Elk Grove is Hot; Norfolk is Not
By: Diane Tuman, Content Manager | June 22, 2006
I’ve never been to Elk Grove, California (Zindex $455,330) — let alone heard of it — so my curiosity was piqued to read it is the fastest-growing American city, growing 11.6 percent since last year.
If you read between the lines, a key reason it landed at the top of the list is because the city boundaries were expanded. Other possible reasons are that Apple Computer has a complex there, and that it’s only 15 miles south of Sacramento — ideal ingredients for expansion and sprawl. Another interesting factoid is that "Children in Elk Grove’s schools speak about 80 languages, including Hmong, Spanish, Hindi, Vietnamese and Hungarian…" according to Elk Grove’s Chamber of Commerce president, who was quoted in this Bloomberg article. By the way, that looks like mighty fertile land down there in Elk Grove (see screenshot).
Conversely, Norfolk, Virginia lost 2.27 percent of its population, followed by St. Louis and Cincinnati. The articles never speculated why these cities realized decline, but you have to wonder about the availability of jobs in these places. Even upstate New York was bracing for the news from the U.S. Census Bureau; they have been seeing an increasing rate of population decline.
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kthor on June 22, 2006 4:35 pm
Elk G is nice..hot during the summer, cold during the winter.
not to mention some area are a flood hazard (better buy flood insurance). other than that, it’s near Sacramento.
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Jimmie Monsoor on June 24, 2006 7:23 pm
Zillow needs to get with it and support Apple Macintosh and Safari. There are millions of Macs out there.
Jim
Garrett McAuliffe on June 26, 2006 11:12 am
Hi Jimmie -
Check out Bryan Byrne’s post about Safari here:
http://www.zillowblog.com/zillow_blog/2006/02/safari_support.html
Bryan’s talked with an engineer at Apple about this and they say they will fix the problem in the next release of Safari. Unfortunately, that might not be until OX X 10.5 is released (late this year). In the meantime, we’re recommending Apple customers try Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/).
Garrett McAuliffe on June 26, 2006 11:14 am
Oops. That URL for firefox is:
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
Barry Bates on June 28, 2006 1:21 pm
Yeah, Elk Grove has a diverse population, but only because it DID expand its boundaries…into South Sacramento’s lower-income submarket. Also, the next town down the road, Stockton, was on the National City - Global Insights list of the 10 most over-valued residential markets in the US (USA Today, 6/13/06, p.B4). Let’s just say the market is a little “frothy”….
Kim Hamilton on February 4, 2007 10:57 pm
Firefox 1.5.0.9 on MAC OSX 10.3.9 does not show the maps. I know Safari does not work but neither does Firefox on my system. Camino browser however works very well. Any ideas?
Property in Norfolk on May 14, 2008 2:59 am
Hi, Was wondering if you could help me. I’m moving to Norwich to work next month and was wondering about the “good” places to live. I’ve checked this site out: http://www.homes24.co.uk/property/sales/east-of-england/properties-norfolk What do you think? Thanks