TRUE OR FALSE?
Test your Chestertown demographics knowledge by guessing whether the following sentences are true or false. (Answers at bottom.)
- People over the age of 85 outnumber young’ns below age 5.
- There are more renters here than home owners.
- According to the census bureau, 98.6% of all Chestertown residents belong to the human race.
- A group of federal nerds have calculated the mean center of population as thus: a population “center” is determined as the place where an imaginary, flat, weightless, and rigid map of the United States would balance perfectly if all residents were of identical weight. “The first center in 1790,” so say the feds, “was located near Chestertown, Maryland.” Note: an official town building has a sign that proclaims this center was Chestertown. One of them might be right…
All are true according to sources below
#1-3, as of 2000: http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:pi9VmhGAj-EJ:censtats.census.gov/data/MD/1602416225.pdf+census+chestertown+site:gov&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=us
#4 http://celebrating200years.noaa.gov/survey_marks/population/welcome.html


