Graying of Door County picks up the pace. (Door County Advocate, 9/24/2011)
Excerpt: Door County's seniors now make up 23 percent of the county's roughly 28,000 population, and that number is expected to climb to 33 percent of the county's population by 2020, said Jeff Sachse, labor market analyst for the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development.
In comparison, projections indicate the over-65 population will be about 17.1 percent statewide in 2020, Sachse said.
"That's a gap that will only widen. The county is aging more rapidly than expected. Door County has twice as many older adults compared to the rest of the state. It is the third oldest county, closely behind Iron and Vilas counties," he said.
The trend shifted in 2006, the year baby boomers born in 1946 turned 60, he said. Many of them began converting cottages to year-round homes and filing taxes as permanent Door County. residents.
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