As Fort Wayne suburbs grow, other areas don't

FORT WAYNE – A total of 253,691 people call Fort Wayne home, according to the 2010 census numbers released Thursday.

And 355,329 live in Allen County now, up 7 percent from 2000.

Or, at least, those were the totals – figured to the best of the U.S. Census Bureau’s ability in a nation of 308 million people – as of April 1, 2010. The census, after all, is just a snapshot of a living, breathing population at one moment in time.