Kentucky Growth Patterns for the Nine County SMSA
Nine

County

State         1970          1980          1990 Yearly

Growth

90-00

Yearly

Growth

80-90

        2000         2020
Bullitt KY 26,090 43,346 47,567 2.87% 9.7% 61,236 88,574
Clark IN 75,876 88,838 87,777 .99% 96,472    113,862
Floyd IN 55,622 61,169 64,404 .99% 70,823     83,661
Hardin KY 24,294 88,917 89,240   .55%    .04% 94,174 104,042
Harrison IN 20,423 27,276 29,890 .14% 34,325     43,195
Jefferson KY 695,055 685,004 665,123 0.428%    -.29% 693,604 750,566
Oldham KY 14,687 27,795 33,263 3.88% 1.97% 46,178 72,008
Shelby KY 18,999 23,328 24,824 3.42% .064% 33,337 50,363
Spencer KY 5,488 5,929 6,801 7.33% 1.47% 11,766 21,696

 

The local nine county area. This is the Standard Metropolitan Stastical Area, as recognized by the US Census Bureau, with the addition of Harrison County IN.  The criterion for inclusion is the growth of jobs.

The local twenty-three county area, as described by the US Bureau of Economic Analysis, under the scrutiny of the Regional Leadership Coalition, including the two state governors.

This is a bid-rent graph to help the math-minded understand where and how land pricing varies due to "commute" distance, from a central core city. It explains density and distance, price and "commute". Rent is a yearly increment of the stream of cash flow due to production, which all land is credited with having. Fair market value is defined by KRS 262.900 and is not the rent. Production of land may be use for "farming", residential, industrial or commercial occupancy. Best and highest "use" refers to the production which gets the highest bids from all non-coerced bidders, while the seller is not coerced to sell.

This is a assessment graph, indicating how values of land suddenly increased as surplus was inhabited when population growth caught up with space.

This is a graph showing acreage per capita over two centuries, from which changes price increases and value arise.