Growing trends

Airway Heights leads population expansion

While many tout the West Plains' potential for business expansion, the region continues to grow in terms of population.

In June, the state Office of Financial Management issued a news release stating that Washington state's population estimates exceeded 7 million. According to the release, an estimated 7,061,400 people live in Washington as of April 2015, increasing by about 93,200 people between 2014 and 2015.

According to Thomas Kimpel, forecast analyst, OFM sends out surveys to each jurisdiction and collects data from cities, which include school enrollment, real estate, births and death re...

 

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