New population estimates for the Indianapolis area – city and metro – show a stark picture of a racially diverse capitol city and increasingly racial diverse suburbs.  The 2014 Census estimates released Thursday (June 25) and analyzed by Indy’s leading minority demographer, Afternoons with Amos’ Amos Brown, also show that Indianapolis’ hoped for attempts to […]

In a major surprise, Indianapolis/Marion County’s population growth was the strongest of any of Indiana’s 92 counties, while at the same time 56.5% of Indiana’s counties were losing population. Those are some of the results of the release Thursday of 2013 population estimates by the Census Bureau. The Census Bureau estimates the city/county’s population, as […]

              The Indianapolis African-American community has reached a new population milestone. Population estimates released by the Census Bureau Thursday reported that the African-American population of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Area now exceeds the 300,000 mark. The Census estimates that the 2012 African-American population of the new eleven county Indianapolis/Carmel/Anderson Metropolitan Area is 312,613; an increase of […]