Boston’s childless population growth?
An interesting nugget from the student poverty rate for school districts in Massachusetts that I posted yesterday: Boston’s 2008 population is listed as 625,000, about 12,000-16,000 more than the usual Federal population estimates for the city, and about 35,000 more than in 2000, yet less than the 630,000 that City Hall claims in a challenge to the official Census Bureau 2008 estimate of Boston’s population.
But here’s the kicker: The so-called relevant population, roughly speaking the school-aged population, was 82,000 and change in 2000 and 2008 alike. In other words, Boston’s adult population grew by almost 7% while the size of the school-aged population was unchanged. That seems a little bit odd, doesn’t it?
