34th Fastest Growing County In
America
Hays County, Texas
Seat: San Marcos
Hays County is the 34th fastest growing county in America
based on percent of growth between January 2000 and July 2006
for all counties that began the period with more than ten thousand residents, according to recent U.S. Census Bureau
estimates.
Hays County which was established in 1848, had already grown
in population to 97,576 by the year 2000. But in the six years
that marked the beginning of the 21st Century, the county
increased the number of inhabitants by 33.6 percent bringing
the estimated total population in July 2006 to 130,325.
The astounding growth of the last six years has made Hays
County the seventh fastest growing county in the Lone Star
State of Texas and the 34th fastest in the nation.
It is difficult to determine how the growth may have affected
the price of homes in the area but in 2000 the median cost for
a home within the 678 square mile jurisdiction of Hays County
was 129,400.
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