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    Wyoming’s census numbers have leveled off.   After seeing a net annual migration that was near 10-thousand people a year from 2006 to 2009, Wyoming saw about 45-hundred new people move into the state last year. 

Economist Wenlin Liu  of the Wyoming Economic Analysis Division says economic improvement elsewhere has reduced the number of people coming to Wyoming looking for work.

“The main reason is that the rest of the nation had an economic recovery.  We had a lot less immigrants moving into the state from California and Michigan."

In 2011, Goshen County’s population grew the fastest at two-point-two percent.  Albany County saw an increase of one-point-six percent. 

New numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau show that people in Wyoming reporting to be American Indian in combination with one or more races grew 24%.

In 2010 over 13-thousand people in Wyoming reported American Indian as their only race. However, those who chose multiple races - American Indian in combination with something else – was nearly 19-thousand. That’s up from 15-thousand a decade ago.

Amy Bittner is a senior economist for the state’s economic analysis division, which serves as the lead agency for Wyoming’s state data center program. She says new figures show that the American Indian population is growing.