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We're Not 'Older,' Just More Experienced
Census shows Fox Point and Bayside populations, already old, continued to get older in the last decade.
Call it "old," "aged" or "seasoned," the Fox Point-Bayside population became even more so in the last 10 years, according to data released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The median age in Fox Point is 45.6 years, up from 43.5 in 2000. Almost 23 percent of the population is 62 or older. It was the same story in Bayside, where the average age climed to 48.0 from 46.5, and more than 25 percent of the population is 62 or older.
The median age of Wisconsin is now 38.5 years.
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Meanwhile, the number of family households in Fox Point dropped from just over 70 percent in 2000 to 67.7 percent in 2010. The Census Bureau defines a family household as consisting of a "householder and one or more other people related to the householder by birth, marriage, or adoption." Again, Bayside mirrored its neighbor with a drop from 75 percent to exactly 70.
The Census Bureau's latest data is called the Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics. Visit American FactFinder to research more from the 2000 and 2010 Census counts.
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