Composition: race, Hispanic origin, and the foreign-born question

2000 · 2010 · 2020 censuses

The town the recent censuses describe is overwhelmingly white, and measurably less so with each count. In 2000 the census recorded the town as 97.65 percent white, 0.43 percent Black, 0.21 percent Native American, 0.29 percent Pacific Islander, 0.29 percent some other race and 1.14 percent two or more races, with Hispanic or Latino residents of any race at 0.71 percent. In 2010: 96.2 percent white, 0.5 percent Black, 0.4 percent Native American, 0.4 percent Asian, 0.2 percent other races and 2.4 percent two or more races; Hispanic or Latino, 2.5 percent. In 2020, on the redistricting file: 1,492 white residents (91.9 percent), 5 Black (0.3 percent), 7 American Indian and Alaska Native (0.4 percent), 7 Asian (0.4 percent), none Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 21 some other race (1.3 percent) and 91 two or more races (5.6 percent); Hispanic or Latino, 69 people, 4.3 percent. The movement across the three censuses sits mostly in two lines — the two-or-more-races share rising from 1.14 to 5.6 percent, in a decade when the Census Bureau also changed how it coded race responses, a question-change the leg flags rather than reads as pure population change, and the Hispanic share rising steadily, 0.71 to 2.5 to 4.3 percent.

For the earlier censuses, and for the foreign-born run the checklist asks for, the reached record is thin and prints as such. A university-compiled sundown-towns database table for the town carries Black counts of 0 in 1960 and 1970, 1 in 1990, 6 in 2000 and 9 in 2010 — consistent in direction with the census summaries above, at small numbers where one household moves the line. No foreign-born series for the town place was reached in any carrier: the nineteenth-century German and other immigrant farm families of Liberty Township are documented in the county histories at township scale, but a town-level nativity count, census by census, stands as a named gap whose settler is the Census Bureau's place-level nativity tables and, for 1870–1940, the manuscript census for Liberty Township read at household level.