- A new housing study predicts North Dakota's population will grow to 840,000 people by 2025
- That's a 25 percent increase
- Ten counties in North Dakota's oil country are forecast to grow by 50 percent in the next 13 years
- The population of Williston and its three-county region is expected to double (Williams, Mountrail, and McKenzie Counties, I assume)
- The report says the statewide demand for housing is expected to increase 30 percent by 2025
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
North Dakota Population To Grow A Bit Between Now and 2025
From the North Dakota Housing Finance Agency via the Minot Daily News:
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That study says Williston will be at 33,000 people by then. It is already at 26,000 by some measure inside the city, plus it has more jobs than Grand Forks, population 53,000. Oil jobs are expected to almost go up by 60% by then.
ReplyDeleteThese estimates are just too conservative. One million people in 2025 is more likely.
I can't disagree.
DeleteIt would all depend on the number of oil field jobs that this boom continues to create. But I agree about Williston. It is already estimated at 22,000 to 26,000 just in town alone, and then the nearly 10,000 scattered throughout the county in mancamps...most just outside of Williston. Williston's workforce has exceeded Minots (civilian) and Minot's 2010 census said they had a population of 40,000. So I think Williston could actually hit 50,000 before the next census in 2020.
ReplyDeleteI can't disagree.
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