Hispanic Population Growing in North Kitsap
By Admin
Our Hispanic population is making an important contribution to the growth of North Kitsap and Kitsap County, as described in this Kitsap Sun article.
By far, the Hispanic and Latino population grew the fastest of any race group in Kitsap County between 2000 and 2010, according to 2010 U.S. Census released this summer.
While it likely is an undercount, the Census estimated that 15,686 Hispanics lived in Kitsap County in 2010, a 63 percent increase over the decade. Hispanics in 2010 made up 6 percent of the total population. That growth rate is close to the state’s (71 percent), but far higher than the national rate of 43 percent.
Hispanics are spread evenly across the county, with Bremerton having the biggest concentration of 3,612 people. But it is in greater Poulsbo and the north end of the Kitsap Peninsula where the ranks of Hispanics are growing fastest.
The number of Hispanics in the census tract that includes east Poulsbo increased 172 percent over 10 years, with 515 Hispanics living there in 2010. That tract had the fastest Hispanic growth rate of any in Kitsap County.
The Hispanic population grew 146 percent over 10 years between Lofall and Indianola, 126 percent north of Bangor, 118 person between Hansville and Little Boston, and 102 in Kingston and the north tip of the Kitsap Peninsula, with each of the tracts adding between 200 and 300 new Hispanic residents.
Read more: http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2011/sep/03/hispanic-population-booming-north-kitsap-census-sa/#ixzz1X0SFhB7e
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