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! <br />I <br /> <br />'1 <br /> <br />I- <br /> <br />POPULATION <br /> <br />The Seven County Twin Cities Metropolitan Area <br /> <br />population is estimated to be just over two million, or <br />2,032,867 as of April 1, 1983. <br /> <br />The Area gained 46,994, or 2.4 percent, since 1980. <br /> <br />Hard Facts <br /> <br />· lhe Twin Cities is growing <br />faster than any other northern <br />metropolitan area~ <br /> <br /> [] Ranks 16th m size of the nation's 25 largest metro- <br />politan areas. The 1980 population was lust under two <br />million people., <br /> [] Growth will continue. Area has highest rate of <br />growth o! any large northern metropohtan area: 1984 <br />population estimate is over two milhon, wlth a fore- <br />casted growth of another 225,000 people by the year <br />2000.3 A report [~om the Harvard-Massachusetts Insti- <br />tute of Technology Joint Center fo[ Urban Studxes <br />report said Minnesota (and several other northern <br />states) will enjoy resurgent growth.~ <br /> rD Households wiil grow from 721.000 now to 910.000 <br />by the year 2000. The housing vacancy rate hovers <br />around two percent.5 <br /> [] Area has planned urban support servxces to <br />handle the expected growth. It currently has enough <br />vacant, serviced, and buildabie land in the urban part <br />of the area to accommodate development for two <br />decades.6 The area's industrial parks have about 4.000 <br />ac[es available. The acreage is spread among 27 parks <br />that have vacant land w~thln them ? <br /> <br /> <br />