The growth of Idaho’s Hispanic population slowed from mid-2003 to mid-2004 compared to other states, but it still increased at double the rate of the state’s population overall, the Census Bureau reported on Thursday. The new estimates put the Hispanic population in Idaho at 123,900 on July 1, 2004, an increase of 4.7 percent from a year earlier. Idaho’s total population increased 1.9 percent in the same period, the fourth fastest growth rate among the states. The state’s growth rate for Hispanics ranked 38th nationally/Idaho Labor & Commerce news release.

Kootenai: 3,448 Hispanics, 122,350 population, 2.8% of population, 36.4% change since 2000.

Bonner: 647 of 39,872, 1.6% of pop, 7.1% change since Y2K.

Boundary: 327 of 10,396, 3.1%, and minus 2.4%.

Benewah: 197 of 8,961, 2.2% and 38.7%.

Shoshone: 289 of 12,827, 2.3% and 8.6%

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