Census snapshot Coweta County Census snapshot: Coweta County

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
April 17, 2011

The U.S. Census Bureau last month released 2010 population data for Georgia and its counties and municipalities. Here's some of the latest information about Coweta County, which saw its population grow by 42.7 percent since the 2000 census:

127,317

Total population, up from 89,215 in 2000.

92,604

Number of white residents -- about 72.7 percent of the population. In 2000, 68,867 -- or 77.2 percent -- of residents were white.

21,744

African-American residents (17.1 percent of the population). Ten years earlier, 15,935 -- or 17.9 percent -- of residents were black.

8,493

Hispanic residents (6.7 percent of the population). In 2000, 2,797 -- or 3.1 percent -- of residents were Hispanic.

1,895

Asian-American residents (1.5 percent of the population), compared with 608 -- or 0.7 percent -- in 2000.

520

Other races (0.4 percent of the population), compared with 274 -- or 0.3 percent -- in 2000.

2,061

Multiracial (1.6 percent of the population), compared with 734 -- or 0.8 percent -- in 2000.

Source: 2010 census. For more information, visit www.census.gov.