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Monday, August 21, 2006

Census offers flashback to the boom years

By Jeff Ostrowski | Monday, August 21, 2006, 02:44 PM

For those of you feeling nostalgic for the boom, here’s some bullish news from the Census Bureau: Palm Beach County added more homes than all but 12 counties in the U.S.

From July 1, 2004 to July 1, 2005, the county built 13,777 housing units, the Census says. Tops in the nation was Arizona’s Maricopa County; it added a staggering 52,203 homes for the year.

While Palm Beach ranked high in its raw number of new homes, that represented only a 2.3 percent increase.

Meanwhile, St. Lucie County was among the tops in percentage gain. It added 8,890 homes for the year, up 8.2 percent and ninth in the nation. North Florida’s Flagler County was No. 1 by this measure, boosting its housing stock by 14.8 percent.

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