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Highlights from Census 2000
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Census 2000, the head count of Americans conducted every 10 years, released data Friday showing population counts and racial/ethnic breakdowns of Washington state. Among the highlights:
Growth
Washington, the nation's 10th-fastest-growing state, added about 1 million people - a 21 percent increase.
King, Snohomish, Kitsap and Pierce counties added 527,000 people - accounting for just over half the state's overall growth. The most explosive growth locally was in outer-ring suburbs like Monroe, Marysville, Arlington and North Bend.
Clark County was the state's fastest-growing county, increasing by 45 percent, but every county in the state showed some growth.
Seattle, mirroring a national back-to-the-cities trend, grew by 47,000 people to 563,374 - exceeding its peak population in 1960.
Race/ethnicity
The number of Hispanic and racial minorities -- if you include those who checked more than one race on the census form - doubled statewide and now make up 21 percent of the population. Franklin County now has more minorities than whites.
Hispanics are the state's largest minority group, their numbers doubling to 441,000. Asians are King County's largest minority group.
More than half of the new residents in Seattle were Asians or Hispanics, but the region's minority population is far more spread out in the suburbs than in the past. Bellevue has the largest proportion of Asians - 17 percent - of any major city. Renton and SeaTac now have about the same percentage of black population as Seattle.
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