The Charleston Gazette - Census 2000 Topics http://wvgazette.com http://wvgazette.com/feeds/logo.jpg The Charleston Gazette - Census 2000 http://wvgazette.com 144 31 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200205300003 Income gains uneven for West Virginians Overall, West Virginia families were better off in 2000 than they were in 1990. New data from the 2000 Census released Wednesday shows that both the median family income and per capita income increased during the last 10 ...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200205300003 Thu, 30 May 2002 00:00:00 -0400 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200111280003 W.Va. again leads U.S. in homeownership West Virginia again leads the nation in homeownership, according to a Census report released Tuesday. In its new report, the U.S. Census Bureau ranked states according to the percentage of h...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200111280003 Wed, 28 Nov 2001 00:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200111200003 West Virginia brings up rear in Census rankings West Virginia comes up last in a host of rankings to be released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. The state finishes at the bottom in several income and education categories, according to th...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200111200003 Tue, 20 Nov 2001 00:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200110310003 W.Va. shelter population up More West Virginians were living in emergency shelters last year than in 1990, according to new Census figures released Tuesday. In 1990, the Census Bureau reported that 451 people in West V...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200110310003 Wed, 31 Oct 2001 00:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200108310003 Child poverty drops, but state still fourth in category Fewer West Virginia children and teens were poor in 1998 than in 1997, according to new Census estimates released today. Almost 100,000 West Virginia children lived in poor households in 199...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200108310003 Fri, 31 Aug 2001 00:00:00 -0400 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200108060013 Working in Like most home-based ventures, Cheryl Ranson's jewelry business started as a hobby. "It's a part-time job," Ranson said. "I started back in '94, making things for friends. It'...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200108060013 Mon, 06 Aug 2001 00:00:00 -0400 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200108060014 One in five IN 1995, Dan Greene started helping taxpayers at the Kanawha County Courthouse and was surprised by what he learned. He signed people up for the Homestead Exemption, a tax break for s...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200108060014 Mon, 06 Aug 2001 00:00:00 -0400 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200108060015 Census shows improvements in Mountain State MORE West Virginians are living in mobile homes and getting college degrees. Fewer state residents live in homes with incomplete plumbing or with wood as their main heating fuel. http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200108060015 Mon, 06 Aug 2001 00:00:00 -0400 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200108060012 W.VA. HAS HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200108060012 Mon, 06 Aug 2001 00:00:00 -0400 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200107290003 THE HIDDEN HOMELESS Billy Lee Richardson Jr. grabbed the toe of his white tube sock and pulled it right side out. He did the same to the other sock, then rolled the pair into a neat ball.

He threw them on top of the stack of shirts he had ju...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200107290003 Sun, 29 Jul 2001 00:00:00 -0400 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200107220003 A CHANCE TO SPEAK ELMIRA - For most of his life, Rick Rivard has been "other."

Finally, the U.S. Census added a race category besides white and black. "Hispanic."

"I thought, 'Well, that's an improvement,'" said Rivard, who does h...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200107220003 Sun, 22 Jul 2001 00:00:00 -0400 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200107180007 INCARCERATION RATE MUCH HIGHER FOR BLACKS THAN WHITES On any weekday morning, dozens of people are crowded on four benches, tucked into corners and any available space in the waiting area for Kanawha County Magistrate Court.

Most of them are black.

"It's apparent i...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200107180007 Wed, 18 Jul 2001 00:00:00 -0400 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200107180006 'WE EXIST' IN 1990, no same-sex couples lived in Charleston, according to the U.S. Census. Only 300 gay or lesbian couples lived in the whole state.

People like David Shumate knew that was wrong. He was gay and he had friends who we...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200107180006 Wed, 18 Jul 2001 00:00:00 -0400 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200105200003 WHAT IS A TYPICAL FAMILY . On most days, Marcia Pittman is home to greet her children as they come through the door after school, just as she did before she and their father divorced.

She and her ex split up in 1998, so by the time Pittman filled o...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200105200003 Sun, 20 May 2001 00:00:00 -0400 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200105180007 HOMEOWNERSHIP UP IN STATE During the 1990s, about 44,000 more West Virginians became homeowners.

But today, nearly 20 percent more of the state's residents are living alone than in 1990.

Twice as many West Virginians now live with partne...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200105180007 Fri, 18 May 2001 00:00:00 -0400 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200105180006 CENSUS SHOWS WE'RE OLDER STILL By 11:30 each weekday morning, a gray basement room in South Charleston fills with cheerful chatter and the clatter of lunch trays.

About 30 people line the tables. Most of them have silver hair, if they have any hair at ...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200105180006 Fri, 18 May 2001 00:00:00 -0400 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200105070003 GETTING TO KNOW YOU Limuel "Woody" Woods moved from Fort Wayne, Ind., last year to become the first black radio personality at Charleston's first hip-hop music station, The Beat 98.7.

