Re: [PLUG] DelCo [was "Your Linux Meetup is cancelled"]

[Magnus <chrish@trilug.org>]

On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 10:57 AM, M. Jackson Wilkinson wrote:

> Huh?  From census.gov:
>
> Bucks: 605,375
> Chester: 443,346
> Delaware: 551,158
> Montgomery: 759,953
>
> Those are 2001 estimates, at which point delaware was growing most 
> slowly of the four suburban counties, at .1% per year as opposed to 
> 1.3 (bucks), 2.4 (chester), and 1.3 (montgomery).
>
> But anyone can have their illusions, I suppose ;-)

*boggle*  Yeah, you caught me screwing up my numbers.  My intentions 
were honest, but my articulation was less than accurate.

I think part of the problem was that I was looking at 1990 numbers 
(which places DelCo ahead of all but MontCo).

But I think that my real blunder was probably that DelCo has the 
highest population *density*, outside of Philadelphia County itself, 
with almost 3,000 people per square mile (fully twice Montgomery 
County's density, more than three times Bucks County and *six times* 
Chester County.  While it's a small county by landmass, by US Census 
standards it is an urban county.  And nearly every municipality in the 
county is urban.

With DelCo being such a densely populated region, I was just surprised 
that there isn't more interest in geek GTG's

--

C. Magnus Hedemark
"From the Fury of the Norsemen please Deliver us, Oh Lord"

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