The Queen City crossed over the 820,000 population threshold — 827,097 to be exact — as of July 2015, according to a U.S. Census report released this week. It ranked 10th nationally in the number of people added between July ...

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Charlotte and Raleigh are poised to grow faster than any other large urban areas in the country over the next fifteen years. In fact, Charlotte’s population is projected to grow by 71 percent from 2010 to 2030, according to a ...

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Sales of new single-family homes faltered again in July, data from the U.S. Census Bureau reveal. Sales of new homes in July fell 2.4 percent from June to a seasonally adjusted level of 412,000 from the previous month’s revised rate ...

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Charlotte was the seventh fastest growing metro area in the country in 2013, Redfin is reporting. Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the Seattle-based real estate firm found the city’s population grew 2 percent between 2012 and 2013. Between ...

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Construction spending increased for the third straight month in May, reflecting an increase in private nonresidential and public construction and a decrease in residential projects, according to the Associated General Contractors of America, which relies on data from the U.S. ...

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WASHINGTON – One in four U.S. residents live in “poverty areas,” according to American Community Survey data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau from 2008 to 2012, up from less than one in five in 2000. These areas of concentrated ...

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WASHINGTON —   One in four U.S. residents live in “poverty areas,” according to American Community Survey data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau from 2008 to 2012, up from less than one in five in 2000. These areas of ...

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New single-family home sales have hit a six-year high. Sales of new homes surged 18.6 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 504,000, the U.S. Census Bureau said. It’s the highest level since May 2008 and the biggest increase ...

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The national construction industry’s unemployment rate was 8.6 percent in May, that month’s lowest level since 2008, according to a report from the Associated General Contractors of America based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Construction employers across the ...

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The moving trucks just keep on rolling to Charlotte. New data released by the U.S. Census Bureau showed that Mecklenburg County was the second-fastest growing area in North Carolina, after Brunswick County, a coastal county that runs from the South ...

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