Suburban growth focused on inner and outer communities - USATODAY.com

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-04-26-suburbs-growth-census-demographics_n.htm


Situated on the St. Croix River, Hudson, Wis., is a small town that has attracted growth from the nearby Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis.


 St. Croix, Wisconsin's fastest-growing county, has become a bedroom community to the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area in neighboring Minnesota off Interstate 94, the border county has appealed to commuters because of its easy access to the Twin Cities (12 miles), more moderately priced housing, good schools and a quaint downtown in Hudson, the county seat. It has drawn workers at St. Paul-based technology giant 3M.   •Emerging suburbs and exurbs. Despite the housing bust and foreclosures that hit new subdivisions the hardest, these communities along the outer ring of suburbia ended the decade with phenomenal growth.

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