A decade ago, business leaders would welcome such news. ButDouglas County, southeast and southwest of Denver, is growing sofast that the county is hard-pressed to keep up with the influx ofpeople and companies. "I think I would rather see less growth,"Peter Neukirch, president of the Southeast Business Partnership,told GlobeSt.com. "I would like to see it moderate a bit. It's comeso fast and furious over the past 10 years that it has caused anumber of headaches." Overcrowded schools and housing demands arecause for concern as more companies move into the area and buildmore office buildings, he says.

Local developer Jeff Kirkendall says developers are not welcomein Douglas County. "I think there's growth potential in DouglasCounty, but I think the county government does not welcome it,"says Kirkendall of Developing Equities Group. "And the populationas a whole is against growth. That makes it difficult to developanything."

The report by Demographic Daily puts Douglas County behindForsyth County, Ga., which is northeast of Atlanta, after analyzingdata of 3,141 counties and independent cities across the country.Demographics Daily has used an 11-part formula from data garneredfrom the US Census Bureau and US Bureau of Economic Analysis.