{"id":1842,"date":"2010-04-12T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/04\/12\/numbers-on-the-nc-adks-and-all\/"},"modified":"2010-04-12T13:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T17:35:00","slug":"numbers-on-the-nc-adks-and-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/04\/12\/numbers-on-the-nc-adks-and-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Numbers on the NC — Adks and all"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since we’re on the subject — last week I talked<\/a> with Dr. David Brown, of Cornell University’s Community and Rural Development Institute<\/a>, who was in Canton for an annual SLU symposium on — guess what? — making the region healthier socio-economically speaking. Jobs, quality of life, recognizing and maximizing resources, and so on. <\/p>\n

Dr. Brown brought a statistical profile of the seven county North Country: Jefferson, Lewis, Hamilton, Essex, Clinton, Franklin and St. Lawrence counties. It was actually prepared by a graduate student at Cornell, who, I’m fairly certain, has no dog in this hunt. He used county-level data from the U.S. Census Bureau.<\/p>\n

Given the amount of moaning about our sorry plight here on the frontier of the U.S., there are some surprising points. (There are lots of graphs comparing us to other rural and non-metro areas of New York in many categories: from median income, housing age and values, doctors-per capita education, etc. It’s all here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

But look at the Abstract:<\/p>\n

The changing socio-economic and demographic profile of New York State\u2019s North Country \u2013 an area comprised of the seven northernmost counties in the state – is the focus of this report. The report is part of a wider focus in CaRDI (Community & Rural Development Institute) on the North Country region. Our analysis uses county-level Census data to describe the North Country as a whole, provide data for each of the seven individual counties in the region, and compare these data to averages for the state\u2019s non-metropolitan (both micropolitan and non-core) counties. Our analysis reveals a number of important points about the North Country region and how it compares with other parts of non-metropolitan New York:
\u2022 The North Country is very diverse.
\u2022 The North Country\u2019s least-urban counties may have a higher standard of living, based on select indicators, when compared to the more urbanized areas.
\u2022 Low population density and loss of young adults are the North Country\u2019s defining demographic characteristics.
\u2022 Poverty is no higher in the North Country than elsewhere in non-metropolitan New York State.
\u2022 The North Country older population is increasing even more rapidly than the state average.
\u2022 With the exception of Lewis County, the North Country does not have particularly high civilian employment in agriculture and\/or manufacturing. The North Country\u2019s level of dependence on these industries is similar to the level elsewhere in rural New York.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is discouraging news about the young adult population (falling like in the rest of non-metro NYS — they’re leaving and we’re aging), about poverty in St. Lawrence County (17%), about educational attainment in general and in Franklin County particularly (far below the state average there). But all in all…by the numbers, not so bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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