By Eric Jay Toll | Phoenix Business Journal
The seven Phoenix metro cities participating in the mid-decade special census won their version of the Powerball with revenue flowing from new population increases.
Queen Creek, through annexation and post-recession development, was the big winner with a 65.7 percent increase in population to nearly 44,000 residents in 2015 from over 26,000 in 2010.
The importance is measured in annual dollars flowing from state and federal sources that are population-based. For the city of Maricopa, for example, it amounts to nearly $400 each year for every new person counted. In Goodyear, the number was a little less than $200 per person per year.
