Where'd all those people go?
PLYMOUTH – Turns out it wasn’t too much snow nor high taxes that drove 245 people out of Plymouth over the past decade.
Instead, the 2010 U.S. Census released last week mistakenly assigned former inmates at the now defunct minimum security detention center, Camp Pharsalia to mailing addresses in South Plymouth. Plymouth Supervisor Jerry Kreiner said a member of his town’s planning board solved the puzzle.
“We think that’s what happened. I can’t say point blank, but the numbers add up,” said Rena Doing, who also works for the Chenango County Department of Planning and Development. Plymouth’s population, would then remain stagnant at about 2,050.
Doing and Kreiner said a Southern Tier East Regional Planning Development Board made the same mistake back in 2007 when, using 2000 census data, reported that 247 (or roughly 1 in 3) residents of Plymouth lacked a high school education and 12 percent of the population were residing in institutionalized group quarters.
The plausible explanation would unfortunately move the town of Pharsalia into the new census’ ‘population lost’ category. Instead of gaining 51 residents, it lost 194, making Pharsalia the third smallest town in the county with a population of 399.
Instead, the 2010 U.S. Census released last week mistakenly assigned former inmates at the now defunct minimum security detention center, Camp Pharsalia to mailing addresses in South Plymouth. Plymouth Supervisor Jerry Kreiner said a member of his town’s planning board solved the puzzle.
“We think that’s what happened. I can’t say point blank, but the numbers add up,” said Rena Doing, who also works for the Chenango County Department of Planning and Development. Plymouth’s population, would then remain stagnant at about 2,050.
Doing and Kreiner said a Southern Tier East Regional Planning Development Board made the same mistake back in 2007 when, using 2000 census data, reported that 247 (or roughly 1 in 3) residents of Plymouth lacked a high school education and 12 percent of the population were residing in institutionalized group quarters.
The plausible explanation would unfortunately move the town of Pharsalia into the new census’ ‘population lost’ category. Instead of gaining 51 residents, it lost 194, making Pharsalia the third smallest town in the county with a population of 399.
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