Sign Companies After 2010 Census.

[BigMattFromTexas]

So after cities/towns get their official 2010 population, do the sign companies get like major business rushes, or what? Cause everybody who has signs with the population will need new signs...
BigMatt

[un1]

We simply paint over our signs every 5 years... I wouldnt see why Americans do anything differently.

[yanksfan6129]

I don't know about the sign business, but the flag business is waiting for the USA to add a 51st state...

[J N Winkler]

It depends on what the policy is in each state, but as a general rule the decennial census does not result in a huge amount of new business for sign companies.  Population figures are not necessarily revised to the most recent census figures--sometimes the population is not updated until the sign is life-expired and a new one has to be made--while in some states the population figure change is done with an overlay.  Not all states put population figures on boundary signs (Kansas, for example, does not).

[3467]

It Varies in Illinois Usually no change unless there is a big population change.....if teh change is down there ususally isnt a rush to change the sign........

[US71]

In Arkansas, significant population changes are often accomplished on signs by simply covering over the old numbers with a new piece of Scotchlite. No need to replace the whole sign, though a few places have gone to simpler "Welcome" or "City Limit" signs sans population.

[huskeroadgeek]

I seem to remember at some times seeing some of the faster-growing cities in NW Arkansas and a couple others elsewhere like Conway and Jonesboro that had intermediate population estimates on their signs rather than the most recent Census. An interesting thing about Arkansas too-in the mid 1990s, I saw an old black-on-white city limit sign in a small town that had a population figure from the 1970 Census. I would think it would have been replaced by now, though.

[US71]

I seem to remember at some times seeing some of the faster-growing cities in NW Arkansas and a couple others elsewhere like Conway and Jonesboro that had intermediate population estimates on their signs rather than the most recent Census. An interesting thing about Arkansas too-in the mid 1990s, I saw an old black-on-white city limit sign in a small town that had a population figure from the 1970 Census. I would think it would have been replaced by now, though.

Used to an old b/w in Archie, MO until a couple years ago