What is the trend in the elderly population of our area?
Assuming your “area” is a state, a county (or group of counties) or a metropolitan/micropolitan area then the answer to this question is almost the same as for the previous one regarding hispanic population. If you follow the links provided there, you’ll note that the reports that broke down the population estimates by hispanic/non-hispanic also contain numbers for age categories. The actual age cohort detail varies with the two sets of reports. If you choose from the first set of reports on the intermediate menu screen (“Estimates for Each of the 4 Demographic Dimensions Separately”) you get estimates for 5-year age cohorts, ending with “85 and over”. That may be just the kind of detail you want. On the other hand choosing a report from the second set (“Estimates for Major Race (Alone) and Hispanic by Age and Sex”) gets you data for the 65-and-over cohort (with no further detail), but gives you this cohort broken down by race, hispanic origin and sex. Alert readers who have been follo
