Denton County’s senior population has nearly doubled since 2010, according to the latest estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Population breakdowns released by the bureau June 24 show residents age 65 and older increased by 99.55% between 2010 and 2019. While Denton County’s total population grew to 887,207 residents, a more than 33% increase, the senior population went from making up 7% of the county’s population in 2010 to 10.5% in 2019.
“The first Baby Boomers reached 65 years old in 2011,” Luke Rogers, chief of the Census Bureau’s Population Estimates Branch, said in a press release. “Since then, there’s been a rapid increase in the size of the 65-and-older population, which grew by over a third [throughout the country] since 2010. No other age group saw such a fast increase.”
The aging population trend is consistent across Denton, Collin, Dallas and Tarrant counties, which all saw an uptick in residents age 65 and older between 2010 and 2019. Denton County’s Asian population also saw a large increase over the nine-year period. That demographic grew to 85,824 residents in 2019, representing a nearly 90% increase. That group’s percentage of the total population increased from almost 7% in 2010 to nearly 10% in 2019.
