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BACKGROUND

Learn about the county and its relationship to the region

Introduction:  To visit Chester County, just 30 miles south of Charlotte, is to enter another world.  Geographically so close, these two places couldn’t be more different.  Chester faces greater...

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SPOTLIGHT

04.25.13 - 01:43PM
Demographics
Carolina metros: Changes in the landscape

In the Carolinas, only Charlotte’s metro area tops 2 million people. Raleigh is roughly half Charlotte’s size at 1.2 million. These two metros have pulled away from the pack of the other Metropolitan Statistical Areas in the Carolinas; no others top 1 million in population. Ten years ago, the metros in the two states were surprisingly different.

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John Chesser
03.28.13 - 12:01PM
Demographics
Boundary change boosts Charlotte metro population

In January, the Charlotte metro area population was 1.8 million people. In February, the metro area population was 2.3 million. Where did the half-million people come from? New boundaries were drawn for metropolitan statistical areas.

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John Chesser