![]() The adjacent Whitewater Township grew by 15% in that same time. In the past 10 years, new subdivisions have helped attract an additional 4,000 people to the township near the Indiana border, boosting the population by 117%. No place in Hamilton County grew more by percentage than the far western and rural suburb of Crosby Township. "We worked extra hard to make that happen, and that means funding will be even more from the federal government and the state," Dumas said. She credited the county's staff for getting the word out for residents to fill out the Census forms and be counted. The news left Hamilton County Board of Commissioners President Stephanie Summerow Dumas in a good mood on Thursday. ![]() Yet the Census counts do show the county outside the city added 15,893 people in the last decade for a 3.1% increase. The county's growth also was in part due to the snapping of the 70-year population decline in its biggest political subdivision: the city of Cincinnati. ![]() To be sure, the growth was modest compared to the counties ringing it and lagged the nation's growth of 7.4%, which was the worst since the Great Depression. It was the first time since 1970 that the decennial Census reported growth in Ohio's third-largest county. The 2020 Census counts released Thursday show the county had 830,639 residents, up 3.5% from 2010. Hamilton County is growing again, albeit slowly, after four decades of steady population loss.
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