Commence the Census

We had a visit from a nice young lady representing the 2010 Census yesterday who wanted to know if we live in a single-family house (well, duh! Plano has the strictiest zoning laws you can imagine and nothing else is allowed here.) It was the first puff of wind in the coming deluge of census taking for the constitutionally-mandated decenial enumeration of the US of A.

So I got to thinking about it all and made a visit to the Census web site where I did a little digging on the name, Ashurst. In the 2000 Census there were 751 of us (not counting those that were not recognized as valid – too complex to define here, but you can read all you wanted to know and MUCH MORE on the Census web site.) There were 26 names with 751 people, and 751 was the 29,598^th highest in the US. Ashursts were about 88% white, 8% black, 3.5% hispanic, and less than 1% of the other races. There were 0.28 of us in each 100,000 people in the US (or about 1 in 357,143).

Now, don’t that make you proud?

BTW, Smith is by far the most commnon name is the country, but Jones is all the way down at #5.

The top ten surnames are:

NAME	Number of occurrences
Smith	2,376,206
Johnson	1,857,160
Williams	1,534,042
Brown	1,380,145
Jones	1,362,755
Miller	1,127,803
Davis	1,072,335
Garcia	858,289
Rodriguez	804,240
Wilson	783,051