Ohio's minority growth offsets population losses

The Plain Dealer wrote Ohio’s minority growth offsets population losses
Posted by Robert L. Smith May 01, 2008
A Plain Dealer analysis of new census data found that minority communities surged in size in Ohio this decade, helping to offset population losses and secure Ohio’s position as America’s seventh-largest state. Ohio lost about 24,000 white residents between 2000 and 2007. But minority growth led to a net gain of 102,000 residents, and the state posted a 1 percent growth rate.
Most notably, the state’s Asian community mushroomed by 32 percent between 2000 and 2007, exceeding the national growth rate, to reach 180,588 people. The Hispanic community grew by 30 percent during the same span, to 283,755, while the black community grew by 4 percent, to 1.4 million.
By growing with Asians, albeit modestly, Ohio is growing with the most educated demographic group in America. Forty-nine percent of Asian-American adults hold a college degree, compared with 27 percent of the general population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.