Iredell's Hispanic population rises sharply

By: Jim Mcnally | Statesville Record & Landmark
Published: March 27, 2011

North Carolina is one of nine states whose Hispanic populations increased by at least 100 percent in the past decade.
Nationally, the Hispanic population grew by some 43 percent during the first decade of the 2000s, jumping from 35.3 million to 50.5 million.
The increase in real numbers of 15.2 million people represents about 56 percent of the total population growth for the decade. In other words, while Hispanics added about 43 people for every 100 who were here in 2000, the non-Hispanic increase was about 5 people for every 100.
Those with Latino roots now account for 16.3 percent of the nation’s population.
In North Carolina, those numbers were equally unbalanced. The Hispanic population swelled by more than 111 percent, while the non-Hispanic population grew by just less than 14 percent.
Still, white (68.5 percent) and African American (21.5) residents comprise the largest slices of the racial pie in the state. Only 8.4 percent of North Carolina residents are Latinos.
In Iredell County, the numbers were even more pronounced. The Hispanic population grew from about 4,200 in 2000 to nearly 11,000 by 2010, an increase of roughly 160 percent.
Still, less than 7 percent of Iredell’s population is Latino compared with more than 80 percent white and about 12 percent African American.
About 2 percent of Iredell residents are of Asian descent and about that same percentage claimed to be of two or more races.

Iredell's Hispanic population rises sharply

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