Table 1-4.
Population Growth – 1950 to 1998
South Central Texas Region

	Year
County	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990	Estimated 1998	Growth Rate^1 (%)
Atascosa	20,048	18,828	18,696	25,055	30,533	35,089	1.17
Bexar	500,460	687,151	830,460	988,800	1,185,394	1,342,934	2.08
Caldwell	19,350	17,222	21,178	23,637	26,392	31,306	1.01
Calhoun	9,222	16,592	17,831	19,574	19,053	20,895	1.72
Comal	16,357	19,844	24,165	36,446	51,832	72,354	3.15
DeWitt	22,973	20,683	18,660	18,903	18,840	20,601	-0.23
Dimmit	10,654	10,095	9,039	11,367	10,433	10,875	0.04
Frio	10,357	10,112	11,159	13,785	13,472	15,719	0.87
Goliad	6,219	5,429	4,869	5,193	5,980	6,578	0.12
Gonzales	21,164	17,845	16,375	16,883	17,205	17,971	-0.34
Guadalupe	25,392	29,017	33,554	46,708	64,873	75,906	2.31
Hays (part)^2	14,272	15,947	22,114	32,475	52,491	69,180	3.34
Karnes	17,139	14,995	13,462	13,593	12,455	14,392	-0.36
Kendall	5,423	5,889	6,964	10,635	14,589	20,659	2.83
LaSalle	7,485	5,972	5,014	5,514	5,254	6,120	-0.42
Medina	17,013	18,904	20,249	23,164	27,312	35,894	1.57
Refugio	10,113	10,975	9,494	9,289	7,976	8,045	-0.48
Uvalde	16,015	16,814	17,348	22,441	23,340	25,071	0.94
Victoria	31,241	46,475	53,766	68,807	74,361	83,362	2.07
Wilson	14,672	13,267	13,041	16,756	22,650	29,378	1.46
Zavala	11,201	12,696	11,370	11,666	12,162	11,771	0.10
Total	806,770	1,014,752	1,178,808	1,420,691	1,696,597	1,954,100	1.86
1 Compound annual growth rate. 2 Estimate that 80 percent of the total county population resides within the planning area.

Source: Bureau of the Census, Decadal Censuses of 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, and 1990, with estimates for 1998, U.S. Department of Commerce.