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Moving On Up In Menands
Menands leads the Capital Region in population growth
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By DANIELLE SANZONE news@spotlightnews.com
MENANDS - There must be something in the water in the Capital Region’s Hudson Valley area with double digit population growth in multiple communities either bordering or near the Hudson River. Green Island and Cohoes’ populations, for example, both grew 12 percent from 2010 to 2020. But the largest increase in population in Albany County in those 10 years? The village of Menands saw a population increase of 14 percent, according to U.S. Census data.
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