In a college town, does population...

[johnjohn320]

In a college town, does the population of the city include the student population? In other words, if you hvae 40,000 students and the population of the city is listed as 70,000, are there apprx. 70,000 people living in the town including students, or 110,000?

 

[Gibson486]

That's a pretty good question....I want to know too.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

Permanent residents.......i.e. people that pay local taxes.

 

[apac]

My guess is that the city population is the number of people who have a legal residence in the city, either owning or renting an apartment, so I think that population would include all students.

 

[SociallyChallenged]

For Davis in NorCal, the population includes the students. There are ~30,000 students and ~30,000 residents, I believe.

 

[bobsmith1492]

As resident of a town of 12,000 with an additional 10,000 students during the winter... the town population does NOT include students.

 

[FoBoT]

there is a bunch of info on this site, but it doesn't specifically answer this question

http://www.epodunk.com/top10/colleges/methodology.html

 

[darkswordsman17]

Wouldn't it make sense to take the average population over the course of the year?

 

[Juno]

Originally posted by: apac
My guess is that the city population is the number of people who have a legal residence in the city, either owning or renting an apartment, so I think that population would include all students.

then will our names be on the yellow pages/books?

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: darkswordsman17
Wouldn't it make sense to take the average population over the course of the year?

I guess it depends on what your purpose is for calculating the population.