Florida County Populations 1900-1990

[bulldogger]

Don't know why I left out South Florida, guess was mainly talking about this regions populations. As for your question about the one big extended metro, there are so many regions of the country that are extending and connecting (like the megopolis in the NE) there is talk of ranking certain regions in different categories. Say, like besides the Orlando/Daytona CSA ranking, there will may be a ranking of large extended urban areas: For example only (not factual):

Top 10 US Mega-Urban Areas

1. Washington/Philadelphia/New York/ Boston (or the area could have a specific name like NE megaplex)

2. Los Angeles/Long Beach/Riverside/San Bernadino/Oceanside/San Diego(Southland California)

etc...

It only makes sense as we go in to the future and the US and the World's population is exploding that these different population rankings be used for whatever purpose. The "I-4 Corridor" is definetely an area of huge urban sprawl and huge population growth that is being looked at. What's amazing also is now the Orlando and Jacksonville metro's are bumping in to each other.

[depechecureguyorl]

Then by 2020 census Orlampa will be ready to go as one population center, tentatively named: Tampa-Orlando-St. Petersburg CSA (including Volusia, Flagler,Sumter, and Marion counties.)

[neoanderz]

Here is your helpful census employee. These are the top 10 Florida county pops as of 2006:

1 Hillsborough: 1,201,000

2 Palm Beach County 1,307,414

3 Orange: 1,098,978

4 Duval County 925,002

5 Pinellas: 924,995 (actually a loss of popuation, the county is built out and deaths have been greater than births)

6 Polk County 562,222

7 Lee County 548,096

8 Brevard County 541,154

9 Volusia 538,997

10 Seminole 428,319

*Special note, Polk county is expected to keep having explosive growth as compared to the fast growing coastal counties and their actually is an argument as to whether Polk should be added to Greater Orlando or Greater Tampa. The majority of growth in Polk at this time is Orlando related. The older more populous areas of Polk, (Lakeland) has a greater number of commuters in to Tampa although Orlando growth is also spilling in to Lakeland. As a rule in Florida, counties have not been divided in to two different metro areas. So far the plan is to leave Lakeland as its own metro until 2020 (est pop of Polk co. 2020: 825,000). Then by 2020 census Orlampa will be ready to go as one population center, tentatively named: Tampa-Orlando-St. Petersburg CSA (including Volusia, Flagler,Sumter, and Marion counties.)

[tombarnes]

I'm confused by this list. Broward County has over 1.7m according to The Census Bureau.

The listing in Wikipedia...

While that seems higher than I had thought, the list above doesn't make sense to me either.

[poonther]

I'm confused: What happen to Miami-Dade and Broward in your rankings?

On edit: Also are those 2006 rankings? If so, the Duval pop. to me looks a little high, I know they are really growing, but by that much? The Census website shows Duval's 7.1.06 pop as 837,964. Just curious as to why the difference.

[Julez]

Well he in fact said those were Floridas ten largest counties. But sure is a wierd list.

[neoanderz]

Here are the official census numbers as I posted on the first page:

2006 18,089,888

1. 2,402,208 Miami-Dade County

2. 1,787,636 Broward County

3. 1,274,013 Palm Beach County

4. 1,157,738 Hillsborough County

5. 1,043,500 Orange County

6. 924,413 Pinellas County

7. 837,964 Duval County

8. 571,344 Lee County

9. 561,606 Polk County

10. 534,359 Brevard County

No need to update it until the 2007 census figures come out.

[dgreco]

I just got hte numbers from the fastest growing counties in fl. I thought it would add to the discussion. I think the interesting ones are the ones that are just outside of the top 10 counties in FL, but yet are in the top 100 growth rates so we could see some new counties entering the top ten.

FL-Florida Rank

NT-National Rank

FL NT COUNTY 2006 2000

01 01 Flagler County 83,084 49,835

02 17 Osceola County 244,045 172,493

03 23 Lake County 290,435 210,527

04 25 St. Johns County 169,224 123,148

05 44 St. Lucie County 252,724 192,695

06 50 Pasco County 450,171 344,768

07 59 Lee County 571,344 440,888

08 62 Wakulla County 29,542 22,863

09 66 Sumter County 68,768 53,345

10 67 Walton County 52,270 40,602

11 77 Clay County 178,899 140,184

12 83 Hernando County 165,409 130,802

13 97 Collier County 314,649 251,377

[USF_Rockstar]

Pinellas county is almost completely built out with the exception of some of the extreme nothern areas of the county. In 2000 according to the census it had 3,292 people per square mile. The next closest county was Broward coming in at 1346.5 then Seminole at 1184.9. If the county wants to grow it has got to grow up which is starting to happen but at a snail's pace. There has actually been talk of splitting the county in two but it has more to do with schools than anything.

Source:

http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GCTTa...mp;-format=ST-2