The white population in Connecticut declined precipitously over the last 10 years as the state grew more diverse, Census data released Thursday shows.
Though white residents still make up nearly three-quarters of the state, their numbers dropped by 10 percent in the last decade. At the same time, the Hispanic population surged by 30 percent and the Asian population climbed by 27 percent, while the Black population rose by 8 percent.
Overall, however, the state’s total population barely nudged upward in the last decade growing by less than 1 percent, the smallest gain of any state in the Northeast and the fourth smallest nationwide.
The state’s increasingly diverse makeup and its relatively slow growth are likely due to a white population that is growing older and having fewer children, said Mark Abraham, executive director at DataHaven, a nonprofit data cooperative.
“There's been a huge drop in the number of white children in Connecticut in the past 10 years,” he said.”It's mainly just because the demographics have shifted.”
Given that Asian, Hispanic and Latino populations are younger and are expected to continue having children, Abraham said the trend should continue.
More than half of all Connecticut towns, ranging from large to small, lost population, with the largest proportional decline found in the small town of Canaan, which had 12 percent fewer residents than in 2010. Its losses were almost all white residents. Somers, about ten times Canaan’s size, also saw a decline of 10 percent, mostly due to declines in the white population.
Stamford saw the largest population growth of any town at 10 percent over the decade, attributable entirely to increases among non-white residents. Hispanic and Latino...
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