The official 2011 Census population for Clarenville was 6,035. This represented an increase of 14.4% since 2006 (6,035 in 2011, up from 5,275). That's one of the highest rates of community growth in the Province (We are the highest growth area outside of greater St. John's). That's good right? Well, aside for the issue of how we can better manage that growth, it certainly means that our town is becoming a place people come to live. But how can we do a better job at making it a place to call home?. Where is this growth coming from? We really need to look at the numbers a little more closely and consider where the growth is coming from and how it can be sustained. The Province keeps a great website called Community Accounts (www.communityaccounts.ca). This site, among other things, presents the population data for all NL towns. If we look at the numbers for Clarenville we can see that only about 1.5% of our population growth came from "inside