Elkhart County's population totals 197,559, up 8.1 percent from 182,791 in 2000, powered largely by the increase in Hispanics here, according to 2010 U.S. Census Bureau figures released Thursday.
The city of Elkhart lost 1.8 percent of its population, falling from 51,874 in 2000 to 50,949 in 2010. The number of Hispanics increased nearly 50 percent, from 7,678 to 11,451, but it wasn't enough to counter the dip in the non-Hispanic white population, from 34,655 to 29,565.
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