A fresh report from the Pennsylvania State Data Center reports that in 2007, the most recent year for which data is available, 1.2 million Christmas trees were harvested within the state. The counties that contributed the most trees to the harvest? Carbon, Lycoming, Schuylkill, and our neighbor, York. The upside? Since nearly all harvested Christmas [...]
The U.S. Census Bureau has launched a new website for the 2010 census, 2010.census.gov. According to reporting from USA Today: The website launches an all-out marketing campaign to get people to fill out their Census questionnaires next April. The population is counted every 10 years, and the numbers are used to reapportion seats in Congress [...]
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics just released June 2009 employment figures. Here’s how the month stacked up in Lancaster County, compared to the June numbers from the past ten years: Report problems to embedding@chartle.net The movement is much more subtle when looking at just the first six months of 2009: Report problems to embedding@chartle.net [...]
According to preliminary reports [pdf] from the Pennsylvania Department of Health, 7,229 babies were born in Lancaster County in 2008. Only Philadelphia County, Allegheny County, and Montgomery County had more. There were a total of 148,927 births in PA last year, which means that five percent of children born in Pennsylvania last year were born [...]
New data out today from the U.S. Census Bureau indicates that Lancaster County’s population officially topped the half-million mark last year. The county grew by 4,415 between July 2007 and July 2008, bumping it from 497,955 residents in 2007 to 502,370 in 2008. The increase is 0.9 percent in one year. From 2000 to 2008, [...]
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