WASHINGTON, April 14 (UPI) -- Flagler County, Fla., is the fastest-growing county in the country, one of 14 Florida areas in the U.S. Census Bureau's list of 100 fastest-growing counties.
The Census Bureau, in a release Thursday, said the population of Flagler County increased by 10.1 percent from July 1, 2003, to July 1, 2004. Flagler County is just north of Daytona Beach on Florida's east coast. St. John's County, Flagler's neighbor to the north, was the ninth-fastest-growing county, the Census Bureau determined. No state had more counties on the 100-entry list than Florida.
Only South Dakota joined Florida as states with more than one county on the top 10 of the Census Bureau's list. Hanson County and Lincoln County, both near Sioux Falls, S.D., were fourth and fifth, respectively, on the list.
Others in the top 10 of the Census Bureau's fastest growing counties are: No. 2 Kendall, near Chicago; No. 3 Loudoun in the Virginia suburbs of Washington; No. 6 Lampasas, north of Austin, Texas; No. 7 Lyon, near Carson City, Nev.; No. 8 Camden, in North Carolina south of Norfolk, Va.; No. 10 Dallas, west of Des Moines, Iowa.
