Nearly 80,000 people made up the Hispanic population in Hays County in 2016, which constituted a 41 percent rise since the 2010 Census.
That figure, part of newly released Census Bureau estimates, followed the trend of a rapidly growing Hispanic population in Texas and the United States.
Pauline Anton, President and CEO of the Texas Association of Mexican American Chambers of Commerce (TAMACC) in Buda, says the numbers show what many in the community have known for some time.
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