Bryan County — a Coastal Georgia community that intersects with the massive Ft. Stewart military base — ranked fifth nationally for its growth of Hispanic residents between 2007 and 2014 at 91 percent, a new study shows.
Based on U.S. Census data, the Pew Research Center report says there were 2,148 Hispanic residents in Bryan in 2014. Williams, Stark and Ward counties in North Dakota ranked first, second and third, respectively, followed by Russell County in Alabama. Columbia County in Georgia ranked 13th with a 77 percent of growth in Hispanic residents to 8,690.
For the period 2000 and 2007, Georgia’s Stewart County ranked first nationwide for the growth of its Hispanic population at 1,254 percent. Home to a sprawling federal immigration detention center, the county had 1,070 Hispanic residents in 2007.
Meanwhile, Georgia ranked tenth nationally in terms of the size of its Hispanic population in 2014 at 900,000. California ranked first at 15 million.
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