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Malden population grows 5.5 percent
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Sending your articleYour article has been sent. By Matt Byrne, Town Correspondent

Nearly 7,000 fewer white people live in Malden than a decade ago, while the number of minorities in the city has increased, new census data shows.

According to the data, released Tuesday by the US Census Bureau, there are 6,927 fewer white people in the city than10 years ago. In the same period, 10,589 additional people who identify as minorities are now residents.

Overall population grew 5.52 percent, to 59,450 total residents, the data shows, about 3,100 more than in 2000.

People who identified themselves as white dominated in 2000, at 40,618, but 2010 figures show a decline to 33,691.

Blacks in Malden went from 4,592 in 2000 to 8,796; Asians from 7,882 to 11,971; and Hispanics grew from 2,696 to 4,992, the data shows.

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