BY LISA ARTHUR
larthur@MiamiHerald.com
Spiraling housing costs. Congested highways. Hurricane anxiety. All these things are supposed to be making South Florida a less attractive place to live.
But new Census estimates released today show the region continued to be a people magnet, drawing 455,869 new residents -- primarily immigrants-- between April 2000 and July 2006. That's the ninth-largest metro area increase in the country during that time.
The U.S. Census Bureau defines the region's metro area as Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties. The new report shows a 9 percent increase in population the past six years.
''That's a lot of people, and that's major growth for an area already as large as we are,'' said Ted Leonard, senior planner for Broward County.
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