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St. Louis Park Grows Modestly From 2010 to 2011

The city added 255 people over the year.

St. Louis Park grew slightly less than the metro area as a whole from 2010 to 2011, according to Metropolitan Council data released Monday. 

The community added 255 people from 2010 to 2011—.56 percent growth that brought the city’s population to 45,505.

That growth is a notch slower than the .84 percent in the seven-county metro area and Hennepin County’s .92 percent growth.

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Minneapolis led the metro in population increases, which Met Council Demographer Todd Graham attributed to new multi-family housing. Both Minneapolis and St. Paul, which had the second-most growth, had increased apartment occupancy rates. Together, the two cities accounted for 29 percent of the metro’s growth.

“I’m pleased to see growth occurring primarily where there’s infrastructure to support it,” council chairwoman Susan Haigh said in a news release. “Growth that occurs where infrastructure already exists creates economies of scale and promotes efficiency, which improves the region’s ability to focus energy and resources on economic development.”

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The west metro as a whole lagged behind the rest of the region. All of St. Louis Park’s neighbors showed below-average population increases.

“The estimates reflect only the one year following Census 2010,” said Graham. “We need to be cautious about inferring trends from one year.”

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City 2010 2011 Growth Percent Hopkins 17,591 17,701 110 .63 Edina 47,941 48,262 321 .67 Eden Prairie 60,797 61,151 354 .58 Golden Valley 20,371 20,427 56 .27 Minnetonka 49,734 50,046 312 .63 St. Louis Park 45,250 45,505 255 .56 Hennepin County 1,152,425 1,163,060 10,635 .92 Metro 2,849,567 2,873,444 23,877 .84


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