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McCarthy expects
to see increase
in next census
By Kevin Allen
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
On a map charting Virginia’s population growth, Rappahannock looks like the eye of a development storm.
The Rappahannock-Rapidan Region, which includes Culpeper, Fauquier, Madison, Orange and Rappahannock counties is growing like gangbusters, but it’s not due to Rappahannock.
The five-county district has seen a 19.3 percent increase in population since 2000. That makes it the second-fastest growing region in the state, County Administrator John McCarthy announced at last week’s County Board of Supervisors meeting.
Some members of the audience applauded when McCarthy said the county’s population fell 0.8 percent from 2000 to 2006.
McCarthy said the statistics, which were compiled by the Weldon Cooper Center at the University of Virginia, are probably not completely accurate for Rappahannock.
The county administrator said the Rappahannock’s significant number of weekend residents is difficult to capture in a non-census year count. And since Rappahannock does not have a hospital, it is hard for such a study to account for the number of five births in the county.
McCarthy said he expects that
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