On a recent evening, Woods leaned into a microphone in hi...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200105070003 Mon, 07 May 2001 00:00:00 -0400 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200104080003 SPLIT DECISION ELKHORN - Her smooth hands flutter as her soft Southern voice rises and falls. In a small, warm coal-camp house, Claudia Via spins a story of old McDowell County, before integration.

"When I was a little girl, this...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200104080003 Sun, 08 Apr 2001 00:00:00 -0400 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200104010003 CHECK ALL RACES THAT APPLY On Census Day 1990, Stephanie Fot was 7 years old, and she was white.

When her father filled out the family form on Census Day 2000, she was 17, but she was both white and Asian.

Last year, for the...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200104010003 Sun, 01 Apr 2001 00:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200103310003 BATTLE OF THE BEDROOMS CHARLES TOWN - When you drive down the Eastern Panhandle's rolling roads, the landscape becomes a blurred, flashing contrast with each rise and dip - farmland, then homes. Livestock, two-car garage. Pasture, aluminum-sided ...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200103310003 Sat, 31 Mar 2001 00:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200103300006 PUTNAM GROWTH MAY BE SLOWING Putnam County seems to be on a roll. Its population jumped by more than 20 percent in the '90s, from about 43,000 to about 51,500 people, according to Census data released Wednesday. That's the fourth-highest percent...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200103300006 Fri, 30 Mar 2001 00:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200103300007 CENSUS TO ALTER POLITICS Because of the 2000 Census, West Virginia's sole Republican in Congress may find herself without an Eastern Panhandle to represent, some lawmakers say.

But GOP legislators believe that their party's candidates wil...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200103300007 Fri, 30 Mar 2001 00:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200103290012 E. PANHANDLE GAINS, COALFIELD LOSSES MEAN REDISTRICTING The Eastern Panhandle's voice in the Legislature will grow stronger at the expense of the southern coalfields, Census 2000 figures released Wednesday indicate.

Who represents the panhandle in Congress...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200103290012 Thu, 29 Mar 2001 00:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200103290015 STATE POPULATION STABLE In the 1990s, West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle communities continued their boom. Population declines in the southern coalfields and the Northern Panhandle also persisted, according to census data released Wednesday....]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200103290015 Thu, 29 Mar 2001 00:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200103290013 EASING ON DOWN THE ROAD During the 1990s, Kanawha County lost three generations of the Gandee family to Teays Valley. Grandparents Lewis and Judy Gandee came first about six years ago, looking for a hassle-free new house in a new subdivision where ...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200103290013 Thu, 29 Mar 2001 00:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200103290014 'WE JUST DON'T HAVE AS MANY NEIGHBORS' Betty Morton moved with her family to Charleston's East End 45 years ago. Among other reasons, they bought a house on Jackson Street because the Morton children could go to three good schools without ever riding a bus. ...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200103290014 Thu, 29 Mar 2001 00:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200012290003 W.VA. EXPERIENCES SLIGHT POPULATION GAIN, KEEPS ITS 3 CONGRESSIONAL SEATS West Virginia has 1,808,344 people, the U.S. Census Bureau announced on Thursday.

The state's population grew about 0.8 percent since the 1990 count of 1,793,477, according to figures delivered to the President by ...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200012290003 Fri, 29 Dec 2000 00:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200012250006 REDISTRICTING ON THE WAY . Forty years ago, West Virginia sent six people to the U.S. House of Representatives. The state now sends three - the same the state had when it was born in 1863.

The Census spells out how many people West Virginia ...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200012250006 Mon, 25 Dec 2000 00:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200012250007 KANAWHA MAY LOSE LEGISLATORS Will the Kanawha County legislators who call themselves "The Four Horsemen" find their number whittled down to three. Will the county's delegate-laden 30th district shed a member or two.

It's too soon to tel...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200012250007 Mon, 25 Dec 2000 00:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200012240009 UNDER THE RADAR In January 1999, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Census Bureau not to use certain kinds of math to figure out how many representatives each state gets.

The Census Bureau wanted to use the math - statistical adjustments...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200012240009 Sun, 24 Dec 2000 00:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200012240010 UNDER THE RADAR Last spring, elected officials across West Virginia became big-time census boosters.

"Fill out your census form," they all said. If everyone isn't counted, we'll lose out on important federal money.

Police offic...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200012240010 Sun, 24 Dec 2000 00:00:00 -0500 http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200012240011 UNDER THE RADAR DAVY - Residents in one of the state's poorest towns weren't surprised that most of their neighbors didn't receive, couldn't read, or didn't bother to return their census forms.

"We're low on everything," said Linda Cantr...]]> http://wvgazette.com/rssFeeds/200012240011 Sun, 24 Dec 2000 00:00:00 -0500