Citizens Urged to Get Involved with Redistricting
The 2010 Census Data shows that due to increases in minority populations the county is minority-majority populated and faces fairness in redistricting decisions.
County residents recently gathered to hear and see 2010 Census Data regarding the growth of White, Hispanic-Latino, Asian and Black-African American populations and how population changes will affect redistricting. The 2010 Census showed a significant slowing in growth of the majority, white-non Hispanic, population. In combining minorities that have outgrown the majority, Gwinnett is now, statistically, a minority-majority county. Collected every 10 years, the census data indicates increases by races and languages from 2000 to 2010 in the following: White from 427,883 to 429,563, Hispanic or Latino from 64,137 to 162,035, Black from 78,224 to 184,122, Asian from 42,360 to 84,763. Gwinnett added 300,000 residents over the past decade…
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