The Fall 2010 issue of Rutgers Magazine featured this very interesting half-page item listing the 10 most common surnames among the Rutgers student body in 2009 and in 1990, showing how the demographic composition of the student body has changed over nearly 20 years.
Demographics and Trends
College Students as a Leading Indicator of Diversity
Monday, January 31st, 2011BREAKING NEWS: Young People Don’t Want to Live Where Their Parents Did
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011This is the message that came out of the National Homebuilders Association annual meeting in Orlando, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. According to the article, young people (born between 1980 and 2000, roughly) are eschewing the suburban cul-de-sacs where they were […]
“Smart Growth” vs. “Growth Management”
Thursday, January 6th, 2011Google Labs has developed a tool it calls the Book NgramViewer, which allows a user to search Google’s book archives over a specified time period for the appearance of specific words or phrases. Among other things, this tool can be […]
Population Growth Slows in NJ, Nationally
Tuesday, December 21st, 2010One of the headlines that has already been mentioned repeatedly in news stories about the new 2010 Census national and state population totals is that the country’s rate of growth in the 2000s — 9.7 percent — is […]
Sprawl Not Yet a Thing of the Past
Thursday, July 29th, 2010New Jersey has long been the nation’s most developed state, but new data show it is now more developed than anything else.
By the Numbers: County Population Estimates Defy Earlier Trends
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010Is the sudden, recent population growth in older, more urbanized counties in the Northeast a short-term phenomenon? Or has the exodus from New York City and northern New Jersey to the Pocono counties of northeastern Pennsylvania run its course? The […]
Non-English-Speakers More Common in NJ than Nationally
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010The Census Bureau has just released new data on people age 5 and older who speak a language other than English at home. The press release mentions New Jersey twice, as being among the states with the highest percentages of […]
Metro Areas Are the Key to America’s – and New Jersey’s – Future Economic Prosperity
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010In an article in the Wall Street Journal (“The Metro Moment”) last week, the Brookings Institution’s Bruce Katz drew attention to the importance of metropolitan areas to the nation’s economic activity: The real heart of the American economy lies in […]
EPA Study Finds Redevelopment Taking Hold Nationwide, What About NJ?
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010A recent study by the Environmental Protection Agency finds that redevelopment is becoming the dominant paradigm for residential growth in urban areas. The study, titled Residential Construction Trends in America’s Metropolitan Regions, looks at 19 years of building permit data, […]
Where and How is New Jersey Growing?
Thursday, October 8th, 2009New Jersey’s eight urban centers, as designated in the State Development and Redevelopment Plan, reversed course and resumed growing in the 1990s.