I’m not sure if Lewisville, NC has a town song, but since most places’ songs have "oh" in there somewhere I figured the title of this post would be a safe one.  I just re-discovered the US Census website and there I was able to dig up a handy fact sheet about the town I call home (I’ve pasted a copy of it below; click on it to see a full version).  The numbers in the fact sheet are based on the 2000 census which means they’re a little out of date, especially when you consider that the 2000 census showed Lewisville’s population as 8,826 and the Census Bureau estimates Lewisville’s 2006 population to be 12,444.  That’s a 41% growth rate in six years.  Of course a lot of that comes from last year’s imprisonment annexation of some innocent folks in western Forsyth County, but any which way you slice it the town is growing pretty fast.

Other interesting factoids: 

• North Carolina has 548 cities and towns, of which Lewisville is ranked 63rd…and rising with a bullet!
• Boone, home of Appalachian State University (the slayers of Michigan), is only slightly larger than Lewisville with 13,328 residents (59th in the state).
• The smallest town in North Carolina is Love Valley in Iredell County.  They have 55 residents, but that’s up from 30 in 2000.
• Forsyth County’s population density, at 814 people per square mile, is greater than Guilford County’s at 699 people per square mile.  This despite the fact that Guilford is home to Greensboro (3rd largest city in the state) and the vast majority of High Point (8th largest city in the state).  High Point city limits actually fall in four counties, but over 96,000 of it’s 98,000 residents live in Guilford.
• But we’re a bunch of hicks compared to Mecklenburg County, home of the state’s largest city (Charlotte).  Their population density is 1,580 people per square mile.  By comparison the Raleigh/Cary counties of Durham (863 per square mile) and Wake (945 per square mile) are downright hickish too.
• Here’s the real comparison for me personally.  The county we lived in before we moved (Prince William, VA) has a population density of 1,058 people per square mile and that’s in a county that’s considered a far-out suburb of Washington, DC.  The next county between Prince William and DC is Fairfax, which is one of the counties I lived in while growing up.  It has a population density of 2,583 people per square mile.  The county closest to DC and another place I lived growing up was Arlington and it’s density is 9,115 people per square mile.  No wonder my commute into DC was a royal pain in the butt!

You should check out your own town and see what you find.