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I <br />• <br />DEMOGRAPHICS <br />New Brighton~s 1980 population is 23,240 as compared to <br />19,507 in the 1970 census. Both the number of people <br />under 17 (.based on school district data) and family size <br />decreased in the last 10 years. However, there was an <br />increase in the number of persons 60 years or older. <br />Household size has also decreased rapidly; in 1970 the <br />average was 3.508, in 1980 the number has dropped to <br />2.96. <br />The decrease in household size has occurred on both local <br />and national levels and is likely to continue. Among the <br />reasons for the decline are decreased birthrate, postpone- <br />ment of both marriage and childbearing, increase in divorce, <br />the increase of working mothers, the increase of people <br />living alone or the number of unrelated individuals living <br />together, <br />The school district (#621) has shown a 0-10o decrease in <br />K~6 over the last five years and predict greater than a <br />20~ decrease over the next five years. <br />• <br />• <br />5j81 <br />