THE VILLAGES — While at their neighborhood recreation center, Village of Duval residents Paul and Dawne Lampson gazed across the street last week and expressed an amazement shared by neighbors Jerry and Sue Wilson and Jim and Gayle Opatrny.

Just a year or so ago, an expanse of undeveloped land existed across the street from the Odell Circle pool, bocce court and postal station.

Released November 2009, this Microsoft Excel document, "Estimates of Population by County and City in Florida," appears as Table 1 of the upcoming annual Florida Estimates of Population due for release in early 2010, and presents the state's official population estimates, census counts, population change since the 2000 census, and inmate population for Florida and its counties, cities, and unincorporated areas for the specified year.

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Four out of 10 households in Marion County are occupied by someone who is 65 or older.

That is perhaps no surprise in Florida which, according to recently released census statistics, ranks first in the nation for percentage of older households.

Where do you live? For many people this seemingly simple question doesn’t have a simple answer. Some retirees spend winters in Florida or Arizona and summers in New York or Minnesota. Others buy an RV and move from place to place, with no fixed place of residence. College students spend part of the year in their college towns and part in their home towns. Migrant farm workers often move from place to place over the course of a year, spending no more than a few weeks or months at any given location.

Sept. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Five U.S. states that were among the hardest hit by job losses and the construction slump also had declines in household incomes during the first year of the recession, according to a government report.

Arizona, California, Florida, Indiana and Michigan all saw median household incomes drop in 2008, the Census Bureau said yesterday in an annual report. Only one state had a decline the previous year.

This table features Florida population census counts, April 1, 2000, and estimates 2001 through 2009, for the state, counties, municipalities, and unincorporated areas (last updated November 2009). Available in Microsoft Excel or Adobe Acrobat PDF formats.

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