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#1 Provo-Orem 21.4
#3 Ogden-Clearfield 17.2
#5 Salt Lake City 16.6
Methodology: Bloomberg ranked the 100 most populous U.S. metropolitan areas
by birth rates, which were calculated as the number of births between July 1
, 2013, to July 1, 2014 per 1,000 people in that area's average population
for 2013 and 2014.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-13/americans-are | s****y 发帖数: 18685 | 2 In Utah, "you have a young population combined with a high fertility rate,"
he said.
That's especially the case for Provo, home to Brigham Young University,
where many of the students are married with children, said John Curtis, who
has been the city's mayor for more than five years.
Additionally, "there's a high Mormon population," said Curtis, who has six
children himself. "Mormons like big families — we're not bashful about that
at all."
Utah also has a strong economy going for it, evidenced by an unemployment
rate of 3.5 percent, compared with a level of 5.3 percent for the broader U.
S.
"Wherever you've got job growth, you're going to have population growth,
which often means you're going to have young families having lots of babies,
and that creates population momentum," Mather said. Same goes for Texas, he
said, where the unemployment rate is 4.2 percent. |
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