The city's population was 155, 271 in the 2006 census.

Environmental pollution is low, although as of 2006 the city council is concerned about levels of particulate matter ( PM ), especially along the city's major thoroughfares.

As of the American Community Survey Three-Year Estimate of 2006 – 2008, the city's population was 67. 0 % White ( 65. 8 % non-Hispanic White alone ), 26. 5 % Black or African American, 1. 0 % American Indian and Alaska Native, 3. 5 % Asian, 0. 1 % Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, 0. 7 % from some other race and 2. 1 % from two or more races.

Another estimate ( in 2006 ) was that the financial services industry makes up 9 % of the city's work force and 31 % of the tax base.

A 2006 study by UCLA estimates that approximately 7. 6 % of the city's population, or almost 14, 000 people, are openly homosexual or bisexual, compared to just 3. 7 %, or just over 60, 000 people, for the metropolitan area as a whole.

While flooding has been common with Binghamton sitting at the confluence of two rivers, a major flood was able to overcome the city's flood walls and wreak havoc in June 2006, causing millions of dollars in damage.

In February 2006, the Sun-Times worked to fill the void felt at the city's TV and radio stations by the demise of the old City News by starting its own 24-hour newswire, the STNG Wire.

The city's population has been stable for 25 + years: in 2006, it was 67, 720 ; in 2000, it was 65, 269 ; in 1990, it was 66, 049 ; in 1980, it was 66, 743.

Moreover, the Romanian-language film Cartier (" Neighbourhood ", 2001 ) and its sequel Înapoi în cartier (" Back to the Neighbourhood ", 2006 ) both feature a story replete with violence and rude language, behind the blocks in the city's Mănăştur district.

Also the city's laid-back attitude, by some attributed to the relatively low economic activity of its inhabitants ( labour participation was about 57 % in 2006 ) and the large numbers of students, artists and ( semi -) government employees, make for a ' Berlinesque ' atmosphere.

As of 2006 the city's population grew 8. 9 % from 12, 106 to 13, 219.

But a 2006 study by the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce puts the city's Latino percentage at over 60 %.

In 2006 mayoral elections, 29-year-old Eduardo Garcia became the city's youngest mayor ever.

A gang-related shooting at the city's popular Boynton Beach Mall on Christmas Eve of 2006 caught national attention on many networks, such as CBS.

Formal incorporation occurred on December 1, making Sandy Springs the third-largest city ever to incorporate in the U. S. The city's police force and fire department began service in 2006.

Large swaths of housing — 7. 4 % of the city's housing stock in 2006 -- remain vacant.

The city's centennial celebration was held in the third week in July, 2006.

In August 2006, the city's largest employer, Ethan Allen Furniture, announced that it would be closing its Atoka plant in favor of " selected off-shore vendors ", as reported in the The Oklahoman following the announcement of the plant's closing.

The city's population in 2006 was 15, 050 and in 2007, it was 16, 161.

Prineville got its first Starbucks in 2006, and a plan was floated to reopen the city's long-shuttered movie theater.

On December 2, 2006, at the city's 16th Annual Festival of Lights, Smithville broke the Guinness World Record for the world's largest gingerbread man.

To this day, residents still struggle with the dilemma of maintaining the city's rugged country charm, while at the same time allowing for the development of modern suburban facilities and businesses. Helotes was the hometown of the late Texas state Senator Frank L. Madla, who perished after his home on the south side of San Antonio caught fire on November 24, 2006.

In early 2006, a large national commercial developer began construction on a new Town Center on land south of Syracuse Jr. High School and within walking distance of the city offices, police and fire stations, community center, and many of the city's houses.

As of the 2006 census estimate, the city's population was 44, 798.

In 2006 the United States accepted more legal immigrants as permanent residents than all other countries in the world combined.

Limburg ’ s biggest outlying centre is Lindenholzhausen ( 3, 329 residents as of June 2006 ); the second biggest is Linter.

The province is Canada's most linguistically homogenous, and 97. 6 % of residents reported English as their mother tongue in the 2006 census ; however, this is the unique local dialect, Newfoundland English.

While the Singapore Department of Statistics reports overall population figures for Singapore ( 4. 48 million in 2006 ), as a matter of policy, it only provides more detailed demographic breakdown analysis for the approximately 80 % of the population who are Singapore citizens and Permanent Residents ( collectively termed ' residents ').

The municipality administers an area of, of which is land, with 71, 938 residents ( in May 2006 ).

A deal announced in 2006 to build a new park in Fremont, to be called Cisco Field was halted three years later as a result of opposition from businesses and local residents.

Miami and its metropolitan area grew from just over one thousand residents to nearly five and a half million residents in just 110 years ( 1896 – 2006 ).

In 2006, the city made the front page of national newspapers when 200, 000 residents were told to evacuate in the wake of flooding that was forecast to reach levels near that of ' 72 but fell short of predictions.

In January 2006, Dr Salah Al Jowder, an Asalah councillor in Muharraq discussed how the municipality would enforce a decree that would stipulate that all new buildings be fitted with one-way windows so that passersby would be unable to see residents within their homes ( after concerns were raised about peeping toms ).

In 2008, the state notified residents of Belvidere, Eden, Hyde Park, Johnson, Waterville and eight towns in the adjacent counties of Orleans and Franklin, that a review of health records from 1995 to 2006 had revealed that residents within ten miles ( 16 km ) of the former asbestos mine on Belvidere Mountain had higher than normal rates of contracting asbestosis.

In December 2006, Sport England published a survey which revealed that residents of Kensington and Chelsea were the fourth most active in England in sports and other fitness activities.

The area's newer, wealthy residents are satirised in Rachel Johnson's novel Notting Hell ( 2006 ) set in grand houses surrounding a fictional communal garden.

Some local residents have been updating a site that looks at the regeneration and gentrification in Walworth since 2006.

Once home to over 10, 000 residents, the county population declined below 5000 in 2006.

In December 2006, Sport England published a survey which revealed that residents of Richmond upon Thames were the 2nd most active in England in sports and other fitness activities.

In 2006 Morgan County was the first in the central Indiana region to offer a prescription drug discount program to its residents at no charge to individuals, helping residents save an average of 20 % on prescriptions.

West Baton Rouge saw a very small percentage of growth after Hurricane Katrina with the latest estimate ( July 2006 ) put about 864 extra residents into the parish.

Between July 1, 2006, and July 1, 2007, Tensas Parish lost 173 residents, or 2. 9 percent of its population.

Since June 2006, Camp Hope has been housing volunteers ' assisting residents of St. Bernard Parish in their recovery from Hurricane Katrina.

* Intelligent city gets residents ’ thumbs up, The Star, November 25, 2006

As of 2006 fewer than 400 Ladera Heights residents attended Inglewood USD schools.

In 2006, a group of residents petitioned to move the area into the Culver City Unified School District of Culver City.