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
We simply paint over our signs every 5 years... I wouldnt see why Americans do anything differently.
I don't know about the sign business, but the flag business is waiting for the USA to add a 51st state...
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).
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........
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.
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 I would think it would have been replaced by now, though.
Quote from: huskeroadgeek on April 26, 2010, 03:58:56 PM
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 I would think it would have been replaced by now, though.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
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