 Newport News is the fourth largest city in the Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News MSA--Hampton Roads. It is the fifth largest city in Virginia with a 2000 population estimated at 180,150. Newport News has been growing at an annual rate of 0.5% since 1990.
Newport News is part of a dynamic metropolitan region. Besides Newport News, the region contains five other cities with a population greater than 100,000. The region now has a population of more than 1.6 million and grew at a 1.17% annual rate from 1990 to 2000. Hampton Roads is the 31st largest metropolitan/consolidated statistical area in the nation. Its effective buying power (EBI) according to Sales, Marketing and Management is more than $20.8 billion.
Demographically, Newport News is in many ways typical of metropolitan
America. It contains within its boundaries an urban core,
a ring of older, settled neighborhoods and newer suburban
development. Its citizens' age, educational, occupational
and socio-economic characteristics by and large reflect the
typical American demographic profile. The population in Newport
News is younger, somewhat better educated and slightly more
white collar than the national average. You'll find that the
solid American work ethic that built this nation's economic
might is alive and well in Newport News. |
