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Article: Toledo's population grows if you count students, prisoners.
- Article from:
- The Blade (Toledo, OH)
- Article date:
- August 18, 2006
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Byline: Tom Troy
Aug. 18--Don't count Toledo out of the 300,000 club just yet.
The city's population rises just above that magic threshold at 301,285 -- if you count college students, prison inmates, and patients who reside in long-term care facilities within the city.
And as it turns out, the U.S. Census Bureau does include people living in those "group quarters" in its total annual population estimates and in its official Census population counts every 10 years.
But the Census Bureau's American Community Survey estimates, released earlier this week and widely reported in The Blade and other media, is based on a sampling of households ...