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<br />percent of a population of say 67,000, gives you about 6,000 increase. On the other end,
<br />Oʻahu is down on the lower end, 6.64 pecent but with 953,000 people at 6.64 percent,
<br />you end up with 63,000. Anyway, it’s interesting to compare the numbers from 10 years
<br />ago and see an overall growth rate statewide of about 7 percent.
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<br />Now, those are the federal numbers, and indeed those are the numbers that the State
<br />Reapportionment Commission will be using for Congressional redistricting. But for our
<br />purposes and State Senate, State House, and the Council, Hawaiʻi Council, we will be
<br />using the permanent resident population base. Which means we need to extract the non-
<br />permanent residents. Those would be military and students that meet two criteria. These
<br />criteria being that they were non-permanent as a primary miliary and universtiy student.
<br />So what does that mean, non-permanent? Miliary declare a State othan than Hawaiʻi as
<br />their State of legal residence. That’s what they tell the miliary. For the universities, they
<br />pay out of State tuition and they have a permanent address outside Hawaiʻi. The second
<br />criteria is they were counted in the census. They needed to be here to be counted and so
<br />that’s where, both from the military and the students, we request that only the numbers
<br />for those actually in Hawaiʻi on April 1st, 2020, who would have been counted by the
<br />census so that we can extract them from those census counts. So there you can see the
<br />numbers, both military and students. Over 70,000 on Oʻahu, of course all the military
<br />there is a big part of that number. But on the County of Hawaiʻi, we do have 539 total for
<br />the military, 499 non-permanent students, so for a total of 539. This is a map that shows
<br />because we needed the census block level. So this is where, both the military and the
<br />universities, provided residents’ addresses so that we could locate those residences, the
<br />census block that they’re in, and remove those 539 from each census block, where they
<br />were. You can see the legend that by and large, we only removed one or two from each
<br />census block and they were scattered around the island. But you can see that the focus,
<br />maybe not too suprising, is around Hilo of course, around UH where they majority of the
<br />students are residing.
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<br />So, here are then, the numbers starting with the federal population numbers subtracting
<br />out those non-permanent residents, leaves the County of Hawaiʻi with a total population,
<br />permanent resident population, of 200,090. So with 9 council districts, we want to know
<br />what’s the ideal if we had exactly equal representation in every district, what would be
<br />that ideal population? Well with 9 districts, we divide 200,090 by 9 which gives you
<br />22,232.22. If you round off, that gives you the ideal target population for each council
<br />district in the County of Hawaiʻi, as 22,232. And indeed, if you look at the software,
<br />which I will be talking about next, the software does show that target. It shows a map of
<br />the current boundaries. It shows the target, which is the ideal. It also will show then, what
<br />is the population currently, thatʻs where the starting point. There’s the current population
<br />of your council boundaries. How much does that deviate then from that ideal target? You
<br />can see Council District 1 is actually a little bit below. In fact, 1,343 below, which also
<br />translates over to 6.04 percent below. But if I look down further, I see oh there’s one even
<br />lower, Council 7 is 8.16 pecent below. In other words, not as much growth out there. But
<br />if we also look for what’s the highest percent, we see Council 5. Council 5 has grown by
<br />11.22 percent higher than that target, that ideal target population. So this is where the
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