http://mail.newgeography.com/category/blog-topics/alaska The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://mail.newgeography.com/content/002135-anchorage-spreading-out <p>Alaska’s largest metropolitan area, Anchorage, is spreading out like its major metropolitan area counterparts in the Lower 48. The <a href="http://www.newgeography.com/content/002123-perspectives-urban-cores-and-suburbs">historical core municipality</a> of Anchorage grew from 262,000 in 2000 to 291,000 in 2010, a growth rate of 12 percent. Anchorage is largely post-World War II suburban.</p> <p>Suburban Matanuska-Susitna Borough, to the north nearly equaled Anchorage’s 31,000 population growth, adding 30,000 residents, though on a much smaller base. Matanuska-Susitna grew from 59,000 to 89,000, for a growth rate of 51 percent..</p> http://mail.newgeography.com/content/002135-anchorage-spreading-out#comments Alaska Anchorage Census 2010 demographics population Sat, 19 Mar 2011 16:48:23 -0400 Wendell Cox 2135 at http://mail.newgeography.com