Census Numbers Released

Mark Todd, Staff Writer• Fri, Mar 04, 2011

The 2010 population of Transylvania County is 33,090, according to the United States Census Bureau.

This is an increase of 12.7 percent over the 29,339 residents reported living in the county in 2000. The information was part of a package of local census data unveiled by the state at 2 p.m. on Wednesday. The population in Transylvania has increased more slowly than in neighboring counties.

Henderson County’s population increased to 106,740. Buncombe County’s population increased to 238,318. Jackson County’s population increased to 40,271.

All of those counties were listed as having population increases in the range of 15 to 25 percent. Transylvania County was listed as increasing in the range from 10 to 15 percent, as was Haywood County, which had a population in 2010 of 59,036. During the same 10-year period, the population of the state increased 18.5 percent to 9,535,463..

More about the census numbers will appear in Monday’s paper.

Census Numbers Released

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