As of the 2010 Census, the population was 501,226, reflecting an increase of 12,177 (+2.5%) from the 489,049 counted in the 2000 Census, retaining its position as the state's ninth-most populous county. As of 2014, the county's Census-estimated population was 508,856, Its county seat is Paterson.
For other persons named Neil Young, see Neil Young (disambiguation). Neil Percival Young, OC OM (born November 12, 1945), is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, producer, director and screenwriter. Young began performing in a group covering Shadows instrumentals in Canada in 1960.
They married in 1940 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and their first son, Robert 'Bob' Young, was born in 1942. Shortly after Neil's birth in 1945, the Young family moved to the rural town of Omemee, Ontario, which Neil would later fondly describe as a sleepy little place. Young suffered from a bout of polio in 1951, in what was the last major outbreak of the disease in Ontario.