According to the U.S. Census, Cook County is growing

Always a favorite vacation spot, more and more people have decided to make Cook County their home. So that, according to the 2020 U.S. Census.

From 2010 to 2020, the county population grew from 5,176 to 5,600, increasing 424 people, or 8.2 percent.

That jump put Cook County in the top spot when it came to population growth in the Northland counties. However, Cook County is Minnesota’s seventh-least populated county out of the state’s 87 counties, so adding some people doesn’t mean the county is on the verge of becoming a metropolis.

Next door neighbor Lake County lost a few residents, dropping from 10,905 to 10,866, a decrease of .04 percent.

St. Louis County gained five people over ten years while Duluth was up to 86,697 in 2020, an increase of 432 people from the 2010 census count of 86,265.

Overall, Minnesota gained 402,000 residents, up 7.6 percent over 2010. Minnesota also led the country in self-response, turning in census forms. Nearly 75 percent of the state’s residents turned in their forms. Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, was dead last, with just 34 percent of its residents self-responding.

The U.S. Census Bureau announced the 2020 Census showed the U.S. had a population of 331,449,281 on April 1, 2020. That was an increase of 22,703,743 or 7.4 percent from the 308,745,538 folks counted in 2010.

More data from the 2020 census bureau:

The most populous state was California (39,538,223); the least populated was Wyoming (576,851).

The state that gained the most people since the 2010 Census was Texas (up 3,999,944 to 29,145,505).

The fastest-growing state since the 2010 Census was Utah (up 18.4 percent to 3,271,616).

Puerto Rico’s resident population was 3,285,874, down 11.8 percent from 3,725,789 in the 2010 Census.

After the 1790 Census, each member of the House represented about 34,000 residents. Since then, the House has more than quadrupled in size (from 105 to 435 seats), and each member will represent an average of 761,169 people based on the 2020 Census.

Texas will gain two seats in the House of Representatives, five states will gain one seat each (Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina, and Oregon), seven states will lose one seat each (California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia), and the remaining states’ number of seats will not change based on the 2020 Census.