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CITY OF LA PORTE PLANNING DEPARTMENT <br />604 W. Fairmont Parkway, La Porte, TX 77571 <br />www Ianartetx aav <br />TO: Mayor and City Council <br />CC: Ron Bottoms, Traci Leach, Patrice Fogarty & Clark Askins <br />FROM: Tim Tietjens, Planning Director <br />DATE: June 2, 2011 <br />RE: 2010 La Porte Census Data - Initial Report <br />City Staff recently obtained and mapped the U.S. Census Bureau's 2010 block -level data for <br />La Porte, which shows a 6% increase in population over the last ten years; from 31,880 in <br />2000 to 33,800 in 2010. Based on this data, the "ideal" population for each of La Porte's six <br />council districts is 5,633. <br />Initial review of La Porte's 2010 census blocks shows that four of the census blocks (Block <br />1000, Block 1011, Block 1767, and Block 2000) are divided between 2 or more council <br />district boundaries, thereby making an accurate population tally difficult to determine for all <br />districts except District 2, which contains no "split census blocks". <br />In a preliminary effort to address this "split census block" issue, Staff has attempted to re- <br />calculate the population of each affected district by subtracting the total population of the <br />"split census block" from its respective district, estimating the number of occupied housing <br />units from the "split census block" located within the district's boundary, then multiplying <br />the average number of persons per occupied household to the estimated number of <br />occupied housing units in that district. The resulting population estimates for Districts 1, 3, <br />4, 5, and 6 are shown in the table below. <br />Please note that these initial population estimates (identified with an asterisk) do not <br />represent a final population figure for the district. The City's Redistricting Committee will <br />determine the most effective method for ascertaining the final population of each of these <br />affected districts. <br />Attached is a 2010 Census Block Map including current council district boundaries and a <br />flash drive containing La Porte's census block data for your reference. <br />DISTRICT <br />2010 <br />POPULATION <br />IDEAL <br />VARIATION <br />% VARIATION <br />1 <br />5,844* <br />5,633 <br />211 <br />3.75% <br />2 <br />6,318 <br />5,633 <br />685 <br />12.16% <br />3 <br />5,920 * <br />5,633 <br />287 <br />5.09% <br />4 <br />5,281* <br />5,633 <br />[3521 <br />-6.25% <br />5 <br />4,221* <br />5,633 <br />[1,4121 <br />-25.06% <br />6 <br />6,930* <br />5,633 <br />1,297 <br />23.02% <br />*Estimated population based on re -calculation of "split" census blocks <br />