Census: Top Draw for blacks in the U.S. is Broward County, FL

[Herman Munster]

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Broward added 16,522 new black residents in the 12 months ending July 31, 2005. Gwinnett County, Ga., in the Atlanta metro area, came in second with 13,854, according to population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Miami-Dade's black population increased by just 1,583 people, or less than 1 percent.

Broward also leads the nation in the number of new black residents added between 2000 and 2005. The five-year total is 92,378. Again, Gwinnett comes in second with 62,732. The five-year figure for Miami-Dade is 10,528.

Overall, in 2005 Miami-Dade's black population was about 500,000, compared to 1.4 million Hispanic and 450,000 white non-Hispanics. In Broward, there were 450,000 black residents, 400,000 Hispanics and 900,000 white non-Hispanics.

As Broward County's Hispanic population continues to swell, growing faster than any other segment, Broward inches closer to becoming a ''minority majority'' county where Hispanic and black residents outnumber white non-Hispanic residents. Miami-Dade passed that milestone in the late 1970s.