POPULATION IS DECLINING. >> REPORT ALSO FOUND THAT THE COUNTRY IS GETTING OLDER, CITING A DECREASE IN BIRTH RATES AS THE NUMBER OF ADULTS INCREASED BY MORE THAN 10% SINCE 2010. OFFICIALS SAY THE NORTHEAST NOW HAS THE SMALLEST POPULATION OF PEOPLE UNDER 18. THE SOUTH HAS THE LARGEST. >>> A SOLUTION FOR AN OLYMPIC CHAMPION JUST WRAPPED UP. BASEBALL PLAYER AND APEX NATIVE TIM FEDEROWICZ IS BACK HOME AND WE WERE THERE FOR ALL THE FANFARE. THE CITY IS HAPPY TO HAVE HIM BACK. >> Reporter: THE CITY SHOWED OUT FOR THIS ONE. IT STARTED WITH A SMALL PROCESSION FROM APEX HIGH SCHOOL, ALL THE WAY TO DOWNTOWN APEX HERE AT THE DEPOT. HE IS A GRADUATE OF ALUM OF APEX HIGH SCHOOL AND IT WAS TRULY A VERY WARM WELCOMING FROM THE TOWN COUNCIL, THE MAYOR, ASPIRING YOUNG BASEBALL PLAYERS AND, OF COURSE, THE MEMBERS. TIM FEDEROWICZ CALLED IT A FULL CIRCLE MOMENT AND NEVER SAW THIS IN HIS FUTURE. HE SAID GOING TO THE OLYMPICS WAS A DREAM AND WINNING A MEDAL WAS A HUGE ACCOMPLISHMENT. HERE IS MORE FROM OUR CONVERSATION. >> I HAVE PLAYED THIS GAME MY ENTIRE LIFE AND ALWAYS DREAMED OF MAKING THE MAJOR LEAGUES AND ALL THAT. NEVER REALLY THOUGHT I WOULD BE AN OLYMPIAN AND IT IS AN AMAZING FEELING THAT HAS COME FULL CIRCLE. >> Reporter: TO TALK THIS MOMENT OFF, VERY EXCITING, THE MAYOR OF APEX GAVE HIM A KEY TO THE TOWN. HE SAID, YOU KNOW, HE WAS A SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER WHEN TIM WAS AT A SPEC'S EYES GO AND SEE HIM FULLY REPRESENT NOT ONLY APEX BUT THE TRIANGLE AND THE ENTIRE COUNTRY AT THE OLYMPICS WAS A HUGE ACCOMPLISHMENT. HE FINISHED UP THE CELEBRATION SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS AND TAKING PICTURES BUT, AGAIN, VERY EXCITED FOR OUR LOCAL OLYMPIAN. >> THE PEAK OF ATHLETICS RIGHT