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The
Providence/Cranston Workforce Investment Area (WIA) includes the capital
city of Providence and the state’s third largest
city, Cranston. Together, these two cities had a combined estimated
population of 256,734 in July 2006. This represented
a 1.3 percent (+3,383) increase in estimated total population between
July 2000 and July 2006. In comparison, the
state’s population as a whole grew by an estimated 1.6 percent during
this period. Approximately 24.0 percent of
all Rhode Islanders lived in the Providence/Cranston WIA in July 2006.
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