’ challenge to the bureau’s July 1, 2007, population estimate and adjusted the figure upward by nearly 50,000, from 239,124 to 288,113.

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