Numbers show Hispanics a booming part of population
Published: Thu, May. 17, 2007 12:00AM
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closeHispanics continue to fuel population growth, both nationwide and in North Carolina, numbers released today from the U.S Census Bureau show.
Between 2005 and 2006, nearly a quarter of North Carolina's new residents were Hispanics. Nationwide, they accounted for half the growth.
Hispanics remain the largest minority group in the nation -- and the fastest growing.
U.S. POPULATION
As of July 1, 2006, the United States' population looked like this:
Total population: 299 million, up 3.7 percent from a year earlier
Number of non-Hispanic whites: 199 million, up .3 percent
Number of minorities: 100.7 million, up 2.4 percent
Number of Hispanics: 44.3 million, up 3.4 percent
Number of blacks: 40.2 million, up 1.3 percent
Number of Asians: 14.9 million, up 3.2 percent
Number of American Indians and Alaska natives: 4.5 million, up 1 percent
Median age: 36.4, no change
NORTH CAROLINA'S POPULATION
As of July 1, 2006, North Carolina's population looked like this:
Total population: 8.9 million, up 2.2 percent from previous year
Number of non-Hispanic whites: 6.1 million, up 1.6 percent
Number of minorities: 2.9 million, up 3.3 percent
Number of blacks: 2 million, up 2.1 percent
Number of Hispanics: 603,000, up 7 percent
Number of Asians: 191,000, up 5.6 percent
Number of American Indians: 145,000, up 1.9 percent
Median age: 36.6, up 1 percent
COMPILED BY KRISTIN COLLINS AND PAULETTE STILES.
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But other minority groups also gained ground, pushing the nation's minority population to more than 100 million, while the number of non-Hispanic whites remained almost flat.
About one in three people in North Carolina, and in the United States, are now minorities. And some states -- including Hawaii, New Mexico, California and Texas -- have more minorities than whites. North Carolina ranked 19th in the nation for its proportion of minorities, about 33 percent.
The state is also home to more older people, fueled by whites more than minorities.
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