— The fringe of large metropolitan areas saw population growth from 2000 to 2010. St. Croix County, near Minneapolis and St. Paul, grew 34 percent, and Calumet County, near the Fox River Valley, grew 21 percent. Winkler said it was due to migration and increasing number of births associated with young families that tend to move to suburban areas.
— Dane County grew more than any other Wisconsin county, at 14.4 percent. The county seat and state capitol, Madison, grew the fastest of Wisconsin cities at 12.1 percent. The state's largest county, Milwaukee, only grew 0.8 percent since 2000. The state's largest city Milwaukee saw a population decrease of 0.4 percent with 594,833 people. But the Madison population increased 12.1 percent to 233,209.
— Wisconsin's overall population grew 6 percent from 2000 to 2010.
— Twenty Wisconsin counties, mostly rural ones in the northern and southwestern parts of the state, had population loss, a change from the 1990s when only Milwaukee County had population loss.
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