By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services/Arizona Capitol Times
The push to what used to be the edges of metro civilization continues in Arizona.
New figures today from the U.S. Census Bureau show five cities with double-digit population growth between the official 2010 count and estimates as of last July 1. And four of them are along the outer growth rings around Phoenix.
A similar pattern shows up in Pima County, though not to the same extent. Marana grew 9.5 percent since the decennial census, with a 6.4 percent population boost in Sahuarita.
By contrast, the overall increase for the entire state was just 3.7 percent.
The outlier in all this is San Luis which according to the latest data added nearly 5,700 residents since the 2010 census. And that translates to a 22.3 percent population boom for what had once been a tiny border hamlet.
