Marin population expected to grow 23 percent

A new report by the state Department of Finance forecasts that the population of Marin will grow to more than 300,000 by 2050.

> From today's Marin IJ...

Latinos will become the state's majority ethnic group by 2042, according to new population projections that portray a future California whose fortunes will increasingly depend on the skills of a predominantly nonwhite workforce.

Population numbers released Monday by the state Department of Finance predict that 52 percent of all Californians will be Hispanic by 2050, when whites will be just 26 percent of the population.

Even in Marin - where the population will swell to 307,868, some 60,000 more than today - over half of residents will be Hispanic. The majority of those 181,087 residents will be under age 40, while the majority of Marin's non-Hispanic whites will be elderly, with the largest group - 14,292 - over age 85. Read More >>