If not for Hispanics, Elkhart County’s population would have stayed relatively flat.
That’s one of the big takeaways from the U.S. Census Bureau numbers I crunched for a story on a new YWCA program geared to Hispanic women in Elkhart County (look here).
Consider:
Latinos motoring overall growth: As is, Latino growth helped push the estimated 2013 population here to 200,563, up from 182,791 in 2000. If not for that growth, the head count would have increased to just 187,057.
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