Area Hispanics growing 4 to 6 times faster than overall population, according to Census Bureau
Aug. 17, 2008
The numbers estimate changes from July 2006 to July 2007 and are based on migration, births and deaths. Hispanic origin is an ethnicity, not a race, so people of any race may or may not be Hispanic.
In the six counties — Johnson, Wyandotte, Clay, Platte, Jackson and Cass — the total population grew 1.26 percent to 1.74 million. Within that figure, the Hispanic population grew 5 percent.
In 2007, Hispanics constitutes 7.6 percent of the population in those counties ...
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2007: 132,224 Hispanics
This trend has been apparent for several years, and is expected to continue the same way.
2008: 140,000 Hispanics
2009: 147,000 Hispanics
2015: 200,000 Hispanics |