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DEMOGRAPHICS <br />New Brightonrs 1980 population is 23,240 as compared to <br />19,507 in the 1970 census. Both~the number of people <br />under l7 (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 i.s 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 C#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 fiveyears. <br />