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 Census population of 258,429 in 2010. This represented a +2.2 percent increase (+5,542) in estimated total population between Census 2000 and Census 2010. In comparison, the state’s population as a whole increased by 4,248 residents (+0.4%) during this period. Approximately 24.6 percent of all Rhode Islanders lived in the Providence/Cranston WIA in April 2010.

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