Ames Population?

[chuckd4735]

Huh? The majority of my friends in college do. I have an intern sitting six feet away from me and she works full time hours.

I didn't say nobody worked full-time, but my guess would be out of all the ISU students who are not in summer classes, a majority of them are not working 40-hours a week during the summer. I tried finding the article I read a couple of weeks ago that talked about how every year more and more college students are relying on financial aid rather then getting full time jobs during the summer. Really, there is not enough of a job supply out to match the demand. In Iowa alone there are probably somewhere around 75,000 college students who don't take classes in the summer. Id say of the people I knew in college, it was probably equal in those who worked full-time, those who worked part-time and those who didn't work at all.

[Cycl1]

Huh? The majority of my friends in college do. I have an intern sitting six feet away from me and she works full time hours.

Yeah, i worked full time every summer except for the one in which I took classes.

[IcSyU]

I didn't say nobody worked full-time, but my guess would be out of all the ISU students who are not in summer classes, a majority of them are not working 40-hours a week during the summer. I tried finding the article I read a couple of weeks ago that talked about how every year more and more college students are relying on financial aid rather then getting full time jobs during the summer. Id say of the people I knew in college, it was probably equal in those who worked full-time, those who worked part-time and those who didn't work at all.

You have to rely on financial aid more as the cost of tuition continues to rise but the pay for the summer jobs stays the same.

I guess I don't know how the other colleges at Iowa State work but I'd venture a guess more than 50% of the College of Business students are working full time or nearly full time.

[chuckd4735]

You have to rely on financial aid more as the cost of tuition continues to rise but the pay for the summer jobs stays the same.

I guess I don't know how the other colleges at Iowa State work but I'd venture a guess more than 50% of the College of Business students are working full time or nearly full time.

The article was more talking about how more students just decide to not work because finical aid is available and they use the mentality that someday they will be making more money and they can just repay their loans then. Regardless, the point of me bringing it up was to show that the average college student does not make over $10k/year. I worked 20-30 hours a week at Hy-Vee during the school year, and 40 during the summer, and I barley made over $10k

[IcSyU]

The article was more talking about how more students just decide to not work because finical aid is available and they use the mentality that someday they will be making more money and they can just repay their loans then. Regardless, the point of me bringing it up was to show that the average college student does not make over $10k/year. I worked 20-30 hours a week at Hy-Vee during the school year, and 40 during the summer, and I barley made over $10k

I made over $10,000 annually but I also worked a lot more than most so it isn't completely out of the question. Finding a job over $9/hour isn't that hard on campus.

[chuckd4735]

I made over $10,000 annually but I also worked a lot more than most so it isn't completely out of the question. Finding a job over $9/hour isn't that hard on campus.

I'm also going back about 5-10 years, back when minimum wage was still $5.15, so I'm probably using outdated data.

[HOTDON]

A lot of times companies/businesses/economic development teams will state the population as in how many people a certain business will be able to pull in. The 129,000 number may come from Ames, Boone, Nevada and then the perceived amount of residents from Marshalltown, FT. Dodge, Webster City willing to travel to use Kohls & TJ Maxx.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Fart Dodge has it's own Kohl's now. There are a million reasons to leave Fart Dodge and go to Ames, but that new Kohl's doesn't male it a million and one....

[DistrictCyclone]

I didn't say nobody worked full-time, but my guess would be out of all the ISU students who are not in summer classes, a majority of them are not working 40-hours a week during the summer. I tried finding the article I read a couple of weeks ago that talked about how every year more and more college students are relying on financial aid rather then getting full time jobs during the summer. Id say of the people I knew in college, it was probably equal in those who worked full-time, those who worked part-time and those who didn't work at all.

It's purely anecdotal, but I notice that a lot of students still work full-time during the summers, but often take "gap weeks" between school and their summer jobs. A couple of the interns in my office now, for instance, are leaving in late July so they can travel in Spain for a couple weeks before school starts back up.

I don't know if this is a "generational" thing that's changed in the last 7-8 years, if it's typical for students at East Coast universities, or a little of both, but I can't think of anyone I went to college with who did this. We either took classes or worked as hard as we could during the summers to save money.

[snowcraig2.0]

Found the problem.

Someone's hand is a about to get slapped....

[wonkadog]

Huh? The majority of my friends in college do. I have an intern sitting six feet away from me and she works full time hours.

Pic?

[KezClone]

2010 census: 58,965

Up from 50,731 in 2000

Yep, was gonna post that the official total is near 59,000

[dmclone]

Ames Median Household income $48,034

[cyclone87]

Interesting article regarding growth of the Ames economy: Ames has highest number of jobs ever | Ames News Online

Also, I believe the city population is around 60k while the metro area (which encompasses all of story county) is around 90k.

[dmclone]

Interesting article regarding growth of the Ames economy: Ames has highest number of jobs ever | Ames News Online

Also, I believe the city population is around 60k while the metro area (which encompasses all of story county) is around 90k.

How is all of story county considered the Ames metro? Not questioning you, just seems a little weird.

[DistrictCyclone]

How is all of story county considered the Ames metro? Not questioning you, just seems a little weird.

Most, if not all, of the Census Buruea's Metropolitan/Micropolitan Statistical Areas use counties as the "building blocks":

Core Based Statistical Area - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia