With a vision of la vida buena , Hispanics flocked to Longmont during the last decade, more than doubling the Latino population in the city, according to census statistics released Monday. Many are a second wave of immigrants from Latin American countries, migrating to be close to families that may have moved here earlier, Moreno said.
Boulder County is rather expensive, but they're still coming.
A lot of it has to be families. Families are following families and want to be together. Longmont experienced the county's biggest shift in diversity as its Latino population increased 137 percent, from 5,715 to 13,558. Latinos now are 19 percent of the city's population. While the county as a whole also has become more diverse since 1980, when Latinos made up 5 percent of the population, it still lags behind the state average of 17.1 percent.