{"id":583,"date":"2012-08-29T18:10:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T18:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewbinkley.org\/?p=583"},"modified":"2012-08-29T18:43:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T18:43:49","slug":"a-serious-cheatham-county-problem-in-4-graphs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mathewbinkley.org\/?p=583","title":{"rendered":"A serious Cheatham County problem, in 4 graphs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The growth in Cheatham County&#8217;s working age population suffered a serious slowdown starting around 2000:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathewbinkley.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/AAA-CheathamCivilWorkforce.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-584\" title=\"AAA-CheathamCivilWorkforce\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mathewbinkley.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/AAA-CheathamCivilWorkforce.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"378\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mostly due to the fact that people stopped moving into the county then:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathewbinkley.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/BBB-Cheatham-Net-Migration.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-585\" title=\"BBB-Cheatham-Net-Migration\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mathewbinkley.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/BBB-Cheatham-Net-Migration.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It appears to be due to the impact fee raising the cost of housing:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathewbinkley.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/BBB-cheatham-average-home-price-trends.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-586\" title=\"BBB-cheatham-average-home-price-trends\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mathewbinkley.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/BBB-cheatham-average-home-price-trends.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"647\" height=\"418\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This has discouraged young families (who are just starting out in life and don&#8217;t have much money) and their children from moving in, and is setting the county up for a huge demographic problem just a few years down the road:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathewbinkley.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/BBB-CheathamPop.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-587\" title=\"BBB-CheathamPop\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mathewbinkley.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/BBB-CheathamPop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This has the potential to have strong negative effects on schools, taxes, home values, businesses catering to those demographics, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The growth in Cheatham County&#8217;s working age population suffered a serious slowdown starting around 2000: &nbsp; Mostly due to the fact that people stopped moving into the county then: &nbsp; It appears to be due to the impact fee raising &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathewbinkley.org\/?p=583\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mathewbinkley.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mathewbinkley.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mathewbinkley.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathewbinkley.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathewbinkley.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathewbinkley.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathewbinkley.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mathewbinkley.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathewbinkley.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathewbinkley.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}