Hispanics give Deltona new image - Florida

“Rivera’s is one of many families changing the personality of Volusia County’s fastest-growing city. The number of retirees is declining, the median age is skewing younger, and Hispanic residents now make up nearly a quarter of the city’s population of 86,000, growing 63 percent in the past five years, according to recently-released Census Bureau estimates for 2005.

The demographic trend is happening throughout Florida and the rest of the country, even in states like Idaho.”

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