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Article: St. Joseph shows growth in latest census figures ; City gains 2,207 people, but falls behind St. Louis suburb
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- St. Joseph News-Press
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- July 1, 2009
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St. Joseph gained population during the first eight years of the
decade, but not to the extent of some of Missouri's suburban
communities.
One of them, O'Fallon, located in the western sprawl of St.
Louis, supplanted St. Joseph as the state's seventh-largest
municipality, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report released
today.
By the bureau's estimate, St. Joseph had a July 2008 population
of 76,197. That represents 2,207 more people in the city limits than
in the decennial census eight years earlier.
That 3 percent growth trails the Missouri-wide increase of 5.6
percent, but it reflects an affirmative bump in a city that has
known population declines (down from 78,588 residents in 1950) ...