Fastest Growing Counties For the 21st Century

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Matanuska-Susitna Borough is the 27th fastest growing county in America based on percent of growth between January 2000 and July 2006 for all counties that began the period with more than ten thousand inhabitants, according to recent U.S. Census Bureau estimates.

Matanuska-Susitna Borough which was established in 1964, had already grown in population to 59322 by the year 2000. But in the six years that marked the beginning of the 21st Century, the county increased the number of inhabitants by 35.7 percent bringing the estimated total population in July 2006 to 80,480.

The astounding growth of the last six years has made Matanuska-Susitna Borough the number fastest growing borough in the Last Frontier State of Alaska and the 27th fastest in the nation.

It is difficult to determine how the growth may have affected the price of homes in the area but in 2000 the median cost for a home within the 24,694 square mile jurisdiction of Matanuska-Susitna Borough was $125,800.

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