It doesn't take a rocket scientist

to determine that Fayette County is not the shrinking violet of metropolitan

Atlanta.

According to results of the

2000 U.S. Census, Fayette's population grew 46 percent in the past 10

years, reaching a grand total of 91,263 people.

While Peachtree City's addition

of 12,553 residents accounted for much of the increase, it was outpaced

percentage-wise by Fayetteville, which grew by 91 percent compared to

Peachtree City's 66 percent.

Fayetteville's actual growth

of 5,321 people, however, was less than half of Peachtree City's increase

of 12,553.

Peachtree City still remains

the largest municipality, at 31,580 people compared to Fayetteville's

11,148.

The county's smaller towns

grew at a pace closer to the overall county growth average than those

of Peachtree City and Fayetteville.

Tyrone grew by 44 percent with

1,192 more residents, while Brooks grew 40 percent with 225 more people

and Woolsey grew 46 percent with 55 additional persons.

The census numbers are crucial

since many grants and other state and federal funds rely on census numbers

to determine how much funds to distribute for various programs, grants

and initiatives.

As of Tuesday morning, little

other data from the 2000 Census has been released. To view the released

data, along with other Census info, visit the department's site at www.census.gov .

From there, click on the link

for American FactFinder and use the pull-down menus to navigate. If you

seek information on a city or town, choose "a place" in the

pull-down menu; you can also use that pull-down menu to search information

After you make that choice,

the screen will "roll over." Then you can choose which state

you wish to search, causing the screen to roll over again.

After that, you can use another

pull-down menu to look up the desired town, city or county.

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